Best luck in all your plans. Work, wise allocation of income, delay in having kids, all will speed your goals. Since there’s currently an 18-month wait for a new Shrew, with base price around $675 for most models and no deposit required until Gregg starts building your bow, you could go ahead and get on the waiting list and be watching for a good deal on a used Shrew meanwhile. Downside there is that Shrews maintain their value remarkably and I know of one instance where someone paid well above new price for a used Shrew just to avoid the long wait. I have ennjoyed many fine bows in recent years, and some great hunting trips I never thought I’d be able to afford, and all on an average lifetime income below poverty level, all by not having kids, getting into a lower price house (in fact I built it myself) and paying it off asap, no plastic debt,and not having bought a new car in 40+ years. That was my approach and there are many others, but the typical current American way of living up to our ears in debt and trying to have everything at once is financially suicidal. But then, I’m just a grumpy old man, a strongly opinionated sourpuss … but man, I get to hunt my a.. off! That’s why I’m still skinny at 65. However you go about it, best luck. dp
