A little info about Gil's bow.
I met Gil at the Hill shoot last year,wanted to give him my personal bow as thank you for his service but it didn't come close to fitting him.
In my old age I prefer to make bows for special people or causes, rarely sell one anymore.
After meeting Gil and reading the book about his teams action in Afghanistan"The only Thing Worth Dying For", he went to the top of my special persons list.
It was an honor for me to make a bow for him. His bow is made from a stave, it had a hump near the handle that was hiding a dead piece of limb when I started shaping the handle. The piece of grown over limb fell out during the handle shaping stage. I drilled out the punky wood, turned an osage dowel on my lathe to fit the void and glued the dowel in with urac.
Some times osage is pretty good, sometimes it really shines with performance meeting or surpassing a glass bow. The wood in Gil's bow turned out to be the "shining" stuff. The bow fell into tiller without a hitch, the skins went on perfectly and I knew I had a winner when I took the first shot with the bow.
Loved the pictures of Gill shooing the bow, looks like it fits him perfectly.
