Yes, your so right because it's pretty much a mouse trap. I don't really know if he worked directly for Bear or if he just sold the rights to manufactor the bow or what. I have a few pictures with him and Fred Bear together but to answer your question I'm not sure at this point. I still have a lot of paperwork of his that I'm trying to sort through to get a better history on the bow and how it came about. My father said that my uncle got a raw deal from Bear and ended up losing a lot of money, but that was before my time so I don't really know. I'm reading some of the papers now and I have found something quite funny. This is a quote from an engineer out of Wisconsin who evidentally did some testing on the Delta-V "The basic rating velocity of 241.01 feet per second is close to being unbelievable." That was written on June 1, 1985. Have you ever heard of a bow called the "Phoenix"?Evidentally (as I'm thumbing through some these papers)after Bear let the Delta-V fizzle out my uncle tried to market an improved bow by this name. On the brochure I found it says " Phoenix hotter than fire at 246 feet per second". My uncles compay was called G.T.O INC. OUR OF Newberry FL.