Here's my initial review of the Alaska Bowhunting Supply Super Glove. Got it a few weeks ago, snooping around at the new Cabelas store over in Fort Worth.

First off, those cordovan finger tips are STIFF. Second, the stalls are made for fingers quite a bit fatter than mine. I could bend my fingertips inside the stalls without causing those cordovan tips to bend around the string at all. Drawing the bow to anchor, my fingertip would be looking for my anchor but the fingertip of the glove would be touching the middle of my lip! Makes it darn hard to find your anchor point.

I've been sitting in my comfy chair at nights, watching TV and working the cordovan between my fingers to soften it up a bit and doing all my warmup shooting with the glove. Had to use my old glove for any real accuracy though. The cordovan is finally starting to soften up, getting pliable enough to work right. I expect the cordovan tips to make this glove outlast the old deerskin gloves I've used for the past 20 years, many times over.

I really like the elastic wrist band. Very comfortable. The wristbands on many gloves barely go around my wrist, so it's nice to find one that actually fits.

Feel of the string is close to the same as with the deerskin type gloves, kinda cushioned, but the release is noticeably slicker. I know... Talking about a slick release with cordovan leather is kinda ate up with the DUH! factor. For someone who really likes to feel the string, the Damascus glove is still the winner.

The yellow color... Exactly the same color as the deerskin gloves. As a dedicated ground hunter, I'm not too wild about it and wish they had dyed it a darker tone. Some years back, I had problems with deer spooking when I went to draw on them and never could figure it out.. One evening I'd set up a ground blind in some bushes that a bunch of tweety birds decided to roost in. Every time I moved a finger with the deerskin glove I was wearing, those birds would go nuts. Switched to my dark brown Damascus glove and I could practically do jumping jacks without the birds taking notice.

So, I intend to get some brown leather dye and make this glove darker. Maybe splotch it up for a camo effect?

I'll let you know more after I've shot it some more. But, overall, I'd say the quality of the glove is top notch and I'm pretty sure I'm gonna love it when I get it broke in.