kodiak he's one of mine also. I read an article in Outdoor Life. I want to say it was 1994 maybe? I still have it; I'll have to look it up. It was basically a tribute to Paul Schafer and it's the reason I got back into archery. Granted I started back with a compound because I was taken back by the prices of traditional equipment. I actually bought a compound, arrows, quiver, etc. cheaper than I could find a recurve at the time.

Now old Gimpy here is the reason I'm back to stickbows. He heard on the Pa conference about a year and a half ago that I wanted to make the switch back and pretty much gave me a Bear recurve to use for as long as I wanted. Less than a year later my compound was gone. Now I have 5 or 6 bows and even make my own now.