Hey I hate to rain on your parade, but a cool dude up here in Alaska, one Martin Farris, has been shooting his alder bow at our 3d tourneys for a couple years now. The best part is the chant go go alder bow before each shot. Hope this provide inspiation, and if a cult following forms I am willing to ship genuine Alska alder by the plane load at a very reasonable price, it may make the sheep hunting a litytle less demandig.