I was looking at the Northern Mist Longbows with a slight touch of string follow. was wondering how many of you shoot these and what is the advantage. Also how about the northern mists, who owns em. thank you

Northern Mist Shelton here and LOVE it!!!! string follow makes for a bit easier to draw bow and mine for one is very SMOOTH. Steve is also an AWESOME guy to deal with! when you order check out the American Elm its beautiful!!!!

this is funny .i just came from his website.he came down to the howard hill shoot this past summer and set up.i know this ,steve is one of the great guys ,i bet i shot every bow he brought down .quality is top knotch!im gonna be ordering from him in the next 2 weeks .he is suposed to come down for a shoot in the end of febuary that terry harris puts on,during the day he would be at his booth,at night hahaha that man is a hoot ,stayed up shooting a remote 3-d deer target on wheels till about midnight.you cant go wrong with any of the northern mist bows.

I shoot bows Hill style bows that have a touch of string follow from various bowyers ...
Craig Ekin , Jim Belcher, Steve Turay and of course David Miller[ apols Mike! ] .

I love them , gentler at the shot and whisper quiet .

Hey Ben.  Isn't your Miller Old Tom a string follow?

I have a string follow Miller OT as well.  Very smooth draw.  I believe Howard Hill said that all things being equal a string follow bow will be more accurate.  

Do a search on string follow.  Lots of stuff out there.  Here's one with some opinions.

http://tradgang.com/noncgi/ultimatebb.php?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=097706#000000

I have 4 of Steve's bows including 2 Sheltons. Very nice shooting bows. The string follow is the best behaved of all the Hill style bows.



Eric

Thanks, to all of you for the input. I think I will call Steve and bend his ear a little.

nate steen makes a great string follow bow worth the wait be preppared to give up a little speed for more stability my hunting partner who shoots a compound bought one my steen bows he loves it he bugged me for a year .

I have two of Steve's Sheltons--one is green glass.  I also own a couple of Hills in the string follow design.  Here is a picture of the Hill and Shelton side by side.  As you can see, the NM has a bit more pronounced string follow.  I love string follow bows--really sweet. The NM is on the left.

Here is my green glass Shelton.

 

 



I have to agree that Steve is really one of the good guys to deal with and very interesting to chat with.

Dave ..... man that is sweet ! Was that the one your mates bought you as a retirement gift ?

Just dandy ...

Yes, Ben, the green one.