Bjorn Ahlblad used 80/85# Surewood Shafts and his ACS CX longbow to take this California free range Hog in March 2011.

Got back from Alaska and came back with lots of memories and one small caribou. Lots of guys around camp and in the wild, looked at my recurve and wood arrows and wondered how in the heck can a guy with this equipment be successful? Well, I was. Ron French made the arrows out of your Surewood Shafts and I have never seen a truer shot on an animal. The small bull ran for maybe 10 seconds and died fast. Keep on making great shafts! Oh, it was a Blacktail Hunter bow, with a Zwickey head, and a 23 yard shot...in North Hebo!
Regards,  Brad Robin

Guys, here is a picture of the Wyoming antelope I shot last week. It was tough year for me and the end of the hunt was near so when I got a chance at this one I took it.
Jack Denbow

Chase Brown with a 2011 Arizona javalina. Chase was using a Great Plains T/D recurve, Surewood Shafts and Zwickey broadheads.

Just returned from the Alaska Range, south of Fairbanks.  My hunting companions were fellow longbow shooters Russ Morgan and Brad Hayes.  I used a Thunderhorn longbow, 59 @ 27", Surewood Doug-fir Shaft, Eclipse 125, total arrow weight 562gr.  The shot was 13 yards. He was dead within sight in about 10 seconds after the shot.  It was a great time and the hunting wasn't bad either.
Mark Penninger

Fred Cliff of Bend, Oregon displays the fine Utah elk he got using a Surewood Doug-fir Shaft.

Michael Kenworthy of Eugene, Oregon.
He used a 90# Mark Koss Longbow, with a Surewood Shaft and a 125 gr. Zwickey head. The Elk was shot at 22 yards on the Oregon Coast. It was his first traditional kill. The bull expired in 8 seconds.

Here’s a picture of me with my first javelina and my first archery harvest, and Surewood Shafts of course!
Nancy Doran

Frank Dohman writes:
“I made my friend six of your shafts. He got this one with 80-85 spine and his 75# Dalton, it was a shoot through. Thought you and the rest at Surewood enjoy this.”

Hey guys,
Thought I'd send you a pic of a buck I killed last Wednesday up here in Clackamas County with my Blacktail recurve, and an arrow I made from one of your Surewood Doug-fir Shaft. The other photo is some arrows I made out of some Hemlock shafts you guys made and I acquired through a trade. They turned out beautiful and shoot awesome out of both my son's 55# bows! Hope your seasons have been successful, and you keep producing a quality product!
Thanks, Ron French

A slow year, we'll try and make up for it next year! Here is a pig I shot on Maui on Dec 16, 2011 at 4 yards with a DF from my 54# longbow.
Steve Hohensee

On October 15, I snuck in the dark to my stand at the southwest corner of the property, next to the swampy “buck sanctuary” where the big boys hide out. At 7:45 he ambled out of the thick cover north of me, across the wind, and presented a shot at 12 yards. The broadhead took out his left lung and grazed his heart. He wheeled and went back up the trail he’d come down, got maybe 50 yards before piling up.
I used a 64 inch Robertson Vision Longbow, 66 lbs @ 27 inch draw, 620 grain tapered douglas fir arrows (Surewood Shafts), Grizzly El Grande heads, weight augmented to 175 grains.

Nick Jacquez, southern Michigan