Bill, you can't hear it enough.  Howard Hill did say that - I didn't invent it 

  I have just come to agree with him.  I know that I am dangerously approaching a breach of etiquette in hijacking here, and for that I apologize, but doggone it,  for all the short bow people out there who have never given it a whirl, whittle you out a bow long enough that you can draw that sucker back without a care of overdrawing it, and tiller it out so that it has just the least amount of string follow to it,  and see if you don't shoot a little straighter.   Okay, I got that out of my system - for now.  

  It is a Southern thing Eddie.  Ole Howard and Byron ....  Alabama boys, both of them.