Archery How To

With the Archery Shooters Association (ASA) Pro/Am in Foley, Ala., set for Feb. 22-25, the 2018 outdoor 3-D season is official underway. Funny, it seems like The Vegas Shoot and Lancaster Archery Classic just ended. But it is time to think about foam. To think about shooting animal targets placed at odd distances in varying light conditions. To think about...

On two successive weekends in the spring of 2017, two young men in their teens took on the big guns in archery and finished at the top of the heap. Curtis Broadnax, 17, of Georgia, won first place in the Compound Senior Male Division at the 2017 Gator Cup May 27. In head-to-head matches he beat well-known, veteran archers Tim...

At just 17 years of age, Lancaster Archery Supply Pro Shop TechXpert Ted "T.J." Strychalski finished third in the Men's Known-Pro Class at the 2017 Archery Shooters Association (ASA) TRU Ball/Axcel Pro-Am Championship in London, Ky., June 2-4. ASA London, Ky., winners in the Known-Pro Class, from left, Chance Beaubouef - second place - Nathan Brooks - first place...

Jack Wallace II is well-known on the 3-D circuit. He's been a tough competitor at ASA and IBO shoots for over 20 years. This season, Wallace finds himself shooting without a bow contract - a unique, albeit unsettling, position for an archer who pays the bills with a stick and string. The longtime Mathews archer jumped to Hoyt in 2013...

Lancaster Archery Supply's video team was at the Archery Shooters Association's New Breed/Leupold Pro/Am in Appling, Ga., in late April. We talked to pro archers to get some tips and insights that might help you with your 3D game. Learn about judging tough targets from Darrin Christenberry; about David Houser's killer bow setup that helped him set a world record...

The 3D archery course can be an unforgiving place. Besides the course and other competitors, you’ve got to contend with wind, rain, heat, cold, etc. You’ve got to shoot through all of it. Lightning is basically the only natural element that will put a tournament on hold. If you have an equipment issue out on the course, there might not...

Precision is critical to success on the 3D course. The archer who is the most precise with arrow placement is the one who wins the day. You could certainly say that about any archery tournament, but precision is especially important in 3D archery since archers only shoot one arrow per target. And the shot distances vary from target to target...

Darrin Christenberry of Spencer, Ind., has been competing as a professional archer for 16 years. In 2002 – his first year on the ASA pro 3D circuit – he was named the ASA Rookie of the Year. He has twice won the IBO National Triple Crown, claiming it in 2003 and 2006. Also in 2006, he was the ASA Shooter...

The 2016 3D season kicked off last weekend with the ASA’s Hoyt Pro/Am in Foley, Ala. The course was packed all weekend long, with nearly 2,000 archers registered to compete. In the end, the tops of the pro-class leader boards featured many familiar names. Levi Morgan – the 2015 ASA Shooter of the Year and IBO World Champion – crushed...

As the 2016 3D archery season kicks off, Lancaster Archery Supply took some time for a Q&A with one of the best archers the 3D game has ever seen, who had a record breaking year in 2015. Levi Morgan last year won his ninth consecutive ASA Shooter of the Year title. No other Men’s Open Pro archer has won more...