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Winner’s Choice Shooter Tops NFAA Event

Inside Archery — Tue, 09 May 2017 20:00:31 +0000

West Henrietta, NY – Winner’s Choice Custom Bowstrings shooter Kris Schaff has taken home first place in the National Field Archery Association Dakota Classic held at NFAA Headquarters in Yankton, South Dakota.

Kris sported a Sunset Pink Elite Revol with teal Winner’s Choice Strings. The beginning of the event proved to be challenging as Kris found himself tied for 6th place behind some legendary shooters. However, Kris persevered and shot a consistent score in head to head matches of 148/150 to win 4 shootoffs in a row, landing him in the finals. The last few arrows secured Kris’s spot on the top of the podium as he beat his competitor 149-147, crowning him champion of the NFAA Dakota Classic.

“Winner’s Choice Bowstrings are the most consistent strings made,” said Schaff. “From shooting in 0 degrees at home in Montana or the humid 90 degrees in Florida, I’m confident they will perform flawlessly no matter where I am.”

Kris is looking forward to this weekend’s Western Classic Trail Shoot and the 2nd Leg of Outdoor Team Trials where he hopes to secure a spot for Team USA.

Learn more about Winner’s Choice Custom Bowstrings by visiting our website at www.winnerschoicestrings.com or our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/WinnersChoiceCustomBowstrings.

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Archery News: Vegas Shoot 2016

Inside Archery — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 00:28:39 +0000

Photo Credit: Hoyt Archery

What happens in Vegas sometimes wins you $50,000.

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The 50th annual Vegas Shoot just wrapped up and it set the bar for attendance, with over 3,000 shooters from across the globe. Three tense days of shooting yielded some interesting results. The most interesting perhaps being that this year saw a remarkably low number of perfect scores, possibly due to the stress caused by a massive payout of $50,000 and a huge, enthusiastic crowd.

On day 1 alone only 38 archers ended with perfect scores, as compared to 49 in 2015, 46 in 2014, and 42 in 2013. As the weekend progressed the numbers continued to drop until only 5 shooters remained.

This year the 900 Club comprised of: Chance Beaubouef, Justin Hannah, Logan Wilde, Reza Zamaninejad and George Ryals. They were also joined by Sergio Pagni, the ‘lucky dog’ shooter who scored an almost perfect 899.

The 50th Vegas Shoot was given another moment for the record books as ‘lucky dog’ Sergio Pagni beat out the 5 previously-perfect shooters for the championship, marking the first time in the Vegas Shoot’s entire history that a ‘lucky dog’ won the competition.

“Lucky dog” Sergio Pagni – Photo Credit: World Archery

On the women’s side of the freestyle finals there were three archers that remained: Inge van Caspel, who came all the way from the Netherlands, and American archers Sarah Lance and Christie Colin. Ultimately Inge van Caspel won with a score of 29, the other two scoring 28 and 27.

Van Caspel • T.R.U. Ball Archery

Other notable victories include:

Brady Ellison • USA Archery

Brady Ellison (USA), who won the gold for men’s recurve;

Khatuna Lorig • USA Archery

Khatuna Lorig (USA), who won the gold for women’s recurve;

Jesse Broadwatter • Archery 360

Jesse Broadwatter (USA), who won the gold for men’s compound;

Sarah Holst Sonnichsen • rchers.com

and Sarah Holst Sonnichsen (Denmark), who won the gold for women’s compound.

All in all it was an amazing competition. Let’s see if we can break more records next year!

For complete results and stats visit click here.

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NFAA Partners With Scholastic 3-D Archery (S3DA)

Inside Archery — Sun, 31 Jan 2016 14:00:32 +0000

Press Release from Louisville, KY:

January 15, 2016 – Scholastic 3-D Archery and NFAA announce a joint effort to create indoor S3DA events using the NFAA indoor tournament rules and regulations. Local NFAA clubs will work with the S3DA program to provide shooting venues, events and mentoring for S3DA students and families. The NFAA State Directors will also be working to bring more S3DA clubs to their respective states. Scholastic 3-D Archery will have a national indoor tournament in conjunction with the NFAA Indoor Nationals.

“Since the foundation of the NFAA, we have tried to be a leader in the promotion and preservation of competitive target archery,” says Bruce Cull, President of the National Field Archery Association. “We see that the youth of archery will be our future and have taken steps to encourage and support young archers, S3DA is the next step in promoting youth archery. As a grassroots organization S3DA has been exposing kids to real target archery and growing tremendously. We are very excited to partner with them to incorporate Indoor Target Archery to the S3DA organization.”

Jennie Richardson, Executive Director for Scholastic 3-D Archery states, “The NFAA is the standard in Indoor Target Archery here in the US. We are honored to have the NFAA partner with us to help students realize a new type of archery that previously was not available in the S3DA program. With this partnership, our students have the opportunity to compete in the same environment that archery professionals do. This is a giant step forward for S3DA, NFAA and youth archery.”

Started in December 2012 by the Scholastic Archery Association, S3DA has grown exponentially as a next step program to follow introductory programs offered as part of 4-H or the National Archery in Schools Program. S3DA addresses the need for a program to bridge beginning target archery experience and more advanced activities such as 3-D shooting and bowhunting. The program currently operates across the United States with hundreds of certified coaches serving thousands of young archers, grades 3–12.

For more information on S3DA membership go to: WWW.S3DA.ORG or email S3DArchery@gmail.com.

Check out S3DA on Facebook!

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Vegas Baby: The 2016 Vegas Shoot

Inside Archery — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 18:29:27 +0000

2016 Vegas Shoot

The 2016 Vegas Shoot kicked off today and should be quite the event. Novices to Olympic archers from around the world are gathered for 3 intense days of shooting.

This year marks the tournament’s 50^th anniversary.

The weekend competition includes the traditional 3-spot 20-yard “Vegas Round” that made this tournament famous. Attendance this year is expected to reach 3,000 archers and thousands more spectators.

The Vegas Shoot offers the World’s largest indoor purse with a 2016-projected payout of $350,000 in cash and prizes. The top Championship Male Freestyle will walk away with a record $50,000 check! All Championship archers that shoot a score of 900 will be guaranteed a prize of $2,000.

For more information and the latest updates, visit NFAA’s website!

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2015 Indoor National Championship Results

Inside Archery — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 13:00:41 +0000

The second leg of the 3 Star Tour, the NFAA Indoor National Championship, began March 13, 2015, at the Kentucky Convention Center in Louisville.

The Indoor Nationals concluded March 15 with Team Hoyt’s Mike Schloesser as the Men’s Pro division and tournament champion. Jesse Broadwater and Henry Bass took second and third place, respectively.

Erika Jones, also a Hoyt shooter, was the Women’s Pro division champion for 2015.

For a full list of results, go to NFAA.com

Photo Credit: Bowjunky.com

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2015 NFAA Vegas Shoot Results

Inside Archery — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 17:40:26 +0000

Mathew’s shooter Alex Wifler, 20, was the 2015 Vegas Champion.

Video: Indoor Archery World Cup Final •

Video: Freestyle Men’s Championship Shoot-off •

The largest indoor archery tournament in the world, the NFAA World Archery Festival, known more commonly as the Vegas Shoot, was held February 6-8, 2015, at the South Point Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.

The 2015 Vegas Shoot had a record-breaking turnout with 2,578 registered participants.

Over $275,000 in cash and prizes was distributed at the end of this three-day event. $30,000 went to the top male freestyle shooter and tournament champion, twenty-year-old Alex Wifler with Team Mathews!

New to the Vegas Shoot was the Young Adult Championship Division which included freestyle and limited recurve shooters. Shooters ages 15-17 could compete in this division for cash prizes on the same stage as the pros! This year, over 80 young adults competed.

For more information on the Vegas Shoot, go to thevegasshoot.com.

For a full list of results, click here.

Photo credit: NFAA USA

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