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There’s no easy way to sum up a company as legendary as PSE. After all, the history of PSE goes hand in hand with the history of the compound bow itself. 

Established in 1970, PSE was one of the five original companies that developed and manufactured compound bows. Today, half a century later, it is the only one of those five original companies that’s still developing products and pushing the limits of archery technology.

Pete Shepley has made countless contributions to the archery industry. Some of the contributions were technical advancements, and others were for the betterment of archery in general. Today, Shepley remains the leader of his company, and he is as dedicated as ever to improving archery technology and supporting the industry at large.

Much of PSE’s enduring success is thanks to its renowned founder and CEO, Pete Shepley. Under the guidance of this industry pioneer, PSE has evolved into a definitive leader of compound bow technology. Shepley has continually elevated his products and improved his manufacturing techniques to stay ahead of the curve. He didn’t just adapt to the changing bow market—he helped define it.

Now, with 50 years of growth and innovation behind it, PSE is entering a new era. Pete Shepley and his team continue to deliver the engineering expertise and industry knowledge that served them well in the past, and the company has also made modern updates that will ensure its continued success for the next 50 years and beyond.

Lonnie Workman (left) and David Kronengold are key players in PSE’s senior leadership team. Much like Pete Shepley, they both fell in love with archery at a young age and went on to pursue it professionally.

A Blueprint for the Modern Bow – From Then to Now

Pete Shepley’s relationship with archery and bow building began long before he was making compound bows with PSE. Here’s how he described the beginning in his own words:

“Archery started for me in the mid 1940s,” Shepley said. “I spent summers on a farm in Rockford, Illinois, with my grandpa, and he was a real outdoorsman. We fished and hunted and everything else, but more importantly, we made bows out of Osage orange. Those bows would dry out and break every 30 days or so, so we were always making new ones. He also bought me a new wooden arrow every week when I was working on the farm, and I deeply treasured each one of those arrows.”

Pete Shepley has remained an avid completive shooter since his teens. This deep passion for the sport has been a major factor behind PSE’s enduring success.

From this early introduction to the sport, Shepley went on to compete in archery tournaments in his teens. Shepley’s first tournament was in 1949, and he has remained a diehard competitor ever since. In fact, Shepley was recently a competitor in the 2020 Vegas Shoot.

An avid tinkerer by nature, Shepley graduated from high school and then earned a mechanical engineering degree. From there, Shepley took a job at Magnavox, where he developed missiles and other weapon systems for the U.S. government for 10 years. His passion for archery never faded during this early stage of his career, though. With cutting-edge tools and materials at his disposal, Shepley used his knowledge of engineering and archery to create a handful of revolutionary items that we take for granted today.

“I worked on a lot of military projects at Magnavox, but all of that time I was also making archery products,” Shepley said. “There was a machine shop set up for us engineering guys, and when everyone else went to lunch I would build things. I made arrow rests and sights, and that’s also where plastic vanes came from. I also made one of the first release aids in those days, and a lot of other little toys.”

In addition to being a devoted target shooter, Pete Shepley is also a diehard and prolific bowhunter. His bowhunting adventures have taken him around the world many times to pursue unique game.

All of these “toys” were developed in the days of recurve bows, and as history has clearly shown, everything changed for Shepley with the advent of the compound bow.

Shepley left Magnavox to establish his own business, and soon PSE became the fifth company to lease Holless Wilbur Allen’s patent for the compound bow. PSE’s first compound bow design was an almost instant hit. Shepley, along with two of his friends, unveiled the first PSE compound at an archery tournament in Indiana. The three of them placed first, second and third, and Shepley sold 200 bows in that weekend alone. In the following months, archers all over the country were trying to get their hands on a PSE compound.

Over the years, Shepley continued to prove again and again that he was a brilliant engineer of archery products. PSE became an internationally acclaimed manufacturer, and it has remained a top player in the industry until the modern day.

Under One Big Roof

But Shepley is also the first to admit that he didn’t do it all alone. As his company grew, so did his staff, and after so many years in business, his staff has become incredibly gifted. Today, PSE employs around 175 employees at the company’s 150,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Tucson, Arizona, and an increasing number of these employees have been with the company for decades. 

Shepley has also assembled a dedicated leadership team with the same values, work ethic and passion for archery as him. Two prime examples are David Kronengold, general manager; and Lonnie Workman, vice president of sales and marketing. Much like Pete Shepley, David Kronengold and Lonnie Workman fell in love with archery at a young age. Also much like Shepley, their passion eventually led them to a career in the archery industry. 

This humble building in Mahomet, Illinois, was PSE’s original facility. After steady growth, the company relocated to Tucson, Arizona, in 1982, where it remains to this day.

David Kronengold was born and raised in New Jersey, where he first tried archery at a summer camp. This taste of the sport prompted Kronengold to seek professional coaching and pursue Olympic-style shooting. Intent on working in the archery industry, Kronengold then earned a mechanical engineering degree at MIT and was hired by PSE shortly after graduation.

Lonnie Workman took a different path, but he arrived at a very similar location. Born and raised in West Virginia, Workman considered bowhunting as a rite of passage. He went on to earn an economics degree and work in banking for 10 years, but bowhunting remained his true passion. One day, he sent an application to PSE out of the blue, and he was hired 24 hours later.

For Pete Shepley, a passionate workforce has been a key part of his company’s lasting success. 

PSE’s manufacturing facility is also equipped with a spacious event center and outdoor range. The company uses these areas to host events and offer advanced coaching.

“They know bows and arrows as well as I do, and they also just love archery and want to be involved,” Shepley said. “They aren’t just looking for a dollar—they’re in it for the long haul. They want to make the sport grow, and they want to make truly great equipment. If they don’t enjoy it, then we will find out. Manufacturing is difficult. They won’t last long, and they will just move on and find something else that’s easier.”

As a fellow mechanical engineer and diehard archer, David Kronengold has a deep appreciation for the many technical milestones that Shepley and PSE have achieved over the years. For him, PSE’s legacy is a point of pride and proof of the company’s highly innovative approach.

“The fact that PSE has been making compound bows since the early days is a major achievement on its own,” Kronengold said. “But then PSE stayed on the forefront of technology in the 80s, 90s and 2000s. We weren’t the first, but we were one of the first to have CNC-machined aluminum risers. After that, we developed our patented extruded aluminum riser, which brought our technology down to a lower price point. In the mid-1990s, PSE had the first commercially available mass-manufactured carbon riser. Although we were not the first, we were on the front line of bringing single cams to the market, and we were also one of the first to use highly pre-loaded limbs, which are now very common in the market. On top of all that, we have regularly led the speed game. We’ve always had—if not the fastest bow—the most shootable fast bow in the industry.”

As PSE’s bows have improved, so has the company’s manufacturing facility. PSE remains dedicated to U.S. manufacturing, and the facility has grown over the last five decades to fulfill a wide variety of needs. Today, PSE’s Tucson facility has everything required to build a modern bow from scratch.

A proud U.S. manufacturer, PSE creates its bows from scratch at the company’s 150,000-square-foot manufacturing facility in Tucson, Arizona. The company currently employs about 175 employees, and many of these workers have been with the company for decades. 

“We’ve always been pushing the limits of our manufacturing technologies,” Kronengold explained. “We started using CNC machines in the early days, and now we have a very large CNC department. In the mid-2000s, we started cutting fiberglass and manufacturing pultruded limbs. Just this last year, we brought our carbon riser manufacturing in house. We also manufacture our Livewire bowstrings here, and we do injection molding, anodizing, powder coating, dye-sublimation and hydrographic decoration—pretty much everything that’s involved in the process. We bring the raw materials in, and we do everything here.”

Other key aspects of the company are also found here, allowing PSE to operate as a truly streamlined machine.

“Pete has always promoted vertical integration,” Kronengold said. “All of these manufacturing technologies give us the ability to quickly and precisely manufacture the designs that are coming from our advanced engineering department. All of our marketing is also done here in house, and we have sales reps who work for the company. They are not independent reps; they are PSE employees. We handle our customer service here in house, too. Pretty much everything we do takes place under one roof.”

The fact that the company is making its own carbon risers is particularly important to PSE’s leadership team. It serves as a testament to the company’s dedicated staff and manufacturing expertise.

“We have an incredibly engaged workforce that is willing to go the extra mile,” Kronengold said. “Last year they proved that when we asked them to do something that seemed impossible: to start manufacturing carbon risers here in the building. It took a while to learn the process, but we are now the only domestic manufacturer of carbon risers in the industry, and by bringing that process in-house, we have even more control over it. We’ve been doing it for about five months, and now we are just keeping up with the demand. We just hired a second shift and we are still hiring for a third shift, so we will be making carbon risers 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.”

For 2020, PSE is using its state-of-the-art facility to bring some powerful new innovations to the market. In addition to a cutting-edge lineup of compound bows, PSE also unveiled its new Warhammer crossbow.

“Pete actually invented the compound crossbow in 1978, and we’ve made crossbows ever since,” Workman said. “Some years we have been more innovative than others, but we are really getting back into it with the new Warhammer. It is a 100 percent domestic-manufactured high-end crossbow. It’s compact—with a 6.125-inch axle-to-axle measurement at full draw. It’s lightweight, balanced and extremely maneuverable. It’s also very accurate and easy to shoot. A lot of testing has been done on this crossbow. It is truly top-of-the-line, and it’s made from scratch right here in Tucson.”

As a vertically integrated manufacturer, PSE creates, assembles, packages and ships its products after starting out with raw materials.

An Industry Advocate 

Excellent engineering has clearly been central to PSE’s lasting success, but behind the scenes, Pete Shepley has also always been a devoted advocate for the industry. 

This is only fitting for one of the archery’s greatest pioneers. Shepley has dedicated his life to archery, and he wants archery to grow and succeed in all of its forms.

To that end, PSE acknowledges that both bowhunting and target shooting play their own vital roles. For Pete Shepley, PSE’s recent investment in target archery has been a full-circle experience.

“In the beginning, we focused pretty much exclusively on target archery, because that’s just what I was really interested in,” Shepley explained. “I used to have a lot of conversations with Fred Bear. He would call me in his later days, and we would talk about what I was up to. He always said, ‘Pete, target archery is a lot of fun, but you’re not going to get anyone recognizing you until you start shooting some big animals.’ That kind of changed my direction, and we started focusing a lot more on hunting. 

“Recently, though, target archery has come back to the forefront for PSE,” Shepley continued. “I have always thought that target archery was great for pro-shops and the industry. I think if you start ten people in target archery, nine of them will go bowhunting. But if you start ten people in bowhunting, very few of them will get into target shooting. We like customers who do both, because then they are in shops all year—instead of just during hunting season. Today we are focused on tournament shooting every bit as much as hunting.”

In addition to developing revolutionary target bows, PSE has also partnered with top professional shooters and supported important organizations like S3DA and World Archery.

“We realized that PSE could have a lot more presence in target archery, so we have made some transitions in the last 18 months or so,” Kronengold said. “We are pushing products in that direction. We are pushing marketing efforts in that direction. We are also doing promotional events and even partnerships in that direction. We recently partnered with S3DA, and we have just signed a partnership with World Archery while we were at the Vegas Shoot. It’s very important for us to seek out and support these organizations. We want more archers to show up and play the game, and we want to make sure that PSE is an obvious choice when they buy their first bow or next bow.”

PSE’s robust collection of partnerships also gives the company ample access to industry experts. 

“All of our partners bring value to the team, and everyone brings different value,” Kronengold said. “Some of our pro-staff members are incredibly technical, and they engage in a lot of conversations with our product development team. Others are not as technical, but they are tremendous influencers, and they understand that their job is to spread the word by going to events and winning, or showing up to a hunt and killing the biggest animal. We are constantly having conversations with the best hunters and the best shooters, and we make them actual members of our team. We don’t just sponsor them and give away products. We speak with them on a daily basis. They are our eyes, ears and mouth. They give us critical feedback, and they also get the message out and drive consumer demand.”

With 50 years in the business, PSE also understands that a thriving industry requires thriving dealers. Accordingly, PSE considers its dealers as essential partners. 

“I still talk with dealers on a daily basis,” Workman said. “That’s extremely important to me. I want to know what they are seeing in the industry, and I want to know what they are looking for. I want to know what PSE is doing right, and I want to know what we can do better. That’s why I talk to dealers personally on a daily basis. They’re our main customers, and they are paramount to our success. We are always listening, and they have a ton of influence on our buying programs, products and everything else we do.”

Altogether, PSE has a long list of benefits for its pro-shop partners. 

“We make a bow at every price point, from entry-level bows all the way up to high-end target bows and carbon bows,” Workman said. “At every price point, we offer very shootable, high-quality bows, and they provide the best value for the money. Our lower-price bows have less bells and whistles, but they are extremely good products. We are also focused on providing our dealers with the best margins possible in the industry. We need to help them make money, so we are very aggressive with our pricing and buying programs. We need shops out there with ranges, classes, JOAD, S3DA, etc. Those shops are truly the lifeblood and future of the industry, and we’re doing everything we can to support them.”

Ultimately, PSE’s partnership efforts play into the company’s big-picture strategy of protecting and growing the industry itself.

“We acknowledge that the industry has challenges, and we make it our day-to-day mission to find solutions,” Kronengold said. “Some of those solutions are straightforward, and others are incredibly challenging, but we are not and we have never been the type of organization that sits and waits for other people to do something for us. That’s why our manufacturing is vertically integrated, and that’s why we take an aggressive stance on the things that we feel passionately about. The industry is in a hard place, but we are not going to wait for anyone else to fix it for us. We are going to make it part of PSE’s business strategy to drive improvements and fix everything we can. And we are doing all of this while fully acknowledging that if we are successful, then we are also benefiting our competitors.”

Conclusion

You can’t argue with 50 years of success. Pete Shepley and his dedicated team clearly know something that others do not. 

Perhaps PSE’s lasting success is the product of excellent engineering, or perhaps it is the company’s ability to constantly stay ahead of the curve. Maybe it’s the company’s veteran employees and commitment to American manufacturing, or maybe it’s because industry legend Pete Shepley remains at the helm.

The obvious answer is that PSE’s success is a combination of all these factors, but there is something else at play. Beneath all the company’s engineering breakthroughs and industry-focused decisions, there is a deep sense of love for archery.

“Archery has been my whole life,” Shepley said. “It’s been David’s whole life and Lonnie’s whole life, too. Everyone here loves the sport and loves the people in it. It’s fun to make the equipment and introduce it, but all we want to do is grow the sport. We figure that we will get our piece of the pie if we succeed. We are going to keep working hard every day, and we are going to stick together with the rest of the industry to grow the sport. I want to see more hunters getting into target archery and more target shooters getting into hunting. I want to see families shooting together, and I want to see a lot more kids doing it. The industry can support thousands of new archers. We need more participation, and we are going to keep doing everything we can to grow participation.”

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PSE Archery introduces two new compound bows within the Vapor Series as part of the impressive 2018 product lineup: the Xpedite and the Carbon Air Stealth EF.

Built for speed and power, these high-performance bows are powered by PSE’s Evolve Cam System and FL module to maintain intensity and establish ease.

“The Xpedite and Carbon Air Stealth EF go above and beyond to achieve powerful speed without compromising comfort,” said Blake Shelby, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for PSE Archery. “We are known as the innovators of bow technologies, and these two new bows showcase our dedication to developing premium bow designs. The features on both the Xpedite and the Stealth combine to create stellar bows that will help archers achieve their goals.”

PSE has deemed the Carbon Air Stealth as the most advanced carbon bow ever made. Designed for speed and comfort, the Stealth boasts a lethal 350 fps with up to 75% let-off. The bow also features PSE’s new precision Flex Rod System, titanium hardware and ultra-premium LiveWire strings. The stronger monocoque carbon riser solidifies performance without adding extra weight.

The Xpedite is engineered on a radically redesigned reflex riser to achieve greater speeds. The bow shoots at a blazing 360 fps with an unbelievably smooth draw and hold.

For more information about PSE and the Xpedite and Carbon Air Stealth EF bows, visit www.pse-archery.com.

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The collections are a direct response to the fact that every consumer has different goals in mind when they look to buy a bow.

“We realize that being an industry leader is not just about developing quality products, but providing a quality experience,” said Blake Shelby, PSE Archery Vice President. “These bow lines simplify the often complicated bow-buying process by aligning consumers with bows based on their personal shooting style. It’s an easier, more effective experience.”

The Vapor line offers top speeds, power and performance. The Evolve line is intended for archers seeking effectiveness and comfort. Bows within the Adapt line focus on adjustability and a “grow with you” mentality. The Target line includes bows centered on high performance and consistent accuracy.

The Crossbow line offers a stellar selection of crossbows, while the Madfish line features bows specifically used for bowfishing. As a callback to the history of the original bow design, the Heritage line focuses on traditional longbows.

Individuals from PSE’s Pro Staff will identify with a specific bow line and serve as the face of that line. Consumers are encouraged to visit psearchery.com and complete a questionnaire to find out what kind of shooter they are and share their results on social media.

For more information about PSE and the new bow lines, visit www.psearchery.com.

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PSE Archery has announced the “ultimate evolution” in compound bow cams, the Evolve® Cam System (ECS). This all-new quad-track cam system is the product of years of PSE research, and offers shooters up to 90% let-off without sacrificing speed or power. The ECS is premiering on four bows in the PSE 2017 Pro Series compound bow line; the Carbon Air® 34 ECS, Carbon Air® 32 ECS, Evolve®, and Evolve® 35.
“There has never been another cam system quite like this one,” stated Blake Shelby, VP of Sales and Marketing for PSE. “In the age of comfort bows, we asked ourselves what we could do to apply PSE engineering and our X-Force platform to a high let-off bow. Could we make the ultimate comfort bow and still make it as powerful and as fast as shooters expect from PSE? The answer is yes.”

PSE’s Evolve® Cam System features rotating cam modules designed for maximum ease of adjustment with let-off options up to 90% and all the way down to 65% with the optional low let-off module. Even more impressively, PSE accomplishes this without the need of a bow press and all while achieving high speeds of up to 346 fps at 90% let-off. According to PSE, the ECS eases the shooter smoothly from peak weight into a deep valley before relaxing in a deep pocket and hard back wall.

The 2017 Evolve® and Evolve®35 promise to provide the perfect match of comfort, speed, stability, and accuracy, with the bows featuring not only the new ECS but also PSE’s Wide-Track Limb System and WedgeLock Speed Pocket. They bows also feature built-in rise stabilization ports and PSE’s new RollerGlyde cable guard for the smoothest shot possible.
In addition, PSE’s revolutionary Carbon Air® has been given the Evolve®Cam System upgrade, with the Carbon Air® 32 ECS, and longer axle-to-axle Carbon Air® 34 also sporting the new cam system. So now the lightest bow on the market is also the most comfortable to shoot.

Archery dealers across the country have already received their first shipments of Evolve® and Carbon Air® ECS bows and are available for consumers to shoot today. According to PSE, we are all in for an unbelievable shooting experience

For more information, visit PSE Archery’s website.

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PSE elite pro shooter Nathan Brooks needed to shoot one last 11 to win it all and when it was crunch time he delivered big with his Decree HD, shooting 21 up with 26 total 11s to take the Men’s Pro crown at the 2016 IBO World Championships. This was another epic win for Brooks, who also took the Men’s Pro championship at the ASA event one week earlier.

Hot on Brooks’ heels was PSE elite pro shooter Tim Gillingham, who took 2nd place shooting 20 up with a whopping 28 total 11s! While Gillingham may have settled for silver in the Men’s Pro Championship, he was selected as 2016 IBO Shooter of the Year, adding another impressive feather in the cap of an archery great.

Brooks and Gillingham weren’t the only two PSE shooters to bring home big prizes this weekend though, as Team PSE’s Jerry Mullet also won the 2016 IBO Male Bowhunter Open Class championship. All in all it was an amazing weekend for Team PSE, home of some of the best archers in the world.

For more information, go to PSE’s website.

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PSE Elite Pro Stephan Hansen has been downright unstoppable in international competition, and his win at the European Archery Championships is another example of his growing dominance. The final shoot down took place between Hansen and Peter Elzinga, with Hansen taking the Gold 147 to 145.

Paige Gore has also been on quite the winning streak lately, taking the Women’s Expert Division at the first ever OPA Summit Invitational before taking the top podium at the NFAA Dakota Classic this past weekend. However, Gore wasn’t the only PSE shooter who did well in competition this weekend at the Dakota, as Chris Berry placed 3rd in the Senior Pro Class and PSE had three shooters take first place in amateur classes; Paul Penrod in Male Freestyle, Ethan Gutz in Youth, and Hunter Boots in Cub.

Finally, PSE Elite Pro Tim Gillingham finished 2nd this weekend in leg two of the IBO National Triple Crown Tour. Tim is still tied for the pole position in the Overall Triple Crown Champion race, but we know with his unmatched skill and his PSE Xpression he has a great chance of taking the whole thing.

For more information, please visit www.pse-archery.com

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PSE raises archery‘s technology bar yet again with its 2016 Pro Series Carbon Air. PSE made one of the first Carbon-fiber compound in 1996. PSE calls the monocoque-designed Carbon Air “TrueCarbon Technology.” Monocoque construction creates a single structural carbon-fiber shell that’s rigid, strong, durable and lightweight. PSE’s Carbon Air has more notable features such as its foam-filled Rigid Acoustic Core, or S-RAC, carbon construction, and its “Arch Bridge” riser design.

The result is the industry’s lightest ultra-performance compound, weighing only 3.2 pounds, and delivering dead-quiet, vibration-free shooting and excellent insulating qualities. Although cutting-edge carbon forms the heart of the Carbon Air, features like titanium limb and pocket hardware, a customized HD hybrid cam, Center Lock Speed Pockets, and patented X-Force parallel split limbs help achieve the bow’s raw performance, accuracy and shooting ease.

The Carbon Air’s grip is integral to the riser, and offers a comfortable flat back for repeatable hand placement. The carbon rod holding the Backstop 4 string stop also molds into the riser, translating into one less set-screw to work loose after hard use. The riser on this compound also includes four molded-in, precision-milled aluminum sight taps, an inset aluminum rest mount, and a stainless-steel stabilizer mount.

PSE customized a version of its proven HD hybrid cam to hold ABB Platinum low-stretch strings and cables, all of which pair with past-parallel X-Force limbs to deliver an extremely smooth, bump-free draw cycle. The draw cycle on the Carbon Air builds to peak evenly, dropping into an 80 percent let-off without surprises. The shooter must pull through many inches of peak before hitting the solid back wall, which is created by a string stop on the bottom cam that’s also part of the draw-length adjustment.

The Carbon Air’s HD hybrid cam offers wide-ranging drawlength adjustments with a rotating module that’s anchored by two set-screws. Both set-screws are on curved slots, with the bottom correlating to alphabetized holes that accept a stainless pin when tightened. Top and bottom HD cams include laser-etched hash marks that correlate to the forward-most buss cables to show proper timing/tuning reference. The HD cam system offers such symmetrical turnover that the cable-guard holding the slide is a stubby 1.5 inches and curved inward.

The Carbon Air includes four sets of speed buttons are included on the bowstring top and bottom. The foam-filled carbon-shell riser, past-parallel limbs, and a highly adjustable Backstop string suppressor. In addition, the Carbon Air holds Shock Modz Limb Dampeners, which are press-fit between the split limbs and include three fins with outboard weights. The TrueCarbon riser construction also makes the Carbon Air dead in the hand on release. Its design and inner S-RAC material see to that.

In a word, the riser defines refinement. Further, the bow balances extremely well in the hand with or without a stabilizer. Although adding a vibration-dampening active stabilizer almost seems redundant, there’s no such thing as a bow that’s too quiet or vibration-free. The Carbon Air comes with a custom padded soft case with accessory pockets, a great complement whether lashing the bow to an ATV rack or tossing it into a pickup bed.

To learn more, please visit PSE Archery’s website.

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By Patrick Meitin

Every bowhunter needs a safe and convenient place to store arrows. The bow quiver has proven the most popular design with bowhunters since Fred Bear developed them in the late 1940s, as it keeps equipment bundled into one convenient package and arrows handy, while also protecting broadhead edges from dulling and archers safe from injury. Bow quivers come in three distinct styles; two-piece/bolt-on, one-piece/bolt-on and one-piece/quick-detachable. Each bowhunter has a preference for one of these styles, most often based on the kind of hunting they do most, treestand verses spot-and-stalk hunting, for instance. Quivers have continued to evolve with the times, new designs built to accommodate mechanical broadheads, others for skinnier arrows, still others for today’s shorter compound bow models. To follow are some of the latest designs engineered to make your customers’ bowhunting endeavors more efficient and enjoyable.

Alpine Archery

The Power Loc Ultralite Quiver from Alpine Archery weighs only 6.75 ounces. The new one-piece, removable Power Loc Ultralite 4 Quiver combines features proven on the Soft Loc Quiver, but improvements make it quieter. The patented rubber mounting system remains, but with the new design, when the quiver is removed the latching system comes with it so there is no chance of unwanted noise or vibration. The Power Loc’s innovative roll-and-lock latch holds it securely in place, the streamlined hood containing silencing foam. The system allows vertical adjustment for balance and its single gripper accepts all arrow diameters. It includes a treestand hanging loop.

Apex Gear

The Gamechanger Quiver from Apex Gear allows customizing bow balance with a few simple adjustments. The adjustable mounting bracket moves the quiver tight against the riser to reduce torque, up and down, while the off-set, tilting bracket also sets the quiver well behind the sight/riser for superior balance. The frame of this one-piece, removable quiver is machined aluminum, holding dual grippers and a compact, lightweight hood. The entire quiver received a Tru-Touch soft-feel technical coating. The ingenious mounting system allows instant, one-hand removal. Double grippers securely hold a wide variety of shaft diameters. The hood accommodates all broadhead styles and includes an aluminum hanging loop.

Archer Xtreme

Archer Xtreme adds the new one-piece, removable Nitrix Quiver to its innovative accessory lineup. The 14-ounce Nitrix Quiver includes Drop Rack Technology (XDR), a carbon spine attached to the arrow rack that allows the hunter to adjust the quiver for any length arrow. It also dampens noise and vibration. The Nitrix can be quickly adjusted from 11.5 to 17.5 inches. The rubber gripper secures any arrow from the thinnest carbon to fattest aluminum. The hood features a grilled gate that allows viewing of broadheads, an over-molded (TPR) point insert secures broadheads by the tip only, to keep edges sharp. The articulating mounting system can be adjusted tight to the riser to assure better balance. A steel cable adjustable D-loop allows hanging the quiver once on stand, while the gripper locking system allows quick, one-handed removal of arrows. Look for them in 4- and 6-arrow configurations.

Bohning Archery

The Lynx 4 Quiver from Bohning Archery is likely familiar with many retailers. This simple, affordable, lightweight and compact quiver has remained popular through the years. The single-piece, detachable design is perfect for treestand hunts and holds four shafts of any size, including the newest skinny arrows from Easton, Bloodsport and Victory Archery. New this year, the Lynx 4 can now be customized to match customers’ gear, including five different color arrow-gripper and two new hood options. Look for it in Mossy Oak Break-Up Country and Realtree Xtra, along with red, blue, green, purple, orange or pink rubber grippers. Updating an existing Lynx 4 quiver with colored retainers costs only $9.50.

Fuse Accessories

The all-new Vector XT from FUSE uses exchangeable StealthBand Technology to kill noise and vibrations. StealthBands come in eight color options (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink and white) to customize any outfit. The Vector XT includes a precision machined-aluminum, hyper-light frame including an integrated mounting system that is rock solid, simple, quick and silent. The easy-on, easy-off hard-locking system is perfect for treestand hunting, and the quiver comes with a hanging loop. Double grippers offer a universal fit for all arrow diameters and broadhead types, the hood also includes dead-silent, soft-touch finish for further vibration and noise reduction. They’re offered in 4- or 6-arrow configurations and in Black Out, Realtree Max-1 or Xtra, and Next G2 multi-purpose camouflage.

G5 Outdoors

G5 Outdoors’ Head-Loc Quiver is offered in crossbow, Realtree AP, Pink or Black versions and holds six arrows/bolts in a quickly-detachable, one-piece design. The molded hood includes a “ballistic-cloth” covering, making it super quiet and tough. The dual rubber grippers are designed to hold any diameter arrow or bolt and are especially handy for mechanical broadhead designs, though it works as well for fixed-blade heads. The lever-lock system makes it instantly removable. The rubber mounting post and overall construction provides dampening qualities for any bow design. The overall design is extremely lightweight and rugged and comes standard with a screw-in tree mount to keep it handy while hunting from a treestand.

Kwikee Kwiver

The Kwikee Carbon Black Hi-5 Quiver from Kwikee Kwiver is a one-piece, removable quiver that holds five arrows in double grippers and weighs only 10.6 ounces. This USA-made quiver is 14 inches long and is designed to accommodate a wide range of arrow diameters. The quiver holds arrows securely on the way into the stand, but can be quickly removed once installed and attached to the tree while hunting via the company’s screw-in Bracket Kaddy. The Hi-5’s mounting-bracket design is new but works with older-style brackets. The dual rubber grippers make it ideal with mechanical heads, but also serves for fixed-blade broadheads. The stem and hood are made from tough polymer that helps to dampen bow vibrations.

Muzzy

The new TAQ5 Quiver from Muzzy is a low profile, ultra-lightweight, one-piece/ detachable bow quiver that holds five arrows, the hood includes three Picatinny rails to hold accessories such as lights and POV cameras. The TAQ5 weighs less than 8 ounces and is constructed with extremely strong but lightweight materials, including extruded aluminum and advanced polymers. The aluminum frame is securely mounted to the riser through a two-position SnapTrap system that incorporates a pair of rubber vibration-dampening posts to isolate the quiver from the bow. Removing the quiver requires a silent 40-degree twist. The quiver is 12.5 inches tall and 6 inches wide. The hood has a sound-dampening polymer construction and is designed to hold both fixed-blade or mechanical broadheads with diameters up to 1.25 inches wide. Small cups anchor the tip of each broadhead, keeping edges sharp. The tapered arrow gripper securely holds any diameter arrow.

Octane

The Deadlock Pro from Octane, a division of Bowtech, is made with super durable and lightweight stout carbon material. The ultra-quiet one-piece, detachable quiver can be adjusted to be closer to the riser for better balance. The Deadlock holds arrows of any size and equipped with any style broadhead. Its longer length supports arrows over a longer axis to eliminate fletching rattle. The extra-long rubber grippers increase arrow retention while traversing heavy brush or lashed to an ATV, just as examples. The proprietary Octane arm-locking system is quiet and allows the quiver to be removed and returned quickly, while completely eliminating vibrations while shooting. Look for it in carbon black.

PSE Archery

The PSE five-arrow Dual X Quiver includes a machined-aluminum frame that creates a stout but lightweight platform with no moving parts to rattle or vibrate during the shot. This alone makes the once-piece, detachable Dual X extremely quiet in the field. Two mounting posts are easy to install and manipulate, allowing the quiver to be locked into place and removed easily, but without worry of the quiver getting loose while hunting or shooting. The dual rubber arrow grippers securely hold arrows thin or fat, and allow installing mechanical broadheads without the possibility of prematurely-deployed blades. The contoured, open hood design includes a foam insert that works for fixed-blade heads as well as mechanicals.

Rage

The Rage Cage Quiver was designed especially for Rage mechanical broadheads, but works equally well for other mechanicals and fixed-blade heads. The one-piece, removable quiver is ultra-compact and low profile with feathery mass. The quiver holds five arrows via dual rubber grippers. The tapered slots accommodate a wide variety of shaft diameters. Extruded aluminum and advanced polymer construction offer an ideal combination of strength and light weight. TwistLock broadhead-securing system locks broadheads in the hood inside specially-designed foam inserts, preventing rattling or prematurely-deployed blades. The Snap-Trap mounting bracket anchors the quiver securely but allows fast, easy removal when needed. A clear hood skirt allows viewing broadheads at any time, and helps guiding them into the special slots more precisely. They are offered in Realtree AP camouflage and black.

Rancho Safari

Rancho Safari’s new BC Quiver is unlike anything seen before. Based on the time-proven Catquiver, the BCQ doesn’t use arrow grippers. The two-piece design includes ABS-plastic fletching hood and broadhead cradle. Arrows pressure fit between nock and tip so shaft diameter makes no difference. Both hood and cradle are vertically adjustable to accommodate any arrow-broadhead combination and both are covered with silent fleece. The enclosed hood hides bright fletchings, keeps feathers safe from the elements and eliminates wind buffeting. Broadheads are held by the tips, keeping cutting edges fresh and preventing premature mechanical-head opening. The design allows setting the bow on the ground or pushing it ahead during hands-and-knees stalks without damaging fletchings or creating noise. The BCQ is especially handy for crossbows. The tough nylon-filled carbon brackets are built to last.

Tight Spot

TightSpot introduces the new 3-Arrow quiver. This extremely lightweight and compact model was designed for treestand hunting, and is also compatible with your favorite crossbow with the addition of the new universal crossbow bracket. The quiver sits along the bow’s centerline for better balance. The quick-draw system allows for fast follow-up shots. It’s constructed with indestructible space-age polymer. The hood is deep enough to conceal any broadhead design and is lined with acoustic dampening material for silence. The hood design won’t dull blades or accidentally deploy mechanical broadheads. TailFan gripper design assures vanes won’t rattle, while the solid quick-detach system allows one-hand removal. It’s offered in Matte Black, Lost Camo, Realtree Xtra and Max-1 and Mossy Oak Break-Up Infinity; and an “Iron Clad Guarantee.”

Trophy Ridge

Trophy Ridge’s Lite-1 is lightweight and equipped with green LED lights to help bowhunters make it safely into a stand (three on top of the hood) or return arrows to the quiver in low light (one inside hood). The Lite-1 is a one-piece, removable quiver weighing 11 ounces. It includes quick-detach mounting hardware. The customizable mounting bracket allows adjustments for height, while an integrated hanging rope allows hanging the entire bow with quiver attached, or just the quiver. Ballistix Copolymer construction offers aluminum strength with less weight, while also offering superior dampening qualities. Dual arrow grippers accommodate any diameter shaft and eliminate broadhead-blade contact to keep edges sharp. They’re offered in black or Realtree camo to match Bear Archery compound bows.

Trophy Taker

Trophy Taker’s aptly-named Quivalizer reduces bow weight, improves bow balance and increases aiming stability at full draw by turning the quiver into a stabilizer. No-tool, quick release connections allow the Quivalizer to be used like a one-piece quiver that is clipped to the riser side for storage or transport, but it can be silently moved into the stabilizing/shooting position in seconds. The Quivalizer offers a longer-than-average stabilizer that also helps store quiver and arrow weight on the correct side of the bow, while keeping bow weight to a minimum. The Quivalizer is easily converted for left- or right-hand shooters and allows arrows to be stored on either side of the stabilizer, left/right adjustment permits fine-tuning full-draw bow balance. The Quivalizer allows customers to shoot a lighter, better-balanced bow.

TRUGLO

The one-piece, removable TRU-TEC LT Aluminum Archery Quiver from TRUGLO is lightweight and durable and holds skinny carbons or higher-diameter aluminum, and fixed-blade or mechanical broadheads equally well. The Positive-Lock Mounting System offers smooth, one-handed removal and ultra-secure attachment, the mounting bracket adjusts vertically to find optimum bow balance. The rubber hood insert reduces noise and won’t dull broadheads, an optional push-button LED light (sold separately) illuminates the hood interior while returning arrows in low light. A hanging loop keeps the quiver handy in treestand settings. They’re offered in black, Realtree Xtra or Lost Camo. All include five color-matching vibration-dampening inserts to coordinate with other TRUGLO gear and bow accessories. The quiver weighs less than 10 ounces and is covered with a Tru-Touch soft-feel technical coating.

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You’ve never shot anything like the monocoque-designed 2016 PSE  Carbon Air®, a revolutionary new breakthrough in bow technology.  Engineered  with our new PSE True CarbonTechnology, the PSE Carbon Air® is the  lightest ultra-performance compound bow on the market  at just over 3 lbs. The Carbon Air® is also dead quiet and comfortable in your hand, with PSE’s  proprietary Structural, Rigid Acoustic Core (S-RAC) suppressing noise  and vibration, as well as acting with the carbon as an insulator against the heat and cold.

Never before has so much cutting-edge technology  been packed into one bow…a customized PSE HD hybrid cam delivers a smooth draw cycle throughout,  while the Center Lock Speed Pocket and patented X-Force parallel split  limbs give the Carbon Air® the energy to fire arrows at a blazing 340  fps.

The Carbon Air® is available in peak weights up to 70 lbs. with an  80% let-off, 6-1/8” brace height, and 32” axle to axle. It also comes  standard with PSE’s all-new features; Backstop 4, SHOCK MODZ Limb Dampers, and  factory ships with ABB Platinum Strings and genuine titanium pocket  hardware. The Carbon Air also includes the exclusive Carbon Air carry case, available only for a limited time.

The Carbon Air is not sold online and is available EXCLUSIVELY at your local PSE Dealer. Click here to find a dealer near you!

Available in all Black, or black riser with Mossy Oak Break-Up Country limbs, or black riser with Skullworks 2 limbs.

PSE Revolutionizes the Carbon Bow.

The Incredible Strength of Carbon

There’s a reason why the F22 Raptor has over 350 carbon parts; it’s because carbon is strong, rigid, lightweight and durable.
More importantly, prepreg carbon allows you to optimize fiber alignment to strengthen the product and control flex. Carbon also has significantly less thermal conductivity and a lower thermal expansion coefficient than aluminum.
When applied to a bow, this means a light, stable platform that is comfortable in your hand in all temperatures and conditions. Impressive, sure… but the engineers at PSE knew they could make carbon bow technology even better.

How Monocoque Construction Changes Everything…

Unbelievably Light

Thanks to PSE’s TrueCarbon shell and proprietary S-RAC core of the Carbon Air®, the bow weighs significantly less than other carbon or aluminum bows, while the titanium limb and pocket hardware also reduces weight by another 2.5 oz.

This drops the physical weight of the Carbon Air® to an incredibly light 3.2 lbs., making it the lightest high-performance compound bow on the market.

The New Classic

More About the PSE Carbon Air

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