Bow Makers
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Bowtech
The history of Bowtech is relatively short; however, it is full of successes. In 1999 John Strasheim and a partner had no intention of building bows but they had some |
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Browning Browning Archery began when the arms maker Browning acquired Gordon Plastics between 1962 and 1963. Gordon plastic had started producing a line of archery bows in 1954 using |
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Hoyt In 1931 Earl Hoyt Sr. formed a partnership with his son Earl Hoyt Jr. to begin Hoyt Archery. Hoyt went on to produce many firsts in the archery world including designing the deflex-reflex principle, which. |
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Martin Martin Archery was founded in 1951 by Gail and Eva Martin, the fledgling company has since gone from making strings in their garage and fletching arrows on the kitchen table to one of the largest archery manufacturers in the world. |
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Mathews Launched in Austin, Minnesota in 1992, Mathews Inc. began life with just two employees. Three years later Mathews had grown to 30 employees which then relocated to a 12,400 square feet facility in Sparta Wisconsin. |
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PSE Back in 1970, while working at Magnavox Corporation, a product engineer named Pete Shepley was well known for his passion for designing archery equipment in his lunch hour. Unbeknown to his fellow product engineers Pete Shepley |








