Grand Prairie, TX – For an even more effective outcome to your every crossbow shot, Barnett® HeadHunter™ Strobe crossbow arrows now come with an innovative strobing lighted nock. These rugged polycarbonate half-moon nocks feature multicolored strobing lights that are far more effective than static lights in helping you see your shot and find your arrow in low light conditions.

The HeadHunter Lighted Nocks’ pressure-sensitive design ensures they switch on automatically at the shot. They’ll remain on for up to three days and can be turned off easily with an on/off toggle switch. Available in 20″ and 22″ lengths, they come fully assembled in a 3 pack to fill your quiver for the hunt.

HeadHunter™ Strobe Lighted Arrows:

• • • • For use with any crossbows compatible with standard-diameter crossbow arrows supporting half-moon nocks
      • 13.78 grains per inch
      • Available in 20″ and 22″ length
      • Fully assembled with multicolor strobing lighted nocks
      • Tested for durability
      • Easy on/off toggle switch at base of nock
      • MSRP $44.99 Read more

Grand Prairie, TX – Barnett’s 2021 collection may be their best line of crossbows yet as it continues to outpace the competition with superior features, performance and value. The all-new HyperTac Pro™ 430 leads the way with premium features, performance-driven innovation and industry-leading technology to produce the smoothest, fastest, easiest shooting experience on the market. Best of all, Barnett® offers all of this at an incredible retail price!

At the heart of every Barnett crossbow is quality and dependability. As the leading pioneer of the modern crossbow movement, Barnett’s never-compromising focus on precision, safety and performance has earned the trust of hunters from every walk of life and every corner of the world. With more than 60 years of experience and scrutinizing every aspect of every crossbow, Barnett is proud and humbled to be the world’s #1 manufacturer of crossbows.

The HyperTac Pro 430 excels in every aspect of performance-inspired design and technology. With a new, extremely narrow riser, the distance between axle-to-axle is just over nine inches when cocked. As a result, the crossbow provides excellent maneuverability in tight-quartered hunting applications. Its parallel limb configuration puts less weight at the front of the crossbow, making a more stable shooting platform with reduced recoil and vibration. With its compact and energy-efficient design, the HyperTac Pro blisters small-diameter HyperFlite™ arrows down-range with incredible speed – up to 430 feet per second and 155 ft. lbs. of energy! Read more

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado – USA Archery is grateful to receive a generous grant of $20,000 from the Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s Outdoor Fund in support of USA Archery membership growth and grassroots club development. This grant funding will be used to provide high quality welcome kits to new USA Archery Junior Olympic Archery Development clubs.

In support of USA Archery’s efforts to promote membership growth, grassroots expansion of archery and long-term club sustainability, these high-quality welcome kits will enhance upon current kits that include the USA Archery club handbook, Explore Archery Curriculum and a set of USA Archery Achievement Awards.

Club membership benefits include:

• Liability Insurance
• Event Sanctions and Event Insurance
• Participation in Achievement Award Program
• Participation in Virtual Tournaments
• Participate in Explore Archery Program
• Grant Eligibility
• Access to build a Free Club Website

If you are interested in starting a club today, contact clubs@usarchery.org and take advantage of the free welcome kit!

Junior Olympic Archery Development (JOAD) is a program of USA archery that helps archers to enjoy the sport recreationally or progress to the excitement of competition. JOAD offers barebow, recurve and compound archers the opportunity to learn range safety and proper shooting technique in an environment that also fosters focus, increased self-confidence, and team building skills. JOAD is open to any youth archer aged 8 to 20 and is designed to grow with the youth archer. Introductory JOAD classes teach the fundamentals of proper shooting form; as the young archer develops, they will learn more advanced techniques and earn achievement awards. Visit the USA Archery Club Locator to find a club near you.

The Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s Outdoor Fund is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit charity empowering more than 200 million passionate customers to support key conservation efforts by rounding up their purchases in stores and online. By bringing together customers alongside dedicated team members, industry partners and leading conservation organizations, Bass Pro Shops and Cabela’s is creating North America’s largest conservation movement to collectively shape the future of the outdoors and all who love it for generations to come. Read more

Williamsburg, KY – In order to comply with the local COVID guidelines, Michigan S3DA hosted the Indoor State Championship at Rising Phoenix in Troy, Michigan and Central Michigan Sportsman’s Club in Stanton, Michigan. The state championship was held over a two-day span with approximately 74 archers participating from 5 S3DA teams. To provide an extra layer of safety, each hosting facility offered multiple line times, provided hand sanitizer, limited the number of spectators, and enforced social distancing and facemasks except for when archers were on the line and in the act of shooting. Central Michigan Goldstar archer, Logan Fouts said, “Even with all the difficulties of trying to remember to put my mask back on, it was great to be able to compete again and shoot with my teammates and other teams.”

One of the line judges, Toni Falk reflected on the event, “What a pleasure it was to be a part of the 2021 MI S3DA State Tournament. Officiating gave me the opportunity to both observe and interact with an amazing group of youth competitors. I was especially touched interacting with two ladies in the same scoring group who were so close in score it appeared that it could go either way. In the very last end, one of the girls shot her best end of the day with five inside out x’s and the other girl had a miss. My thoughts were as I observed the scoring group, this is going to be a hard way to finish for one of these girls, but that was not the case at all. While I quietly observed, the girls moved from scoring the target with the miss to the target with 5 inside out x’s. When the five circled “Xs” were recorded, without hesitation, the archer with the miss recorded in her last end and congratulated her competitor with a high five for the awesome competition and finish. I walked back across the range thinking there is more than one winner at that bail. These kids are so inspiring!” Read more

Seriously Small and Extra Wicked: Introducing the Ravin R18

SUPERIOR, WI – Ravin turns traditional crossbow design on its head with the R18, using the new VertiCoil Cam System to compact a full-power crossbow into a weapon a fraction of the size of all others. Unlike any other crossbow in history, the takedown-style R18 is a narrow 4.75 inches wide only 18 inches long without its detachable stock configuration.

The proprietary VertiCoil Cam System that powers the R18 takes already legendary HeliCoil Technology and—literally—cranks it up. This system rotates the R18’s ultra-small cams 720 degrees, wrapping the crossbow string and cables around the cam and cam axle, resulting in an astounding axle-to-axle height of just 1.3 inches when cocked. Read more