Bodie Turner Breaks Record at 2025 Vegas Shoot

Mathews shooter Bodie Turner recently won the Vegas Shoot for the second time in his professional career, this time setting a Vegas Shoot record with a 900 89x, missing only one X during three days of competition. Reminder: Turner and his competitors were shooting from 20 yards, and the X-ring measures .8 inches in diameter, basically the size of a penny. So he missed the X-ring only once out of 90 arrows.

“Going into Vegas this year, I’ve never had confidence like I did this year with my Mathews Title,” Turner said. “With the scores I have been able to consistently put up with my Title, I knew it was only a matter of time until it all came together at a tournament, and it ended up being Vegas.”

Turner’s unprecedented performance during the first two days of competition landed him a spot in the Championship Compound Open Shootoff in front of a crowd of nearly 6,000 in Vegas’ Planet Hollywood Theater. Up against 29 of the world’s best archers, Turner would go on to battle his way through 16 ends (three arrows per end) of shooting, where only inner 10s, touching the inner X-ring would be scored.

After the second end of the shootoff, only 15 archers remained. Only five archers remained after the ninth end – four of whom were previous champions. After the tenth end, all five archers remained, meaning that all five had shot a perfect 300 30X on stage. It was at this time that the officials gave the two-end warning, meaning the fourteenth end would require “inside out” 10s to win. Reminder: Inside out 10s means an arrow is completely inside the 10 ring and not touching the inside of the ring.

After a heart-stopping fourteenth end, Team Mathews shooters Bodie Turner (USA) and Chris Perkins (Canada) were guaranteed a podium spot, but they’d have to battle for the Vegas title alongside the third shooter remaining, Team Hoyt’s Nicolas Girard (France).

Perkins dropped out in the fifteenth end claiming third place. This left just Turner and Girard in the sixteenth end. Turner produced one final inside out 10 to claim the Vegas title for the second time in just three years.

FYI: In addition to his Mathews Title target bow, he relied on the Easton Superdrive 27 arrows to clinch his victory. Girard and Perkins were both shooting Easton X27 arrows. Every podium finisher in Vegas used either the Easton Superdrive 27 or X27 arrow.

Delaware Becomes 50th State With NASP

The National Archery in the Schools Program (NASP) has reached a major milestone capping its 23 years of archery youth education excellence: Delaware has become the 50th state to join the program. In coordination with the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC) and the DNREC Division of Fish and Wildlife’s Office of Hunter Education, NASP archery instruction and participation will soon be an option for Delaware students in grades 4-12.

NASP President Dr. Tommy Floyd said, “We are overjoyed to announce that the state of Delaware has joined our program! After recently signing the memorandum of agreement with our newest jurisdiction, we can now say that NASP is available to U.S. schools in all 50 states. We cannot say thank you enough to the staff and leadership of DNREC Division of Fish and Wildlife for their patience and persistence in this wonderful effort for kids and conservation in Delaware.”

“Delaware is proudly known as ‘The First State’ to have ratified the U.S. Constitution, but we can also take pride in becoming the 50th state to join the National Archery in the Schools Program, which will open our young people’s lives to another great recreational activity,” said DNREC Division of Fish and Wildlife Director Pat Emory. “Through the State's Office of Hunter Education, we look forward to partnering with NASP and bringing archery education into Delaware’s school systems.”

Since 2002, NASP has become the largest and most successful youth archery program in history, providing in-school archery lessons to more than 23.5 million students, growing at a rate of 1,300 new schools each year. State fish and wildlife agencies across the country continue to support NASP because of its proven ability to develop new archers, reaching over 1.3 million students annually, with significant numbers of students finding pathways to the outdoors.

NASP will now begin working with the DNREC to identify pilot schools, coordinate basic archery instructor training for DNREC staff and pilot school educators, and provide in-school archery in Delaware. If you are an educator interested in bringing NASP to your Delaware classroom, please reach out to info@naspschools.org.

List of Pope and Young Live Auction Hunts Continues to Grow

Pope and Young has announced more than 60 hunts that will be auctioned off at the 34th Biennial Convention taking place in Glendale, Arizona, on April 9-12, 2025.

Some of these world-class hunts include:

• 8-day Southern BC Black Bear Hunt 1x1 with Big Time Hunts
• Archery Velvet Moose Hunt with Dueling Stone
• 5-day Sonora Mexico Archery Coues Deer Hunt for 2 with Wards Outfitters
• 6-day Archery Moose Hunt with Savage Encounters Inc.
• 4-day Antelope hunt with Western Timberline Outfitters
• Roosevelt Elk with Spoon Creek
• Argentine Red Stag with Paco Riestra
• 10-day South Africa Plains Game hunt for up to 2 hunters with Matlabas Game Hunters
• Argentina Dove Hunt with Pointer Outfitter

To bid on these amazing hunts, make plans to join Pope and Young for its 34th Biennial Convention. Click here to learn more.

Texas A&M Wins Indoor Championship

Texas A&M University secured its 23rd collegiate national title with the top spot in the 2025 USA Archery Indoor Nationals Collegiate Overall Team competition.

Collegiate competition has been dominated by the University of the Cumberlands in recent years, and although they claimed a seventh consecutive USA Archery Collegiate 3D Nationals title in Foley, Alabama, last October, they were unable to retain their Indoor Nationals crown; they finished second.

While Texas A&M and University of the Cumberlands battled to determine the No. 1 status, the University of Rio Grande continued to make great strides. The Ohio-based school began its archery program only last year and finished fourth at the Collegiate 3D Nationals. They went one better as part of the Indoor Nationals Collegiate Overall Team competition by claiming third, just ahead of Lindsey Wilson College.

Texas A&M swept the board in individual recurve men, led by Jack Krengel, Alex Gilliam and Trenton Cowles. Venugopal Kunnavakkam finished fifth. The scores for Krengel and Gilliam were good enough to qualify for the Indoor Nationals Final. There they were joined by fellow Aggie and eventual gold medalist in recurve women, Catalina GNoriega, as well as compound men bronze medalist, Sawyer Sullivan.