As soon as I walked through the entrance door into the hall I bumped into Myles Keller. I had not seen Myles in a couple years so we spent about 15 minutes catching up. He said that he didn’t kill any deer last year; he said that he spent enough time in Kansas to almost be a resident. He did say that they glassed a buck on ground next to where they hunt that was “the biggest buck that he had ever seen”. I asked him if that meant it was a 200 class buck and he said,” I’m talking world record class”. Knowing Myles I believe him.
No picture of Myles as he is somewhat shy on that stuff.
Other “hunting celebrities that I saw was Harold Knight, Randy Ulmer, Jay Gregory, Bill Troubridge, Chuck Adams, Jimmy Houston
, Lee and Tiffany Laskosky.My son wanted his picture taken with Tiffany, but backed out when we got over there.
Lots of big antlered deer. Most were repros though.
This one is the famous “Amish Buck” from Ohio. It was displayed in the Horton booth,.
The Hoyt booth…
PSE was out in “force”..
The PSE X Force Super Short was something else. Sorry did not get a picture of it.
The Bowtech booth
The Limbsaver booth. Very interesting bows..
Bear Archery new The Truth II limbs. The limbs are no bigger around that your little finger. They do flare on the tips.
The American Whitetail Archery Target booth. The fellow in the black shirt standing in the front is the elk record holder for Idaho.
The firing line where you could shoot any manufacturer’s bow
Pearson has a new bow called Deliverance that has a rangefinder built in. Yoi u sight in on the deer and the rangefinder will tell you what yardage. You then use the appropriate red dot form the three. The range finder also has scanning ability so if the deer is approaching the range finder will change to give you the correct yardage. That is the oblong opening at the top. The round opening is the rest that is true center shot. It can take either a drop away or a Whisker Biscuit. With different cams the bow can go from right to left-handed. 318 FPS IBO.
Some of the crowd.. Kind of sparse, but it was due to pick up Friday and Saturday. Thursday is the day to go and not fight the crowds.
CROSSBOWS.
Lots of new ones. The crossbow market is the biggest growing market in archery.
Eastman has entered the crossbow market.
TenPoint was there with their new lineup of Phantom Extra and their two new recurves.
Excalibur was showing off the 25 year anniversary model - the Y25 Relayer. Very nice.
Interesting “backwards” crossbows. I found all of them a bit unwieldly in handling..
This manufacturer was the original. Sorry, but the name escapes me.
This is the Horton “backwards crossbow”. The adjustable stock and fore arm was nice.
A Russian made version.
Leopro Armcross
I went by to check out the Middleton crossbow at their booth and they weren' there. What I mean is the booth was empty....no show?
On the way out of town.. The new Colt’s stadium under construction. It is BIG..
We buzzed through pretty quick. Total time there including lunch at the Marriot (Thanks Al Rinehart) was 6 hours. Next year I’m going back for two days to spend more time looking, asking questions and just general BSing.
Kinda funny the Middleton guy didn't show, guess that speaks huge words for his reputation.
Travel safe and keep us informed!