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Selections for Archery Wire’s annual gift giving guide of fantastical gifts and musings from your editor are due by November 18, with the write-up in the November 21 edition.
The Archery Trade Association anounces registration is now open for the exclusive 2023 ATA Trade Show. This year’s members-only event is Jan. 11-13 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis. The ATA’s official hotel block is also open. Press registration opens Sept. 27.
America’s sportsmen and sportswomen generated nearly $1 billion in excise taxes last year that support state conservation programs. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt today announced the disbursement of these funds, generated through excise taxes on hunting, shooting and fishing equipment and boat fuel to all 50 states and U.S. territories by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service).
Three-time Olympic medalist and World Champion Brady Ellison just made history as the first recurve archer to score a perfect 900 at the world-famous Vegas Shoot.
Greg Easton, CEO of Jas. D. Easton, Inc., has announced the upcoming retirement of Easton president, Mark Pezzoni. In the spring of 2020, Mark Pezzoni will complete an outstanding career that includes over 40 years of leadership in manufacturing and operations.
The 2019 Muzzy Bowfishing Classic is officially in the books – marking the most successful turn-out in the tournament’s history. Competitors from across the country descended on Lee S. Jones Park in Eddyville, Kentucky to bowfish the prime waters of Kentucky and Barkley Lakes, as well as the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers. In total, a registration record-breaking 93 boats hit the water eager to launch arrows during the July 12-14 event to help reduce the area’s burgeoning population of rough fish.
United Sporting Companies is being offered for sale for a three-week period that began July 1, 2019 by Emerald Capital Advisors. The Unsecured Creditors Committee in the USC bankruptcy has selected Emerald as their financial advisors. After an extensive review, Emerald determined that attempting a post-petition sales process through the bankruptcy court presented a unique opportunity for Companies either looking to get into the firearms distribution business or to expand current operations.
After exploring “all possible options to continuing operations” Parker Bows of Staunton, Virginia, announces it ceased operations on December 31, 2018.
