Who owns hoyt archery

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Experts vary as to when the Hoyt Archery Company was actually founded. Some report that Hoyt was founded in in St. Others believe that it was in that Earl convinced his dad to go into the archery business with him under the name of Hoyt Archery Company. Notwithstanding, the first major breakthrough was in bow design, introducing in dynamic balanced limbs and limbs of equal length.

Hoyt was among the first to use deflex-reflex bow design. He then began designing bows with a semi-pistol grip, and in the full pistol grip. He later added stabilizers. His famous target bow, the Pro Medalist was used by archers Doreen Wilbur and John Williams to win gold medals in the Olympics, the first year that archery was added back into the Olympic Games after many years.

Hoyt never did produce a large line of recurve bows. Both his through line included only the Pro Medalist and Pro Custom target bows, the Pro Hunter hunting bow, the XPert all-purpose bow, and the Scout entry-level bow. Later the recurve Deflex-reflex became part of the Hoyt design in still popular today. What followed was a host of innovative archery bow designs such as the short recurve hunting bow the blades balanced, providing a new dimension in precision and more.

Having traversed in similar social circles the two knew each other and have spoken on the phone on numerous occasions. Earl Hoyt, would often watch his future wife from behind her chair on the archery line while she shot a bow during archery tournaments. After several years in the late 60s, Earl and Ann begun dating and were married in sharing thirty-four happy years together making history with Hoyt Archery; the designer and the girl behind the bow.