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at the Spooky [music] Nook Sports

Complex in Mannheim, Pennsylvania for

the 2026 Lancaster Archery Classic, the

22nd version of this. And boy, the crowd

showed up and they're here today to

witness something new on the center

stage.

>> Yes,

>> it is definitely going to be exciting.

It's Longbow and I'm Greg White sitting

next to Matt Zernzac who is joining me

for a couple matches here today. And

look, we know that you love Bearbow. You

know, the pusharch archery.com is where

he's famous for. But let's talk about

Longbow. Longbow, what is it? Like, what

are we doing here? What are we doing?

>> Long bow, wood, wood arrows, your finger

has to be touching the knot, no elevated

rest, no plungers. It's going to be

wild. Can't wait.

>> Very interesting what we have coming up.

And this tournament is extremely

interesting. So, give us a little bit

about what you're reading here on.

>> Yeah, so the bow can't be less than 150

cm long. So, there is a length

requirement. [music] must be a long bow,

must shoot off the shelf with or a

glove. Uh wooden arrows are required.

There's no [music] string walking

allowed. So, we have a lot to talk about

about the equipment on how they can get

their tip close to that gold to aim

with. And we'll get you more information

[music] about what string walking is if

you're scratching your head wondering

what Matt's currently talking about. But

here's the shootup rules, the top four

qualify. And basically [music] what

happens with that shootup rules is is

that the number four qualifier is going

to shoot against number three. Whoever

wins that's going to shoot against

number two and against number one.

There's so much more to talk about,

including the distance and the scoring,

but long bow action coming at you.

So, let's go ahead and get to our field

of play and get to Rob Cough.

>> Ladies and gentlemen, it's time for

Longbo.

[cheering]

[applause]

>> Let's give it up for Brian C. The fourth

the fourth Brian King. The fourth seed,

Brian King, come on up.

Congratulations for making it through

the eliminations.

The eliminations were tough.

They always are. Congratulations.

Our third seed is Mads Havsom from

Hillerd, Denmark.

Stand up for mountain tops on

L Denmark.

[music]

[music]

>> All right, Zernzax. So, here we are and

new to the center stage.

>> New along center stage. First time on

the finals.

>> We [music] compete obviously as we look

at our shooters. You know, there's Brian

King there. three years of shooting. You

know, we compete obviously to win, but

we also compete for a little bit of

prize money. And there's a couple of

companies, a couple people here that

really have helped Longbow get to where

it is right now. 100%. This is 100% a

[music] grassroots effort of this

Longbow class. We have a bunch of

sponsors that pitched in. Java Man

Archery, Timberoint Archery, Sockt Trail

Archery, Onpoint [music] Archery, Elite

Archery, and Wity Archery all threw in

$250 each to increase the prize purse

[music] here for this wonderful

division. 12.

>> And right out of the gate, we have a 12

being called and this is with a long

bow.

>> This is with a long bow. So, let's talk

let's break this down a little bit. A

long bow is different than a recurve in

the way if you look at the top of the

limbs. The string does not touch the

belly of the bow, which is the shooter

side of the limb here. And in this

class, you can see there's no string

walking. So, these guys have a

requirement to have their index finger

touching the non. So you can be shooting

split finger or three under and they

usually run a higher anchor point cuz

they're trying to shotgun and and

basically look down that arrow. And

these this equipment over the next

couple ends we'll be talking a lot about

this Brian King here. He's just a great

trad bow hunter. He's been bow hunting

compound all his life and he's been

shooting trad for three years and he's

only been shooting competitively. He

went to four local shoots last year and

two this past winter and this is his

first large tournament and here he is on

the final stage

[applause]

>> in Mads. I tell you what, he is a

shooter from Denmark. You can recognize

that face in the background in his

coaching box. Oliver Rocken Holt, last

year's Bearbo men's winner. And what a

person to have in your coaches box,

right?

>> Pretty incredible. Yeah, I mean amazing.

And for Brian King, he came in as the

12th seed. He shot 480 points and uh

just had a great great elimination match

as

dude.

>> Are you serious? [laughter]

>> Long bow wood arrows.

>> Here's PJ

>> division this year has an extra $1,500

kicked into the payout thanks to Java

Man Archery, Timberoint Archery, Sock

Trail Archery, OnPoint Archery, Elite

Archery, and Witi Archery. We thank them

for kicking in for that extra money.

[applause]

Okay, I want to highlight the equipment

being used. Who made your bow, sir?

>> Yako. It's a uh Timberoint Hydra.

>> Thank you, Yako from Timberoint. Also a

sponsor. And who made your arrows?

>> Me.

>> There we go. Handcrafted his own wooden

arrows. These guys do an amazing job.

I'll be back to heads soon. Thank you.

Great shooting, guys.

>> Um, Zern, Zack, how many times you made

your own arrows?

>> I've made wood arrows before. I've

dabbled in long bow.

>> How then how do you go about making

them?

>> So, you you buy your raw shafts from a

manufacturer that makes wood arrows.

They spine match them. And again, it's

organic material, so it's very difficult

to spine match. And let's talk about

weight matching. Right. So, these things

are plus or minus five grains in weight

matching set to set and the spine range

is different. And then the crazy thing

about it is as you shoot these arrows,

>> you're going to have to constantly

straight straighten them and take care

of them. There's some TLC that goes into

long bow and you're trying to always

make sure your arrows are as true as

possible. There is some finickiness,

man. It's just such a delicate sport and

these guys, you know, you look at this

and oh, these these are simple weapons,

simple arrows. These guys are super

technical like Mads. Watch his watch his

form here. See, he's got that anchor

point. That knock that arrow is by his

nose, staring down the arrow. Now, Mad's

aiming point. So, unlike

>> Bearbo, which we'll see here in a couple

different matches here in a couple

different classes, they string walk down

the string to be able to get that arrow

as close to their arm. These guys are

aiming with the tip of their arrow

skill. So, they're not shooting

instinctively. They're putting their tip

on a place on the string or on the

target. Mads is using the five ring. So,

he's settling the tip of his arrow on

the bottom of the blue

>> and letting it hover and shoot.

>> Brian, his is at the bottom of the

paper. Now, this is all different,

right? Based on your anchor point, how

high of an anchor you can get and still

get into your back. And you can see he

has a much it looks like a longer face

than Mads. Oh, nice down there.

>> Okay, 30 second shot clock. That's

right.

>> Actually responds to that. So, he's got

plenty of time.

>> Absolutely. Especially with this,

there's no clicker like you would see an

Olympic none of that stuff. That's

right.

>> These are good solid shots. Let me let

me ask you this question.

>> We notice the can't of the bow, you

know, like there's no bubble level on

here to get your bow straight. How do

you manage that? Does that affect the

flight of your

>> That's right. You'll you will see like

Mads is shooting a more vertical

vertical bow. And [applause] when you do

induce a camp there, there's some

variability in the shot.

>> Let's go to Rob Cold.

>> Impressive. Nothing but a stick and a

string.

And to you, who made your bow?

>> That will be Timber Point.

>> Timber Point again. Another Timberoint

bow. Again, thank you to Timber Point.

And your arrow,

>> it's made by my friend Clay Anderson.

>> Okay, thank you very much.

Thank you once again to everybody who

handcrafts this equipment. It's not

factorymade.

It's handcrafted.

A lot of workmanship goes into this

equipment. Thank you very much to the

longbow community.

Of

>> course, Greg White, Matt Cernzac here

with pushartery.com.

Let's talk about uh the the veins or the

flexion they used in this type of long

bow shooting. Do we often see feathers

being used?

>> Yes, absolutely. Yeah. So, it's

basically you're that arrow is having to

cross across that shelf since we're not

using elevated rests, no plungers. So,

you have to have something forgiving. So

feathers are the obvious choice there.

And these arrows are let's stick on the

arrow because the arrow is really

important in long bow. So if you look at

the very tip of their arrow, there's

these there's these top hat adapters

that they're using. So with a wood

arrow, you have to taper the ends of the

arrow and glue on your points, glue on

your knock.

>> These manufacturers have come out with

different uh component systems that

allow you to use screw in tips. And so

you're using an adapter that glues onto

the front of the wood arrow and then you

can use a a screw on tip. And and the

nice thing about those adapters, you'll

see most of the shooters using those

adapters is it lengthens your arrow by

an extra inch to an inch and a half. So

the longer your arrow, the closer you

can get that tip to the gold is where

you're wanting to aim that. And these

arrows, uh, Mads is shooting roughly

about 700 grain arrows. And Brian's

arrows are Doug fur arrows that he made

himself out of Doug fur wood. And

they're 640 grains with a 240 grain like

component system up front.

>> Wow.

>> Yeah. So, you're long heavy arrows is

the key here in Longbow.

>> So many different ways to accomplish the

same goal. And this is why you're going

to also going to see these scores. I

mean, look at how King has rebounded

from his first end to this end.

>> Now, we talk about Bear Bow and Bear,

quote unquote bear bow close. You have a

little hitch, you have a little hiccup,

and it's going to throw it out to the

eight ring, seven ring. with long bow

that same hitch you're out in the blue

and in the in the black rings. It's very

unforgiving.

>> It almost sounded like on the last arrow

from Hav there that he might have

actually contacted his other arrow and

he kicked it a little bit wide. Right

back to Rob Copples

>> these arrows and all the training that

the guys do. They've been training for

this and working so hard for months and

months. We're very very happy to uh give

this showcase to the Longboat community.

I can't thank enough the Longboat

community, Competition, Longbow, Santo,

Longbow Outlaws, the whole group. Thank

you so much.

[applause]

>> Okay, so let's let's talk about the

Longbow Outlaws here. So, why why are

there long bows up on the big stage?

This was a grassroots effort started

about 7 years ago at the Lancaster

Classic and these group of rogue

longbowow archers were begging for a

class. So they decided to just start

showing up and competing in bear bow

with their long bows and wood arrows.

And Rob and and the rest of the

Lancaster crew crew basically told the

Longbow Outlaws, "If you guys keep

showing up and you show us that you're

willing to show up, we'll give you your

class."

>> And here we are. And in 2024 or 2025's

Lancaster Classic, they had a trophy

division for the first time. There were

75 longbowowers that showed up for the

trophy division. And Rob made an

announcement during one of the

qualification lines last year that we

made it to the final stage and we had

100 long bow archers show up this year.

>> Incredible. Isn't that incredible?

>> Yeah. Yeah. And Matt's of course from

Denmark. So it's not just US focus. I

mean, we had longbow people come here

from Australia and from Denmark and

other parts of the world. It's It's

really impressive. Now, as we watch King

shoot here, isn't it true that there

seems to be these big pockets of longbow

kind of um I don't know if I want to say

competitors, but definitely shooters all

throughout the country.

>> 100%. Yes, there's a lot of longbowow

shooters here state side, but also in

Europe, there are a lot of long bow

archers out there that are specialists

in this class. And again, it is super

intricate the way they aim, getting

achieving a higher anchor while still

being able to maintain their alignment.

It's a very very difficult class. Very

unforgiving.

>> So many things can so many things have

to go right in order for you to shoot in

the middle in the gold.

>> Yes, these guys are just so impressive.

Watch Mads coming back here to full

draw.

>> And the fact that we have a score right

now of 89 to 88 potentially is insane.

>> LOOK AT THAT, DUDE. [laughter]

>> That's incredible.

>> And he's just like, "Yeah, another day

in the park." Let's see what Brian can

do here.

There we go. Hitting the 12 just in

case.

>> Yeah. So, that's his third. He has four

total

>> that he's allowed to to call. He's still

on the shot clock.

>> Let's watch. 10 10 seconds on the shot

clock. Nine. Eight. Plenty of time. He's

going to get this arrow off.

>> Eight.

>> Eight. Okay. Man, what a close match.

[applause]

>> All right. So, one of the things I

noticed too, like when when Brian was

pulling back, it seems like he does need

a moment or two for that bow to settle

more, right? Right. Yeah. Because

there's not a lot of mass weight with

these bows. We can talk about the mass

weight in the next match.

>> Here's Rob Coff.

>> Keep it going, man.

>> Okay, you finished fourth place.

>> For fourth place has a payout of $350

from Lancaster Archery.

Skip right in. [applause]

[music]

That's You survive. You go on.

>> How you feeling out there? He's

exciting. Very funny. You've come a long

way. Thank you so much. Thank you. It's

away from Sweden. Let's give him a hand.

Denmark. Denmark. Denmark. Denmark.

Yeah. Denmark. Our

[music]

second seed ARCHER IS MICHAEL DAVENPORT

from Dal, Illinois.

Michael Davenport

>> wearing his three undershirt.

>> Welcome, Michael.

[music]

So, a bit of [music] uh gamesmanship

happens here at the Lancaster Archery

Classic. Gave him the bump. Yeah. Hey,

gave him the bump. 39year-old moved

over.

So, Davenport,

he's a stud. So, Davenport was our top

US contingent. If you asked anybody in

the [music] in this class who's gonna

win this thing from the US, Davenport

was the [music] guy. And if you said if

you said internationally who's going to

win this thing, it was Clay Anderson

[music] from Denmark and he knocked out

Clay Anderson in the final match with a

single arrow shoot off [music] in epic

fashion. So the 55-year-old Davenport

gets to his spot on stage and already

has called a 12. He's coming after it

right out of the gate. So let's see. So

Mike, deep breath.

>> Yes. Mike Davenport is a bow hunter

through and through. He travels

internationally.

>> And he was talking to me. He said, "You

know, I've been charged by a grizzly

bear before."

>> And and I felt similar by like

biological adrenaline dumps when he's

standing up and getting ready to come

out on the stage.

>> Oh, I bet.

>> So this is just as tough as getting

charged by a grizzly bear here for Mike.

So Mike is shooting um a twisted ditch

long bow, 68 in long. It's 40 lb at his

long 30-in draw length, and he's using

uh cedar arrows that are 585 grains made

by Paul Jalon of Elite Arrows, which was

one of our longbow uh vendors that

pitched in the money to increase our

division payout along with Java Man

Archery, Timberoint Archery, Sockt Trail

Archery, Onpoint [snorts] Archery, Elite

Archery, and Wity Archery. And just what

a grassroots effort here in the long bow

division. We're so happy to finally see

these long bows up on stage.

>> Yeah, that extra $1,500 in prize money

goes a long way.

>> Oh yes, you're you're not kidding.

>> Eight caught the line.

>> So in long bow, keeping anything red and

in is really good for this class. You

know, we're so used to other classes

seeing golden in. Redin in is very good.

>> All right,

>> let's go to Rob Cppold.

>> Who made it?

>> A local guy there in southern Illinois.

twisted ditch bows. Uh Tim does a great

job with it and uh you know, we got

together and uh he said, "Hey, let's

build a competition bow." So, this is

what we've got. This is I think the

third generation, so we're slowly

getting there. So,

>> well, it sounds like a cooperative

effort. You had something to do with it.

You got to be proud of that. What kind

of weight are you shooting?

>> Fingers.

>> Uh 40 at 30. That's what I hunt with.

This bow was hunting about 2 weeks ago.

So,

>> Wow. 48 lb on your fingers.

>> 40 at 30. 40 40 lbs at 30 in. And who

made your arrows?

>> These are Paul Jalon Elites. Paul Jalon

is a is a great guy and and builds

beautiful arrows. So, I'm lucky to have

them in my corner. These are great.

>> If we can get a closeup of these arrows

these guys are shooting, they are works

of art. Every single arrow. It's amazing

how straight you can get a wood arrow. I

was simply amazed. Let's give these guys

a huge hand. Huge round of applause.

[applause]

So for Davenport, 2025 US Archery indoor

champion, 2025 field champion, 2025 IBO

world champion, Team USA 3D. I mean,

just

>> already just so decorated as an archer.

>> He's very, very familiar with this high

pressure shooting competition. And he's

also, like I said, a just an incredible

traditional bow hunter. this bow that

he's shooting and these arrows for

training for this for Lancaster. He

decided he's going to hunt with his

competition long ball all season. He

shot a 150inch whitetail buck with that

and a dough this past season with this

competition bow. He threw a bow quiver

on it and he's been bow hunting with it

all winter long. Isn't that incredible?

>> That that is really incredible. And also

shows you like

>> his dedication to both the competitive

side and the hunting side.

>> Absolutely. which hunting is what got

him in to archery in his younger days.

>> Exactly. Now, watch Mike's form. So, you

can see he really get tries to get his

eye as close to that arrow as possible.

He closes that right eye. He's a

left-handed archer. He's sighting down

the arrow with his left eye. Very hard

aim. And for Mike with his long draw

length, his heavier poundage, his

somewhat light arrows, like he could be

up in that 700 grain range, but he's in

the 585. He's holding his tip at the

bottom of the paper.

>> Okay? And the reason why he's doing that

is he's a hunter, so he doesn't want to

mess up his hunting. So hitting the gold

by holding at the bottom of the paper is

just like holding your tip at the bottom

of a deer's chest.

>> Oh yeah, that's why he does it.

>> I get that,

>> man.

>> There we go. So you can see longbow

here. Just groups open up. Just a little

twitch, a little loss in tension, and

you're going to get into the black ring.

Just just like that.

>> Yeah. And exactly. So first arrow is a

four four five liner. It's a question

mark. And then you think, wow, okay,

that's a huge swing. But then look what

Davenport did on his last error. He gave

it right back.

>> Exactly.

>> So potentially we have three point

difference.

>> Let's get to uh BJ.

>> Certainly appreciate you coming over for

that. What do you think being on the big

stage like this?

>> It's amazing. I never tried anything

like this before. So

>> nothing like this before.

>> Not this big.

>> All right. Well, we appreciate you

coming over to compete with us. We're

glad to highlight the Longbow Division.

And it looks like our score is official.

We've got a 4643

lead

for Mads Havsh.

>> Now, Mads is being a little humble

there, like he's never done anything

like this before. He competes for the

last 5 years in Longbo Division in

Denmark. They have championships and

national championships all the time. And

he is a multi-time national team

champion in indoor and outdoor. He is no

stranger to high pressure shooting. But

there's nothing like the Lancaster

finals, baby.

>> Well, I mean, I think that's also the

other question is with Longbow, how

often do we see international shooters

get together to compete against each

other?

>> World archery events. That's pretty much

it,

>> right? So, it's not on the regular. So,

this is a unique event from that

perspective like, hey, like I know what

I do, you know, at the world. I know

what I do with my country. And you show

up and you go, I don't know who's going

to be here in the States. And this is

what he's faced with.

>> That's right. Yeah. This is incredible.

So, let's talk about the bows a little

bit. So, this is not your granddaddy's

long bow, right? So, these are

specifically designed to be as heavy

mass weight as possible. So, in the bear

division, you have to fit through the

12.2 cm ring. You can add bear bow

weights to it. But in long bow division,

uh, they are, you can see the risers

where the the handle where they're

holding on to the bow is very beefy and

heavy and bottom weighted. And the rules

in world archery bar or long bow rules

is you can't add mass weight to the bow

unless it's done at the manufacturer. So

there so some of these bows you will see

uh they hide it behind the wood veneers,

but you can put plugs of metal inside

the bottom of the riser to get them to

balance and be heavy. Some of these long

bows that are coming out now are 5 lbs

mass weight. That's that's compound

level,

>> right? It's amazing. So this now that

the longbow division is here in

Lancaster and the manufacturers are just

getting really involved here.

>> 12 called Davin for he smacks his own

arrow in the nine ring. That was

awesome. That might have Yeah. Did that

push one into nine?

>> All right, let's see where this lands us

here. Okay, so that should have been our

third end of competition.

>> I want to again thank everyone from the

Longbo community.

>> Let's go to Rob Cough,

>> the arrow makers, the archers, everyone.

Thank you so much. We appreciate all the

participation of the Longbow community.

[applause] We're proud of you guys. I

hope you're enjoying yourselves.

Thank you so much.

Yeah, Zern Zach, when you talked about

the fact that it took them so many

years, they were here they're,

>> you know, one of the one of the elements

I think that

>> we know that Bearbow is so entertaining

for the crowd for for people right

online. And so this just adds an

entirely different element, but with

kind of this some very familiar elements

to it as well.

>> How how the major lead changes and

swings can happen. It it's even more

pronounced here in the Longbo division.

like we saw, it just takes a little

hitch and a little flinch and you're out

to the blue and in and black rings. It's

It's super exciting. What an exciting

class.

>> Also makes you think, too, how they

travel with them. You know, when you

when you have like a bear bow, you have

the system where you might be able to

pull your, you know, limbs off and pack

it away nicely, but these long bows are

big tubes, get it on the air airplane.

Must be entertaining, right?

>> So, in in the long bow division, you are

allowed to have a two-piece bow. So,

they they bolt together in the riser and

come apart right in the halfway point

here. So this is okay.

>> This is the final end. This is really

big for these guys.

>> 12 call just in case.

>> Oh no.

>> That

must be devastating for Mads at the

moment.

>> Down. That is long. Now Davenport just

needs to keep the pedal down here.

Capitalize on the door that Mads opened

up for him.

>> All right. All right. So, 12 is called

the 12 would take him to 82.

>> 10. [clears throat]

>> Oh, okay. [applause]

>> 12 called.

>> Another 12 called

>> just in case.

>> I believe I would not imagine he'd be

aiming at that.

Full drawing down.

>> Oh, look at that beautiful arrow.

Beautiful arrow.

>> Okay, here we go.

>> So, I think there's a little confusion

with the 12 ring here.

Mads is aiming down that middle. Needs a

10.

>> Eight.

>> Not going to be enough. What a great

showing by Mads for Denmark. Davenport's

going to take this one.

>> See, but this is Longbo. This is Longbo.

A miss. A miss. And it's that close. And

it's still that close.

>> Let's go to PJ.

>> You're going to finish in third place.

>> Take home $500. Looks like our score is

official. 90-88. Give it up for Mads

Hop.

[applause]

going to bring out our last archer

number one seed. Okay,

our

our first seed archer our first seed

archer in the longbow division is Todd

Hathaway from Erie Villa, New York.

[applause]

Todd, come on out.

Congratulations for making it through

the eliminations.

We had some top archers that were

eliminated this morning during

eliminations. [music]

[groaning]

[music] The old Illinois versus New York

rivalry. The shoot off going on.

>> Talk about Yeah, Todd Hathaway is an

awesome archer. 53 years of shooting,

hardcore bow hunter, been bow hunting

with traditional equipment for life

since [music] he was 12 years old. and

he's a great shooter. He's our number

one qualifier here and I can't wait to

see what he does here.

>> 53 [music] years of shooting at 56 years

of age. And you know, you think about

it, if you're a kid shooting at summer

camp, chances are you're basically

shooting a long bow type situation. This

is where so many people started their

first time.

>> And these are just, you know,

>> uh, advanced age men that like to play

kids sports. That's [laughter] right. So

Todd Hathaway here, his equipment is

very interesting here. So he's using a

big Jim's Buffalo, 30 lb

>> at 28 in. So a very lightweight long bow

here. It's 68 in long, 32 in Douglas fur

arrows, and there's 700 grains. So very

heavy,

>> very lightweight

>> draw weight. And so that enables him to

get his tip on the yellow. So his aim

point compared to Davenport. Davenport's

tip of his arrow is hovering at the

bottom of the paper. Todd's is on the

gold.

>> Gotcha.

>> So this is a nice advantage to be able

to really bear down on that gold. But

but in long bow

>> and he hits [laughter] 12 is called.

>> 12 is called

>> for you compound shooters. If you are

shooting say an east aluminum an east

and aluminum 27 with a 250 grain point

and you have a 29 in draw length

whatever you're probably in around 600

grains with you know plastic veins and

all that. So a 700 grain arrow

>> out of a out of a long bow. Pretty

impressive.

>> Yeah. Pretty cool.

>> Can we have a tie? Really? A 1919 tie in

our first end

>> for the first

long bow champion. Here's Rob Cough.

>> Who built your bow?

>> It's a Big Jim Buffalo bow.

>> Big Jim Buffalo.

>> Excellent. And how much weight are you

shooting on your fingers?

>> It's 30 lb.

>> 30 lb. Nice. Beautiful. It's doing a

great job for you. It's beautiful bow.

Again, I can't thank the long bow

community enough. the manufacturers, the

Boyers, the arrow makers, the true

craftsmen of our sport and the archers

especially, they've trained extremely

hard for this event. This is not normal

to shoot one distance at a tiny little

target like that for someone shooting a

long bow. I hunt with a long bow and I

can't imagine being up here on stage

with one. Thank you so much. Thank you

to everyone.

I can't imagine shooting without a

sight, without a scope lens, without a

stabilizers, without a release aid.

Right?

>> You know, Todd Hathaway here looking at

him, you know, when he was asked the

question, "What motivates you to stay in

the sport?" He gave one of the best

archery answers ever. He's a glutton for

punishment.

>> I love that.

>> Yeah.

>> Yeah. He said he started shooting

competitively at what's called the Muzzy

Shoot. It's like a traditional archery

shoot where they shoot at small white

foam blocks. Uh, and he got addicted to

why competitions and pressure change

your shot. And so that's where he went

down this path. And he's pretty

technical dude. He actually built a

shooting machine for his bow to group

tune his wood arrows. And he would

discard the arrows that were weren't

grouping.

>> Called it. He got

>> He called A 12. HE GOT

>> DID YOU SEE his face? Did you see

[laughter]

>> shock as everybody else? Come on.

>> Yeah, baby.

>> Oh, I love it.

>> And there's the swing right there.

>> With the 12. Now, there's a rule change

for this year. Uh, you can use four 12

calls at any time in the finals. So, if

you need to stack them up at the end,

>> go for it. And again, unbelievable that

we're here in this longbow stage.

Grassroots effort. These manufacturers,

Java Man Archery, Timberoint Archery,

Sockt Trail Archery are all bow

manufacturers that chipped in $250 and

Onpoint Archery, Elite Archery, and

Waffy Archery, our arrow manufacturers.

Just amazing grassroots effort here for

the longbow division giving us the show.

Look at that. What a group. What a

group. Look at that group. A group. Look

at that group.

>> Unbelievable. But I'll tell you what,

>> here's a look at the 12. But here's the

problem with shooting a single spot. If

you crowd the 12 like he did, [laughter]

>> he's like, "Hey, 12. We're married now.

We're married now. How do you like them

apples?"

>> Uh,

>> dude, that was funny. But the that is

the hard part about shooting a single

spot. Yes. is that he crowded that 12.

So even though he has four total, he can

call during the whole match. It's like

good luck. I mean, you would have to

have precision art precision accuracy in

order to hit that 12 a second time.

>> Oh my gosh. So good.

>> But 12 10 9 for Haway.

>> Look at that.

>> A [laughter] 50 points scoring.

>> What a swing. What a swing. So it's

worked 42 to 50 coming into our third

end. Just amazing. I'm so glad we're

here, man. And it's been such a road for

these longbowow outlaws. They just been

showing up for 7 years in numbers of

like 15 the first year, then 25 to 40

the next year. And it just slowly grew

until we finally got the class. And we

have 100 Longbow archers here at the

Lancaster Class of 2026. Amazing.

>> When this is over, I'm going to have to

go back and look at some of the scores

and see how many 31s in an end were shot

[laughter]

in Longbow, cuz that's what, you know,

there can't be too many of those. So,

you know, a a really good score in

Longbow is roughly about 500 on a 600

round, right? And, you know, you don't

think that you can get much higher than

that. You think there's a ceiling there,

but Clay Anderson from Denmark, our

number one qualifier, who Mike Davenport

knocked out in a fantastic one shootoff,

shot a 540.

540, Greg, that's inc. Unbelievable. So,

you can see targets that are just

grouped up around that 8 n 10 ring like

it just beautiful shooting from these

guys. They're really pushing this class

and pushing the limit.

>> If he hits this one, this crowd's going

to go bonkers.

>> They really are.

>> There was a There was a good shot here.

If you guys want to zoom in towards the

end of one of those arrows, you can

actually see the the adapter there. You

can see Okay, Mike's not using the top

hat adapters. He's using a standard glue

on point,

>> but Todd's the tip of his arrow. You'll

see that. There you go. You see that

silver component system with a screw in

tip on the

>> Yeah. Yeah. See how it's two different

components in there?

>> That's right. That's a great nine. Look

at that. Third end here. Last arrow.

>> Got to be a

>> Mike Davenport taking aim. Bottom of the

paper. Boom.

>> Six.

>> Out to the six. Todd Hathaway already a

full draw. He's not wasting any time.

No,

>> man. He is just hammering.

>> He's grooving. And Todd Hathaway won the

trophy class last year at the 2025

Classic. So, he is the reigning champion

technically here in Longbo.

>> All right. First time on center stage

here in Olympic Hall. And here's BJ

Chapman.

>> How many times?

>> Five times.

>> Five times. Okay. You competed in bear

bow, I believe. Did you shoot your long

bow in that division?

>> I shot a wood recurve mainly and then

last year long bow.

>> And then

>> what's it mean to you to have a division

special division final stage? What's

that mean to you as a long bowman?

>> It's an unbelievable platform. Mr. Rob

has just done us a great favor by giving

us this platform and it's up to us to

continue to keep coming, keep showing

up. And if there's somebody out there

sitting on a couch right now, a bow

hunter that wants to get in here, come

on, let's go. There you have it for

Michael Davenport. You got it.

[applause]

We set the stage. But you all showed up.

>> And the way this archery tournament

works is pretty simple. They actually

start shooting qualification rounds

Thursday at noon and you shoot your 60

arrow qualification rounds with the very

center being worth 11. It's a 660 round.

And then what they're going to do

depending on the size of your class is

they're going to say, "Hey, you've made

the cut or you didn't make the cut." So,

you make the cut, you go into

elimination matches, and then you get

the opportunity if you're in the top

four or top eight depending on the

category. Incredible tournament. And by

the way, every point matters. Every

point you score in qualification and

elimination matches if you win ends up

going toward your ranking. And that's

where these archers came from. Another

12 gold.

>> Six there.

>> These guys got to just center this up a

little bit. Todd has a nice lead going

into this final end.

>> All he has to do is just aim for the

middle. Not do not try to do anything

crazy. He's going to walk away with this

one.

>> All right. That's a solid arrow. That is

a solid arrow.

>> The winner advances to go shoot against

the number one qualifier and

the loser of this match will be on the

podium.

>> Haway for the championship.

>> And that's our first Longboat champ.

>> So Hathaway

is going to walk away as your 2026 champ

with a hearty lead. Even though two

different ways to get 21 points in an

end.

>> Absolutely

>> on the back of a 31point end. Hathaway

in the first center stage long bow

competition

>> in Olympic Hall.

>> Amazing.

>> What a community.

>> Amazing. Look, they're bring they're

bringing out a belt. They're bringing

out the longbow outlaw belt. [laughter]

>> Oh, that's amazing.

>> Yes. There it is.

>> [laughter]

>> And the first ever on center stage in

longbow competition to shoot a 12.

Unbelievable.

>> And how did you win by 12 points?

>> I have no idea. That's awesome though,

isn't it?

>> Longbow Outlaws came over the belt.

Todd, what's it mean to have a stage

like this shooting a bear long bow? Uh,

it's incredible. I'm going to be on a

high for months. It was awesome. All

right. Congratulations, Todd. Todd

Hathaway, give it up.

Wow. So, Bearbo brought to you by

Delta McKenzie and Big Shot coming up

later on with Zernzac as we wrap up.

Longbow, Java Man Archery, Timberoint

Archery, Sock Trail Archery, Onpoint

Archery, Elite Archery,

and Whoity Archery. Old whoity pitching

in for that extra $1,500. What a show

these archers put on. If you're an

enthusiast in your backyard shooting one

of these bows, guess what? You can come

right here to the Lancaster Archery

Classic and compete right here in

Olympic Hall on Center Stage. Well, your

your final thoughts on this class.

>> I mean, just a bunch of traditional bow

hunters coming together. Grassroots

effort. We finally [music] did it. We

got the longbow class and they put on a

great show. What a great class.

>> Well, thanks for joining us, Matt

Zernzac. We'll see you in a little bit.

Coming up next, we're going to go

compound in open competition. And stay

with us.