The 2025 Vegas Shoot and the World Archery Indoor Collection Finals have furthered the unimaginable legacy of the Easton X collection because the world’s most profitable indoor arrow shaft.
The World Archery Indoor Collection produced a gold medal sweep and a near-total podium sweep all through the 2024-2025 open circuit occasions. These occasions culminated with the primary two days of The Vegas Shoot to seed the ultimate 16 out of hundreds of members. These finals, like these at The Vegas Shoot, had been held within the iconic PH Stay Theatre in Las Vegas earlier than a sold-out viewers, including further stress on the opponents. In the long run, Easton shooters claimed each single gold medal by means of outstanding head-to-head performances.
Within the recurve divisions, matches are determined by set play. In Males’s Recurve, the USA’s Brady Ellison used a 20-year-old set of Easton X7 Cobalt shafts, which belonged to his late Olympic teammate Butch Johnson, to dominate each match with overwhelming wins. Ellison concluded his marketing campaign with a ultimate match in opposition to Olympic Champion Mete Gazoz of Türkiye, successful 7-1.
The ladies’s recurve division was a battle between two Olympic bronze medalists: USA’s Casey Kaufhold and French archer Lisa Barbelin, each geared up with Easton X10. Their match escalated to an unimaginable shoot-off, with Kaufhold securing victory on the ultimate arrow resulting from her distance from the middle of the 10-ring.
The compound classes use a five-end straight factors system, with 150 factors being good. Nevertheless, in World Archery, the 10-ring is barely two centimeters in diameter, the scale of the Vegas X-ring. Males’s Compound showcased epic elimination spherical battles, culminating in an final show of precision from winner Nico Weiner of Austria within the gold medal match. The world out of doors champion shot an ideal 150 factors to assert gold in opposition to French sensation Nico Girard, who had beforehand secured a victory within the quarterfinals with a 150-150 shoot-off. Netherlands’ star Mike Schloesser additionally scored an ideal 150 in his bronze match in opposition to Denmark’s Mathias Fullerton.
In Ladies’s Compound, Denmark’s Tanja Gellenthein clinched the gold medal by a two-point benefit within the finals.
The 58th Vegas Shoot concluded on the similar Planet Hollywood venue because the World Indoor Collection, drawing a capability crowd of 4,700 spectators. They had been handled to a surprising 16-end finals that started with 30 perfect-score opponents and resulted in a second Vegas victory for Bodie Turner in opposition to Nico Girard for the $50,000 prize verify. Bodie shot the Easton SuperDrive 27 whereas Nico wielded his X27s of their showdown.
Moreover, spectators witnessed an unprecedented 11-way shoot-off for Ladies’s Compound vice-champion, with Paige Pearce prevailing amongst a bunch of stellar performers utilizing her Easton X27 shafts.
