Whitetail Target System World Class FITA Bosses
("Mats" in the USA)
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When designing a
competition mat for the best archers in the world a mat needs to do three
things. It has to stop hundreds of arrows that are shot into the same
spot, it has to hold those arrows for accurate scoring time after time and
it has to be uni-directional, meaning it cannot 
"kick" the arrow and will hold it straight. The 152C was
designed with all of these things in mind, in fact it does all of this and
is still lightweight, weighing as much as half of other mats, it has the
advantage of having a replaceable centre core that is offered in two
thickness. This design is so superior that it was chosen as the target mat
for the 2000 Sydney Olympics over every other mat in the world. The bonded
laminations hold the arrow securely exactly where it landed for accurate
scoring, and will withstand hundreds of shots in the same spot. It has to
when being used by the best archers in the world! The replaceable 24"
core is available in 8" or in a heavy duty 12" thickness for
maximum life.
The AR-152 offers the same
features as the original 152c with even more. The centre 12" is our
new Velocicore. This centre core covers the gold, where the most wear and
tear is. Arrow removal is easy and the centre will out last standard foam
ten shots to one. We also offer 24 inch foam cores with 12"
velocicore centres for upgrading your current 152c. 
Velocicore were used at the
2004 US Olympic Trials held in Ohio and at the 2004 Canadian Championships
held in Toronto to rave reviews and without a failure!
Velocicore takes 20,000
shots and still going
In world class competition
the targets have to be as good as the archers using them. And the archers
are very very good. That's why American Whitetail competition mats have
become the standard world wide for FITA and Olympic style competition. In
addition to the skill of the archers, arrow shaft diameter has become
steadily smaller and more accurate making the target mats job even more
difficult.
In 2002 we
began designing a target core that would take ten times more shots than
foam, a core that did not rely on friction to stop arrows, so the diameter
of the arrow would not be a factor, and a core that would allow reasonable
arrow removal.
The result
of many hours of shooting and testing is the Velocicore. The wound rubber
strands actually squeezes the energy out of the arrow, stretching
around the arrow. The strands suffer almost no damage as they are shot so
the are very close to 100% self healing. Then as the arrow is removed the
strands "unroll" so there it takes less energy to pull the arrow
than to stop it.
This core is
truly the next step in arrow stopping technology. Foam targets, both
compressed sheets and bonded laminations stop arrows by absorbing the
energy through friction. Bag targets stop arrows by compressing when
impacted by the arrow, thus absorbing the energy. The velocicore wound
elastic threads uses neither friction nor compression, a totally new
concept in archery targets.
We have
offered versions of the velocicore in our FITA mats since 2003 with great
success. It has proven itself superior on the fields of world competition
time and again, including the Canadian Championships in Toronto and the US
Olympic Trials in Mason Ohio in 2004.
Now you can
have the same superior arrow stopping power for your back yard or indoor
range. Check out the new Crossfire and Range mat. Both use the High Tech
Velocicore.
Step
out of the Foam age..and into the Space age!!
Open Layer
targets claim that it stops over 12,000 shots - The velocicore is just
warming up at 12,000!
 A
good friend of mine, Bruce Bolton of Blackhawk Bowmen, Boonville Indiana,
who is a avid archer, shooting year around in 3D as well as indoors during
the winter came to me in April of 2004 wanting to know what we were making
that would take  a
summer of 300 FPS arrows from his 3D bow with reasonable arrow removal. I
set him up with a target with a 16 inch diameter velocicore. I asked him
to just bring it back when he shot it out so I could evaluate it.
The summer
came and went, as did the fall and winter, then on April 1st of 2005 Bruce
showed up at the factory with the target I had given him the spring
before. He said " I have one word for this target-AMAZING!"
He said he had shot all summer on it, till hunting season started then
took it into his basement for his indoor practicing, shot it all winter.
And it was still stopping arrows, with no sign of a pass through. Except
for two months of hunting season he shot this target every day, so after
ten months of shooting 500 arrows a week he just wanted to show me how
well it had worked, and started to load it back in his truck to shoot some
more. I traded him a new Range mat for the target he had been using to
show here on the website. Watch for a upcoming video showing the target
still being used!
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