Ep. 170 Mike Schloesser

Casey Kaufhold and Gaius Carter came into the CAM studio to talk about their performances at the 2026 World Archery World Field Championships in Yankton, S.D., where they won a truckload of medals. For both, it was their first time competing in the world field championships, but Kaufhold had never shot a field round before last year. Carter has a wealth of field experience, since he competes int he NFAA National Field Championships every year.

Lindenwood University senior Lawson Veit won the first-ever ASA Bowhunter Games, which came with a $60,000 payout. It was Veit's first-ever win as a pro, since he started competing in the ASA's Known Pro division at the start of the 2025 season. Veit talks about getting that first win, about how his car broke down at the Bowhunter Games and about his goals for archery and life in general.

Last Chance Archery has been making the tools archers and Pro Shop technicians use for the past 20 years. Jonathan Clark, whose grandfather started the company, runs through the company's history, purpose and evolution, which includes working closely with legendary archery coach George Ryals IV - aka GRIV. If you work on your own bows, this is a discussion you'll want to hear.

At just 19 years of age, Texas archer Rendyn Brooks won $40,000 as the first-ever, Women's Money class champion at the 2026 Bowhunter Games in Clarksville, Tenn. The big payday came less than a month after she won her first pro tournament ever, the 2026 ASA Classic, in the Women's Known Pro division. We sat down with Brooks to talk about these back-to-back wins, about her training and preparation and about how she sees archery in her future.

On this episode, we talk with ASA President Josh Grine, who gives the latest on the inaugural Bowhunter Games coming to Clarksville, Tenn., in August. Then we run down many rabbit trails, including archer attitudes toward the games they play and the penchant for influencers using their platforms irresponsibly. This one gets spicy!

We sat down with long-time pro archer Chance Beaubouef after his thrilling win in Open Pro at the 2026 Easton/Hoyt Pro/Am in Minden, La., to talk about how he manages to keep on winning after more than three decades as a pro archer. Chance talked about his mental game, his practice regimen, the different requirements of today's pro archers, as compared to when he started out and many other topics that only someone with his longevity and list of accomplishments could truly shed light on.

Lisell Jaatma is a women's compound professional archer from Estonia, who recently won her first-ever, individual World Cup title at the Hyundai Archery World Cup Stage 2 in Shanghai, China. She talks about what that win meant to her, especially after a difficult 2025. Lisell opens up about her struggles physically and mentally in 2025, how it affected her archery, how it affected her life and what she did to overcome the adversity. She admits she's still working on herself, but she has turned the corner and is feeling much better about herself and her archery game.

We sat down with Casey Kaufhold after the 2026 Vegas Shoot, where she earned back-to-back wins in Championship Women's Olympic Recurve. This year, Casey won the title outright, without having to go to a shootoff. She describes the difference between the two ways to win, and discusses the extra effort she put into her indoor game this year. Casey also talks about her 2026 shooting schedule, what the world rankings mean to her and about looking ahead already to the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles.

Ep. 170 Mike Schloesser by Competition Archery Media

Chloe Nelsen, at 16 years old, became the first female to win the Championship Compound Young Adult division at the Vegas Shoot in 2026, just two months after winning Youth Female Open at the Lancaster Archery Classic. Despite her young age, she has an incredible resume of wins and of top-tier scores. We talked to her about the Vegas Shoot, where she was initially declared the third-place finisher, about juggling high school and top-level, competitive archery and about how she approaches the sport at her age.