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 Rangemat. 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 Rangemat 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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