About The Owner

To truly know someone, I believe you have to know where they come from, and how they were raised.  I was raised by my father.  He was a Capitalist and a small business owner whose entrepreneurial spirit affected everything he did.  Lacking the skills of the consummate politician, he was completely black and white.  It was done his way, or the wrong way.  When it came to hunting, there was only one way, and that way was with a traditional bow, teaching us to shoot was through discipline and form. He’s in my head even now, “Full draw, solid anchor, pick a spot, clean release, follow through.”  I must have heard that mantra a million times.  He bought me my first bow on my fifth birthday; a beautiful little 24# longbow built by a local bowyer, Ron Robinson.  After memorizing the 10 rules of gun safety and becoming proficient enough to hit a paper plate at 10 yards with all six of my arrows, I was finally allowed to venture off on my own.  One day, upon returning to camp without any arrows, my father scolded me and gave me one of his own to shoot.  It was an old hunting arrow that was tipped with a Zwickey broadhead.  At the end of our weekend excursion, I had managed to hang onto that one arrow.  I assume it was because the damn thing was so heavy I couldn’t shoot it far enough to lose it.  However, my father believed that it was because it was equipped with a broadhead, and that made it special.  The next weekend, he took one of my old arrows, and attached a special broadhead he had ground down to fit on my little arrow. At the end of our weekend, I still had that one arrow.  That broadhead made me a bowhunter, and I have been shooting broadheads ever since.

That one little handmade broadhead made me fall in love with them.  I became obsessed with collecting broadheads in high school and amassed quite a collection.  As I was finishing up college, my father called me to a meeting.  He wanted to talk to me about starting a broadhead company.  As we spoke, I knew that this is what I wanted to do, however, I quickly learned I had no idea how to do it.  Through the process of building my first broadhead I learned a lot about manufacturing (mostly how not to do it).  After two years, I produced my first batch of Eclipse Broadheads.  Several years of successfully selling only Eclipse Broadheads, I knew that I needed to build another broadhead.  Keeping much of the design and using the knowledge that I had acquired, I set out to create the Werewolf Broadhead.  The Werewolf has gone through an evolutionary process and is currently in its 4th generation.

 Owning and operating several businesses keeps me very busy, but I do find time to get out every chance I get to pursue animals with my recurve.  I still live in Idaho with my wife, Beth, and our four kids, and I take them to the mountains, and teach them about what it is to be a hunter conservationist.  I love Idaho, and my goal is to make my kids love Idaho, Beth and I take the kids to every corner of this state to explore.  Wanting to be involved, and give back, I also serve as a commissioner on the Idaho Fish and Game Commission.  Being a commissioner I have an opportunity to impact the sport that I love and help make sure that the opportunities, and the way I grew up will be there for my kids, and future generations.