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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.

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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.

Ryan Jeffries is a professional archer who competes in the Senior Pro division on the ASA circuit. He won his first ASA pro class title at the Shibuya Pro/Am in March 2026. We talked to Ryan about that win, about competing as a pro and working full time as a civil engineer and about traveling to tournaments with his family.

Gracen Fletcher is a 19-year-old archer from Indiana who competes in women's pro compound events. After winning The Vegas Shoot in 2025, with the only 900 shot in the division, she won her first ASA in the Women's Known Pro division at the 2026 Shibuya Pro/Am in Russell County, Ala., in March. We talked to Gracen about that win, about her Vegas win, about the struggles she said she's having this year with her shot, and, of course, about training Arabian horses.

Senior Known Pro Michael Braden talks about winning the 2026 Hoyt/Easton Pro/Am in Foley, Ala., which was his first win in that division since his "retirement" in 2023. Michael talks about how hard he's worked at being a pro archer since he began in 1996, and how he lost the desire to do that work by the end of 2022, which led to his one-year hiatus. With the advent of the Senior Known Pro class in 2023, Michael felt the fire to come back to the game. He also talks about coaching, his signature index-finger release and how much he loves aiming drills!

Legendary archery coach Kim Hyung Tak visited the CAM podcast studio to talk about his lifetime in archery. He offers insight into what makes the Koreans such a dominant force in archery, and how the country has a system that's designed to produce top-tier competitors.

Coming into 2026, Kyle Douglas had won most tournaments in archery as an Open Pro, including NFAA Indoor Nationals and The Vegas Shoot. But he'd never won the Lancaster Archery Classic, despite several runs in the finals. At the 2026 Classic, Douglas finally got his first win there. We talked to him about how the finals went down, what it meant to him to get that win and what's left for him to fill his plate of accomplishments. He also talked about how the special $20,000 prize for a perfect 660 at the Classic affected his qualification round.