Nearly half the archers at the Tokyo Olympics shot bows from one building near the Salt Lake City airport, KSL1,2 reported in 2021. That building belongs to Hoyt Archery. Hoyt5 makes its bows in Salt Lake City, at a 150,000 square foot plant where, KSL says, every bow is built on site, down to the strings and the recurve limbs. Four brands in our directory make archery or bowhunting gear in Utah or run the business from here, as of October 13, 2026. Two of them, Hoyt and Easton Archery, build bows and arrows in Salt Lake City. Neither one started in Utah.
Quick answers
Where are Hoyt bows made?
In Salt Lake City, at Hoyt's 150,000 square foot plant near the airport, where every bow is built on site.
Is Hoyt made in the USA?
Yes. Hoyt bows are built in Salt Lake City. The company was founded in St. Louis in 1931 and moved to Utah after Jas. D. Easton Inc. bought it in 1983.
Where are Easton arrows made?
Easton makes its arrow shafts at its plant in Salt Lake City, where the company has its headquarters.
Are Grim Reaper broadheads made in the USA?
The company says all of them are. Grim Reaper is run from Provo, Utah.
Where are Hoyt bows made
At Hoyt's plant on Wright Brothers Drive in Salt Lake City, near the airport. When KSL toured it in 2012, the company had recently moved into the 150,000 square foot building, and it had set up an archery lane inside so employees could shoot the equipment they build every day. KSL called the bows "100 percent American made" and "handmade in Utah."
Hoyt did not start here. Earl Hoyt Sr. and his son Earl Jr. began in St. Louis in 1931, making cedar arrows. Jas. D. Easton Inc., then a California company, bought Hoyt in 1983, and Grand View Outdoors4 says Hoyt moved to Salt Lake gradually, "one department at a time." Hoyt is now a division of Jas. D. Easton, Inc., an independent, family owned company.
The Olympic record is the reason serious target archers know the name. Hoyt says its bows have won more medals than all other brands combined since archery returned to the Olympics in 1972. At the 2012 Games, every individual gold medalist shot a Hoyt recurve, according to Wikipedia. Doug Denton, Hoyt's recurve manager, told KSL that from 70 meters the best archers put every arrow inside the size of a grapefruit.
Movie archers tend to carry one too. Hawkeye uses a Hoyt Buffalo hunting recurve in The Avengers, and Katniss Everdeen shoots a Hoyt in the Hunger Games films.
Is Hoyt made in the USA
Yes. Every Hoyt bow is built at the Salt Lake City plant, according to KSL's 2021 report, and the company has been there since the 1980s move from St. Louis. That makes Hoyt one of the brands on our made in Utah list, and it is also on the headquartered in Utah list. It is not on the founded in Utah list, because the first Hoyt arrows were made in Missouri.
Where are Easton arrows made
Easton makes its arrow shafts at its plant in Salt Lake City, and its headquarters is on Harold Gatty Drive in the same city. An Easton sponsored feature in Deer & Deer Hunting describes the 100,000 square foot Salt Lake City division, built in the 1980s, as the headquarters for all of its archery engineering and manufacturing. Wikipedia says Hoyt and Easton together employ about 800 people making bows and arrows in Salt Lake City.
Easton arrows have been used to win every Olympic archery title since the sport returned to the Games in 1972, according to Wikipedia. Like Hoyt, it started somewhere else. Doug Easton was making bows and arrows by 1922, and he opened Easton's Archery Shop in Los Angeles in 1932.
The family business wandered well beyond archery. Easton says Jim Easton's engineering led to a thermal shaft for a seismometer used on the Apollo moon landing, and that the company once made aluminum drumsticks. It sold its team sports business, Easton Sports, to Fenway Partners for $400 million in 2006 and kept the arrows. Greg Easton, the founder's grandson, is the third generation president of Jas. D. Easton.
Grim Reaper Broadheads, run from Provo
Grim Reaper Broadheads makes the sharp end. Its founder, Jay Liechty, graduated from BYU's pre-med program and taught himself patent law. Early in his career he secured about 20 patents, according to the Utah Small Business Development Center. The Razortip came on the market in 2000. It puts small cutting blades near the tip of a mechanical broadhead, to get rid of what Liechty called the butter knife effect.
One FAQ answer is for hunters who find a mechanical head closed after it passed through a deer or a target. The company says the blades did open. The arrow's sudden slowdown on the way out folds them back. Every Grim Reaper broadhead has replaceable blades.
Grim Reaper says all of its broadheads are "100% made in the USA." It doesn't say where in the country, so in our directory Grim Reaper is tagged as run from Provo, at 300 North Draper Lane, and not as made in Utah. Provo brands are listed under Utah County.
Badlands, hunting packs from Sandy
Badlands is the one hunters carry rather than shoot. It began in Salt Lake City in 1992 as Vortex Corporation, founded by Bill Crawley. The company's history page says the first plant was a 10 by 20 foot storage shed nicknamed the Tinder Box, with modified ovens for molding plastics "(and cooking lunch)." The foam presses were 2x4s and old car jacks, and the whole thing started on $2,500.
In 1993 the crew smelled spray paint in the warehouse and found an employee repainting his pack in earth tones. Hunting gear followed. Badlands is now run from Sandy. Heritage Outdoor Group, which owns PSE Archery and Kryptek, bought it from W. C. Bradley Co. in July 2026, SGB reported.
Its promise page covers anything with the Badlands name, even gear bought at a garage sale. "We don't care what happened, or whose fault it was," the company says. Sawing a pack in half to get a new one is where it draws the line. In our directory Badlands is tagged as founded and headquartered in Utah, not as made here.
The rest of the hunting shelf
These four are the archery corner of hunting and archery, which lists 25 brands as of October 13, 2026. The other 21 make ammunition and fishing lures, among other things. For more Utah addresses that catch people off guard, see outdoor brands you didn't know were from Utah.
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