Easton Archery is a hunting and archery brand headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah. It was founded in Watsonville, California, in 1922.
Easton arrows have been used to win every Olympic archery title since the sport returned to the Games in 1972, and they are built in Salt Lake City. The family behind them has also helped run the sport. Jim Easton was president of World Archery from 1989 to 2005 and introduced its matchplay formats.
It began in 1922 with his father, Doug Easton, then a teenager, making cedar arrows and custom bows in a California garage. Bowhunting pioneer Saxton Pope praised his work at a chance meeting on an archery range. Wood kept being wood, so Doug started experimenting with aluminum. The XX75 arrived in 1958, cold drawn from aircraft-grade 7075 alloy, and the company calls it the best-selling arrow shaft of all time.
In the late 1960s the company made the first aluminum ski poles, then the first aluminum baseball bats. In 2006 the family sold its Easton Sports business for $400 million and kept the arrows. Doug's grandson Greg runs the company today. The one-man garage shop became a 100,000 square foot plant in Salt Lake City, built in the 1980s, and that is where the Olympic arrows come from.
Easton, the arrow company that turned 100 in 2022, has also made aluminum drumsticks.
I'm just an archery hobbyist, but I shoot Easton arrows and the hunters I know swear by them.
Alex
