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Hoyt Archery is an American manufacturer of recurve and compound bows located in Salt Lake City, Utah. [1] Most notable for their competition recurve bows, which are featured prominently in the Olympics; every gold medalist in individual archery at the 2012 Summer Olympics shot a Hoyt recurve. [2] Hoyt is owned by Jas. D. Easton, Inc.
The Hoyt Ruckus is a now-discontinued performance-driven youth compound bow produced by Hoyt Archery. It measures 29.75 in (75.6 cm) axel to axel. It measures 29.75 in (75.6 cm) axel to axel. It has a huge range of adjustability with draw lengths going from 18–28 in (46–71 cm) at 1 in (2.5 cm) increments.
Hoyt model, for urban land use; Hoyt Street (disambiguation), stations of the New York City Subway in Brooklyn; Hoyts, an Australian group of companies; Hoit (disambiguation) Hoyte, a list of people with the surname or given name
Easton Archery, formally Jas. D. Easton, Inc., is an American archery equipment company that has existed since 1953. The company was started by James Douglas "Doug" Easton (1907–1972), who had made bows and arrows since 1922, and who in 1932 opened Easton's Archery Shop in Los Angeles.
Ann Weber Hoyt (1922 – April 5, 2008) was an American archer. She won six American national archery championships and the 1949 International Field Archery Championship. She won six American national archery championships and the 1949 International Field Archery Championship.
Team Hoyt was the athletic duo consisting of Dick Hoyt (June 1, 1940 – March 17, 2021) and his son Rick Hoyt (January 10, 1962 – May 22, 2023 [3]) from Holland, Massachusetts. The Hoyts competed together in marathons —including over 30 editions of the Boston Marathon —and Ironman Triathlons .
Adelia M. Hoyt was a vocal advocate for self-help by the blind community. "Our most successful workshops and homes have been planned and supervised by sightless persons," she explained, and "every organized effort for the welfare of the blind should have on its board of directors some competent sightless person or persons" to prevent "many a sad mistake."
Such "Holmegaard style" bows are used in flight archery competitions. For flight bows, an optimum between the length of the stiff tips and the draw force of the bow is desired. If the outer limbs are too long, their weight exceeds the capacity of the energy stored in inner limbs. The outer limbs can also become unstable if made too thin.