History of Adams Archery

In the fall of 1979 Dick & Susan Adams opened an outdoor 3d archery course by buying a Golden Arrow Archery franchise. They found out about the business from Susan’s mother Dora Green. Dick was complaining that practicing in the back yard at straw bales was not effective practice for whitetail deer hunting. Dora saw an article in the Gladwin, MI newspaper about a new business using 3 dimensional targets for archery practice.

They started with a card table and cigar box for money at the entrance on the range. Susan ran the business during the day when Dick worked at Fords, then he would work the business during the evenings. In 1980 they bought an old house trailer to repair targets in and used a room to stock some archery supplies. They purchased $500 worth of stock from Remacklus Archery in Dundee, which mostly included field tips, and arrows. Slowly the archery shop grew larger and larger until they had to build new building in 1984. The shop started carrying bows at the same time with bow companies Martin and Darton. A family atmosphere was maintained by hiring Dick’s daughter Diana as manager in 1989. The franchise was dropped in 1991 because the Golden Arrow targets were not keeping up with the evolution of faster more penetrating bows and arrows. Adams Archery started using Mckenzie targets on the 3d range & changed the name to Adams Archery which was incorporated in 1994. Business has continually grown throughout the years. In 2002 Adams decided to build an indoor range and 50 x 134 foot building opened in December 2003.

In March of 2006 Brandi Kamin was hired part time but soon became an invaluable part of the Adams Archery family and was promoted to full time in August of 2006.

Range Fees and Hours

Outdoor Range Fees:

Adults: $10
12–16yrs: $8
11 and under: Free

The outdoor 3D range is open 365 days a year on the honor system: when the proshop is closed, put your shooting fee in the mail box on the door. Scorecards are in the wooden box by the door.

Indoor Range Fees (hourly rate - 1/2 hour minimum):

3D
Adult: $10
12–16yrs: $8
11 & Under: $3

Paper
Adult: $8
12–16yrs: $6
11 & under: $4

Recurve Bow & arrow rental:  $8 per hour        Arrow rental:  $4 per hour

The indoor 3D and paper range is open during Pro Shop hours. Please see schedule for information on shoots, leagues and classes.

The Pro Shop

We are a full service Pro Shop

and can service your equipment

in a timely and professional manner

Here is Brandi in our arrow room where we fletch most of our arrows by hand. If we don't have the colors you want in stock we will custom fletch them for you at no extra charge.

We have Truflite feathers, Blazer, Quikspin, & AAE Vanes.

We also have wraps available.

Here you see Dave in our Bow Work Shop. We use the most up to date equipment to work on your bow. We have replacement strings and cables for most makes of bows. Our goal is to service your equipment while you wait if at all possible. The use of 2 Sure-Loc X-Presses help us toward this goal.

We carry a wide variety of archery accessories:

About JOAD

Junior Olympic Archery Development, or JOAD, is administered by USA Archery, the national governing body for the sport of archery. USA Archery is sanctioned by the US Olympic Committee to oversee US Olympic Archery. USA Archery is a member of the word-wide archery organization FITA (Federation Internationale de Tir a l'Arc).

JOAD is open to any youth archer aged 5 to 18. Both recurve and compund bows are used in club activities and in tournaments. JOAD archers who use a compound bow can train to compete in local and regional tournaments, and can earn a seat on a youth world team to compete in other countries representing the United States on behalf of USA Archery.

Recurve archers can compete likewise, with the added benefit of being able to use their recurve bow to try out for a spot on the US Olympic Archery team, which is selected and managed by USA Archery.