Gary Christensen and Mike Ferguson didn’t start out as engineers—they were U.S. Army veterans and bowhunters. Spending their time hunting in the backcountry, frustrations grew as too many animals were lost after being shot.

Unable to accept the common refrain “that’s just how it is,” in 2009, Gary and Mike decided to builder a better way. Through trial, error, and sheer stubbornness, they kept improving until they had products that worked. Today, Pro-Tracker holds over a dozen patents, including: Bad Boys® FOC sleeves, the Friction Grip Collar System, and the Pro-Tracker Recovery System. Each product started the same way—by fixing a problem that hunters commonly experience.

Now hunters can strengthen their arrow shafts at the usual breakpoints, increase their FOC and momentum for clean passthroughs, and track and recover game that had been shot, but retreated to an unseen location and died. Gary and Mike have continued to innovate since with the newly relaunched Deadly Series line of arrow shafts. Hoping to change the archery industry for the better, Gary and Mike stand behind their hard work and offer their customers a guarantee to replace broken shafts.

Pro-Tracker was established and remains headquartered in the great outdoors of Idaho. It remains dedicated to solving hunting’s hardest problems.