yeah i think that's a that's a pretty good one there
like the whole
all right hey everybody this pj riley from lancaster archery down here on our academy
range we're here with rio and logan wilde who are here this weekend to do a seminar i believe
it's called wild shots something here correct yeah that was the creative name i do believe that they
came up with yeah so we uh started doing a video like this uh about a year or so ago where we just
you know when some pros come in we just go up to the line do some shooting talk about
archery talk about life so we wanted to talk to the wild brothers of course you guys are both
one of those uh from one of those famous families in the archery especially target archery world
yeah everybody knows the wilds your daddy everybody shoots in the family i guess
i'll start just out ria what's it like you know shooting behind your dad he was inducted into what
nfa hall of fame yeah it's pretty cool like i mean it was always something that i i wanted to kind of
i'm competitive let's put it that way so maybe it was always to like one-up or do better than
he did or anything in that way but it turned into like i wanted to have some of the best records so
but it was cool to have him around because i gotta grow up around a lot of different pros
you know i mean so i gotta listen to a lot of different theories a lot of different thoughts
and so to me that's kind of like one of the things that i've taken into i mean my dad was a huge help
don't don't get me wrong there he's helped me a ton but it's like i've learned a lot from a ton of
people and so it was really cool growing up that way i mean i got to see and do things that like
uh i would have never had not been his son yeah yeah logan how about for you what was that like
well you know it's kind of different because i obviously grew up behind dad and rio and so
you know i was about i think it was about 16 i did the junior world team trials and i was like oh i'm
a wild i don't need to practice and well i went down there and absolutely got obliterated and i
was like the archery's dumb i'm over archery i'm you know i'm gonna go back to playing baseball and
and the following summer i was like you know what i can i can't i can't end on that note
i really gotta really go to work and so i told dad i said hey you give me a new bow i promise
i'll work my butt off i will shoot practice all summer long if you send me to the joe
at nationals and he was like okay so he did he got me a bow i went out there i went with kevin
eldridge he took us out there i think i won that by three points over adam wheatcroft but
then we were 30 points ahead of the third place person so after that it kind of took off and
yeah and now you just started a new job with usa archery you got your usa shirt on there yep what
are you going to be doing for them so with usa archery i'll be doing corporate engagement and
fundraising manager so basically making sure our current sponsors are happy and then trying to find
other sponsors within the industry or not endemics to bring outsiders into the sport so yeah gotcha
all right well let's take some shots and i should mention here we are shooting at the finals target
that we're going to be shooting in for the las classic rio you have some experience it was a
little bit different yeah you shot at this thing it's it's a challenge i can tell you that little
was it 11 ring at world archery it's a 12 ring here it's not easy to hit i mean most people
see it well and then you throw your dot up there and it's bigger than most of those i
mean most people i mean some people have a little small one but it's still it's a challenge and so
it'll be really interesting to see how much it changes the game and people's thinking because
when we did it with world archery it was totally different because there were certain people that
went after it every time and there were certain people that like would shoot at eight or a nine
and then shoot it and they'd nail it you're like well they're back to even now so it's a definite
it'll be an interesting change to it i have not shot this face at all so i'm interested
to see just what it looks like through my scope and sometimes that little dot can be a little
distracting and all kinds of different things so yeah i'm thinking i'll be happy if i can see it
i will say for not shooting for two years i went for it i missed it
which i'll be honest with you that's the way to miss it
is that right oh yeah yeah what's the thing about it if you miss it low and that's like
when i looked at it i was like seven i do not want to miss it low or you know
you could be a six oh yeah i i'm only shooting a 19 000 pin and it basically covers that oh
it's the i don't take much to cover it at all and i mean i'll go back for the middle
it seems so much easier seems easier right i'm sure i'll change that
you can see you can still miss an eleven here absolutely oh i can miss them as good
as anybody yeah that's the that's what's gonna be fun i mean even if you look at
like last time's finals i don't know that there was only but a couple of clean score shots so
are guys really gonna go for that that 12 that much right i mean it's gonna be interesting
oh got one well i guess the question is is uh the hammer registered and he got it
because this this is right up gilling hands out oh
i can promise you that you went for them all oh no the first second one i just shot in the middle
but i think i may have got the last one got the last one but even at that likely i may have got
a nine on this one it's not perfect but it may have hey just gotta touch that line yeah that's
it yeah all right in the comments what do you think rio shot in or out 12 or 8. let us know
yeah we always love to get the public involved oh and it always can get interesting right
but it's always funny because it doesn't matter who it is you know you call your own arrows a
little bit more liberal than you do uh your competitors so oh absolutely well and and in that
fact right there you're like you even aim at that little dot differently like both of mine were high
yeah yeah like honestly if i go for it at some point i may move my side a couple of clicks oh
right because it's so different you can't see it your body's like yeah what are you you have
a big dot yeah fairly decent size what are you using same thing i think we have about
this exact same size dot yeah pretty close so that you can you even see it when you're done
no no you're covering it literally like what i'm doing is like well there's the red and i got a
set in it so you're just kind of like yeah yeah i mean i can probably say the best thing i would say
is that your dot's probably almost on the edge of the blue yeah which is not a good mental thought
at one point at what point did was it okay that you could say i aimed in the blue yeah
doc's touching blue let's just go with it again like i said there wasn't a lot
of people that shot clean and that like so yeah how many are really going to to really
maybe i'm just getting high nope i left
i think he might have got it and that's close oh there you there will be another in and out
but the worst part is pj it's right on the edge of an eight minute exactly
it could be yeah i missed the wrong way if i missed
and i'm just on the top side of it i mean from this angle looks good yeah well it's
not big enough you can see it from here i can see the dot on the other side that was real bad
oh that one's not good but the whole the other part to me is like are we going to change the
setup for it because i could build a scope with a smaller dot oh right you know i mean what is
it going to do to people to make them try and get it yeah when you go into the finals yeah
do you bring a sight with you it's got a little bit heavier magnification
i don't know and i i can tell you when i leave here i'm going to take some of these home
there will be there will be some playing done you'll have the strategy figured out well
i'll work on a strategy let's put it that way i'm going to say right now the toughest part in
our division you got to get to the top eight first agree yeah right right that's not a that
is not a gimme at any point oh yeah oh this one missed oh totally yeah see i missed this one and i
missed that one for eight and a seven but see you logan got it so i'm the first one to get it huh
well mine was close close got it nailed it but that's like i struggle with seeing it behind my
big dog yes well i don't have a light in my i usually have a light on my yeah so much fiber
i'm saying well and then another part we're going to see is you're going to be under lights that'll
be totally different yeah yeah so it's like i mean how different is this target gonna look
in that situation uh-huh so it'll be it's gonna be a fun all right so logan you were talking
about you know at the classic we give the uh the archer who's leading the choice shoot first or
second yep so you're leading what do you want to do now you put yourself into a position that
i still think you're gonna wanna lead because then you're going to require that person to
take that risk and like real said if you take a little bit you miss on the high side you might be
able to get a nine so it's only a few point swing but if you do miss on the low side you could shoot
a seven and then you could have you know four point swing just from a regular 11 to the seven
what what would it do to you if you shoot at the 11 and the person behind you shoots at 12.
does that mentally get in your head at all or i mean absolutely especially if the score is tied
because now you're like i haven't shot at it i'm still going to try and do my routine and do the
process and shoot an 11. but you know in in your mind that that person's already shot the 12 and
hit it yeah yeah so that that definitely creeps in there it's going to be interesting that's for sure
and i i honestly if i'm the one leading and as long as i'm hitting 11's
i'm not gonna go if you hit one bonus for you but i'm not sure that i i would go for the risk
if i just have a one point like i'm trailing by one point yeah until the end especially
like but i guess it flips and they go first thing so maybe them doing it twice might force
you to but as long as you're within a point i'm not sure that i would because a 10 will
tight a 10 and an 11 will tie you you're going to wait and see if the other person misses yeah
so much strategy to think about
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missed so now rio you have shot one of only two
660s that we've had at the classic perfect round yeah tell me about that
day was it just a day where you're where you're just like i just can't miss honestly like the
story is really funny because i mean having been here where the techno hunt was used to be we could
practice downstairs there right and so i was down there practicing and steve yoder comes by
and i'm just shooting and i'm just playing like just working on stuff and shooting he walks down
and i have a bunch like out of the 10 and like he goes i don't know what you're going to do but
you're going to need to do better than that and i said all right all right game on so it was kind
of a funny joke and i was working on some things i wasn't sure how to be and i went upstairs and
and he just worked really good that day like i mean like dad and logan shot a different line and
they went and got lunch and come back and they actually showed up a little past halfway and dad
comes up says how you doing i said well not too bad and i showed him the target because i kept
it you know because it was a solid 30 and i'm like here you go and he's like wow that's pretty good
i think we were two or three ends in and i still clean he's like wow that's really awesome and
so to me it like and it really because i'd shot 30xs before in different tournaments
right it wasn't a like and i when it when you do it like to me it was qualification
that's literally how i looked at it because i shot the 660 and it's like i almost lost my first match
so it's like it's like the whole thing is like was it really the you know the thing and so yeah
i just to me it was it was pretty cool and i remember the last arrows and stuff but
did everybody come over yeah sure well i shot it upstairs oh okay in the little section because
i remember and it was really there was a whole bunch of people in the back watching trying to
get in to see and i remember shooting the last arrow and everybody's like clapping and stuff
and and i remember a guy commenting online that they were one of the other guys in the room and
they were still full draw and i felt bad for him like i get it you know what i mean you didn't do
it i didn't do it i said sorry man you know but it was a pretty cool thing and i yeah and
and i'll honestly rob and i still laugh about it because like world arches like oh well the first
600 he's like dude you did that like years before anybody did that and i'm like well
so we we have both of those targets yeah i saw him today yeah in the conference room but yeah
it was pretty cool like i mean it was just the day that things rolled good and we're going good and
yeah yeah how about getting down to the last couple of ends did you were you feeling like
oh man i almost got it and i never really thought about it because i like always like to me i talked
to myself a lot and i was like it's just it's just qualification if i shoot a 660
what is it i mean it's the first one but in my mind the biggest thing i tell myself too
and i've learned this shoot in other tournaments it when i got to that point when i was down the
last three arrows you shot 57 good arrows what is three more like literally like you talk to
yourself and tell them like hey you're able to flip that it's like i watched david hauser have
three more hours to go and the first one he missed yeah and he's just just telling yourself yeah it's
telling yourself the right thing and it makes a huge huge difference because i knew like we shot
57 what is three more yeah yeah it's not that much in fact the first year i cleaned vegas with chance
bobeth because we're shooting by each other i had all three arrows shot and he had one down there
and he turned he goes what in the world he's like that was the fastest three hours you've
shot all weekend and i said i told myself you have 87 good arrows down there what is three more three
more three more arrows just make three good shots and it was like boom boom boom and i'm like well
that's silly but it's something you know you just gotta learn to teach yourself and tell you yeah
logan did you feel that when you shot your last 900 you shot a couple yeah i mean the
one thing is like real pride explain it to me the best and it's it's exactly like you said
um you know that i think the toughest arrows are your first arrows it's not your okay i don't think
it's the last three you know you get down to it you're like man i've already done it just
kind of wash rinse repeat kind of thing and so just continue first three on the last day
just like your first three arrows in general to get the round started because if you don't start
off well then then you're kind of like oh what kind of day am i in for yeah yeah those are the
ones that i always felt were the ones to kind of set the tempo huh and even like in vegas on
the last day i'm like if i'm sitting there and i'm still in there i'm like i've shot clean the first
two days and really like even vegas i talked to myself and it's like to shoot a 900 is okay but
you don't want anything right you know i just got to buy my ticket to the dance so that's kind of
like how i've always looked at that it's like well i got to buy a ticket to the dance or you're not
even in the dance so it doesn't i mean how many times has there been 15 guys and you're the first
one out and you're 15. i remember watching levi morgan on the last end boy his hand was [ __ ]
yeah oh and it's it's and vegas is something everybody wants yeah right you know and so even
lancaster's become that you know man that's a level way above my head i'll just say that
there i got it
that was shot at the middle and it was an eight
i need a 12 that's what i need
targets home with me just to learn because it's like it's hard to tell where that line is yeah
well and i've had everyone i've shot has been just above it so like that time the last one i was like
well aim aim on the edge of the blue and it's in the middle of it so oh kyle i got that one
in or out oh there's another one in the comments i don't see any red but i'm blind
public comments in or out
i think i got mine though yeah i think that's a that's a pretty good one there
well nope
not that time number one it wasn't good see that's why i said it's always the first arrow you gotta
get that first arrow going yeah yeah you can't shoot at 900 you'll put the first one in your hand
that's the only reason i've never shot a 900. there you go
i like that hole in there
yeah well it's gonna be interesting to see how this new target plays out because the first year i
mean is always oh yeah and who knows and i like i said it will be an interesting play and i mean it
will be i mean it'd be the first time we haven't shot the classic in how long like it's been a
couple years two years right so it's like it'll be good to get back at it and it'll be different to
see how it goes right all right well lancaster archery classic january 27th through the 30th
hopefully you're signed up but if you're not there's still time if not you can watch
everything online rio is going to be shooting logan probably not probably not too busy at work
you