MISSION

The Ashby Bowhunting Foundation’s goal is to provide the bowhunter with the information to achieve highest possible success rate and reduce the wound/non-recovery rate of big game to the lowest level possible. Through a program of continuing research, the Foundation seeks to find the most lethal arrow setups, considering all possible hits under real hunting conditions, and to make the results of this testing available to the global bowhunting community free of any cost, utilizing multi-media outlets for information and test results.

In addition to the individual bowhunter the Foundation will make testing results available to bowhunter education programs worldwide, and all government agencies responsible for promulgation of bowhunting laws, to encourage regulations that testing indicates will lower the wound/non-recovery rate of game. 

The Foundation will strive to reconfirm the accuracy of any prior testing and to explore any and all untested avenues of research, including the ongoing testing of new broadheads and arrow components. To this end the Foundation will conduct both ongoing field testing and works with established university programs for various technical testing and analytical functions.

As with all the previous testing, the Foundation accepts no funding, direct or otherwise, from the archery industry, thus keeping the Foundation’s testing truly independent of industry influence.

FOUNDING TENETS

• Peer review and documentation of Dr. Ed Ashby’s 30 years of arrow penetration studies.  The scientific research of the studies to be done by an accredited university or independent research team.

• Continued research and documentation of arrow and broadhead lethality. Scientific research of subsequent studies to be done by an accredited university or independent research team. Go where the outcome driven research takes us.

• Education (through media & seminars) of the research process and all arrow penetration research findings - free of charge - to all bowhunters, bowhunting organizations and bowhunting governing bodies.

• Setting scientific, humane, ethical bowhunting standards based on the research findings.

• Provide local, state, federal and international bowhunting governing bodies the standards set by the research.

• Conduct reviews of marketed arrows and broadheads to collect data. Giving each a grade (score) through field testing and based on the standards set by the research.

GOALS

• To continue, expand and document the arrow penetration research of Dr. Ashby.

• To conduct non-bias, outcome driven arrow and broadhead lethality research on culled animals.

• Based on the research findings – to set lethal and ethical “Standards” - for effective harvesting of all sizes of big game animals.

• To test and confirm or disprove product claims for any and all bowhunting equipment worldwide.

• Education and dissemination of research findings (TV, web, seminars), at no fee to bowhunters.

• To deepen our understanding of man.  Archery and bowhunting is one of the few human activities shared across history in every world culture (except Australia).

• Continuing the legacy for all of Dr. Ashby’s work.