Know Your Limits with Levi Morgan

KIFARUCAST

Kifaru International

Wilderness, Sports, Sports:wilderness, Education

4.9 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 9 August 2018

⏱️ 64 minutes

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World champion Levi Morgan joins the podcast to discuss his latest tournament season, his tournament and hunting bow setup, and the importance of knowing how to tune your bow. About levi Morgan I grew up in the small town of Rosman, NC. One red light kinda town and if you didn’t like to hunt or fish there just wasn’t much to do. Maybe thats the reason I grew to love archery so much at a young age. My dad was a big bowhunter so naturally I would shoot and spend time outdoors with him. He started taking me to local club shoots when I was 5 years old, and I won pretty much all of them. From there he noticed something in me I guess and he took me to my first world shoot when I was only 6. I took first runner up in my age division. I was in love with competition and the bow and arrow. I continued on through my youth competing in ASA and IBO events and winning most that I entered. Bowhunting was also a huge part of my life and as I got older I grew to love it more than the competition. Through high school I quit competing and I focused on other sports. I loved basketball and baseball but in my heart I always knew what I was gonna do. My senior year I had full rides in both sports but turned them down to pursue my real passion…..Archery and Bowhunting. Looking back its a little scary how as an 18 year old kid I threw scholarships away to chase an archery career. 2006 was my first year as a pro I was very successful but didn’t get a single win. Maybe because I spent the entire year trying to win the heart of a girl named Samantha Kline, now my wife. I did win rookie of the year that year and in 2007 I got my first professional win. I went on to win Shooter of the Year that year as well as the ASA World Championship. I have now won Shooter of the year 10 years in a row and several more World titles. Samantha and I also started a outdoor television show in 2008 and now that is a huge part of our lives. That show is now called “Bow Life” which really describes our past, present, and hopefully future. We have a 4year old son named Landon who is our world and I cant wait for him to start his own journey in the outdoors with mom and dad tagging along! God has been so good to our little family and we owe all of our success to HIM. (excerpt from bowlife) LEVI MORGAN BACK AT MATHEWSTen-time Shooter of the Year, Levi Morgan, returns to Mathews’ Pro Staff more confident than ever. “When you’re competing at this level, consistency is everything. I need to go into every tournament knowing my bow will hold its tune.” says Morgan. “That’s what I had with Mathews for 15 years. They make the best-tuning, most accurate bows in the world.” Born and raised in Rosman, North Carolina, Morgan began competing in archery tournaments at age six. Since first signing with Mathews at age 18, he has become one of the most decorated archers of all-time. His long list of accomplishments includes 8 World Championships, 40 National Championships, 10 Shooter of the Year, 3 Triple Crowns, and 10 World Records. “I was super impressed with Mathews’ new target bows,” says Morgan, “I shot perfect scores on my first three rounds shooting the new TRX, which has made me more confident than ever going into this season.” Morgan, and his wife Samantha, return to Mathews’ dominant Pro Staff just one month after 5-time World Cup Champion, Jesse Broadwater, also joined the team shooting the new TRX. “Levi Morgan is the best 3D shooter of this century and we’re excited to have him back,” says Mathews Pro Staff Manager, Derek Phillips. “I think it speaks volumes to what we have created for our new target line. It’s catching a lot of attention from the best competitors in target archery.” (excerpt from Mathews Archery)

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0:00.0	Good morning everyone. Welcome to Kaffiru cast. We have, I guess I can say now, not even arguably the most dominant shooter to ever hold the bow in his hand. Levi Morgan, Levi, thanks for coming on.
0:13.7	Yeah, thanks for having me, man. I appreciate that.
0:16.3	Yeah, no, no problem. I guess it can't be ever denied or argued even on our tree talk. They can't even argue.
0:24.3	Oh, I'm sure they will on there. But you by far are the most dominant shooter to ever hold the bow in your hand. You just won your 12th shooter of the year in a row.
0:37.0	Yeah, the 12th one, man. I feel hasn't sank in yet, but I'll take it.
0:43.0	Yeah, I know. You started off slow with the beginning of the year, didn't you?
0:47.9	Yeah, I was, I was not looking good, man. I was, you know, after I won a few in a row, I thought, the instrument to talk and I said, eventually, the streak's going to end, you know, whenever you're just kind of waiting and shooting to see how it starts in this year.
1:03.5	Man, I was like 25 points back with four tournaments ago, and I was like, well, you know, this is the year. You know, I'd kind of already accepted it.
1:12.0	I could hear everybody talking and leave us not going to win it this year, seeing all this stuff on social media. I was like, you know, maybe not. And then, you know, I was doing a podcast. Yeah, both young key podcasts, I think.
1:25.6	Greg asked me what I was going to do. And I was like, well, man, I'm just going to, I'm just going to focus on winning each tournament and let the cards fall where they fall.
1:32.8	And I'll be dang if I didn't end up winning it. So who were in a top five spots or who was closest to you? Really?
1:40.8	Danny McCarthy, like, led it all year. And he's been my toughest competition in the ASA for several years. And there's always guys that come off each year and, and really make a run, you know, and something
1:54.8	there's years has been Kim, killing him, Tommy Gomez, you know, but Danny's always right there. And so this year, he jumped out of the gate, him and Jack Wallace. So they really pushed this year.
2:07.4	Jack won the first two, Danny won the third one, and then I won the last four, but they were always right there knocking, you know, and so
2:16.3	It's if I feel like if you make any mistake, you know, at that top level, it's, you know, if you make it real hard on yourself.
2:24.8	Upshot competitive 3Ds. Some obviously and when you shoot, I've just explained to Frank before, like, you pretty much have to be.
2:37.2	I mean, you know, I told him I said, if I'm, you know, if I shoot the course and I'm 60% 12s and a couple of eights and the rest 10s,
2:46.2	that's where you got to be to win and, and roughly and
2:51.7	it
2:52.9	You know unknown yardage. I don't think people realize it's not that easy for most people to even hit the eight or 10 ring
3:01.2	At a turkey at whatever 38 to 40 yards, you know, comparable to, you know, multiple other different animals
3:08.0	What you know, as far as learning to judge them so on and so forth, but
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