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About Us
Eclipse
Broadheads, and the Eclipse Werewolf, are manufactured by
Traditional Pursuit, Inc. Boise, ID USA . The company is owned and
operated by Blake O. Fischer. I didn't set out to make another
broadhead, but a better broadhead. I took ideas, materials,
and designs that existed and combined them to make broadheads that
weren't available on the market.
Eclipse Broadheads started as most things do, a couple of guys
sitting around drinking a couple of beers and thinking "we can do
that". The design is not a new idea, it is based on a broadhead
originally produced in Canada called the Journeyman. My friend,
Brad Hayes, and I both shot the Journeyman Broadhead and when they
suddenly went off the market we started hording our personal supply.
After lamenting the fact that they were no longer available, we
decided to bring a great broadhead back and Eclipse was born.
We made it official in April of 1998 and became incorporated. We
soon discovered that talking about building a broadhead was much
easier than actually building one. We encountered a lot of hurdles
getting started. For instance, we initially had dies built by a
local toolmaker but had to scrap them because they wouldn't produce
parts up to our standards. Scrapping those dies was a difficult
decision to make. Dies aren't exactly cheap, but we knew we would
never be able to look someone in the eye and tell them "this is the
best broadhead built" and that was our goal. So more dies were
built, this time we were fortunate enough to be introduced to Theo
Riechart, one of the two original owners of Journeyman. Theo, a
toolmaker by trade, designed and built the Journeyman dies.
Needless to say, we were delighted. Journeyman had developed a
reputation for having extremely round, precise ferrules and for
being very tough. We were now able to take advantage of everything
Theo learned from the first go around and make the 2nd generation
tooling even better. Now we had the building blocks, but we still
had to figure out the welding, brazing, heat-treating, coating,
sharpening, Teflon coating, and packaging processes. We fought
similar battles with each and every process. Then in 2007, after
almost ten years, I bought Brad's half of the company from him. It
has been one helluva ride, and if you are interested in the whole
story, I'll give you the whole scoop over a beer sometime.
 I
am a lifetime traditional bowhunter and remain active in the sport
year round. I live with my wife, Brandie; my daughter, Marlie; my
son Cash; and my hound dog, Luke. I am currently the Past President
of the Idaho Traditional Bowhunters
www.idahotraditionalbowhunters.com .
In addition to building broadheads, I also have a real 8-5 job in
the irrigation business with my father, who allows me a little time
off for building broadheads and going hunting. I am fortunate to
live in Idaho where I are surrounded by some of the most beautiful
and awesome country which is inhabited by mule deer, whitetail deer,
elk, moose, pronghorn, bighorn sheep, mountain goat, bear, turkey,
caribou and a number of other game and non-game species.
Additionally, I travel to many different locations to pursue a
variety of different species. I feel this is what makes me different
from many other broadhead manufacturers. I approached this business
as a bowhunter, not a businessman. I may not have known how to make
a broadhead, but I knew how a broadhead should perform. I have used
a variety of broadheads in various situations. Because of my
experiences I have some pretty strong opinions on what qualities a
broadhead must posses. I feel that the Eclipse Broadhead line are
the best-made, most effective broadheads on the market today. I
offer a Lifetime Guarantee to back it up, if you can bend it or
break it, I will replace it.
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