2014 NFAA Outdoor National Champion, Mike Flier

Mike Flier of Pekin, Illinois won the 2014 NFAA Outdoor National Championship while competing in the Senior Men’s Freestyle Division. This was Mike’s 5th NFAA National Title and goes along with numerous Local, Regional, State, Sectional and World titles over his archery career that spans nearly 5 decades.

Mike won his first NFAA National Title at Aurora, Illinois in 1970. He competed in the Young Adult Male Barebow Division. That was the first of 4 National Championships in a row for Mike. The next three consecutive NFAA Outdoor National Championships were in the Adult Barebow Division. In addition to these National Titles, Mike also won the International Field Archery Association’s (IFAA) World Outdoor Championships in York, England in 1973, and won the IFAA World Outdoor Championships again in 1975 at Jay Peak, Vermont.

This year, Mike competed at the NFAA Outdoor National Tournament held in Yankton, South Dakota. He competed in the Senior Men’s Freestyle Division, and after being behind after the first day’s competition, he put things after that to win the National Title by a single point over fellow Illinois competitor, Steven Stover. Mike has won the National Outdoor Titles in 3 age groups: Young Adult, Adult, and Senior.

- His last National Outdoor title was in 1974 and his recent 2014 National Outdoor Championship title was 40 years later.

Mike’s Setup that he used to win the 2014 NFAA Senior Men’s Freestyle Outdoor National Championship includes

Bow: PSE Freak SP. 55 pounds peak weight, 18 pounds holding weight.

Draw Length: 29 ¾” AMO

Arrows: Easton X-10 carbon arrows, 29 inches long, with 100 Grains of point weight

Bow sight: CBE

Scope: CBE, with a 0.75 diopter (6 power) lens and a pink dot (for outdoors).

Peep Site: Specialty Peep with a small aperture and no clarifier.

Release aid: Tru-Ball Ultra HT 4-finger.

Stabilization: Fivics main stabilizer, 30 inches long, with 3 Oz tip weight. Back stabilizer is a Fivics 12 inches long with 8 oz of back weight.

Quiver: Easton Sport Hip Quiver.

Optics: Vortex Razor 10 x 42 power.

Mike is a long-time member of USA Archery (formerly National Archery Association), the National Field Archery Association (NFAA), the Illinois Archery Association, and Pekin Archers Incorporated. Mike is directly involved in teaching archery to youngsters during the summer at the Pekin Archers outdoor range. He also shoots at Presleys Outdoors in Bartonville, Illinois and has been a contributor to the successful Midwest Open Archery Tournament for the past 6 years.

--by Tom Dorigatti, November, 2014