vice president

matt schuster

There is no feeling on earth like using your skill to work ten yards from a big game animal, then picking a spot, drawing back a simple longbow and sending a successful arrow on its way.   Our members live for that feeling, and recognize that the satisfaction in a successful hunt is directly related to the effort put forth.   For more than fifty years, the members of the Professional Bowhunters Society have been dedicated to the protection and promotion of bowhunting’s traditional values as a sport where success is based on skill, woodsmanship, and patience.     Our members are passionate bowhunters who spend a tremendous amount of their time roaming wild places with a simple stick and string.    Our motto is KNOWLEDGE THROUGH EXPERIENCE.   Why?  Because we don’t look to technology to solve all of our bowhunting challenges - we strive to become better, more knowledgeable bowhunters.   

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The Professional Bowhunters Society is not for everyone.   We attract those who live to hunt with a simple bow and arrow, not the casual bowhunter or the foam puncher who hunts a couple of weekends a year.    Most of our members, 95% of whom shoot traditional equipment, tend to be the movers and shakers who are involved in their state bowhunting organization, in youth and church archery programs, and support other mentoring activities because in this day and age many folks never get exposed to the concepts we believe in - short-range bowhunting based on skill and woodsmanship.      And we mentor each other too.    If a southern member wants to increase his knowledge about elk for an upcoming trip, he has a network of experienced members who will be happy to help.     PBS is a big family, we hunt together all over the country, share our experiences, and sometimes even fight a little like all passionate folks.   Our members are our most valuable asset.
Matt Schuster lives in east Georgia and when he is not chasing hogs or deer with his recurve, he runs Eastern Dynamics, a small sales agency representing Thorogood footwear and several other companies.   He has been bowhunting anywhere he can for the last forty years and has shown particular skill at showing up in camps, uninvited, right at dinnertime.   He is single, and rumor has it that he will get married when he finds a woman who can bay up a wounded hog as well as current companion, a German Wirehaired Pointer named Gypsy.