HOF - Dalen Caspers

Over the years, Dalen has shot many local, regional and state indoor and outdoor tournaments, taking home many trophies... HALL OF FAME Inductee

Dalen Caspers

Dalen is a State Champion archer, both indoor and outdoor, who has shot traditional archery equipment throughout his entire career in archery. He is an accomplished musician and vocalist, having performed with various gospel groups in the Clara City area. His gospel quartet recorded four Gospel albums and he directed a forty man (all male) senior gospel chorus as well as a church choir of men and ladies In 1958, Dalen and Janice married and moved into an upstairs apartment in Clara City. Dalen met Stan Meyer who lived near there, and became interested in archery. Stan had a bale next to his garage. Dalen purchased a 50# Bear bow and a quiver of arrows from Kenny Priebe and quickly became hooked on Traditional archery. After purchasing his second bow, he shot many Flint rounds at the Little Crow Archery indoor range in the Willmar City auditorium. Dalen and Janice raised four son’s who all shot archery and hunted with their dad. In the late fifties nearly every town in the area had an outdoor archery range. A league was formed, called the West Central Archery League. Prior to shooting the upcoming tournaments Dalen and Stan would shoot the ranges to familiarize themselves with the lay out and mainly just for the fun of shooting. In 1959, Dalen and his team, Stan Meyers, Ron Carlson, Don Coleman, and Marlys Borchert won the State Indoor, competing against Redwood Falls. Marlys was one of the top women shooters in the state at that time. In the early years, Little Crow Archers had an outdoor range at Robbins Island in Willmar. After a few years it was moved to the north side of Solomon Lake, near the Guri Endresen homestead, where many 3-D and other outdoor shoots were held through the years. Dalen’s first archery tournament was shot up near Glenwood, MN. Where he and Stan Meyer shot with Bob Rohde and Bob Sieve, who were two of the top archers in the state at that time. Back in the eighties, Dalen and several friends started hunting mule deer in Colorado. Slim Wickwerth, Dr. Jerry Kremer, and Stan Folkersted spent 35yrs, hunting the cliffs near Rifle, Colorado. Many whitetails and mule deer, foxes, a badger and numerous small game animals alike have fallen to the prowess of Dalen’s arrows. Over the years, Dalen has shot many local, regional and state indoor and outdoor tournaments, taking home many trophies. In 2003 Dalen was inducted as one of the first members of the Little Crow Archers Hall of Fame.