Hopefully, JDS3 can chime in, as his father worked at the Hoyt plant...and he shoots a Rogue...
I bought my Rogue in 1996; I lived in St Louis at the time, and was able to go to the Sky plant in Brdgeton to look at the models. I believe that the Rogue was introduced in 1994-95, orginally as the "Ambush", but there was a conflict with another mfr so the name was changed to Rogue. Later, there was a takedown version. I have heard people say the the Rogue was the "first" hybrid longbow...it was certainly one of the first, and an excellent bow...my son is now shooting mine...
After Easton bought out the Hoyt Archery name, the bulk of the production gradually moved to Salt Lake City, although I believe that Mr&Mrs Hoyt continued to manufacture the recurves, expecially the high-end target models...some of the "Hoyt" recurves were imports. Sky was formed so that Mr Hoyt could continue to build high-quality traditional bows, which Hoyt Archery had no interest....
It is my understanding that Mathews Archery bought the tooling from Sky Archery, and their Traditional bows are built on the original Sky forms....they did not spawn Mathews....
this is what I understand, and I certainly am open to correction....
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