 Welcome back to the channel y'all. It is time to talk about some archery stuff because the season is almost upon us If you haven't started tinkering yet, you're late to the game So I wanted to show you the bows that I'm most likely going to be hunting with this year And I've got three different categories of bows and we're gonna have some fun We're gonna shoot them out some targets over here And then we're gonna see if OSG can pull back one of these traditional bows and actually hit the target The first bow I might be the most excited about this y'all and and this is the one that I've put the most work in That's because it's a self bow. So this is my 62 inch hackberry. There's no recurve in it This is very primitive style. It's got a raw hide backing and I made a string for it I put some little fuzzies on there to quiet it down, but this this bow sits around 55 pounds I'm happy with the draw weight on it. It's definitely higher than the one That I used last year and my goal has been to make one of these Every season now and get a deer with it. So shooting off the knuckle. All right, we're gonna go ahead and string it up There we go Nice and taught now This is a bow that I'm probably not gonna hunt over 15 yards like all these bows I'm hunting whitetail with so this is gotta get close Up in a tree and a ground blind We're getting very close. I hear a squirrel right now speaking close got a little something got a little flu flu action for those babies Fire one off real quick Just like that a lot bam. We got a target right here behind us. I've got a little tennis ball Sitting in it and then that's what I like to shoot at the tennis ball kind of gives me something to really focus on What I'm not shooting 3d targets. The reason I'm not shooting at my 3d targets at my house right now It's because it is so dry in Texas that my hay bells have become Basically, no, they're they're not backstops at all like my arrows will just go through them And I'm also scared if I hit a rock and a spark comes off of that thing It's gonna set the entire woods on fire So that is where we're at with the heat instead of using wooden arrows like last year. I switched up to a Carbon arrow. I got these from Three rivers or traditional onlys their 400 spine and The 225 is what shot the best I started at literally a hundred and I went all the way up to 250 And then I came back down to 225. That's what Makes the arrow fly the straightest the hardest part if you guys are gonna make a self bow Isn't really making the self boats itself is getting the arrows to match it and fly really well So big learning lesson from from last year Let's go ahead and fling one. Shall we pretty close right there? I really have to I have to sit there and point this thing and basically aim it Visualize the arrow shot before I draw back and I'm trying to just steady myself on the draw Come to the corner of my mouth and making sure that everything just looks good at the final second And then I'll release. I'm gonna guess this is 15 yards right here. This is gonna be kind of Max distance It's an absolute miss, but you guys kind of get the idea for the speed. Let's step back and take a couple of shots at like 30 yards so you guys can see that though the rainbow Let's come on back by the way. I've got my lovely Cameron lady today the beautiful OSG This is probably about 25 25 ish I'm gonna have to aim pretty high low. I mean just In the next bow that we're going to shoot There's a big difference. Oh Almost hit the tennis ball right there great shot So even though that I got pretty close right there to the vitals Taking that shot the animals probably gonna duck it The nice thing about this is it is quiet But every once in a while I get a little bit of arrow slap right there And it's just enough where I think a deer would Would definitely duck so Let me show you the next bow next bow. I got this as a Training bow. I didn't want to shoot mine my primitive bow all the time and kind of wear it out I've broken so many bows and it's so Disappointing when you break one and at this point I do not want to have to go through the process of making another bow tuning the arrows before hunting season That's a huge deal for me if I can get any kind of deer any kind of deer with this bow Right here my gosh. I'm a hog in a in a something And briar patch. I was gonna say bad word and I chose not to so love shooting this bow. This is a bear grizzly 55 pounds so it's the same draw weight as the bow that I made however It is so much more efficient at flinging arrows And that's another reason why I wanted to get a just traditional recurve is to see how much performance You really get out of it and this it's it's unbelievable how fast it makes the arrows go compared to the other 55 pound bow I've shot everything from a hundred up to 200s on these they all fly the same really doesn't matter So I just chose something in the middle that it's very very quick So loading this bow up is a little different Okay Here we go Now the one cool thing is I did make this string I made this string because the one that came with it was too short I felt and it was the brace height was not high enough So I made one that's just a little bit shorter and very pleased Looks cool. I went with a little orange and black For the fall season. All right 15 yards again, but you guys are gonna see you're probably gonna hear the pop Comes off of this. It's quite different. You almost hit her tennis ball Extremely fast extremely quick. The reason the recurve is so much faster is that on my bow. I've got There's really no strength Where the at brace height basically it's very little strength at brace height all the power is becoming coming from the full drawback but with this all That so much power is still right here at because of the recurve that it just flings it just If I ever want to go take a traditional bow elk hunting this is gonna be what I take because I don't have to change my aim very much between 10 yards out to 30 yards So I can shoot 30 yards with this bow and still feel comfortable and not have to change my my aim position She shoots flat and fast. All right. Let's step it all back. This right here is probably 30 Probably 30. Let me check. Let me grab my range finder real quick. I would say the biggest the biggest difference in Going from compound hunting to traditional bow hunting is You just got it. You got to know these distances beforehand because you're you're just not gonna have time to range and do all this stuff Or the field that's 30.3 yards Babe, I'm a human range finder See me everything's good All right, I need to focus. I've been focusing on what I'm saying. I need to focus on my target This is all instinct here. Well, I almost hit my GoPro Okay, here we go 30 yards. Oh, I think I I think I hit the tennis ball, babe Let's take a look Even though this this arrow is obviously a way off target You'll notice that the elevation didn't change much between the two shots and that's that's really the great thing that I like about this bow is I'm just I'm aiming at the target without having to compensate From 10 to 30 yards. It's all the same point and shoot. It's like throwing a baseball okay, ladies and gentlemen now We have the traditional style. We have primitive style and now we have the modern style So I've got my bow tech CP 28 I've got a few bows from bow tech. This is just the one that I Love to go back to I shoot it all the time. I just love I love the let-off. I love how short compact it is Also love that about that recurve that I just showed you for hunting situations Not shooting targets. We're shooting targets right now But when the real deal comes you want every advantage you can out in the woods So this is the one I just feel very comfortable with and also I Don't shoot a peep on here. So all of these bows. I'm kind of shooting this one. I'm aiming Obviously, I have have a sight on the front. I've went from shooting like a five pin You know every all the bells and whistles and I've I've reduced things down after I started Traditional archery it makes you focus on your form your release a lot more Just the basics and then when you pick up one of these you feel like a superhero So I definitely recommend if you guys are shooting compound Get yourself a recurve too and just practice with it You know practice with a few weeks and then pick up this baby and you're gonna be You're gonna be so dialed. So CP 28. I've got a single pin on here and it's set at 30 yards So my same same kind of concept here with the last bow is My goal is not to Range every time the deer takes a step and get you know super dialed and dialed this thing in what I found in My years of hunting is that most of the situations It's it happens in a blink of an eye and you got to be ready And you don't have time to do a lot of that extra stuff that when you're sitting here in the yard and you're doing it And you're it's it's all good and fun. You're dialed, but the deer is looking at you. You're trying not to get caught There's a lot of pressure You need to make it happen quick So knowing yardages and then also not having to adjust things is really nice another thing It's really great about this. I instead of a stabilizer. I have a light Wow bam, so we can hunt hogs at night with this I do have a nose button on here. So that is my anchor so I have an anchor for my release my My fingers my two front fingers there they go on my jaw line that will kind of shift a little bit But the nose button keeps me keeps me on target with those those Those two anchor points. So let's put an arrow in here last year. I shot a different arrow, but I'm shooting the the Vap TKO's 300 spine and I'm shooting a feather on it So you can see another another thing where it's like a traditional a little traditional flair on a modern setup Just put me in the back in the old days Becoming an old man, then that's where you belong. That's okay. I'll be there with a simple guy I'm a simple guy All right, let's rock some balls, honey You know what I'm saying rocks the balls rocks and ball. I see that ball down there I'm about to rock it with this arrow. All right 125s is what I'm shooting on here. We're probably about 25 yards right here. So let's test our our little system 25 yards, we're just gonna aim a little below. I'm guessing the yardage too. I don't actually know Biceps look at that ball that ball is pegged my eyes were not on the ball You're you were distracted. I was distracted. Yeah Get out there shoot that bow every day them girls gonna be all over you now So I don't know what yards this is but let's let's step back a little bit actually That was probably 25 We said that was this was 30 This was 30 right here. So that's we know that's gonna be on Got on the 30 pin. So let's step let's step back over here This is probably gonna be 40 yards So 40 yards, we're gonna keep our 30 yard pin and see what our drop is from there And ideally I just practice this and then I'll know like okay. I need to aim You know eight inches high or whatever right here. I'm gonna guess Yeah It might even be a foot I'm gonna guess ten inches See what happens here smoked it were you recording? Yes. Oh, thank God That's gonna make me look good on YouTube See there. I actually don't even know which was which but I'd never changed my pen And I didn't have a peep I like practicing in this way and I like shooting this way because I Feel like this is how people had to hunt a long time ago. It's not like instinct. It's like a muscle memory Yeah, but it's like if you if you you know walk around the yard and you shoot at a bunch of different distances Just randomly and you don't range Then you're just get you're gonna get used to that like your mind's gonna get used to that that's the way that I'm Got this bow set up. I've got another bow that I'm going to set up Yeah, that I'm probably not gonna put a peep on either and I'm gonna do a full bow build for you guys But I think I'm gonna shoot this same arrow in all of my compounds same single-pin sight That's my that's the way I'm setting up my compounds to hunt it's got a little bit of traditional flair on it and Just keeping it basic. It's not my simple man, honey. It's simple man All right, my lovely bright bride OSG I think the folks at home and I would like to see you shoot an arrow and just see what happens I mean, we got a pretty open space. We should be able to find it. I want you to pick up the one that's already strong in there Okay, that very grizzly. I think I'll be do better with that one versus this one. Yes, I do because it's got a shelf You don't have to put it on your finger OSG gloving up Gotta get my bracelets out of the way Come over here. Let's uh, let's get about seven yards away Now this would be like the ideal dear distance Like if you were in a hunting situation, it would be very close. You almost it'd be tough to even draw back You're so close, but this would be like You're probably not gonna miss, you know what I mean like You're probably not gonna miss so I don't think you're gonna be able to draw that bow all the way back Because of the weight, but do you do you have an idea of like their grip? Yeah, kind of an idea like so you do three fingers, right? Yep, three fingers. Oh This is when it's all comes down to it after holding all those babies. Yeah, you do you have some guns That's about as hard as I can go. Okay Well, here's there's a there's a technique called snap shooting and I I still kind of shoot this way. I don't even anchor that much really you just yeah Yeah, you basically just pull like pull and pluck you pull and pluck Okay, but that how you aim is how you saw me aiming is you will You'll get it on the target You'll line everything up basically look down your arrow Like get your fingers Here you go. Yeah. Yeah, get your fingers on there and kind of hold your hold this arm Steady, so like that. There you go. Watch your shelf Can't the bow a little bit Okay stays on the shelf and aim lower than you think Okay, they'm lower than you think so just give it a pull and pluck There's a dove back there We're like a few weeks away Oh With the cock name That is so many great names archery is actually has some pretty insane So this needs to be facing towards me. Yes. It's kind of what it is. Yes on a traditional bow like this. Yes Hey pull back and oh my gosh. Oh my gosh. She crushed it Whoa, oh, that's excellent as long as your arrows are grouping good then you can you can adjust those things But the form is your arrows getting close together. Obviously you got one on the ground right here That's that's a that's exactly that's the first one. We won't even count that. You know, I think women have a great Abilities in archery you said so yourself. They do it a well You usually you take better instruction too. Yeah as men are a little more stubborn on I could be completely talking out of my rear end right now but I think back in like the 1800s 1700s, I think That like kings and queens the princesses they all practiced archery and they had like games and that was it was very Common it was a status thing if you were good at archery. It was but it was also a peasant thing because I'm making you think about like Robin Hood I don't I'm completely talking out of my butt. But anyway, let's see you hit this tennis ball Princess not the pressure's on Princess hitting the tennis ball here Well, hi Well, hi make sure to get on Get on the tennis ball first before you even pull back Like feel confident in that arrow where you're aiming it before you even pull back and then hold that left shoulder steady Okay, so aim first and then yeah aim first. Yeah, get it get it on there and then hold that shoulder steady Okay, you had a little pop on that one. I know that's why I said aim lower than you think Now I will show you something that will completely change that put your three fingers below The knock instead of splitting them, but all of them below and do your same aim That wouldn't make it higher. It would make it lower. Just watch That feel better. It does actually it feels more manageable. Yep. You should you should aim lower with that grip We should hit lower There you go Little too low, but I feel like you were more consistent. Look two of them on target to but they're like They've all been on that side that left side And that's manageable, but some people actually they they adjust their their target distance aim that way. They'll change their grips Because it's something I don't know the physics of it, but anyway, you shoot through below. I can't shoot that way because I've Muscle memory. I'm split and I do everything by I just adjust the elevation The most important thing with archery is consistency like you could have a weird It's like a golf swing. Some people have really weird golf swings But if their muscle memory is is on par and they do everything the same every time it doesn't matter Yeah, it really doesn't matter as long as you're doing the same thing every time you're you're you're flopping flopping a little bit so what you want to do is come back and then Act like you're gonna release directly behind you Directly behind you like your shoulders just gonna fall like down that way instead of going to the side Wow, that was good that was very good that feel good. I still pluck that feel good I did okay, and I got all the way back. Yeah, you almost just want to let it slip through your fingers Just loosen your grip a little bit and let it slide out of there. Oh, yes. Gee did really good We probably should get her a trad bow like a 35 pound trad bow Just a just to blink around with That's 55. Okay, and most people probably hunt with 45 50 I got the 55 because I wanted to practice with the same poundage as my Traditional and if I ever wanted to like, you know go elk hunting or something I got a lot a lot pop surprisingly a lot of pop on that bow So OSG think I think we got to get you a bow fun. I like it. All right, ladies and gentlemen That is concluding all three of my bow setups. Is it a turn on or no? It's a turn on I feel like yeah, it's like a primitive skill. I mean women are attracted to like more primitive skills It's it's in like the base your brain. Yeah, okay. All right. Well, there you go guys get it build yourself a primitive bow Ladies stay tuned for my my bow build that I'm gonna be starting from scratch if you're new If you're wanting to get your bow set up stay tuned for that and more outdoor action here. So crowded channels. Hey