 What's up guys, welcome back. If you guys have been following along on social media, Facebook, Instagram, any of that stuff, you guys seen that I recently got a bow after probably like 18 year hiatus of actually doing archery. Yes, my passion is duck hunting. I love it, like every second of it. But I actually grew up archery elk hunting with my dad during the rut. And I can even say that was some of the biggest rushes I've ever had, was doing that with my dad when elk were like 10, 20, 30 yards from me. And believe it or not, I actually shot a five point bull with my bow from 40 yards. I'll get more to that later in this video on the story of that. But my goal with this video is to make it as interesting as possible, not to do too much talking, but integrate shooting and cool clips and stuff like that in this video so you guys don't lose interest. I'm ready to get back into archery hunting. It's just all of a sudden started getting back in my blood about a year or two ago. I've just been wanting to get it and I finally, finally bought a bow. And be honest with you, I'm really excited about the challenge that archery brings. I know for a fact I've done it enough, grew up doing it, that it's a major challenge. You could go years and years without having any success, but I'm really ready for the challenge I feel like right now. Feel free guys to comment below with any tips, advice, or guys, just your thoughts on this off season content. So in this video, just to let you know what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna show you my new bow, gonna show you my arrows, gonna show you my setup, and I'm gonna show you guys shooting and siding in my bow from 20 to 60 yards. All right, let's go check out my bow. So I got the bare white tail legend bow. And the reason I got this is because I was obviously trying to go conservative on price and save some money. I didn't do a lot of research. I know about Hoy, I know about PSE, I know about Matthews and all that stuff. I've seen this on a video with the hunting public. One of the guys had just got this one and I was like, I'm getting that. They can shoot it and they kill deer all the time, then I'm just gonna get that and I'm not gonna worry about it. It's a good price. It was 479 ready to hunt. It's a single cam and it's got the stabilizer and everything on it. It's a whisker biscuit, which I've never shot. It's got a trophy ridge, five pin side on it with the bubble and it goes from 55 to 70 pounds. I haven't turned all the way up. The shop, he told me it was 70 pounds. We did it with Talon's Dillon. It was saying like 67 or something like that. So anyways, I got it maxed out. The whisker biscuit is kind of new to me. I've never used that before, but it's not bad. I don't know if that's the best thing or not. You guys just have to tell me. It also comes with the, and I got it in the back here. I don't got it on, but it's got the quiver and you can literally just put it on through there, click it in, push the button down. It's that easy. It's really slick and it's adjustable and stuff too. Obviously, I can move it up or down. I'm pretty excited guys about getting back into this and I think this is what I was gonna do good. I really liked shooting it. Me and Colton the other day went to Spot Archery in Fresno, California. Cool guys in there, really neat setup. I'll probably spend some more time down there shooting and doing stuff like that with 3D. But a really cool experience and it was fun shooting. Getting this bow basically sited in enough to be safe. And so we're gonna try that out here in a second. I have the Cobra release. I like trigger releases. That's what I've shot before. I don't know much about these other type of releases and I can't even tell you the names of them. When I was shooting last, this is all they had. If I remember right. 20 years ago, you guys tell me. Anyways, I shoot okay with it, but I feel like I pulled to the right just the way it's set up. So I'm actually gonna invest in a better release. I want to shoot this for a little bit to see what my thoughts were about trigger releases again. I'm gonna get the one, believe it or not. I know I'm being a follower, but guy knows how to shoot. I'm gonna get the one that Cameron Haines shoots. It's the, it's the spot hog wise guy. I was just looking at, cause I had it on my Amazon cart, but the spot hog wise guy. And so I'm gonna try that one out. I think I like it a lot. Honestly, you can adjust the trigger squeeze in the last episode. As far as the arrows go, this is what they sent me a width up. I said I just want your cheapest arrow and he ended up giving me the 103 40s gold tip. And I think it's a GPI. It says GPI of 8.9. I got these field tips, a hundred grain. I'm gonna try to stick with a hundred grain and stick with this setup for now until I adjust and want something different or read something from someone else and change my mind. So that is my arrows, my release and my bow. Let's start shooting now. Ah, that, I felt me flinch on that one. So back when I was 19, I had a bow. I don't even remember what kind of bow it was, but off the put in here, what state we were in, but me and my dad were out cutting and we had called this bull and we were on top of this ridge come down and a bull was bugling and bugling and bugling like crazy. I was in front. It was my day to shoot. Me and my dad always take turns. He was behind me doing the, the bugling and the cow calling and trying to get the bull to come in. And all of a sudden we just heard this unbelievable bugle just he was ticked and he was coming up the hill. And I'm flinching back. There we go. Holy moly. And here comes that bull charging up the hill, comes in, he's bugling and he turns broadside. I go knock an arrow actually before that. And that was when it was the kind of rest that was two like two forks. And I go to draw my bow and I'm shaking so bad that the arrow falls off the rest. So I had to reset it again, take a deep breath, drew back and out of 40 yards I shot. Basically me and my dad pretty sure I double lunged him. Ended up walking off, stumbling over like he was going to fall over and headed to the north side sloping face and basically went in the dark timber. We gave him however long we gave him quite a long time like normal, you know, 45 minutes an hour. We spent two days looking all over that mountain with GPS coordinates, back track and everything. I mean there was blood everywhere, lung blood, blood with bubbles and bright red. So I broke my heart and I basically haven't shot archery since then. So now I'm getting back into it. Now you know the story. All right, let's see if I can clean that up. I have a shot in about a week and I can definitely tell. I don't think I'm using the right techniques that I need to be using, breathing and trigger squeezing all that. See if I can clean it up. Let's try one more set at 20. See if I can start stacking a little bit. There we go. Much better. Just trying to use that technique to let it float around in the bullseye and slowly squeeze. That was a lot better. I haven't shot in a week and I mean, this one here honestly could be better, but let's go ahead and move back to 30 yards. This is gonna sound funny to say for my age. I'm 37 years old, but saying 18 years ago sounds like I'm really, really old, but 18 years ago when I was 19, there was no YouTube. And so now the process of learning is so intensely faster. It's actually unbelievable. Like, what may take someone several years ago before the power of the internet would have took them 10 years of experience to find out. I'm finding out this stuff literally at the push of a button on my phone. I watch channels like The Hunting Public. Those guys are very informative and very great. They give great advice. Have a way of putting things that make it very simple and that puts me ahead of the game than it would be if I was on my own with nothing or no one teaching me. I like also watching Cameron Haynes. He doesn't have a lot of stuff on YouTube, but the stuff that he does have, it's like really good. Also inside out precision. He has a channel about the same size as mine and he has some really good advice. Chris B, he's another guy. He's a young guy. I really like his channel. He puts out hunts, but he also does videos and stuff like that and it's very, very helpful. So I suggest if you guys are getting into it, it's just awesome. Just like duck hunting, I put stuff out. It's common knowledge to me, but a lot of guys that are new, they don't know this stuff and it makes me as someone that has a YouTube channel want to help people more in the duck hunting community or anywhere that I can help them. Let's move back to 30 yards. Another thing is I moved my sights on accident the other day. I thought I was moving my 50 and I was moving my 30, but it's probably just me. I think it was on last time I've been telling shot. Just the beginning phase of being a new cheater. Stack those two. Holy moly. See, that's another thing. I'm super competitive in case you didn't know. And I've noticed shooting and making bad shots has really irritates me. Like that's ridiculous, that much of movement in my arrows. That's why you practice and I haven't shot in a while. So I was shooting every day for like five days in a row and I started stacking them, but that's pretty rough. The one thing that I know that helps me talking about tips from YouTube channels, Cameron Haynes said something that I was like makes so much sense. Me and Talon went to 70 yards and was trying to get the bow sided in. Or I'm sorry, correction, 60 yards. When we went back to 20, I was like this bullseye is huge. Back, back, back and just stacked three of them in there. And what Cameron Haynes says is he shoots 160, 180 yards. He practices there a lot and sticks them in a certain amount of circle. And he says when I go back to 20, 30, 40 yards, it's so easy that it's not even funny. And man, he's right. And I went from 60 back to 20, I was stacking them. So that was one really good tip is get into shooting farther once you're comfortable with it and then it brings the close up stuff super easy. If you can hear how windy it is, I'm not trying to make excuses, but I'm trying to make excuses. It is pretty windy. I'm in the backyard and I think it blocks a lot of it, but I can just feel that wind blowing my bow around. But you gotta be ready for all situations. And since it's not shooting, I can totally feel I'm already getting kind of quivery. I don't know if I'm gonna shoot out to 60 yards today. That felt good, but still ain't looking good. I love the sound of that arrow hitting the bag and the arrow in flight, it's pretty cool. But I'm gonna go down there and pull it out and maybe shoot one more at 30 and then we'll talk after that. One thing I know we didn't do when I was there getting my bow is we didn't paper tune my target. So I don't know, you guys let me know in the comments below, but to me it seems like sometimes the way the arrows are into the target, they're off. Like it needs to be tuned, I think up and down, left and right as far as the fledging and all that stuff goes and adjusting that. So I don't know, you guys comment below and let me know, but I know we didn't do that. So I think that needs to be done, but let's shoot three more at 30 yards. I will group them closer. All I did right there I felt like is I didn't time it. That's what I have a bad tendency of wanting to time it when the sight falls through the bullseye. I'm just gotta hold it and keep squeezing. Well, one more, one more like that. There we go, baby, let's go. Well, I'm 30 yards out. I can see it looks pretty good. Did I tune their head? Nope, not quite. See how it's angled? The way those arrows are hitting, I don't know if that's, I think that's maybe something to do with tuning or something. See that's 30 yards, that ain't bad. That's still probably though, it's probably, I'm gonna say five inches. So I definitely know I can get it tighter than that. Definitely gotta bring, I gotta bring that down to like a three inch group. But I got this for 40 bucks. This blackout target, it's got two sides. Got it for 40 bucks at Bass Pro. It's the Fieldpoint 23. And yeah, it's pretty slick, man. I mean, I can sit here in my backyard and shoot all the way up to 30 yards. I can practice all day long. I also got one of the square targets where you can shoot broad heads into. I really don't like shooting into that unless I'm gonna have broad heads because it's really hard to pull your arrows out and I've lost a couple field tips in there. If you guys enjoyed this video, I hope you did. Give it a thumbs up. Let's just kind of document my process of me getting a bow back into archery again and the process of trying to get to be a better shot from 20 to 60, maybe 70 yards. And then actually going on turkey hunts, pig hunts and shooting some squirrels and some rabbits and everything I can possibly do and then do like catch, clean and cook. So that's kind of the plan right now. We'll also do some other things too, not just archery only. If you're not into that, but I really think it's gonna be an awesome experience to share with you guys and I think you'll enjoy it. I'll try to do my best to make it super entertaining and enjoyable for you guys to watch and not too much blah, blah, blah like I'm doing right now. So stay tuned guys and if you haven't subscribed to the channel, hit that sub button and we'll see you on the next one.