 Welcome back to the channel everybody. I hope you are ready for some ultimate outdoor adventure because we're going on it. Today's focus is reviewing my bow, my new bow that I am taking elk hunting, but there's a entire series that is going to be going along with this from preparing, studying, getting ready to go after elk with a bow for the first time and then we're just gonna be living in the woods doing outdoor things. Camping, fishing, just cooking up stuff and the good old outdoors. It's gonna be amazing going to the great state. I call it Texas's colder, more mountainous cousin Colorado and we're gonna be going up there in the truck solo and trying to go after these majestic protein-filled ungulate species known as the Rocky Mountain Elk. My focus for this is for anyone that is wanting to get into this for the first time, you can follow me. I'm doing it for the first time, learning from others, asking questions, soaking it in. I'm asking the dumb questions, you know, things that if you've never done it before you would probably ask, you know, the kid in class who doesn't know what's going on. You're kind of scared but you just raise your hand anyway because you don't know what's going on and just makes you feel more comfortable. I'm asking all those questions. I'm sure some of you are experts and there's a lot of knowledge there but there's many of you that maybe, maybe you don't want to do this. Maybe you're like on the edge thinking about it. Maybe you're not into hunting that seriously but it's gonna be fun to tag along just for the outdoor adventure. If you do want to do it, tag along. We're gonna have a good time and I'm going to show you the step-by-step process of going from me personally being a whitetail hunter, growing up hunting the southern states, sitting in blinds to stalking out in the woods during this time of year that is called archery season for elk and the things you have to know. Getting your licenses and knowing units and studying maps and everything like that but I found a lot different than just your general whitetail hunting. Let's go check out this brand new bow. Basically what we're gonna do today is kind of tweak it. I've been shooting it. I've had it over a week now just kind of dialing it in, getting practice with it, getting comfortable, just making a few tweaks today. That's something that you need to do beforehand but I thought this would be a good opportunity since I did get a new bow in the last week to just go ahead review it, show you guys how I've got it set up for elk hunting and then just go over everything I like about it and if there's anything I don't like about it so let's go check out my new bow. So this is my new bow. This is made by Botech. This is the Realm SS model and it's a really smooth bow so why did I want another bow? Well it's kind of like fishing rods you know you can you can have that that that one rod and it does okay at most things or some things really some things it's kind of like a tool if you can have another fishing rod that you can adjust to what you are specifically wanting to do whether it's like a crankbait rod or a you know a flipping rod your frogging rod it's gonna be a lot easier to complete that task and just saves you a lot of time that's really what I want eventually I'd like to have plenty of bows not quite as many as fishing rods but just enough where I can have a one set up for whitetail tree hunting and this one is gonna be dialed in for Western style hunting or longer range hunting. This is one of their shorter bows compound bows that they offer and I think it is either 32 or 33 inches from cam to cam and all that means is it's just a little squattier a little bit more compact so when you're walking through you know trees and limbs and everything like that it's it's easier to get around with it's one of the things that I learned from my buddy JT when we were in New Zealand when he brought his bow he had a little bit longer bow I think it was 35 inches kept getting caught on limbs and things like that so just a little squattier a little bit more compact you know I'm not I'm not Cameron Haynes or anything I'm not trying to pull back a lot of weight and shoot a hundred yards I want something that's really smooth and it's comfortable for me I bumped the poundage up a little bit on this just because it felt smoother for me my last bow I was shooting 62 pounds this one 65 but actually feels a little bit easier and it's a 85% let off so what that means is when I pulled this bow back all the way and I have to hold it right here I'm going to be more comfortable holding this this bow for a longer period of time that 85% let off and I think legally you can have up to 90 for hunting elk in the state of Colorado this has 85 so we're good there as far as the accessories go I've got a spot hog site I've had another spot hog site on my on my other bow that I dialed out which I really like their sights they're just they're built really tough you know you can drag them through the trees and mud and everything so I want to step further so I didn't get a nicer model I just got one of their standard you know non-adjustable models meaning it doesn't doesn't have a dial out ring where I have to you know range they go okay that animals at 65 yards my last pins at 40 let me adjust to 65 yards I got a five pin sight and what I'm doing when I'm in the process of doing right now is dialing in each pin to 30 yards which is my shortest 30 is my shortest here and then goes 30 40 50 60 70 and if I need to make a shot beyond that I'm practicing on the target to see where my 70 pin is gonna hit like I can pretty much just take my 70 pin put it on the animals the top of its back like on its spine and then I'm gonna be able to hit the vitals so that takes some practice some knowledge but the idea is I don't have to range and then adjust here if you guys remember in Africa that's a big reason why I didn't I lost the opportunity at a 65 yard shot on an animal because of that I was taking way too long to sit there and dial when you're in the heat of the moment your adrenaline's going I just I like this system for stalking and making longer shots on my rest I decided to go with a trophy taker smack down rest I really like the way the arrows load into here it's very easy and I went into an archery shop if you're gonna do this get a bow set up make sure to go to an archery shop that's that really knows what they're talking about I I go to this place called Cinnamon Creek up here in the DFW area they pretty much set me up put all my accessories on here they helped me paper tune the bow which means making sure that the arrow is flying straight it's kind of weird but arrows do some funky stuff in the air and you really want your arrow to shoot through a piece of paper and make a small hole and if it's tearing to the sides you know that your arrows kind of making weird angles basically if you take it to an archery shop they'll help you they'll walk you through that process and I've also got a new friend by the name of Jeremy Starks he is one of the owners of Bass Mafia fish with him a couple times he's an incredible fisherman but he's an even more passionate bow hunter and a wildlife biologist he's just full of knowledge and he actually helped me get this bow tech bow he helped me out with that and picking out some of the accessories he thought were compatible for for elk hunting including this rest this is the rest that he really likes and one of the features I also like about this bow is on the top camera here there's a comfort setting and then there's a strength or power setting and basically all you got to do is flip that over one thing I do like on these bow techs is you can make those little adjustments everything just seems easy to adjust I have it on the comfort setting because it's just smooth like it's super smooth that's what that stands for I think if you bump it up you can get more feet per second makes your error go faster but it's harder to pull back and it's a little stiffer at the end and if you've never pulled back on an animal like when your adrenaline gets going it sometimes can be really hard to pull back a bow because you're you're trying not to distract the animal you don't want the animal to look at you you don't want to make any noise at all to be able to just do everything very smoothly is really important that's what I practice when I'm pulling back about every time I don't just yank it back there and get it back I'm doing this thinking there's an animal there how can I do this smoothly working those little muscles so it just becomes muscle memory when it's time to pull back that is the bow I've just got my stinger stabilizer on here nothing special don't have a back bar there's really nothing else on the bow nothing crazy you know I've got my quiver my quiver mount right here that I'll put on there but that's really it you know I made sure to put a little money in in my site and the rest is I've actually got to make an adjustment right now I'm shooting a little left on the top pin so to do that you need an allen wrench to make all these adjustments let me show you guys how how to work these if you're gonna get one of these sites so in order to move these pins right here you can move all these individually up and down and in and out so all those adjustments are right here on the site so you take your allen wrench and you move these these little these little screws in and out together to get them to go up and down and then if you want them to go in and out there's another set of screws right in here the way that you sign in a bow is you want to follow your arrow if you're shooting to the left of the target you want to move that pin to the left I've already done the the general adjustments on here which is you know your windage and elevation adjustments to get those right those big bulky screws to move the entire site all I'm doing at this point is just tweaking it a little bit consistently shooting I'll take a break I'll come back see oh I'm consistently shooting right a little high tiny bit left and then I'll just make little micro adjustments by the way the arrows I'm shooting these are a gold tip 340s then the hunter XT series and when I'm trying to site it in my bow I'm usually shooting in just groups of three to make sure not just shooting once and then adjusting because you could be off a little bit I want to get just a consistent little group going okay so this was my first shot right here which I shot a little low but I was still going on the left side of the target there so I made a little adjustment I might have over-adjusted just my last two shots it's just like two inches to the right you want to you want to get your bow dialed into the center obviously but if I'm going to have it lean anywhere and be comfortable with it it's I like to be on this this side of the target because if I get a little bit of target panic and I pull just a little bit I want it to be over here just because I'm aiming more towards the vitals if I hit shoulder you know elk's a different story but I definitely don't want to gut shoot the animals just adjusted back a hair and I think we're done with that pen I think it is it is dialed I had my first shot was a little low that was me and then our other two are in the bull keep in mind this is my shortest pin this is 30 so I also need to make sure I just need to shoot at 20 a little bit and just see where that when I'm putting that 30 on where it's gonna be I'm just gonna have to know in my head like if I've got a 20-yard shot you know just just aim a little a little bit lower and like right there and it should be fine okay let's dial in 40 shall we so the one thing I've noticed is I'm getting a little over it's harder to see through this five pin that's why a lot of people don't like five pins it's because your pins are so close together but just so fast like once you get comfortable with it especially if you repetitively know you know yardage is really quick you can just pull back and get a shot off really fast sometimes you only have a few seconds to make a shot so that's what we're going for here we're gonna see an animal stock up on it and get a shot off quickly gosh that is juicy learned a lot honestly recently from from Jeremy Jeremy Starks he does he does this thing called whitetail 101 on his Instagram I'll link him down below if you guys are wanting to learn more about whitetail and just you know wildlife biology and now's a good time to be studying honestly because deer season is about to be here but anyway he's taught me a lot about shooting as well what you want to do is you want to pull it back like what your body wants to do is pull it back and then aim and once it gets on there you just hit it real quick while your arm is in the right position but that's not really the best way to get the most accurate shot you want to hold as firm as you can and then let the bow surprise you and then just follow through and then that's that's how you're gonna get your most accurate shots consistently so that second shot that I did I kind of kind of pulled it I knew I didn't have a good shot but the third one felt nice smooth and it's right on the money so 40 dialed feeling good about it y'all what I'm gonna do now is I'm gonna take a break and I really can't shoot past 45 50 yards in in my yard right here I've just have it just turns into trees what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna go up to Guggen HQ my boy Lunkers TV he set up a bunch of archery targets up there and I can go shoot at any range that I want it's also important just to take some breaks let your muscles recoup if you just keep hammering not to use a Cameron Hainsterns but you just keep going while you're shooting you know you'll have some fatigue that happens and you might be dialing in your bow to win your fatigue and that's off and it can be frustrating so it's good to take breaks it's good to have plenty of time to do this give yourself at least a week to get comfortable with your bow and shoot it ideally you want to have a bow for many months and shoot it a lot every day but Jeremy and the folks at bow tech they were able to get me this bow kind of last minute last-minute thing to go on my elk hunt won't thank them for doing that and I'm trying to do my best to get comfortable with it and there's really not a whole lot I don't like about it so far so we'll dial in the rest take a little break and then finish out at 70 and then our bow is gonna be ready to take up to go elk hunt just checking in here at the archery shop appeared cinnamon Creek one thing I wanted to check before I left was my axis is so they have a special level they can put your bow on that checks your all your axis is so that's kind of your hand you know if you think about moving the bow around you want it to be centered on all axes and balance and it is the timing of the bow is really good they got my peep just right so after you shoot a bow you know a hundred times few hundred times the strings gonna stretch things like that so everything's dialed in put a little twist in the string as well just to tighten it back up a little bit I'm probably not gonna touch it like make any Allen wrench screw adjustments I hope not I want to be done I want to just shoot it after that and have that confidence so we'll get all this stuff out of the way we'll be ready to just feel be the arrow fly straight penetrate and make protein okay doki y'all we are up here at Guggen HQ we're gonna finish dialing in our 4050 60 and 70 it's raining right now so we're inside we're indoors here which is kind of good because there's no wind so after getting my axes tuned and the timing correct want to make sure that there is no other adjustments here so here's 40 hopefully that I don't have to do anything it's pretty solid oh yeah just a hair left I'm gonna shoot two more that is a dead deer elk they're so much bigger your target is just so much larger that you have a little bit of room for air but that's not an excuse okay that one's right on center just a hair high and that's me that's a personal problem last arrow feeling good about this I don't think I'm gonna have to make any adjustments first shot was the worst I was off bull still in vitals second shot and then last shot it's kind of leaning left but not enough for me to make an adjustment I think it was just me personally so now we're gonna back up to 50 make sure our 50s on just keep moving but I don't think we're gonna do too much here this is gonna take down a no right through this door by the way is our shopping center at Guggen HQ pretty much from our shopping center all the way to the other end is exactly 50 yards I think I'm at 49 right here so if I back up one step this is gonna be my middle pin middle orange pin I think it's just me but we're gonna go see how I did I don't feel great felt a little shaky that's where I really like a three pin because there's just a lot more room between your pins while looking the reason I'm setting this bow up with the five pin so I don't have to do any dialing so I'll take it oh yeah this is not a good group here that was my first shot really terrible second shot and then last one was bullseye seems like I get better on the third shot some reason but I'm not gonna adjust that I can't even go off anything I know the elevation is perfect obviously but it's not enough to go off the left right I might shoot a few more times before I bump out to 60 it's raining it's windy this is not the best conditions for fine-tuning the bow if I can get my arrows to hit in the vitals on these targets we got it got out here at HQ at 60 at 70 calling it good 15 mile an hour winds it's gonna do a lot to an arrow I think that's a hard shot that's vitals let me try one more we got two front shots it seems a little seems a little left I might have to tweak that pin just a little bit I'm gonna do one more just to get a kind of group especially because the wind is in my face shot that one low that's okay that's two almost hard shots let's back it up to 70 I'm okay with that I might tweak it a hair but I'm okay with it that's a dead elk for sure I'm a little trouble getting my elk on stuck here there goes here's our other shot so I'm aiming here and I'm hitting a little left that was kind of consistent so I'll bump that just a little over so that means I need to pull my pin left follow the arrow but that was on an elk I mean I was totally dead right there 70 yards kind of scary what I'm gonna do here just take this little Allen key go right in this site I'm gonna push it to the left just like Beyonce said it's like I already adjusted my 70 pin along the same line so this should be should be good don't really string jump so very possible to shoot him this far I don't want to but I definitely want to be prepared it's a hair low I think it's because the wind is pushing me I'm gonna make it a little adjustment dead center let's do one more just for safety dang it that was tough the wind was like kind of blowing me around and I did that thing that hard you just try to squeeze it while you're moving around the target so I made a bad shot shot him in the neck and we'll probably got away but one dead center shot so I feel pretty good about that if I have to shoot 70 better make sure the conditions are okay but I feel pretty comfortable see a pie plate is a good diameter to be be in if you're really shooting long range this is a whitetail size so if you expand this elk would be it'd be fine but it just goes to show you under the conditions the wind sure would like to be in that 30 40 son all right y'all I hope you've enjoyed today's video of looking at my new bow and going through some of the steps to get ready stay tuned for more we're gonna be going over checking out maps we're gonna be looking at the regulations and of course just kind of getting a game plan together for actually going out and stalking these elk stay tuned for more I'll see you