Cool Things that Subscribers Have Sent Me ｜ Cool Archery Gear Fan Submissions

In this video I'm going to show you some of the cool things that my viewers have sent to me over the years. I've had some of these things for quite some time and I haven't figured out a way how to work them in onto regular features on my channel, so this video will be a bit of a fan feature video for lack of better terms. So these are some of the things that I've actually been sent over the past couple of years to the P.O. box that's listed down in the description below, and like I said I don't know how to work these in, and some of them I have gotten that are actually products that I've reviewed on the channel, but some of these are a little bit more interesting and I don't know how else to work these in other than to just show you them, and I feel like people really took some time out of their days of work and all sorts of other things to send these in, so I figured I'd like to show them to you because I think some of them are pretty cool. Now some of these things are coming from some companies to feature some of their stuff on the channel and that's really cool, I'm happy to do so, because some of them are pretty cool, like this one right here is actually a limb holder that Flyboy, archery I believe, yeah it's Flyboy Creations, I'll have links in the description below to their website so you can check them out, they make a bunch of 3D printed stuff for traditional archery things like shelf humps and center shot tool devices and some other things that are for more traditional style bows, even getting you to be able to shoot off the shelf in the way you're supposed to off a standard ILF bow, it's some pretty cool stuff. This one is 3D printed, resin printed limb holders that I took, it took me a little while to figure out, I don't know how I'm supposed to hang limbs off of these, so I went to their website and I figured it out, now I just need to figure out where to actually put these, but basically I was thinking it was the limb tips, but then it just seems like it would break the thing, but it's actually for the ILF dovetail, it goes in this little slot there and then they hang on the wall, so you would actually screw them to the wall and then you could have your pair of limbs ready to go on the wall, and it'd be really nice to actually display them on the wall, he sent me four of them, I probably need about thirty of them with all the limbs I have in the cabinet over there, but I don't know if I have enough wall space to do something like this, but for really nice limbs and the limbs that I shot at the Olympics, I'll definitely be hanging these up somewhere at some point, I just wish there was enough room to put them on the slat wall because they also make these that go on slat walls, and he took the time to put a personalized touch of the I am, you know the affirmation, the tattoo that I've got on my hand, so huge thanks to Flyboy Creations for sending me these things over, I think they're really cool, especially now that I know how they actually work, so I'll definitely be putting these around and displaying some of the cooler limbs that I have from over the years. Next, this is something a little more scary and dangerous in my opinion, that Tom Lund sent me from a string maker from back in the day, and I've never actually, he sent me a nice little note there, I've never actually shot one of these strings or this string material, but they have a reputation about them, they're known for lasting somewhere in the neighborhood of a thousand shots, from what I understand, people that use these had multiple strings ready to go, they had shot in only a couple of shots to know where they would shoot from the current string that they were using, because these strings offered such an incredible performance difference compared to other strings, at the cost of breaking every thousand shots or so. So this one is very old and has absolutely seen its day, well it hasn't been used it sure looks like, it looks brand new, but it basically, from what I heard, or from what Tom actually wrote here, they are made out of Kevlar, so they're Kevlar strings, they were introduced around 1975, he said they were a huge performance improvement over Dacron, and that's basically how they reached 90 meters, they were really having difficulty reaching 90 meters without a string like this, and he sent me a 70 inch string, he knew my bow length enough to actually send me this, which is great, I don't know if I have the courage to shoot one of these strings, because it sure looks like it's from 1975, at least by the actual sticker that it comes with, and I'll show you that here in a second, and this string was apparently made by a former world champion, Vicky Cook, she won 1962 in Helsinki, which is pretty cool, so he sent it to me to actually review, and maybe if I get the courage up enough I'll do some sort of performance comparison to current strings, but I'm just not sure, you can just take a look at this, it's old enough to wear Hoyt Easton logo together, it's on the side, so that was from when they were kind of sort of starting to separate as a company, to create their own separate companies, and yeah, you can see that Hoyt archery logo, Hoyt Easton logo there, and the string looks pretty good to me actually, oh it's got clear center serving, made out of what I'm assuming is most likely monofilament, really good actually, but once they fail they completely unravel, but the string itself, I mean it looks fairly well built, the yellow color is very interesting as well, I mean it looks like a standard string to me, but it's a ticking time bomb, and it's got about a thousand shots in it, if it was new, and it sure looks new, looks brand new, but I don't know how confident I am in a string lasting this long, that has been sitting around for who knows how long, and has seen, I don't know what kind of conditions, and somebody's, you know, potentially Tom's attic, or something, and I, yeah, I don't know if I can bring myself to shoot this, maybe at some point I will, maybe I'll have to wear a full-blown safety gear, and go get some like catchers, you know, baseball catchers padding, and all sorts of stuff, but I don't know, I don't know about this one, very cool, and thank you Tom for sending me something so neat, especially because it has a little bit of history behind it, you know. Next is something from Steve Yee out of Phoenix, he sent me a couple different things, one thing is a fidget toy, which is in an archery livery, library, livery, I don't know, archery colors, it's a fidget toy spinner for quivers, I don't know if Steve sells any of these things, but he did send me this as what he said is the ultimate quiver toy, and he also sent me the ultimate biter wrench that he has 3d printed as well, sent me a couple of them, and essentially what this is, is the biter wrench on this side that would fit your standard plunger, I've broken several of them, as you know if you've watched any videos on this channel, I break everything because I over tighten it, and using a plastic wrench to tighten something that's metal going into something metal, I shear those little, little detents off, those little pins all the time, and this will definitely come in handy because I definitely need a couple of those, and this end on the other end of it is for the biter clicker, so you can put it on as a wrench and really crank that thing down, tighten it, and I don't even know if I have a biter clicker wheel anymore, because I've got a bunch of AAE gold clickers, and I have one win-and-win carbon clicker, I actually really like the carbon clicker, I thought I wouldn't because normally I like to shoot clickers with the plastic tip on it, like a, you know, a metal clicker with a plastic tip, so it hides the scratches and dings and machine marks on my points, and, you know, when I would have the plastic piece break off, I can't shoot with the clicker because it gets hung up on the machine grooves from machine marks on the points, but the metal tip on the carbon clicker is actually really nice, and it works quite well despite being metal on metal, and I can't feel the actual clicker tip on the actual arrow point, so it's nice, so I don't know if I can actually ever use this thing, but it sure looks nice, and I think it'll work really great, because I did see that some of the win-and-wins now are coming with, like, plastic knobs that are tools to tighten them down, and they never move, I can't move them at all when they're tight, sufficiently tight, and this thing will really help that. So thanks to Steve for sending me these as well, yeah, it's just taken me forever to get around to some of these things, so I apologize to the people who've sent me these things, spent the time and effort and energy and the money to send me these things, I really, really appreciate it, I apologize for taking so long. And this last thing is actually coming from a fellow Olympic medalist, Alec Potts, I haven't gotten around to reviewing this as well, and actually he just reached out to me and apparently sent me a different version of what these are, and they got returned to him, so I got to get in touch with him again, but what he sent me is his own creation from Eliza Archery out of Australia. These are the E1 Archery Products clickers, and there is a sexy leg version that is a carbon fiber leg that looks like, you know, a sexy leg, and a regular standard clicker, and they also have these wrenches as well in these kits that allow you to really, really crank them down against the bow. I think they're very nice clickers, but he offers two different stiffnesses, so you can see here it is a leg, in fact, that is a clicker, E1 Archery. Once I get the the ones that I'll actually use, I'll do a full review of these and post it as a standard video eventually, but I have these so I wanted to show them so I could actually give them a shout out. And the wheel that tightens down the leg has its own wrench as well, so you can really crank them down, have a nice positive lock, the actually fit and finish there on the piece, it's good. So definitely, I can't wait to use one of these. The reason that I haven't reviewed this is this is the heavy version that's supposed to be a very distinctive and definitive click that's really, really, really loud, so you can hear it differently than all the other clickers that are out there that are next to you. Really good idea, but for me, I told him because it's so stiff, in my opinion, it's not going to work for what I need in a clicker, for my particular preferences and what I've learned over the years. And I will share with you once I get the regular version, not the stiff version, more details on that. But essentially, it can be so hard that it can actually push the plunger in and when it clicks, the arrow launches out away from the bow. Very exacerbated by longer arrows that are longer than the standard plunger, you know, considerably longer because it actually flex the arrow a little bit before it clicks. Good idea for people who can't hear, but for me, for performance, it's just too stiff. And I told him, I don't want to give you an unfair review and just like say it's not going to work for me. Do you have something else? And he does have a thinner version that has less snap to it. These do sound really good, but I really can't wait to get the standard non-super stiff version because I do like the carbon fiber clickers. I think they're very, very neat. He has two different versions. That one was the sexy leg and then this one is just a standard, basically straight clicker as you can see here. It's nice. It looks great. And I'm glad to see another fellow Olympian coming out with some cool stuff. And if you're over in Asia, you should grab some of these. I think Lancaster actually has these as well. So I'll have links in the description below and I'll put a card at the top up there in case you want to check out the Eliza archery clickers. Like I said, I think they have a regular and a stiff. For me, I'd pick the regular, but if you're hard of hearing, you can't pick your clicker out in the crowd, I would definitely get the stiff version so you can really hear it click if you're interested in that kind of thing too. So huge thanks again to Alec for sending me that clicker and hopefully we'll get in touch so that way I can get the regular version and get a good proper review on the channel for him as well. Now that's really about it. I've got a couple of other things that I want to show to you that are more product reviews that I've given. So I'm going to do more product reviews here in the near future. I'm kind of trying to get through a backlog of things that I've had over the last bit of time that I've been sent that I would like to get done and out there so that way you all can check it out as well as, you know, I can just kind of take that off my plate. Some of the things that have just been weighing on me a little bit that I really wanted to get taken care of to really fill in all the stuff that's just been lagging behind around here because of various different things that are happening behind the scenes that I am super excited to share with you and I cannot wait to release some videos and some things we've been working on behind the scenes and yeah so I've just tried to play catch up and that way I can just kind of get back into the swing of things and also clear my plate so my list of to-dos can be shrunk dramatically. So I really appreciate people who have sent things to this this channel to the P.O. Box. I really appreciate all those little things that have been sent over the past several years. Really appreciate everybody supporting this channel various different ways that they have supported this channel. I really really appreciate it and huge thank you to the viewers out there as well that are supporting this channel and sharing the videos anywhere they can. Really I just try to make this channel a great resource to archery, all types of archery, and I really appreciate all the stuff that the fans have sent in over the years.