After 20+ Years… Back to a Target Compound! | Mathews TRX 38 G2

Gonna do something a little different on the channel today. Gonna be shooting my new-to-me Matthews TRX38 G2 that Ryan hooked me up with in a trade deal. And I'm super excited to get it tuned up. I've got my cardboard paper tuner here behind me, so I'm gonna shoot through paper, get it roughly tuned, go back to 50 meters, get sighted in, and shoot a scoring round and see how it goes today. So full disclosure, I have shot this bow a little bit and I've shot the bow pretty well so far. I've not tuned these arrows. These are Easton Avance, Avance whatever, carbon arrows that Ryan sent me with the bow because that's what he had them set up with. Today what I want to do is get it actually tuned up, even though these aren't going to be the ultimate final arrows that I'm going to shoot out of it. I've got some X10s that I cut the back off years ago for a compound setup that should work great for this bow, but because these are all fletched up, my other ones are falling apart, I'm going to tune this up because I want to shoot a scoring round. I've had this bow for a couple of weeks now and I'm just dying to actually get it tuned up and shoot a round at 50 meters with it. A brief overview of the bow and reminder, many different links down in the description below, affiliate links, all this stuff that I'm using in today's video I will have down there in the description. I got the Matthews TRX 38 G2, so this is a several year old bow but it accepts the modern grips and I had the the newest grip, I forget what it's called, that came with this because Ryan sent it to me because he has a UltraView grip or a Crispy grip and honestly the stock grip was garbage so I bought one of Crispy's Be Real Customs grip and I love this thing actually. It's way way way more comfortable and far more like my recurve kind of grips because it's flat, it's not rounded and I really like the feel of it initially just putting my hand in it so I'm excited to actually try it for the first time today. Like I said in every other video, genuinely help support the channel if you're interested in shopping for any of these things or anything at Lancaster Archery Supply, click those links before you shop there, it really helps. So today I'm going to first get this thing tuned up and then we'll go back to 50 and I'll shoot a 36 arrow round for score and I'm really excited to do that today and see how it goes. So first what I'm going to do is I'm going to shoot one arrow here about the distance I will stand from the paper about six feet or so for my first arrow to get an idea of where it impacts so that way when I go to shoot my first arrow through paper I can place it where I want to. All right cool so full disclosure like I said I have been shooting this bow so I've got the stabilizers kind of balanced with how I like it it holds okay at the moment it's still a little heavy for me but I don't know eventually I think I'll get some deltoids and holding this bow up won't be such a problem. So now that I know where the arrow is going to hit I'm going to pan the camera a little bit different and I will run my GoPro so you can see what's happening through paper. I'm going to stand about here. I've really been enjoying shooting compound lately it's been a lot of fun. Looks like a little knock low and maybe a little point to the left. I've never adjusted this rest before but I'm sure I can figure it out. I need to drop it in the front. The difference between this bow and my hunting bow is just totally different the way it feels, the way it draws, the way it aims, the way it delivers the arrow. It just it jumps much harder. I like it a lot. Still about the same. I don't know where people like to put their arrows on this bow if it's bisecting like through the center of the burger buttons a little high a little low. I know everybody's a little bit different and everybody has different preferences. Right now I would say I'm just about through the middle maybe if a little bit high above center. Looks pretty good. Still a little knock low. I'm gonna shoot one more and we'll find out. I don't think these arrows are like the highest quality arrows so I don't know how consistent they are from shot to shot or arrow to arrow. Still point high but was way off. I didn't realize it was so far off. I think I've really dropped this thing quite a bit and it's still kind of there. Let's see where the arrow sits now. Now I'm kind of through the center of the burger button so really close. Super close. Now maybe just a tad bit point left but I do notice a slight inconsistency there. Could be just from me putting my hand in the grip differently. Very very very close to a bullet hole. So with the point to the left I'm gonna bump the center shot just a small amount with the rest to the right. Last arrow on the quiver maybe I'll get it done on this one. So this thing's tuned way closer already than what I had started with it so because these aren't going to be the final arrows that I will actually end up using out of this bow I'm just going to see if I can get it close here at this six foot range and then we'll just go right back to 50 meters. Looks like a bullet hole to me. Shoot one more. I think I'm honestly at the consistency of these arrows because these aren't the best tolerance for arrow so I'm sure spine concentricity straightness things like that it's not going to be perfect. Yeah I'm just going to call that good enough. I don't want to spend any more time. I'd rather get back to 50 meters and shoot a good round here. 36 arrow round to start with. That's all I'm going to do today before it gets too blazingly hot. So we'll get back to 50. So I've got an 80 centimeter face down there at 50 and I'm going to shoot one or two ends for practice and then get right into scoring. I was sighted in before but moving that rest down that much we'll find out where I hit. Way low. Good thing I already to really just worry about the pressure into the bow until the release fires until the shot breaks because then once that happens the arrow's so fast out of the bow it doesn't really matter wise so I really need to get my deltoid strength up. It's definitely something I think is very different about compound and recurve is mass weight wise is actually pretty similar to my recurve but the draw weight at full draw the holding weight of my recurve makes holding that bow up just so much easier. Yeah the difference between recurve and compound is crazy because it's roughly the same mass weight but the bow just feels so heavy and it's so fatiguing and I never did anything overhead and didn't develop my deltoids at all shooting recurve only because I didn't want to injure myself because I had impingement issues but I do think I need to work on that. At least some static holds get myself a tiny rest shoot one more in for practice and then we'll start scoring. Should be high left. Yep definitely need to open the peep up on this the orifice is so small I just can't quite see the housing or the bubble depending on certain lighting conditions. Some stuff I need to play with and tweak in the future for sure. it's hitting fairly consistent so I'm going to go down grab the arrows and we'll start scoring next end. I'm going to shoot six ends of six arrows for a 36 arrow round and after I shoot the end I'll tell you what I shot. I'll continue to move the camera around so you can check out different angles in case you're interested. All right first end for score here it is hot and humid today in Florida probably somewhere well over 100 degree heat index by now. not this time but this bow so shooting with this bow is literally the first bow that I have to take a break and take a breath in between arrows from time to time because it's just so heavy. I'm not running that much weight I'm running four ounces on the front and I'm running four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve in the back. It's not a ton uh it's just so heavy hanging out on the right side. All right that dot was uh caught it that dot was just sitting like 10 ring to the right tweener nine to the right. I think with a little bit of wind it was coming from the right so it probably helped me out. These are some big fletchings to be shooting at 50 meters that one broke yeah right where it went off. All right so 59 to start that's pretty solid pulled a little bit more on that one so maybe that was it trying to mess around with pulling against the wall more or less I don't know I don't know what I like yet. Yeah I was hanging low hit right behind the pin. All right looks like a 58 on that one a lot of line calls but I think I caught all the 10s. This shade is not helping me out here today I think I might be actually further back I think 50 is up there so I might be at 51 right now. I'm watching the pin too much 59 on that one I'm gonna go inside and get some water and start the second half right away only 101 degree heat index right now not too bad but the sun makes it way worse and these clouds are popping up it's gonna be storming here soon hopefully I can get it all in before it starts reason bow arm just started pushing to the left and it went off 58 on that one a little better last end here for the 36 arrows had lots of up downs on that one it was holding good and then it went up down up down and broke I thought it was in the middle when it went off definitely want to uh put that hunter saws on here probably want to get a black one just so it matches I like the hunter version just because it's so simple but the bow is so heavy I don't want to add any to finish with a 56 so that'd be 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 3 45 I have way more way more than that in the tank for sure wish it would have went a little bit better it just feels like I was running out of fuel for sure and this heat is killing me no excuses though I don't know I feel like this is a lot of fun and it's a lot of it's challenging because it's totally different than what I'm used to recurve and compound are just so different and it's a lot of fun to shoot a compound like a lot of fun because it's really about what you're doing at full draw what you're thinking what you're doing how you're trying to put pressure into the system and there's just it's it's a ton of fun and I'm really enjoying it and I'm really glad I got a target rig so I can play a little bit more I want to build up some x10s that's not the issue but I want to figure out my stabilizer balance probably take more weight off and just go with a lighter setup I just I feel like if I'm at full draw too long or shooting too many arrows it's just so heavy my deltoid just gives out so even just setting the bow down like this then picking it up and taking a shot I just move my my button a little bit further back see if it changes the feel here I like that that's a little bit better position didn't help with where the arrow went but feels a little bit better definitely need to figure out what's going on with those left pressure shots that was nice good shot I really like that one I like that button a little bit further back I can pull more straight back instead of pushing in it I could pull more more back just feels a little more natural I have no idea what I'm doing I'm making all of the compound stuff up as I go along and just pulling from some of the experience I've had you know hanging out with some compound shooters asking them questions so yeah we'll figure this out and I think I'm just going to continue messing around here with my compound and as I make progress and make discoveries and make adjustments I will post videos and uh you know tell you what I'm doing if you're interested so you got to let me know below if you're interested in seeing more of this and my journey through kind of getting into compound a little bit more and you know it's been a long time since I've had a full-blown target rig that I've actually had set up for the sake of target probably I was 14 13 12 years old something like that been a really long time since I've had a target rig and I'm really enjoying it and I'm just enjoying coming out shooting some arrows going back inside having a good time and I'll keep sharing the journey if you're interested and with that rain is incoming so I'm gonna pack up get my electronics inside get the video edited and out for you to check out