We Helped Him Buy A NEW 2025 Bow... Buyer's Guide Edition

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We Helped Him Buy A NEW 2025 Bow... Buyer's Guide Edition
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How would this work?
I was thinking you would just go, that would work.
And then as soon as you broke that last shot, you lift that bow up and said, this is the one.
You flew all the way over to Seattle, six and a half hour flight, then rented a car,
then drove through a snowstorm to get to Spokane, got a hotel,
showed up here at nine o'clock in the morning, ready to go.
We went right over to Spokane Valley Archery.
And he's going to try all the bows and figure out, he wants to buy a new bow.
And you said you were a Matthews guy.
What does that mean?
I am. It was-
Like a fan boy?
Yeah. Yeah. I'm a fan boy.
I am. I am.
My buddy shot it my whole life growing up and I watched them shoot them.
And I was like, those are the coolest kids on the block.
And we had them grab every bow possible, flagship or not.
And you tried, let's just name all the ones you tried real quick.
See if you can.
Yeah. Darton.
Darton sequel.
The sequel. We shot the Hoyt RX9.
Ultra. Yep.
The Ultra. We shot the Matthews. The Lift X.
33.
We shot the PSE Mach.
33.
Yep. And we shot-
Bowtech.
That's the one-
Performance or something.
What was it? Performance 34 or no or-
No.
Something 34?
Proven.
Proven 34?
Proven. Yeah.
And then you shot the Prime.
The Prime.
Carbon aluminum combination.
Yeah.
Latest and greatest.
Yeah.
That's a lot of bows.
First 33 inch carbon bow in a while.
I don't think they've had one since, or I don't even know when the last one was.
I'm not a big fan of how the Hoyt and the PSEs look.
Really?
Oh yeah.
Yeah, but I love the look. Even the Bowtech looks good.
There's just something about, I love how the risers, everything's cut out. The long-
Yeah.
I love that. There's something about it.
That felt like a rocket out of there.
Same risers last year. Brand new cam system. Split yoke system on there. A little bit better
for stabilization. Doesn't wear so bad on the actual strings themselves. We had some,
just the three track cam system style. Like last year, we had a lot of wear in around the cam.
So that's a lot better. Much faster cam, one inch increment mods. And that one inch will do
quarter inches. So 31, we'll do 30 and three quarters, 30 and a half, 30 and a quarter,
and 31.
That's cool. Yeah. Right at the end, you can just feel that little wall.
Holds great. Definitely smoothest after the shot. This one felt great in the hand.
85, 80, and 75%. Yeah. It's just a solid bow. They gained a lot of speed
and it's a quiet and pretty light bow. So that's a Hoyt. The PSE. PSE really didn't change a lot
as far as the actual technology in the bow from year to year. The biggest thing that PSE did was
they were trying to hit a certain spec that a lot of people like. 33 inches.
Mach 33.
All right. This was PSE. That was super smooth as well too.
On a carbon bow was not something they had made. They had made a 32. They had made a 34.
The Mach 30 last year having all this technology where they put the clever mounts into a carbon
riser. They have a snap shim system for tuning. Have we noticed a sound difference in any of them?
Yeah. It's hard to tell in here.
Not too, too much. Obviously again, echo sometimes are a little harder.
We'll definitely have you shoot this again.
Yeah. That one's super nice.
Seems like that's got a nice wall.
Yeah.
Like solid wall.
This wall is a little bit better than that one.
Okay.
That draw cycle is a little bit smoother than this one.
Pick mount, integrate for rest. They had all the features last year in the Mach 30.
They hit with the specs they wanted with the Mach 33. That's that bow.
Bow tech, similar story to the PSE as far as you didn't really see a lot of new technology with the
bow, but you saw a certain spec that a lot of people like. A 34 inch bow. The SS34 did really
well. So they just basically made a short draw and long draw version to improve efficiency.
And you do have, which the SS34 didn't have, you do have the time lock system along with
the deadlock flip, the flip disc for comfort and performance and the angled grip. The grip
lock is what they call it. And then they do have the center mass amount as well.
They moved to the inside of the riser. So yeah, Darden was the next big change.
Way smoother than the bowtech. That I love. That's super nice.
This is the Darden. Super smooth draw. Felt great in the hand.
There are a couple of minor changes from companies. Darden made some big ones, which was
they made a tuning system for leaning the cam. Basically the way that it works in simple terms
is you have a bolt that can be pressed onto either limb. And if you imagine these are both
70 pound limbs, then you press that bolt into one limb that makes this one, let's just say
hypothetically 72, 73 pounds. Now it's going to lean that cam one way and then you can put it
in the other one as well, lean it the other direction. So it has that tuning system on it,
as well as, and I think this is ingenious, and you can probably put it, I want to see if like
Gas will do something or if even Darden will sell this piece to be able to put on other bows,
because theoretically it should work with any bow that has a yoke on it.
Yeah, it's smooth. That's super nice. Basically just a dowel with a set screw in it that when
you turn, when you loosen the set screw and you turn the dowel, you can turn your cables to time
your bow. Or for me as well, I like to microtune stuff. I like to get my drawing perfect. And a
lot of the times that ends up being slightly over 30 inches. If you put twists into your cables,
you can lengthen your drawing slightly. So you can even do that with it as well. But the biggest
thing is timing. And that's a really, it's a smart system. And it's a really simple. I don't
know if they sell these yet as far as just on their own, but I would love to see if you could
put that on another bow. But that was a big change. They also have their center shot line, which is
just nice for setting up those, you have that line, run your arrow down the rest. And yeah,
works, works great. We saw a lot of them so far we can sell them online. And they are,
they're good spec, they're fast, they come with a speed mod, and they don't draw too hard at all.
I'm excited to shoot that one. Yeah, they're a great bow. That's a really nice one. Have you
shot this one yet? I don't know. No, I haven't. You should shoot this one. Okay, I'll hold it for
you. Yeah, that's, that's gorgeous. Smooth again, like the Bowtech had that sticky spot. Yeah,
that was just smooth all the way through. Smooth all the way through. Matthew's kind of sticking
with the theme of most of the bows. They didn't make a huge, huge change overall in technology.
But the biggest thing, of course, is that limb shift, being able to work on this at home. They
have the new grips, machined out the riser a little differently, and they did reinforce the
limbs as well. But you have all the technology that they've ever had in a bow. You have bridge
lock technology, you have the switch weight cam, you have stay afield system on the cam, you can,
you know, adjust your timing or twist your peep or anything by taking your cables off at home.
If you get the stay afield system, you have, you know, pretty much everything integrated that you
can need for rest mount. And the limb shift, the limb shift is a really interesting way that they,
that they went after the leaning the cam to get it to tune. Because what happens with Bowtech or,
you know, something like that, a drive system where it moves the cam left to right on the limb,
it does lean the cam. But another thing it does is it actually moves the entire string.
So when you, let's say that, and this happens a lot, where you have someone that shoots a bow and
they just, you know, whatever, their torque, their facial pressure, their spine, everything
makes it so that they have to run that cam all the way to the right on something like a Bowtech.
Is this the regular, this is their new regular grip? This is the one that comes stock on it?
Yeah, their new stock grip. It's engaged, but it's new.
Similar to the Bowtech on that.
70.
The Matthew system, you don't have to, because it's not actually moving the cam itself,
it's moving the limb. It doesn't actually change the strings position. So when you drive the cam
on a Bowtech all the way one way on both sides, you move the string slightly. And what that'll
end up doing is when you have your rest on center shot and your string straight down, you know,
string straight here, level, rest on center shot, and you look down the limb pockets,
you can sometimes have it where it's on center shot and tuned, and the arrow is kicked out one
direction. Whereas on a Matthews, because that limb shift technology and it not actually moving
the cam all that much, and it primarily just leaning it, it doesn't actually do that. It
keeps you on center shot. So pretty much no matter where you lean this, your arrow is going to be
straight down the bow no matter what. Which I think is ingenious and not even something that
people really look at or know about. So that's why I'm a Matthews fanboy. Yeah, right. Yeah.
That type of stuff right there. Well, on one hand, patents can, you know, kind of
douse some other companies from innovating. At the same time, it drives innovation in other ways.
So when you have something like a drive system, Matthews looks at that and say, hey, Ken, how
can we do this a little better? And I do think that it's just a little bit better system as far
as actually keeping everything in line. So Mo's dead. Yeah, it doesn't. Didn't even move. Your bow's
not moving. Didn't move at all. Compared to what I've seen. But I will be 100% honest that the
Darton is the smoothest drawing bow. So prime form, prime really what they were trying to do this year
is they're trying to lighten up their bow. And the way they explained the reason they did this,
so they do half aluminum, half carbon. Basically, they're trying to put the carbon where it actually
matters, because what happens when you make a carbon bow is you end up having to like epoxy
turrets into the limb pockets and just that kind of thing that just make it hard, like even just
drilling into on the riser. You can see how. Did that arrow scream out of there? That felt super
quick. OK, that felt super quick out of it. Hoyt just uses insert pieces like this because it makes
it easier to do that. So the idea with the half aluminum is you don't have to worry about that.
You still have your normal insert drills and everything, but it is lighter. It's 4.1 pounds
is what they advertise. 34 inch axle to axle. They do have their center grip technology. So the grip,
the throat of the grip is in the center of the bow and the where the arrow goes is just above center.
And the reason for that is so that you have more weight below and it just bounces in your hand
really well. They also have a new snap shim system, which like what PSE has on there is
they actually licensed that from Prime, the patent for that. So they have a newer snap shim, a new
updated version for what Prime has already had, as well as they have their aerogel grip, which is
just a super insulating grip. So for a lot of people that like a carbon bow because it stays
warm when it's cold, it's warm to the touch. The aerogel grip, aerogel is what they use in
you know, rocket ships and stuff for like insulating. And so anyways, it's more of like
an aerospace technology that they put into the grip. And yeah, it's warm no matter what. I mean,
it's incredibly insulating and kind of negates the need for that carbon, especially when this
bow is much lighter as well. So this one comes in the middle price range too, because it's like
$1,750, I think, or right around that $1,700. So yeah, it's a solid bow and I hope you like it.
What's the ATI on this one? It's 34, but because of that center grip technology, it's more of the
actual, like the strangle will feel more like probably a 27 or 28. It's pretty sharp just
because you have more below than you do above. And so your strangle top is sharper
than the low side of it. So yeah, give it a shot. It's just, yeah. How's it, how'd it feel,
draw cycle? At the very, very end, a very little hitch on the first draw. Very, very subtle.
Not like the Bowtech was. How about after the shot? Felt good. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It didn't
feel bad. It didn't look like it moved much. No, it didn't feel bad at all, but it started
super smooth and then right at the end, just a little bit. It got you a little bit. Okay.
Okay. I just kind of saw that. It like dropped in. I see what you mean.
Super dead in the hand, but yeah, it almost like it's like, it like dropped in real quick there.
Okay. You shot all the ones that they got to offer. You got to eliminate one. What is it?
Bowtech gone. Bowtech gone. Okay. Let's start over. And what we have you do is I think a couple
arrows through each, take one out. Yeah. That one didn't feel as smooth as the first.
It's interesting once you cycle through them all, you kind of have a better perspective.
Yeah. That didn't feel as smooth as the. And I would encourage anyone in the market for a new
bow to just come down to a shop, give yourself a week, try as many as you can. We're fortunate
here at Spokane Valley Archery stocks a bunch. Um, the one we haven't tried today was an elite
and I just don't think they have any elites on the wall. So anyways, because people will comment,
why didn't you try the elite? There was none to try because there's elite fanboys too, you know,
haters on there. Oh, tons of haters. No,
yeah. First one was a, must've been just me. That was a much better draw. You liked it. Yeah,
this is a good one. Okay. We're not getting rid of the dark. No, that's dark over here.
This thing is super light. How much they charge for this thing? I don't know.
Usually carbon bows are pretty pricey. Yeah. I don't know. It might be a cheaper price point.
I'm not, don't take financial advice from me when it comes to archery.
I think the reason I like financial advice from you in archery is because we're kind of on the
same page with our financial views in archery. So then I feel like I'm justified. Okay. My wife
would disagree with you. It makes sense. Super dead. You can hold on to that one. Cool. I would
keep this cool over the PSE. Okay. You still got one more to go. You got the prime. Yeah. I
haven't seen honestly too much on like social media or anything about how people are feeling
about it. I have no idea. I haven't seen any raving reviewer or anything negative about it.
So we'll see. You may be the first one. Yeah. Good. That's good. It's always good to be a
starter here. Let me shoot that last one. Yeah. Okay. Folks, he's going to get rid of one bow
after this shot. Not that one. I hope Josh doesn't watch this video. Sorry about your bow,
Josh. Folks have fall for the dart and that just fell. Yeah. Um, this is gone. Yeah. Okay. You
take it out of there. We'll start all over the stability. I know that's why they went that way,
right? Yeah. The higher. And I feel that from that. That's important. I totally feel that
guys were down to four bows and now we're going one arrow per
point. Ultra. This is the RX nine. I like that. You have kind of a hunting filter running through
your decisions. Always. Yeah. I mean, it's true. That's as much as I love shooting a bow
every day, just go out back. Every decision I make is for the red zone. Everything I make is
for the red zone. So it doesn't matter what it's like in my flip-flops and my backyard. Yep.
Everything I think about is what is it going to be like in layers, walking with it, whatever it
may be. Yeah. A hundred percent. If you, if you would blindfold me, this and the Hoyt feel almost
identical. Interesting. Almost identical. Other than that's a little short and I have to reach
in a little. Oh, let me ask the guy the question. Hey Michael, is there a price difference between
the mock 33 and the ultra mock 33 and the ultra 19 2150? I'm pretty sure. Okay. Not
when you're spending 19 what's 21. Exactly. Yeah. Those are the decisions your wife wouldn't like,
but that's how I felt. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Last up is the dart on this round.
That's tough. Uh, I would say mock 33 just because the Hoyt, it, it rips out of my hand.
It literally feels like a bullet coming out and it feels good. Okay. Hand me that mock 33. I'll
turn it in. All right. We're down to three. We're going to start with the dart and work our way
back towards the lift X. Let's go one arrow per, and you have to make a decision. You have to
or buy all three. Okay. All right. I like that. Which Michael would love. I have the budget for
that. If I follow the Dan Staten archery finance book, I could just get all three and justify.
I do like the grip better on the Matthews just holding in hand. Okay. I like a little bit,
I know opposite of yours. Like you liked a little thinner. Yeah. I like a thicker.
You like, I'm like, I'm thick. I know I got a couple of C's in my thick. So
personally like the grip. It's a beautiful bow. Okay. All right.
This one's going to be tough for those watching. I'm begging him to buy whatever he wants.
He is. He's not pressuring me. I swear he didn't kick me in the knee when the camera was off. Not
like that. All right. The, uh, all right. You hand that over to Michael. Michael,
I like the ergonomics better on a UV sneak peek. I'm going to do a review on this and give it back.
I do think the ergonomics are better on the UV. Yeah. But I love this. Yeah. Yeah. I keep that
coming soon. There'll be your next video. I'll do a overview. It's not a review because I haven't
got to use it. All right. Back to bow shopping. Sorry. Bye Hoyt. Okay. It's down to Darton,
which shout out to my boy, Corey, who watches this channel. Probably he'll be really excited
to see that his Darton made it down. So it is team Matthews versus team Darton
preference on which first, sir. Uh, I mean, I can't blindfold you cause you could tell by the
grips. Yeah. Right. Grips. And so you do. Okay. Let's blindfold them and put a glove. You ended
up finally narrowing it down to two. Yeah. You're a Matthews fan boy. It's totally completely.
So the 33 lift X was in one option. And then the other bow that beat out all the other bows
surprised me. It's fricking Darton. Darton came out of nowhere. I didn't think it either. Cause
I always had that. My buddy wanted to get a Darton and I'm just like, what's it though?
What the hell is a Darton? So what we did, because I really told you, I don't care what
bow you buy. And I really meant it. I don't care. A hundred percent. I want you to shoot whatever
gives you the most confidence. Uh, we put a glove on his hand so he couldn't tell by the grip,
which bow was which thick winter glove. And then we blindfolded him with a hooded sweatshirt.
How would this work? Uh, I was thinking you would just go, well, that would work.
I'm so happy to be the first ever. All right. Dave, what's the, I mean,
it's just blindfold shooting. You'll be fine. Right. But when you stand here and make sure
his string doesn't hit it. We're good. Yep. All right. You're going to aim to your right.
Aim to your right. All right. Go ahead and work for your shot whenever.
Okay. You need help getting your release on? Yeah. You probably get it. He's definitely
blindfolded. You see him aim over at the wall. All right. All right. There you go. Good. I'm
over in front of you to your right. Oh, that's good. Yeah. You're good. You're lined up. Good.
I'm going to start hunting like this. All right. This is the one. Can I take off? Seriously? Yeah.
Yeah. The back wall feels so, yeah. Back wall feels so good. And then as soon as you broke
that last shot, you lift that bow up and said, this is the one. And I was like, son of a gun.
People are going to say on YouTube that I, I set this up and I did it. So you truly shot it down
to that bow. A hundred percent. Yeah. I mean, what was it? It was the lift 33 X. And what was it
about it? Oh, it's so the big things for me, the thing I'll give to Darton, if I like, I know Josh
does his little checkpoints to score. I've never watched the Josh review video. So please do your
they're amazing. He likes, he likes scores them for all different things, like accuracy and
measurements, draw cycle passage. If I gave Darton a check over the Matthews, the draw cycle, I
thought was smoother. Nice. It definitely was. Okay. Matthews is always known at that little
bit at the little bit of the end of the Valley. It gets a little tough to get back there is once
you get over that. Yep. It helps me sit into the back wall. Yep. Beautifully. Yep. So that could be
a pro and a con for somebody like the Darden didn't have that as much. Yep. So you may not
feel like you were in your back wall as well, which was a big plus for the Matthews. Like when
I got in there, I was like, yeah, I could push pull and felt great. That's cool. Once that shot
went off hands down, that Matthews was dead in the hand. Didn't feel any movement, anything.
It was beautiful. It's stayed right where it was. You'll see in the videos, like you could just see
how that bow. Yeah. Yep. Done. And just how smooth the actual execution felt is why even with the
glove, it just, just the balance of the bow in my hand just felt really good. Let's go, let's go
get it set up. Yeah. Yeah. It's the blindfold test work. Shout out to Michael. He's working today.
We interrupted him. He helped us out a lot. Yeah. Now let's go get it set up and let's get you
shooting to see how far we can get. He flew all the way from New Jersey to do this. I'm honored.
Thank you. Thank you. Let's get it going. Thank you. 760 thousandths. That's your loop length.
We're going to go middle. So these run a little bit wide. So when you're setting up using one
of these squares, that mark is for like a two, four, six diameter. Since we're using a one,
six, six, we're going to go middle, um, because these, these actually like to tune just a little
bit, knock high. So when you run just straight middle right there, you'll have a slight, uh,
just at rest. It'll be pointed downward ever so slightly. And that should be ideal for us.
With a two or four, I usually go just a little bit above center. And then with a two, four,
six, we'll go from the center up. I usually tie my bottom knocks at first, just because
I would rather, like I said, these like to tune a little knock high. I'd rather move the knock
up if I have to. Then we go in, do an underneath double overhand underneath first. You're pulling
above center. You're pulling up a little, having six on the bottom and four on the top, the six
on the bottom, just a little bit more solid. Once again, start below. And then we're going to get
our knock fit before we go any further. He said he's shooting halos as well, which are a little
bit more narrow than this. So I'm fine with slightly tighter on this. You can see we probably
have probably two servings worth of movement there. So our fit's pretty dang good there. Like
I said, he's also shooting a halo as well. So we got like two servings worth of movement there.
And when he's got a halo in there, it's going to be just slightly more narrow and I'd rather it
not be too much. So this should be pretty ideal. The way I tie loops is a little bit different
just because I'm trying to match lengths. So like I took a measurement, we're looking for
760 thousandths inside spread from serving to end of loop.
And for that reason, I will only burn one end to start.
So one end burnt to start. I'm going to start on the bottom. We're tying a right-handed loop.
So bottom not facing towards me, shelf side, top knot is going to be facing away, mostly tied. It's
little on the loose side. I'm going to take Easton Pro Pliers and stretch it and see where we're at.
Generally you want about 100 thou or so, so about a tenth of an inch worth of movement before you
really tighten it down. You can see right here, my caliper is from the inside of here to the back
side of the serving pretty much. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to cut and burn it. And then
when I really tighten it down, it's going to end up being right on. Usually about a quarter to spread out.
We have both, Nick. Yeah, you can't turn the click off on that the index one.
Yeah, we have those. Yeah, you should take vipers for really cinching it down
like that. And if we take our measurement again, we're looking for 760 thousandths.
And we're very, very close. I'm going to wait to tighten it down all the way until we get our peep
in there and spin that loop around the string. So usually it's going to go far side right here.
When we put a loop in, it's going to come back. You were using a quarter. I'm going to have you
use a 732 just to try because you were going from a 31 and a half to a 33 axle-axle and the string
angle is going to be a little bit steeper. So it's going to be a little closer to your eye,
should fit well. When we throw our peep in there, that loop spun around and it's more straight here.
We're still not going to tighten it down all the way yet. But what we are going to do,
well, we have it in the press just starting. These are super easy to set up. You're just going to run
your QAD cable right through the cable that runs down to the mod. So not the yoke,
but the mod because that's going to go downward when you draw back.
Check everything's in the tracks. Awesome. Draw board. We're going to get our peep to arrow and
we're going to get our draw length. And when you draw this back with the cord in there,
it'll just pull the cord through until it times itself. So that's going to get our timing.
Bottom is slightly out, so we'll end up changing that a little bit. Actual draw length. We are
about an eighth short, so we'll have to end up twisting the cables just slightly to get it
perfect. And then actually, let's make sure our peep to arrow as well. And you see right here,
so we have it in the draw board and this arrow isn't being forced any direction. So
if I take it out of the rest, it just kind of floats around freely. That's how you can tell
you've got no knock pinch up there. And then we're going to grab this here and we're looking
for four and a quarter. And we're at four right now. Don't really care if it's straight yet.
That should be really close for them. We might have to adjust it slightly.
And another thing you can do while you're at full draw, when you're checking all this stuff,
you can check the cam length and see how close you are. Matthews from the factory, all of their
bows, you'll see they're all shimmed slightly different, or I should say, just adjusted
different on their limb shift. They're all slightly different because they actually align
the cams from the factory. So usually they're pretty dang close on the Matthews. If it's any
other bow, I'll usually check it. But Matthews are often very close from the factory. So peep is
probably in a really good spot. It's kind of backwards right now. What I'm going to end up
doing, because it's slightly off this direction, I could flip it around and put a twist up here.
It's probably going to be too much. I'm going to end up putting like a twist and a half into
the bottom of the string. When you twist into the bottom of the string, it doesn't do as much up
here. When you twist in the top, it does a lot. So we're twisting it around to the right.
Take this out straight. There you go. One half, one full, and we'll do another half and see where
that gets us. You can see it pretty much straightened out our peep there. Now our peep is
pretty much straight. Tie in our rest, and then I'm going to mess with the cables in just a second,
get our timing correct, and get our draw length correct. You can see all I did here.
Did a simple overhand knot around the string, and then I'm just going to burn it down. It's
never going to come out. That'll never come out. And that rest is as easy as that.
Then we're going to get our timing and our draw length. Now a tricky part about this is when you
twist up cables, you increase draw weight. So we have to hopefully not make the draw weight go too
high, but we have to twist up the cables because when you shorten the cables, you increase the
draw length and you decrease the holding weight. So we're going to twist up the cable slightly.
The bottom was out ever so slightly, so I'm going to start by putting a half in on the top. That
should time us. So there's our starting point there. Now we're going to go one, two, three,
and we're going to see what that puts us at for actual draw length. You're adding draw weight,
yes, but you can negate it by twisting your main string as well. These limbs are really sensitive,
so if this bow, if I draw this and it pulls 78 pounds, I can just take like a quarter or
a half turn out of this limb bolt and it's really not going to change your overall dimensions and
specs. It's not going to extend your brace height because of the path parallel on the bows
that the Matthews have. That's something that happens on pretty much every other bow.
When you have that forward facing limb and you back out the limb bolt, your brace height extends.
So we're going to probably end up doing that and it won't really affect it here.
Okay, top's out slightly. We'll sort that out in just a minute.
Michael, let's dive into it. Like a lot of professional archers and even myself,
I like the top to be just slightly ahead. Do you? I do not. Why? Because what that fixes,
generally the issue that that's fixing is a slight low hold and you can fix it the same way by moving
your knock and rest up and you're putting more leverage into the top of the bow, pushing against
the bottom of the bow. So when you raise that up, you're pushing the bow up more that way.
So that's how I combat it. I want the cams to be perfectly in sync because that's going to
be the most consistent. Otherwise, your back wall pressure will dictate how good your arrow flight
is. True. So if your back wall pressure is perfectly consistent every time, then you're
good. But when you have slight inconsistencies, you'll have high and low stuff. What? When you're
I feel like that's the main filter you should run your decisions through.
Okay. 72, that'll run, right? Oh yeah. Yeah. I'd rather a little over 70 so it
loses some poundage over time. Right. I'm going to shoot a couple of times,
make sure the serving is set, and then I'm going to time it one more time.
And it still does that, even with the top out. That's impressive.
Right? Got it. Watch this hole. Never gets old either. It like never gets old.
Okay. Well, we're pretty much straight, so that's cool.
Trickiest part on this site's right here. Just doing double overhand underneath
and double overhand over top.
That's really close already. Yeah, we can do this cam.
I'm going to take out the screw. Got to keep that. But then we have our spot right there
for Allen key. In the same spot the screw goes? Yep. Okay. Then we're going to go,
so we're in slight knock right, we're going to move the limb to the left.
Like that. That's probably plenty. It might have been too much. It's a very sensitive system
that moves it a ways. I mean, that's good. Just a hair, hair knock low. That's an easy fix.
So you think the peep's just a hair low? Yeah, I'll shut my eyes and do it. Yeah,
I felt like I had to just drop my head just a tad. Okay. How do you think it would feel if
you dialed this down to 50 yards? So that's the other thing too. Yeah. Usually I always set mine
on somewhere in that like 50, 60 yard range. Yeah. Wouldn't that be great if I didn't have
to change my sight? Right? Nah, you'll be, you'll have to change it up a little bit.
Yeah. I mean, those are all, that one's money. Yeah. Awesome. Okay. Well, we're tuned up. It's
that easy. I mean, we started off really, really close. That makes it so simple being able to do
that. Right? Yeah. People look good and it looked like it was too angled, but I want to get, I'll
take a couple of shots. Okay. Yeah, for sure. Once you got your peep for sure. I mean, you're welcome
to shoot this a couple of times. Once you got your peep for sure where you want it, let me know. I'll
tie it in all the way. And then for this limb shift system, I'm going to go ahead and tighten
it down right now. Something you should definitely do on this, just because when you're twisting
this axle, there's a chance that you can loosen the other screw on the other side ever so slightly.
I've seen it happen. So when I'm done, I will take an Allen key on this side and on this side at the
same time and like torque it so that it tightens those down. It'll never come out on you. And do
you ever go on this side to adjust it or it's always this side? Always this side. The only
reason that you want to take the outside screw out is in case you need to take the axle out to
change your strings out. So if you're not doing that, then you never touch that one. Correct.
Okay, a little higher right.
Guys, this is my friend Nick. I met him a couple years ago. He came to Elk Shade Camp. He is
law enforcement, New Jersey slash elk hunter. And we got him his bow picked out, dialed, and doped.
Yeah. Thanks for flying all the way over here. Appreciate it very much.
Shout out to that dude. Give me a five. You did a great job today explaining kind of like
elevator pitch on all those flagship bows. You legitimately picked this one,
even though the comment section, don't read it, they'll say they'll hate, but
you did pick this bow and I hope that you get an elk this year. You haven't killed one yet. No.
And this could be the year. Hopefully it's the year. We're going to go podcast later today,
so check out on the other channel because I'm going to explain to him how to get an elk tag,
even though his point situation kind of sucks right now. I'm going to make sure he gets
to elk hunting every year. Separations in the preparation. We'll catch on the next one.
