Qianxun Bamboo Longbow by FengFei Archery - short Review

Today, this bow, I showed already photos on my Facebook and Instagram, a bamboo bow by Bangbae Archery. I don't know what the name of the bow builder is, but that's a company name. They make beautiful bamboo arrows. The story behind this bow, one year ago, I was near Hamburg in Mützen and Andy showed me these bows. He imported them from China and he wanted to start selling them. I shot two of them, the short one and the long one, and I was amazed. And they have even ones with nice decoration on it. I said, listen, I need two, but yeah, we'll get you. This year I was in Hamburg again and Andy told me that the cooperation didn't work out as both sides wanted. I don't know exactly. So that's why he gave me the last bow he had in stock. He does not sell them anymore. So what can I tell you? I checked them because I didn't get any information on the internet. The Xian Xiong bamboo longbow, 20 to 45 pounds, strong 173 and the string is 167 and the draw length is 35 inches and the price varies around $300. That's what I could find on the internet. Is it considered a longbow? I don't think so because we have nice recurve, we have even here reinforced recurves and before, let me show you. So it's, maybe you can see it here, let's see. It's a three layer bamboo, you see it, you have here one layer, two layer and then here of course in the center part is, I don't know, ash or something and there's a third layer so it goes out and then you still see the three layers and they continue to come out to the seal and then you still see here the two layers and here the one layer and then you of course have here this insert for the seal. It's not too long, you have a nice knock groove, this one is nice, this one was a little sharp and here you see, I'm not sure if you can see the line where they hooked it up for spray painting. So sometimes it happens, we saw it on other bows, you can see here a little line but doesn't matter. Then it seems like the bamboo is kind of like painted, I guess you could have it in different colors and you have a nice rattan whipping here, gray skin and a nice color, another whipping and another whipping, so it's a beautiful bow, the seals, the knocks are reinforced I guess it's worn, but I don't know, I said I have not much information. So the other thing missing for me is any kind of whatever logo of the bow builder or the poundage. Then I had to check again on the box, it was written 37, I think I need to check again later. Again on the box, Feng Pei archery and there it's written at 28 inches, 37 pounds means at 35 inches this bow is going to be a little too heavy for me, but things we have to deal with. No, the box can go away now, because I think the bow is too heavy for me. So I told you everything now, I'm sorry for the background noise today, it's just everywhere loud, but I have to start now, because it looks like it's going to rain again all day, that's why I couldn't do a video yet, so either it was 35 degrees or it's raining all day. 69 inches from knock to knock and a max draw length of 35, you know what that means, I don't know, but I can show you. Arrow pass is, oh yeah, not the most narrow, 24 millimeters, not even an inch, that's fine too. And yes, I swap metric and what have you, because I don't care. Pretty bow handle, feels good. Came, I said, in a box in foam and then there was this clingy wrap around, it was a hassle to get rid of, but now I have it, no sleeve, nothing and you get a string, let's see what the string will say, hello Armin, no, most probably not, in red and black, nice with loops here, long center serving, so string looks good, yes, this is the shorter one, but this one I string like a long bow, means I put it in the lower, because we don't have excessive sears and it's a quite long bow, long, long bow, you get the point. Ui, easy, so with these little zears, you need to really be careful that you don't twist your bow here, uy, uy, uy, uy, uy, uy, uy, uy, uy, uy, uy, oy, oh my God, it's way too heavy for me, I'm joking, it's heavy. So, hm-hm, this is how the bow looks strong, I think, I think, personally, from my lack of experience i think that six and a quarter is a little on the low side but i said it's me seven inches would be a little bit nicer it's too long 500 nice so 500 grams of beauty when i shot this bows the the sound i feel it in the hand but i don't care it's fine five seconds look at how nice it's made so that's why this one categorizes it as not a long bow it's already a it's just a reflex bow but it and for that reason it's not a long bow technically speaking but isn't it a beautiful power wow feels good in the hand nothing wibbly-wobbly so i don't have to read anything let's see what it does yeah most probably you can get further back there 35 and a half inches until here it feels nice and the sound of this bow i don't know arrow weight so i just shoot what i have so as much as i like the white rose to color long they are 600 spine they're just way too weak for the length and the poundage so they wobble around but they fly then you feel it a little bit so they are 460 grain we are at 37 i will measure it maybe if i feel like 600 spine a little shorter should be better yeah it's better but slowly it's 28 here let's see what it says it feels that it has a little bit more than 37 or maybe just so weak let's see what we got here first time it felt a little more yeah okay it is a little more 38.6 see i knew it shall we put it on the tiller to see what we get maybe if i get 35 let's see i need to put first thing on the string otherwise it's not going to work right so i said sorry for the background noise today everybody is just kind of loud so i set everything up i measure from the back of the bow not from the belly but you know that i could use the other one exactly this one um so 28 we had already 37 41.1 at 30 32 we have 44.4 or 33 with 45.5 34 is 47.6 45 is the five is gets released it's 50 pounds so 35 is quite stiff but this is the bow at 28 at 32 which i think is nice when you look at the string angle 34 now it gets easier now 35 50 pounds but look at this nice curves so 35 it goes gradually up so but the last inch is still a little tough these arrows are roughly 33 or i think 33.5 or something i think it's just fine for me let's see and i have again the thumb protector from marco roberts just in case you ask so if i see another question in the comments i know that you didn't watch the full video oh holy cow i mean 300 dollars or something plus shipping and whatever i don't know nice very nice so i more i don't know let's see they're a little too the others are too heavy they're 460 i think 50 pounds so i don't draw fully so we are at 30 it's kind of like a little less than 10 grand holy moly the beginning the bow didn't like to draw but now i think i have a friend in the uk he needs to change his pants now a little bit more brace height for me but let's first wait until the string sets you know sometimes it takes a few shots holy cow is silent kind of let me shoot a bit heavier i have these alibo bombers here way too heavy almost a thousand grain or something just to see what it does you can reflect him while the arrow is flying but still nice 10 grain 9 grain so it's this but you hear hear it now it's not that it summons the demons i will put the bracelet a little bit now the bracelet is seven inches overall looks better to me and now you don't have this sound anymore because i think the string really needs to leave the bow here and not here and then it starts you get this vibration now it's way less so seven inches maybe you don't reach as easy 35 inches anymore but now it feels perfect so seven inches oh you saw that it's not built in you need to do it a little bit by yourself so this is the longest i would go you could even do a little torque like the yumi let's see if you overgrip the bow a little bit i saw that very interesting bow unfortunately hard to get hands-on in europe because fangfei i don't know what's going on not the highest output and i don't know and something happened in nützen so i don't know unfortunately yes i think you could get in here then 350 euros 400 euros ish very interesting especially for the ones i choose very you know in these traditional categories nothing written on it of course and it's a benefit and totally natural material so so boom set just for your info it's not a longbow i'm not getting into longbows anytime soon so i recurve reflex equals the shorter arrows 33 inches or something this sound nice now it works yep this one is a different one yeah 35 and a half and her 315 grain so they're quite lightweight and then you see the same spine but longer and then you see what happens with the deflection of the arrow with the wobbliness of the arrow you saw that how it wobbles it's just too soft that's the sound of this bow it's just so they are 410 grain and 35 inches long 163 155 so 150 160 foot 460 even heavier nothing 350 i don't think so 147 460 150 so this is what i get out of it so with the right arrows it's 160 foot per second for a pure bamboo bow fine by me the sound listen to this nice now even i hit something already so a few arrows and you know what this bow is doing this bow draws just so here it's not much you feel it a little in the handle 28 29 30 31 afterwards it gets stiff but not in a bad way and i guess by now you can tell that i like this bow i only don't like that it's hard to get hands on them would be would it be the barrel one let's see what the barrel one will do too short way too short to try three fingers some people like to show three fingers yeah but you know the bow draws 35 inches so with three fingers middle finger to the corner of your mouth doesn't make that much sense 550 let's see whether with a heavy wood arrow what it would do it was a barrel arrow again straight slow nice as this one fits nice today almost a little loose the main thumb ring by bamboo archery malaysia with the 30 almost 34 inch arrows let's see how the shallow hook in this poundage works for me nice so it really helps you release if you have a bad release like i am this is just hilarious nice one and you don't need to move here a lot a little motion or a little more twist like i showed last time in the video this is hilarious a little longer so this shallow hook is for me for now one of the best let's see if we can make a little torque you saw that so ring fantastic both fantastic arrows are not really matching but that's a common issue with me as i don't know where you can get these bows right now i wrap this video up i don't want to extend it because i have no one you can ask to get them you can just google yourself fengfei archery write them i did so too did not get any reply since more than half a year that's a problem but maybe somebody knows him and can talk to him but he gets his european customers a little satisfied too he makes nice bows so this one is quite unique now you don't get i said a lot of them here you get this beautiful man it just works the sound the sound is a nice spot okay i don't know okay fine but then we stop okay good and you don't hear the arrow at all there even wobbly arrows it's insane heard that nothing exactly a little bit is enough you don't need to do a lot and this very satisfactory i have to say so andy in nutzen thank you very much for sending the took a while because nowadays above this length the box was like this high shipping was like not so easy anymore if you could make them take down imagine that you have a takedown fascinating so andy thank you so much this bow is really really nice for me a little too strong for shooting all day so i usually would only have 30 at 28 but it's still did i said that i stopped shooting i mean you skip how you always do a little street twist use all that this bow works very nice with string twist finished so thank you andy again really nice bow i said i don't know where you can get them you need to check first off thanks for watching 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