Bamboo Bow by Oulay Archery - Review

Morning! Remember all the review of this bow? Lo and behold it's very easy I said it's hard to get hands on it's it's very easy I read comments you just go on Taobao which everybody outside of China is using you just need to speak a little Chinese no problem then you can order this bow on Taobao you just need to take care of the shipping then to your place by yourself it's very convenient and it costs 270 dollars I saw a post from Ulay archery and they had bamboo bows two three different versions and they look kind of like similar they come by the way with a sleeve they look kind of like similar and I needed some with a long draw for a project so I ordered directly four you can have them like this or in black and they're set in three different lengths as you see in this photo I ordered the long ones because I only can use a longer draw bow for my project yet I made a mistake and I misread or I did not read at all the the order confirmation and on the order confirmation was written the shorter one 31 and a half inch draw and I did not read that and now I have four bows they are too short for my project but still nice so we will do a review today and I never sell them because they are not working for my project I got four of them they are from 24 to 27 pounds because I don't need heavy bows but I needed a little longer draw so 31 and a half is not enough you get a nice bow a string and a sleeve the making is a little bit different I mean you have the same kind of like and we have three layers of I guess bamboo so it's kind of not sure if it's the same bow builder or not it's kind of like similar made but of course at the end you see this one that's why it's not a symmetrical yumi as somebody mentioned because yumi's don't have sears a yumi would have something like this a little doubled up but not like a sear like this uh so this is a little more rough and ready not so refined and we don't have a yes this is just a whatever reflex deflex bow I would say I can tell you something about it from ulay archery it's the olabw03 they said there's a longer version which I don't have the length is 152 centimeters or 60 inches there's an extra of 80 centimeters of 31 and a half and it costs 180 to 100 dollars plus I paid 125 for shipping yeah whatever it's bamboo wood laminated recurve bamboo and maple it's probably here in the handle part then we have cashew lacquer like most probably the other one too rattan wrapping fish skin arrow pass leather wrap handle which looks nice and a chinese dyneema string whatever that means chinese dyneema and I can't read the last one but I think it's different colors or something so 200 dollars you get this bow fine by me arrow pass is relatively wider than this one 29 millimeters fortunately the wrong bow for me yeah you just need to read your order confirmations properly and I ordered two in brown and two in black but then they didn't have the back ones or whatever say the case in before of them it's 61 from knock to knock can I tell you it's a nice three layered four they have a bit more layers yeah yeah it's it's a bamboo bow don't expect miracles let's see one longer one short I don't know we string it now like a normal longbow kit you need to play now easier to string than the other one because we don't have that much flex in the cedar so it's a little easier like a longbow oops that's not going to work the other way around leather whipping at the end looks good but I think for my taste I mean it's nice because they do it directly as a string dampener which makes most probably sense brace set looks nice now the other center serving which is relatively short is in the right height so the bow itself doesn't look bad has a little almost like a korean here the brace set the other till is a little shorter than here not sure if this is on purpose but the bow overall looks good feels good so we have 335 grams so it's very lightweight that's nice I wanted a long draw for my project and this one is now 31 and a half yeah but it was nice so and we know that bamboo bows like heat and humidity then they work better so most probably this bow will open up a bit 31 and a half inch arrow exactly the right length for it yeah you can manage but then you see string angle wise so more I don't think so but I guess it has to be fine let's check the poundage let's see to 28 is 24.5 I'm supposed to have 25 so that's fine 30 oops sorry didn't want to hurt you oops 26.5 so one pound more no one and a half pound more maybe two pounds more and let's see 31 and a half would be here I'm not sure yet let's see now works 29 pounds so it's a little stiff at the end as you could expect arrow weight I don't know but I would guess 10 grain ish something and you should be good to go no you think so too no let's see 31 and a half inch arrow grip is almost like a yumi so maybe you could even torque it like a yumi shoots nice has a little vibration even with 420 grain arrows they are quite heavy but the draw not so bad we should light weight arrows say I think 260 or something but they're a little too long it's a bamboo bow it shakes a bit with lightweight arrows you feel it a bit more Katra works so these lightweight arrows are almost a bit too lightweight but it's fine you feel it in the hand so more like with the other one handshake and the sound by far not as nice as the other one so I said I'm not sure if it's the same bow builder almost looks like but heavy arrows you see directly how they drop but 420 grain is a little much for this so most probably this one is to stop the string from vibrating and it's a string dampener which makes sense is a little long it's a little unneeded weight but this is a 25 pound bow anyway and you can have it I don't even know the poundage is so you need to ask ulay my friend ruby there she will tell you it's well made you know you have all these nice wrappings here it's like optically it's a nice bow and if this bow would draw a little longer it would have worked for my project but here 31 is just it's getting too stiff at the end I would need it a longer one and I wish they would make hankyos in this style asymmetrical this one asymmetrical maybe a little more refined on top with a 35 inch draw then I would be a happy guy and take down maybe then I would be completely happy for 180 dollars 200 dollars anytime the bow will show some string follow even this one you string it and you unstring it and you see that the bow doesn't go completely back to its original shape it's normal sometimes after a few moments it goes back there and sometimes you get stuck it's a natural material you get but shooting so far is not so bad many of you asked in the comments if one could use this one for three finger shooting and I said yeah but it doesn't make sense because how I shoot three fingers is middle finger corner of my mouth and I draw 28 inches it doesn't make sense when you have a 35 inch draw bow and you only draw 28 then somebody said yes but the war bow archers you know they whatever yeah you can do this but I think you might have unless you are a big guy with with arms like a monkey you have a hard time drawing this in 35 inches I think here this one comes into play 31 and a half when you take the longer one maybe a bit more but this is overall way shorter I show you you see it overall way shorter we try to press that too but we have a little more flex in the handle so that's why I think if you're looking for a bamboo bow I guess with natural material so for your competitions and this one in three fingers nice me and three fingers here you know so the handle bends a little bit you feel it maybe but you can shoot this way your three fingers what have you fine but I stick with thumb so it draws nice so here it's not much going on and here it starts linear and now it goes up so here 25 inches it gets stiff stiff stiff stiff until here it's about 32 31 and a half it's not bad actually the draw is quite nice didn't expect that it would have worked so nice a little longer draw I guess I need to order a few more in the long version so these ones are for sale if you're interested contact me I will sell them but shipping is a hassle mind you I'm not responsible for any hilarious shipping costs anymore I paid 125 dollars and they shipped via train so it took five weeks six weeks or something and then it's fine but with plane it's just hilarious it's not bad and just know it's not a speed monster by any means any stretch so we have 20 30 pounds and 410 grain so you know you're 36 as expected 132 132 and the lightweight ones 260 56 but then you feel it in the hand so something in between would be nice it's 56 153 so a good 150 maybe 160 more likely 150 but for a bowl like this it's not bad and it's 25 pounds in a heavier poundage most probably you get a little more out of it because here you lose quite a lot through the mass with a little more poundage most probably you can compensate for that and for the one who mentioned last time that i had the second arrow wrong on it and i thought what i had them on the outside then he meant now the old feather on the first arrow was outside but on the second arrow the old feather was inside doesn't make a difference at least for me when i shoot feathers and to my catra and whatever so old feather for me it's not an issue when you see my own arrows always have four fletchings because no matter how i knock the arrow it will always be right in place heavy arrows but they're nice so i would use a little heavy arrows maybe you want to get even bamboo arrows lightweight ones or speaking of bamboo arrows 420 is a little too heavy for this one i think 350 or something would be just fine but have a 250 for three finger shooting but it works with this one three fingers it's nice so you have here a little reserve if you want to draw a bit more but not 35 inches so for three finger shooters or if you want to change a little thumb a little three finger or maybe even slavic if i wish i knew how heavy i think they're 400 slavic maybe slavic for the horse archers works nice too so with this bow you can do everything 25 pounds is a nice training bow so if you don't like the plastic or the fiber glassy ones you want some natural material here you go bamboo and a little maple what do you say maple i think nice leather handle the handle is for me a little thin and bends a little bit but it's fine and as i said you can over grip and do your torque almost like you do with your yumi this bow is just i think enough torque resistant at least in this part here i over grip the bow a little bit build up and look what the bow is doing boom goes automatically there so you can even with whatever but you know that better than me i have no idea build quality is good there's nothing to complain there's a nice shaped they could be a little more refined so for me for a 25 pound bow they are quite thick longbows in american longbows they are half the size here and 50 pounds so this one could be a little more thin then this edge could be maybe a little more rounded here i see that the string is here quite in there so but you can do it yourself with a little sandpaper get rid of this edge here and it's fine but on the other side look it's just fine it does the job and you have this nice whipping here of course you see the nodes of the bamboo this is really nice i don't know if this bamboo is stripped too like somebody mentioned on the other boat i stripped the outer layer of the bamboo which is the best part of the bamboo i have no idea i was just asking how about you know speak your chinese or whatever and then you'll get there no problem let's see if the bow too long for using it kneeling the longer one is a little bit but this one is a bit shorter so you could go here yeah it works bottom has the size of a yung but the top probably not something as you can put it down not so bad i might not sell them they work just nice we need a little talk of my friends actually we like it i have 24 to 27 pounds see you hum with it and you get a satisfaction but of course as always don't use these arrows from china with heat shrink look what happened to this heat shrink it bulged up here because whatever and then we need don't pay attention i mean you shoot a little wrong this one keep me now here on my knuckle wouldn't have happened if this would be flat here but this is just heat shrink is just crap so i suppose when it gets a little warmer the bow will perform even nicer but you see these arrows are 32 and a quarter because the shaft is 32 inches see that there's no problem throwing back there so the bow opens up nicely if it's warm it gets even more flexible i guess nice a nice smooth release with a nice thumb ring you can do a little you can do because i don't care i know it's pronounced but i'm not my language my tongue is not arabic sometimes i say things wrong and if you have nothing else to do from the information of my video to when to point this out be my guest same like you try with your native english tongue first time or the if you don't pronounce it right you don't catch my problem it's all good or there in my language now we're talking but this bow is nice it's precise so where your point the only with a low pound is you really need to care about your release if you rip your finger off you will feel initiate shot with your bow a really good bow it's just a little too short for me so i guess i will order the longer version looks even nicer here a bit more recurve i think this is a little flat for my taste but the bow works nicely so ulay archery they told me already i should not promote this boat because i don't get that many in stock same problem like with fengfei but you can ask them and then maybe they can produce a few more or you need to wait a little on your bows really nice i leave the link something to ulay archery or you find them on facebook or something in the video description so they add already all nice this fish skin it's nice so that we get this kind of like almost now like standard some said there is now a ray skin on it it's not needed but it's okay i think for the ones who do gaoying because gaoying said don't do katra might be useful so but of course if you do gaoying and do katra then you don't do gaoying then you don't need ray skin of course 33 and a half so until here i would go see that so nice draw 28 29 30 so it's in the back it gets almost soft this is the bamboo it's nice so there's no sticky no nothing it's really nice i try not the other three if they are the same the sleeves are a little pain in the ass and sometimes you get it out of this i don't like so you could find another option for the stream i guess a nice option look at this mess here it's not nice you know what i don't care i have two other ones interesting thing is these bows are made on the same day the poundage is written here the bow i showed you in the video made on another day the poundage is written here and not here so i don't know why we have here an inconsistency so this is the 24 pounds nice too yeah nice too had a little cracking at the beginning and this is a another 24 nice too so i think 32 31 nice 32 maybe but it gets stiff at the end which i don't like that's why i longer draw you can draw nicely 32 here the 32 or 31 and a half gets stiff but still nice so here you have it please work on how you store the string and i like consistency so whoever makes these bows if i order more i would like to have the whipping always in the same place not one time here one time there one time there the shape of them is almost similar as you can expect that but of course they are made like i don't know if they have a form for this so they're all a little different so this is what you get it's a natural material not bad so i don't like how the string is stored and i don't like that if you get more and you know you order them and you pay for it and you need to have them that they all look the same then you get this whipping whipping whipping whipping whipping and this is like playing Tetris it's not my favorite part and then even the leather wrap at the end here this long here this long here this long just what they think they use or have short long long a bit more consistency would be nice but of course if you only get one it doesn't matter but if you have four and they all shoot over four at the same time i'm in this regard a little optical perfectionist would be nicer for me so they're all for sale and i will shall i i hate really when the string comes up like this i really this is not my cup of tea coffee and whatever so i need to see now look at this crap look now we have it okay i can show you the list and the center serving is very short so you really need to see which one is the longer and which one is the shorter part and this loop is very tight so so you have here variations and i am not even convinced if it's always the same bow builder because you should have a little make a mark or something where you make your whippings and not just like okay today i feel like here and here here let's see what we got now so and it's again different you see that all of them different so he starts here like this one but then and like this one but then he continues completely somewhere else so this is for me and i wanted black ones with the whipping and then you see even more you know it's not going to work so 27 pounds yeah you feel it but it still does a nice job 27 another oops another 420 grain now oh see center serving might not be right i don't know it's so centered to change the string so that's a problem the center serving is very short it's a little stiff at the end obviously with higher poundage but maybe the bow needs to open up nice bows with a little nitpicky things from my side but for the price you still can't complain they are well made straight yeah almost it's a natural material so you check sometimes if the bow is still straight especially when you do your step through method check sometimes not that one is a little crooked it's easy to fix with the bow here you just hold in the opposite direction for a little bit and then wait until it straightens out so 27 is already a little too much i order 25 they are all just 24 25 is just fine they feel so these three pounds you feel directly yeah this feels more i need to check things i do on video and then you skip through my videos again exactly because you don't value my time i used to show you things so you value your time more than i value my time almost 32 pounds so this one felt already a little strong it's by no means 27 it's 20 32 pounds and this again if i order 25 pounds i don't want to have one which is 32 because this is now not working for what i wanted i needed low poundage bows and with 25 max so 24 25 is fine a 32 pound which is claimed to be 27 is not going to work so ule archery either check it yourself properly and write it there like as example bogart does it when he gets the bows from vig he always measures them himself and then writes the real poundage there this is not going to work so either you made a mistake in measuring or the bow builder was a little sloppy not going to work for me it's still including shipping and everything 250 euros or something not acceptable it's five pounds more and it matters for what is really good stiff yeah so nope that has drunk it for the rest in 24 25 pounds they're just for what i want them just nice they just draw a little too short so i will see how we fix it so i will sell these ones so if you want one let me know 24 25 and 27 pounds let me know that's all thank you very much ule archery for promoting these bows so most probably they don't get that many but if you want one you can order one but make sure that you specify exactly what you want and read the order confirmation precisely that you really get what you order the other one the long one taobao no problem just speak your chinese your you know your mandarin like you usually do in america and everywhere and then it's no problem to get this bow thank you very much for watching you know that you should subscribe and comment i don't mention this all the time because you're not stupid you know that thank you for watching catch you in the next one