Latest / The Bow Disciples Podcast / Whitetail easier to hunt than mule deer? | Entry or Used flagship bow for a beginner?
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- 0:00Oh boy. I learned this method from
- 0:05Robin, soon to be popping out a baby.
- 0:08You got to swirl it like so, not just in a circle like this.
- 0:12You got to use the wrist and swirl.
- 0:14See. Look at all that milk disappear
- 0:16that just hangs out at the bottom.
- 0:19All gone. Mine doesn't have any milk.
- 0:22Yeah, it does. Not no milk or pillows or
- 0:26pillows. Or pillows, yeah.
- 0:29How's my hair looking? It's time for you to use some
- 0:34hair product and maybe get a haircut.
- 0:38I do. I'm excited.
- 0:39I'm going to start my mullet so pretty soon I'm going to cut in
- 0:42the sides or have someone cut in the.
- 0:44Side have Tegan do it while you're, you know, up there
- 0:47today. Most likely I will.
- 0:48Most likely I will. Say that, then it doesn't get
- 0:51done. Well, you know, I'm, I'm a busy
- 0:54little bean. Yeah, but hopefully this week or
- 0:57hopefully, hopefully today, Paul said.
- 0:59He does have a little project. Shouldn't take more than an
- 1:02hour. Oh boy.
- 1:03Yeah, and we're golfing. You don't know what the project
- 1:06is. No, not yet.
- 1:08He knows your record with projects.
- 1:11Or him and I kind of avoid projects equally, so we're both
- 1:15going to be just fighting our way through it.
- 1:16Where do you think that's stemmed from?
- 1:18Probably with a couple of oh, from us.
- 1:21Yeah, I'll tell you. So, you know, you haven't seen
- 1:24dad in four days because he's been working at the fire
- 1:27station. You're excited he's going to
- 1:29come home. Maybe you have to do some fun
- 1:30activities. He busts in the door before he's
- 1:33even 2 feet in the door. All right, here's some 5 gallon
- 1:36buckets. We're going to go pick up rocks
- 1:38around the whole property. And then we would do that for
- 1:40like. Yeah.
- 1:41Eight to 10 hours in the sun. That sounds really fun.
- 1:48No, hey, it it, I love it. Now, in hindsight, it's nice.
- 1:52We got, you know, good work ethic and part, part.
- 1:54Except for when it comes to projects.
- 1:56Correct. If it if it as far as doing
- 1:58projects on the House I'm OK, but but yesterday, I mean I
- 2:09edited video for what like 12 straight hours?
- 2:14Yeah, somewhere between. 10:00 and 12:12.
- 2:16Yeah. I added it up.
- 2:18It was about 90 minutes of finished video.
- 2:21I added it. That's very good.
- 2:22Yeah, These are all I think, right, a bit longer than the
- 2:25typical typical video. Yeah, so I mean, one was 31
- 2:30minutes, one was 32, one was 25, one was 17 and shortest was like
- 2:3512. That was the last one I did.
- 2:39And partly our filming had less talking, but also I was probably
- 2:43like kind of over it. So I was just like editing the
- 2:45shots, but but yeah. So twice a week on videos now.
- 2:49So actually on Wednesday when podcast drop, a video's dropping
- 2:55as well. So every Wednesday you're
- 2:59getting a podcast on Spotify and Apple and YouTube.
- 3:05Be sure to subscribe on YouTube five stars on Apple and Spotify
- 3:09and getting video on the Boat Cycles flagship channel and a
- 3:14video on Sunday lot out but. Yeah, yeah.
- 3:18Busy, busy bee. Yeah.
- 3:21What do you think about twice a week?
- 3:22I think twice a week is great, you know, so long.
- 3:26It's like, you know, you're talking to Tim, the old Tim
- 3:30Connor on the phone yesterday, the YouTube guru, as I call him.
- 3:36And you know, he said he's as soon as you're setting the
- 3:41slippery slope. Slippery, slippery slope, yeah.
- 3:45I've done it before. But I actually, but I do agree
- 3:48with him too on an extent that you just have to make sure your
- 3:52your content is not like filler content on those Wednesdays.
- 3:57But so far, what we've edited or you've edited is not.
- 4:01No, there's really only one bonus track coming out.
- 4:03It'll be the one this this Wednesday.
- 4:06It's a javelina hunt, but the filming's trash.
- 4:09It's just like kind of it's OK, but that one's the only bonus.
- 4:13Other than that, everything's good.
- 4:14But I believe it or not, the OG viewers would maybe remember.
- 4:19But I used to go on hunts and post every day for like 20 days
- 4:24straight. So like when my dad and I post.
- 4:26Videos. Every day, yeah.
- 4:29Yeah, like daily vlogs. Oh.
- 4:32Yeah. And then for a while.
- 4:35So I would do that on every hunt we went on for like 3 to four
- 4:38years. I'd film a video every day so
- 4:40I'd get back to the trailer. That's not a lot of things
- 4:42happen in a hunting day. Yeah, for sure.
- 4:45And that those would be videos. So we did that.
- 4:49And then there was a year where we did 3, three times a week.
- 4:53I think it was like Monday, Wednesdays, Sundays or
- 4:55something, something like that. And that shit was too much.
- 4:59And then last year, once a week, every Sunday.
- 5:04But then I did two months. I went back and looked two
- 5:06months of twice a week. It was July and August, I think
- 5:11July and August. So this year I kind of had the
- 5:15desire to do once a week, but try to do twice a week for
- 5:19longer, just whenever I had enough content and somehow
- 5:23already in February got boatloads of content.
- 5:26So it's like, all right, let's try it.
- 5:29Now what the cool part about it is if like you know, say the
- 5:32bank right now I have 7 videos uploaded that aren't out,
- 5:35that'll be cut trickling out twice a week.
- 5:38But if I get down to the point where there's only like 2 left
- 5:41then you just swap back to once a week till you have a bigger
- 5:44spank bank. Yeah, yeah.
- 5:48What do you think about joggers too?
- 5:50They're cool, they make a lot of noise.
- 5:51They. Would yeah.
- 5:53They're like your prowess pants. Yeah.
- 5:56I don't bring those ones hunting anymore.
- 5:58I do have a green pair at green hunting that I absolutely love.
- 6:01They're the best women's fitted pants out there.
- 6:04But no, hands down, not even a question about it, they are the
- 6:08best. Ones they do make that fat ass
- 6:10look nice, you know anyway they. Fit well for women's bodies, but
- 6:17I do wish that they would work towards the Western Hunter and
- 6:21more silence. Granted, those are those are
- 6:24kind of rain pants though, and rain pants are always a little
- 6:28noisy. I mean.
- 6:29Any pair if you see that I can't remember it's like 2 letters
- 6:32that stands for something but that means there's like a rain
- 6:36protection coating that's been put on the pants.
- 6:39Any pants with those on them? Just count them out for stopping
- 6:41because they they are way too loud.
- 6:45But they were good. They're my warmest pants.
- 6:48Also they're great for sitting sitting a blind or a a tree
- 6:53stand, but not not good for stopping.
- 6:56It just sounds. Yeah, it's horrible in the wind.
- 7:00You know, it doesn't matter. Not every day it's windy, so.
- 7:02Yeah, I mean, quiet clothes are important.
- 7:06I mean, I really like the pants that I wore a lot this season.
- 7:11They're still even a little. But admittedly they're a lot
- 7:13louder than my older. Well, you're.
- 7:16My pants from. Let's reclassify it older, yeah?
- 7:19You mean your pants got as a teenager that are now 20 years
- 7:22old from Walmart? It's impressive.
- 7:24My I'm still fitting them, you know what I mean?
- 7:27I'm still staying trim. You have actually lost gun
- 7:29pedals and I can see it in videos.
- 7:34I'm telling you what that's kind of like one of the cool parts
- 7:37about filming as the person creating the films is 1.
- 7:41You get to go back and re watch them, you know, in the future if
- 7:44you want to. In fact, Josh Bomar, I just
- 7:47watched last night. He did a reaction to his first
- 7:49YouTube step. 16 years old. Oh.
- 7:53Gosh. So it's cool to watch.
- 7:55Then he was probably, you know, a tiny beam then compared to
- 7:59what he is. But I'm saying like, that whole
- 8:01concept is cool. Being able to go back and watch
- 8:04the video for me, you know, right now we only go back six
- 8:07years on the archery stuff, obviously by biking much
- 8:10further, but that's cool. But also you can see changes.
- 8:13Like for example, last year I was like, dude, I'm getting fat,
- 8:17bro. I need to like get less fat.
- 8:19And I've done a good job. So now I see the footage and I'm
- 8:22like, OK, I look a lot better. You know, still think there's
- 8:25like, you know, of course, a little bit of work to do, but
- 8:28you know, and this coffee is delicious.
- 8:31Yeah. So good.
- 8:35Yeah, yeah. How's your?
- 8:37How's your sister doing? Bernie's doing great.
- 8:40She's out in Florida living life and she's going to be coming out
- 8:46for BDC 3. So if you're watching and you
- 8:49don't want to see my identical twin, you know, come on out to
- 8:52the shoot. But she's going to be there.
- 8:53She's going to be kind of our our photographer, which is
- 8:58amazing because she is way more skilled with the DSLRs than you
- 9:03or myself are. And she loves editing as well.
- 9:08So I know that we will get some fantastic photos out of her.
- 9:14And they both load up them, which is what we've just been
- 9:16missing, you know, the last two years is that, you know, getting
- 9:22the content of, of everybody else.
- 9:24You know, usually you've had Matt follow you and and you guys
- 9:27kind of stay side by side and he gets at least you shooting when
- 9:30people come up to, you know, the long shot or whatever.
- 9:33But it's like, you want that candid imagery of yeah.
- 9:38Around. The, the people you know out
- 9:41there with their groups just having fun, laughing, shooting
- 9:48mostly. One, because you, you need
- 9:49content to post throughout the year, you know about the shoot.
- 9:53But two, it's great to have because like we get through the
- 9:56end of the weekend, we get, you know, it's like a whirlwind from
- 10:00that Monday to that next Monday. And yeah, it is.
- 10:04And you just don't have time to stop and think, let's take a
- 10:08photo. No.
- 10:10And you know, like on the back end of things outside of this
- 10:14event, you know, I, I'm pretty decent at, you know, making sure
- 10:18we get the deliverables and editing and whatnot.
- 10:21But when it comes to that, like I'm setting up booths, I'm
- 10:24setting up merchandise, I'm making sure tickets are going to
- 10:27run smoothly. The computers are charged, we've
- 10:30got the the registration sheets printed out.
- 10:34Like there's just a boatload. Everybody's campsites are set
- 10:38up. You know, especially with the
- 10:39people flying in that need a place to stay, Like I'm going to
- 10:42have to set up to three extra tents with sleeping bags and,
- 10:46you know, all the stuff they need in them.
- 10:50And so it just leaves my mind to take a photo even I look back on
- 10:56my own camera and I had like 3 photos and they were all of Jack
- 11:00singing and that was it. Yeah, I mean, you know,
- 11:03obviously it'll be nice having your sister do photos, but I'm
- 11:07also going to have David filming and he he new photos as well.
- 11:11I'm going to tell him not to touch my settings.
- 11:13Actually, I didn't mind the settings when I edited them,
- 11:15they were a lot better. But but the thing that will will
- 11:18be good about David filming is the fact that he never stops
- 11:22filming will actually be good for this.
- 11:25It's going to make my editing tedious, but it'll be it'll be
- 11:29good because he'll catch it. Down in here I mean 7.
- 11:31Days, I wouldn't be surprised if he has like 6 hours of footage
- 11:34from the end of the thing, which is a lot, but it'll be good and
- 11:38then he'll take photos. Brittany will take photos.
- 11:40So the content will definitely be more well-rounded this year,
- 11:45which I think, yeah, we didn't. Haven't dropped many balls, but
- 11:48that would probably be one of them.
- 11:51Yeah, but when you think about it, like you get a view of like
- 11:54when we do like a shoot through that one of the courses, sure,
- 11:58you get like the courses on our banter, but you don't get like
- 12:02the all around video of like the experience of the weekend that
- 12:06people have there. Yeah, you know, and he goes out
- 12:10there with his drone, he gets footage of the lake, the courses
- 12:14and like, you know, you get the people just checking in and like
- 12:19all the vendors that are out there that you get to meet and
- 12:21talk with. And like people like Josh, you
- 12:24know, Jones, who like has an enormous amount of knowledge and
- 12:29taught so many people different things and loves talking to
- 12:32people. Like that's what he lives for,
- 12:33going to these types of things, whether it's tack or your shoe.
- 12:38And so getting that like, it's all for a reason to get that on
- 12:44footage because what it's great to look back and see like at
- 12:48least people are really amped up to talk to him and or what did
- 12:51they, you know, what did he teach them or whatever?
- 12:54Or him fixing someone's bow without a bow press.
- 12:57Like it's all just little things that like add up and it's kind
- 13:01of blog style, but it's just a an experience, you know?
- 13:07And you get that whole experience on film when somebody
- 13:10else's third party is just focused on only that.
- 13:14I'm sure it's going to be a lot of footage for you to go.
- 13:16Yeah. I don't have any of your part
- 13:19there. It's all good.
- 13:20Takes a while, but that's all good.
- 13:23Yeah, yeah. That that will be a big asset.
- 13:26So Stokes, she's coming. Also Whitney's coming, which I'm
- 13:30excited about. She just text me yesterday that
- 13:33she's going to get her flight. I think she said this week.
- 13:37So she's coming out. She's cool.
- 13:40Ash was coming out who's been a new, you know, friend of the
- 13:44channel. She wants a bow so bad too.
- 13:46She's been texting me she wants a bow.
- 13:48I sent her one on eBay. But that I think that honestly
- 13:52for people asking like how to buy a bow eBay and if they don't
- 13:56want to spend money on a new one, maybe they're, you know,
- 13:59like her kind of new, not sure they're going to stick with it,
- 14:02blah blah blah. In my opinion I think you'd be
- 14:06better off rather than buying like an entry level $300.00
- 14:11package though. I would just go on eBay, get one
- 14:14that's a flagship that's two or. 3.
- 14:17Two or three years old, yeah. You might spend 66700 maybe, but
- 14:23I personally think that's worth it.
- 14:25And then even if you choose to get out of it, you could always
- 14:28just sell it again on eBay. Yeah.
- 14:31I'd agree with that because they're.
- 14:33It's not just they're adults. Not to say that the entry level
- 14:36bows are are bad because they're definitely not.
- 14:40I just think for the the the minimal cost difference I think
- 14:44it would make more sense to just get a used flagship personally.
- 14:48Yeah, I would agree with that, especially for adults, I think
- 14:55because we we tend to pick up things, skills learn a little
- 15:00faster. And so you get this, you don't
- 15:04say a diamond or whatever and all of a sudden you're real
- 15:07comfortable and it's maxed out and.
- 15:09Well, no. See the much?
- 15:11More tunic, no stability. No.
- 15:14So there you're a little off I think, because the cool part
- 15:16about the diamonds is you can go anywhere from 15 lbs to 70 on
- 15:21the. Yeah, that's.
- 15:21True. And the and, and the other thing
- 15:24that you don't get from the flagships as well that I think
- 15:26is better about a bow like a diamond, for example, or a
- 15:29mission or whatever is the draw lengths as well.
- 15:33You can go from super short to super long, super low poundage
- 15:37to super long. Whereas a flagship, you know,
- 15:40you're only getting about a £10 range and maybe correct.
- 15:44But so I think that's actually one of the one of the benefits
- 15:47of going the other. Way well, it's a benefit to
- 15:49Someone Like You owning it who who you know, gives it out to
- 15:54multiple people to use. As far as like draw length goes,
- 15:59poundage, it's great because you can constantly keep moving up.
- 16:02But draw length and you know, you guys correct me if I'm wrong
- 16:04in the comments here, but I think that is kind of part of
- 16:07the reason one of many that flagships are flagships and
- 16:13diamond edges are entry level bows.
- 16:16There's something to do with like the the science and
- 16:19engineering behind it that like there's a reason these bows only
- 16:23have X amount of room in their draw length differences.
- 16:28And that plays a factor in their efficiency, in their accuracy
- 16:31and whatnot. And once you find your draw
- 16:35length, like for a shooter who's getting into it, it, it doesn't
- 16:40matter that the bow has, you know, a billion inches that you
- 16:44can extend it to or change it to, But there's just a lot more.
- 16:49They could, you know, get tinkered with at the bow, their
- 16:53local shop and and immediately feel more comfortable once they
- 16:58get comfortable with shooting, which I think adults pick up
- 17:01faster. And look how quickly Ashley
- 17:03picked it up. Like just remembering all of the
- 17:05basic foundations of drawing the bow.
- 17:07Yeah, she's, she's pretty solid. I think she'll shoot well.
- 17:10She wants to do like attack with us or something at some point,
- 17:14which would be fun. Probably.
- 17:15Maybe not. Yeah, probably.
- 17:16You know, it would be really funny.
- 17:19I mean, we could always back my bow out.
- 17:21But yeah, she, I felt she could get comfortable with £50 because
- 17:26she is, she's strong. I know she says she's got issues
- 17:30with that shoulder, but if she could draw mine back.
- 17:33Problem is is I think my draw is like 2 inches shorter.
- 17:37I think it was one inch, but still.
- 17:39But one inch is not that bad for her to go out and shoot.
- 17:41Like give her some some cheap arrows and just send her out on
- 17:45the course with my bow. That would be good.
- 17:47Yeah. So we got a few tack video ideas
- 17:49for this year. Should I tell talk about them or
- 17:51wait maybe? You jump.
- 17:54While we're. Talking about I know your mind.
- 17:56It's kind of like you say, other people do like you.
- 17:59You can see them sitting there thinking.
- 18:01And I know that while I'm talking, your mind is not
- 18:04listening, it's already thinking about the next topic.
- 18:08All right, time to wrap this up in my head.
- 18:12Moving on. That shit is hilarious.
- 18:18No, we'll go in sequential order.
- 18:21Well, let's work our way. Out let me tell you how I
- 18:23leapfrogged attack because you were talking about sharing a bow
- 18:26and attack so then that. Well, no, I was talking about
- 18:29sharing at your shoe fish. Oh, and.
- 18:31Mine. See, I thought.
- 18:31Yeah, I don't know how we got to tack.
- 18:33Well, I I said, you know, I said she would like to shoot attack
- 18:36event. I said maybe next year and.
- 18:38Then you said, well she could share my bow, so I assumed you
- 18:41were piggybacking off my tack. I didn't hear your tack.
- 18:43Comment No, I've of course listen.
- 18:45But admittedly, there are times I may be pondering the next
- 18:50topic. There are times I know.
- 18:52Yeah. So you why don't you pick the
- 18:55next topic? Well, well, since since you
- 18:59moved to it, you know, I, I guess we'll talk about it more.
- 19:033D shoots. Yes, I know you and Scotty Scott
- 19:07had Scotty Pooh had a little hot session in the hot tub
- 19:13somewhere. Some of your best thinking and
- 19:15whatnot happens. And business moves for that, for
- 19:18that point too. Yeah.
- 19:20So real quick, we are doing Oklahoma 1st and Tennessee,
- 19:29which Bernie's also coming to very excited.
- 19:31About you weren't going to go on that one, but when sis was
- 19:34going. I know yeah like because me and
- 19:36her just going to go shoot at least the first two days on our
- 19:38own and you guys go do your little star thing celebrity
- 19:43thing Yeah and I'm. Gonna wear gold chains to that
- 19:46one at least. One chain.
- 19:47Yeah, I'm gonna wear, I'm gonna wear a rope.
- 19:49But it would be funny to finally make your like your.
- 19:52Own my sponsorship. Can you start working on that?
- 19:54Yeah. But I want it to be like a no,
- 19:58no, no. What are the ones with shorts
- 20:00and the overalls that girls wear?
- 20:01But we'll make it like sort of what's the shit girls wear?
- 20:05Like bars and stuff? They got shorts, but they're a
- 20:07one piece A. Romper.
- 20:09I want a male romper. No, you.
- 20:11I am not sending you anywhere in a male romper.
- 20:14I. Want No, hear me out.
- 20:16I want an overall romper. That would be hard.
- 20:22But Gene, all denim, I'm telling you, with all my sponsors
- 20:27blasted on it. What?
- 20:34Well guys, it's been nice knowing it.
- 20:39So what's wrong with my romper? We're going to move past that
- 20:42and keep. Going they'll go to here.
- 20:44They're not going to be a little booty shorts like they're going
- 20:46to be full shorts like no, they're going to be like jorts
- 20:50in in a in a why? When Where have you seen this
- 20:53before? I just think it's kind of a
- 20:54tough look. Maybe in Europe?
- 20:59I have been to Europe three times.
- 21:01That's nice. Yeah.
- 21:03Why don't you go ahead and take me anyways?
- 21:06Sure. We'll go here.
- 21:10We're doing Oklahoma, Tennessee and Britney's coming.
- 21:12And then Pennsylvania, also Britney's coming.
- 21:14Oh, I forgot that one. Has the whole, the whole group
- 21:18kit and caboodle. That'll be a fun trip.
- 21:20We're kind of turning into a vacation, but yes, tell me about
- 21:25these ideas that stock came up with.
- 21:29I don't know that I should spoil them.
- 21:31We should we leave it a surprise for the viewers.
- 21:34Well, you don't have to go into detail, but.
- 21:36OK, All right. Plus, like the podcast audience
- 21:39is the real tie car and so you know.
- 21:42Yeah, with all like, you know, 1000 views.
- 21:46That's pretty good for a podcast, actually.
- 21:48Yeah. For just getting started.
- 21:51All right, so the first idea for Oklahoma will be try to think
- 21:59here. We got only four of us.
- 22:01So yeah, four of us. So the plan for day one is a
- 22:05seeding day. Actually, no, I'm sorry.
- 22:08Day one will probably be me verse the three of you scramble
- 22:14best arrow scramble for you guys.
- 22:16You Matt Scott verse me by myself now to make it a little
- 22:22more even, we may toss me two mulligans and you guys none
- 22:26potentially just to kind of even the play field because last time
- 22:29I didn't lose. I think that's.
- 22:31But I also didn't shoot my best. And I think you guys might have
- 22:34had four people. It was you, Whitney, Matt and
- 22:39Shane, I think her buddy. So I think I.
- 22:41Was was that the day we did that?
- 22:42I was one V4 I think because we've done this before.
- 22:45So anyway, we're going to run back the one verse 3 scramble,
- 22:49then that either the same day or the next day we're somehow going
- 22:53to do a seeding round like either at the practice range or
- 22:56on another little course. We're not really sure, but
- 22:59there's but we'll still. Be keeping scores so why can we
- 23:02just. Base Oh, we can seed off that.
- 23:03Scores from that first day. Good point.
- 23:06So we'll seed off that. So we'll seed off that as well.
- 23:11And then we're going to group the best group with the worst.
- 23:16Group 2, Best two worst. Now here's the kicker.
- 23:20The better group is going to shoot around as a team, but
- 23:25they're going to score the worst arrow of the two.
- 23:28OK, the worst team is going to do the same, but they're going
- 23:32to score their best arrow. Big advantage, right?
- 23:35But here's the kicker you get. We haven't decided how many.
- 23:39Probably two to three times. Probably 2.
- 23:42Each team's going to have an option to to shoot a third
- 23:47arrow. You get to pick which teammate
- 23:49shoots it right, but yet but once it has to be both
- 23:53teammates. So it'll be two or four and each
- 23:55teammate will get the shot once or twice.
- 23:58But basically if you choose to take the third shot, you have to
- 24:04use it. So even if you miss.
- 24:07So it's like a Mulligan, but you have to use it.
- 24:10You have to use it, yeah. So if it's worse, it sucks.
- 24:13Yeah, exactly. So say your team has two fives
- 24:15and you're like, shoot, I really would like to do better and
- 24:18someone steps up and shoots 0. Now you got to take the 0.
- 24:22So that's the concept of that game, I think.
- 24:24Very fun. So don't use it on too tough to
- 24:27the talk. Exactly.
- 24:28Yeah, you got to be strategic and that's really, that's really
- 24:33the main ideas we came up. With.
- 24:35Thus far was those ideas, but we're going to come up with some
- 24:40more hopefully. Do, I don't know, maybe a collab
- 24:43or two. Yeah, it's going to be a heck of
- 24:47a lot of fun. Can't wait.
- 24:49So I'm really, really excited for that.
- 24:51Yeah, I feel like. All three new texts this year.
- 24:55I know you said you may still go to Oklahoma or Utah because
- 24:58there's a couple people you know, that'll probably.
- 25:01Scott and Chuck really want to go, so I may go and Josh is
- 25:04going, so I may go and then. But yeah, I mean, I feel like
- 25:10Oklahoma's going to feel so just relaxed and fun, you know,
- 25:14because the schedule till then is a bit of a whirlwind.
- 25:17You know, like going to Washington and three days, going
- 25:23to Washington for a week and then come back from nap, edit a
- 25:28bunch and be home for about two weeks.
- 25:31Shoot up to reading for a surprise video.
- 25:36Going to be up there for a couple days filming hopefully a
- 25:39few joints. But those are, I mean, but the
- 25:42fans are going to love those ones.
- 25:43I think those will be bangers. And then and then Africa, you
- 25:50know, fly out to Africa for 10 days.
- 25:53Four of them are travel basically, which is going to be
- 25:56exhausting. And then come back, edit that
- 26:00footage and then I feel like tackle just be like having fun,
- 26:06you know, with the buddies, don't you feel like it'll be
- 26:09fun? Yeah, and somewhere within all
- 26:10of that you got to fit in, you know, going and kind of scouting
- 26:13the the courses, skip trails at least marked out with Go Hunt
- 26:21and then your get planned out your trail build days where
- 26:26we're going to use volunteers this year.
- 26:29So basically my plan for that is after Africa, so I get back the
- 26:342nd, I'm going to take you probably a couple days off.
- 26:38I'm sure I'll be tired. And then after that try to get
- 26:44out there between that trip and TAC and get out there, flag out
- 26:50courses with Matt and then I think before Tennessee try to
- 27:00get a work party of two days and.
- 27:02Well I hope so. Tennessee is my 2nd through the
- 27:044th. That's only 18 days before your
- 27:07shoot. That's what I want.
- 27:08I want it cleared about 3 weeks prior.
- 27:11Yeah. Well, last, I think your, I
- 27:16think your mindsets, I think your mindsets do attach to me
- 27:19and Matt essentially doing it on our own with the help from you
- 27:23and Tove, two people doing it. This time it's going to be 10.
- 27:26It's going to be a lot more efficient.
- 27:29So I think it'll be better, be much better, but it'll also be a
- 27:33lot quicker and efficient and we will have to clear it twice.
- 27:36Yeah. So that's the plan.
- 27:40Yep. So work day, Scott and I talked
- 27:42it, we got it all mapped out. That's the plan.
- 27:45Map day, early April, clear day towards the end of April for two
- 27:53days. And that should be done pretty
- 27:55much. I mean, signs, flags, what?
- 27:58We'll even actually flag it M2. On the build day.
- 28:03Correct. Like the second build day when
- 28:05it's kind of finished up, we're going to flag it.
- 28:08But I think this year, another little tweak we're making is one
- 28:12hopefully the cones which you're working on.
- 28:15And then I think we're going to do the flags in the ground like
- 28:18normal, plus flagging in the bushes both, so you'll have
- 28:23flags on the. Flagging like the the tape
- 28:26stuff, you know what I mean? Ribbon stuff.
- 28:28So you just need ribbons that match the same colors.
- 28:31Exactly. Exactly.
- 28:32Yeah, I think that does help in certain areas for sure, where
- 28:36the flags are less noticeable. Yeah, that's a busy, busy little
- 28:42schedule I'm very excited for. We'll go back to Tech, Tennessee
- 28:48and Pennsylvania. There are two East Coast ones
- 28:51that sure, Oklahoma that's like Midwest, Tennessee and
- 28:58Pennsylvania, East Coast, which we never spend any time on.
- 29:06And specifically Pennsylvania, I'm just very interested to see
- 29:08because we've been to Utah so many Times Now, which is like
- 29:11that has been notably their largest shoot, but it had
- 29:17switched locations the last couple of years to Solitude
- 29:22versus Park City, you know, been there for forever.
- 29:31And then there's Pennsylvania, which is I guess the East
- 29:34Coasters are all other people, the other biggest shoot as far
- 29:40as vendors go and whatnot. And I've never seen, I haven't
- 29:43even looked up a picture of what the the location looks like.
- 29:48They actually have ski lifts and stuff.
- 29:51Yeah. I'd imagine it is a ski resort.
- 29:53Is it? Is it not?
- 29:54Yeah. So I'm interested to see the
- 29:57difference in like the two venues and if one, you know,
- 30:00seems more compatible for the shoot that may make that 1
- 30:04become the and I think they Sean said it was the biggest one last
- 30:10year. Yeah, I mean, archery's huge and
- 30:12over there, I mean, I can see it in the analytics on the channel,
- 30:16but I'm pretty sure Pennsylvania is maybe, I think it's third in
- 30:21our viewership. I'd have to go check, but it's
- 30:24right up there. Yeah, a couple of those other
- 30:26states over there. Archery's really big.
- 30:29Our biggest is California and Texas are always like the
- 30:32biggest. But if Pennsylvania's third
- 30:35right there, I believe it's, it's crazy, you know?
- 30:39But yeah, there's a lot. But if for some reason in my
- 30:42head, it doesn't register that there would be like a ton of
- 30:44Archers over there. But that's like how people think
- 30:46of California. And California has like a
- 30:48boatload of Archers, you know what I mean?
- 30:50So it's like, it's kind of funny how you just, well, The Archers
- 30:55are in Idaho and it's like, wow, not really, because there's way
- 30:57less people. No, I would say there are more
- 31:02Archers in total on the East Coast.
- 31:08Oh, for sure. Just because.
- 31:09Everyone hunts whitetail and smaller.
- 31:11Properties and there's, I feel like I don't know the actual
- 31:14numbers and what I don't have to look it up, but I feel like
- 31:16there's probably more whitetail generally in the US than there
- 31:19are mule deer. Way way way way more.
- 31:26And they are, people get me for the song, easier to hunt.
- 31:34No, just there's more opportunity to sit tree stands
- 31:38and, you know, build food plots if you have your own private
- 31:43land. And there's just more
- 31:45opportunity to get at them then there are Mule beer.
- 31:51But yeah, that's true. There's definitely more
- 31:56opportunity. I would say #1 there's a lot
- 31:59more tags. So of course there's more
- 32:01opportunity because there's the population.
- 32:03It's like MX. Yeah, I mean, I want to say it's
- 32:05like Virginia, you get like like 10 tags.
- 32:10For us, it's something it's something ridiculous when I was
- 32:13in Oklahoma. When I was in Oklahoma I had 6 I
- 32:16think. Yeah.
- 32:18You know, so I mean, that's a lot.
- 32:22But yeah, I mean, we booked the Airbnb for Oklahoma.
- 32:25Looks super fun. I can't wait to get there.
- 32:27I really can't. I feel like, like I said,
- 32:29that'll be like a vacation trip. Obviously we'll be filming, but
- 32:33especially the way our group films, it's not like that
- 32:36really. Like it's not, doesn't make it
- 32:38harder. You're just like, you know,
- 32:41doing that. So that'll be fun.
- 32:44And then obviously we just came back second week in a row
- 32:50shooting a tournament. This time you actually had some
- 32:54people in your class. How did your experience?
- 32:59He's being ridiculous. How did my experience go?
- 33:01How did your experience go? Yeah, it was.
- 33:06It was very good. It was very good.
- 33:08I will say that the first two or first day keep saying two days,
- 33:14but it's two courses one day. The first day we did the two
- 33:20river trail courses, which tend to have a lot shorter yardages.
- 33:26Some of those like technical like 6 yard to 1514 yards.
- 33:32And then there's a lot of, you know, like 20 somethings and
- 33:37just a couple here and there, like 35 to 42 and I mean a
- 33:43couple so. Yeah, I bet the medium range was
- 33:48maybe like 24 or something. Yeah, if if not shorter.
- 33:54I think shorter honestly. I shot fantastic.
- 33:58That doesn't mean that doesn't mean it was easy though, because
- 34:00a lot of the targets were small, like small rings, and a lot of
- 34:04them had windows or weird lighting.
- 34:06Yeah, yeah, I say that without explaining, but those shots are,
- 34:10are it's not set up to be your their tournaments.
- 34:13Yes, they're they're they're scored competitions, but they
- 34:18are not and they do follow the rules as far as your bow
- 34:21specifications fitting in the right class.
- 34:25Outside of that setting the courses, there is no rule
- 34:29following as far as tournament rules goes.
- 34:33There are blocked vitals. There are blocked portions of
- 34:36the target you are shooting over brush or through brush or
- 34:41whatever. I mean, it's literally in a
- 34:43river bottom with what have we learned, salt Cypress or
- 34:47something that's like 15 feet tall and dense.
- 34:52I mean dense. So you take, you don't take it.
- 34:55They're thin little pieces of wood, but you have to take a
- 34:58chainsaw in there to move the stuff out of the way because
- 35:02it's so dense. So they've created these little
- 35:06tunnels through the salt Cypress and you've got a kneel for a lot
- 35:12of shots and you're kneeling and there's brush in the way and
- 35:16they put a skunk up on top of the tree limb, you know, 8 feet
- 35:21in the air like is not set to be an easy ASA wide open target
- 35:28shoot. So there are technical shots,
- 35:30but they're short, shorter shots, which does make you use
- 35:34your brain because for those of us using hunting bows that can't
- 35:37like put them, you know, a number in our cell phone app and
- 35:41say where we need to dial exactly for 6 1/2 yards.
- 35:46You just kind of have to put it on 20 and adjust.
- 35:52So it's it's hard. But though they were shorter
- 35:55shots and I shot through the roof as far as myself goes.
- 36:01And in a general women's category, I shot in known female
- 36:06again, open. So you're shooting with your
- 36:10anybody with a target rig or like myself who wanted to shoot
- 36:13down with a humming bow shot. Fantastic.
- 36:20And we get today to the Canyon Trail and we got up early.
- 36:26Wind wasn't really much of a factor at all, but immediately
- 36:32the first shot was like 40 yards or something.
- 36:38It was. And there were just a lot of
- 36:40them. There were quite a few out there
- 36:42at the 37 plus range. There was a 60 yarder.
- 36:47There was quite a few, two or three that I remember off the
- 36:50top of my head, 54 yarders and I was I was struggling and I know,
- 36:59I know we don't like to blame equipment, but you have heard me
- 37:03say it from day one. Why can't I see my sight?
- 37:11Why can't I see my sight? We adjusted.
- 37:13We put my sight as far out as it can go.
- 37:16If I put it out any farther, the side of fall off, put the side
- 37:20out. I'm like I kind of got a ring to
- 37:23ring. Like I may see a little bit of
- 37:25light, but I don't see it everywhere.
- 37:27And that was just it. We just said that maybe that's
- 37:31just how it's going to be and we left.
- 37:34It turns out I'm complaining about this now, the shoot, which
- 37:40probably brought the vibe down a little bit, but and we have a
- 37:44picture of it now, like it is factual information.
- 37:48My sight, I kept saying the word it's cock eyed, like I didn't
- 37:52know how else to describe it, but it's cock eyed.
- 37:55I was like, it's like this. It's like this.
- 37:57I was like, I don't no one's understanding what I mean.
- 38:00And then David looks and then he takes a picture and then he
- 38:03draws my bow back. He's like, I understand now.
- 38:07Your sight or your your peep is facing up like so when you draw
- 38:13your bow back, your peep and your sight should be facing each
- 38:17other level my sights here and this is my my peep.
- 38:24And so I could fix the left and right with my my peep tuner up
- 38:29there, but I could not fix the up and down how it was facing.
- 38:34So when we got out to those further yardages was where it
- 38:36was the biggest struggle because I mean, I could just see my top
- 38:42pin, everything else was gone, was out of the peep, couldn't
- 38:47see any of it. And and that just, I think
- 38:52mentally also plays with you because like you're looking for
- 38:55that ring to ring to say that like you're all like anchored
- 39:00correctly. And when you don't have it, like
- 39:03there's so much going through your head that like, is it
- 39:05touching my nose in the right place?
- 39:07Is my hand in the right place to say, like it would be ring to
- 39:11ring if you know, my peep was looking at it?
- 39:15I don't know. So part of it was for sure in my
- 39:17head. Part of it is the fact that my
- 39:19peep is not aligned. And then the second one was I
- 39:23can move my D loop with my fingers.
- 39:27I can just slide her up and down and I can't do it within the
- 39:31position that I'm sitting in. But so I was having to keep
- 39:37popping it open every time. And so it was just frustrating
- 39:46and my score suffered. The second day I think I had
- 39:52five fives and a zero, and the day before I had no fives and no
- 40:00zeros. I mullied to get rid of 1/5 and
- 40:05a zero and got rid of them. You're tuned out.
- 40:11So what? No So.
- 40:13What what place did you get in your class?
- 40:15Anyways, I saw that first place not.
- 40:17Much. By a lot.
- 40:19It was like over 150 points. It was ridiculous.
- 40:22So you shot well. So yeah, I'm just, I'm, you
- 40:26know, I don't like to compare myself to others because if you
- 40:31do that, you might not be doing what you can do.
- 40:34Best. So you have to compare yourself
- 40:37to yourself. What was your total scores like
- 40:395? My score was 554 out of what
- 40:41should be a 600 so. 600 would be par, 600 would be.
- 40:45Par. I bet there there aren't 12, so
- 40:48it's 5810 twelves. Yeah, but if you're like you're
- 40:54shooting ASA, you call it even even would be 600 and I shot a
- 40:59554 which for again. It's down 46.
- 41:04Yeah, some people might be like, well, that's a lot, but it's
- 41:06like this. They're these aren't set up the
- 41:08ASA shots. So you know, they're not as
- 41:11easy, you know, in the wide open or distance wise.
- 41:15Like if you were shooting an ASA in a known open group for
- 41:19female, there would not be a 60 yard shot or 54 yard shot any of
- 41:25those you know. So because there's a Max range
- 41:28you can shoot from do. You have a beef with ASA.
- 41:31No, no, no. I'm just saying that like, I
- 41:33think sometimes people compare scores as if like, why aren't
- 41:39your like our scores out here in the West better like, you know,
- 41:44a 554 or whatever, or some of these, even these other women's
- 41:48scores. And I think it's that you have
- 41:52to people have to recognize the fact that like we don't, these
- 41:57shoots we're going to are not set up to be ASA.
- 42:01So we're not following all of those rules that would would get
- 42:04your score if you were in that known female category to even.
- 42:08I mean, I think a good way to, I think what you're trying to say
- 42:11is the shoot, they're challenging and I think a good
- 42:17representation. Without saying that ASA isn't
- 42:20challenging. I think a good representation of
- 42:22that is that last week when we did a tournament, nobody
- 42:26finished up. Yeah, this week only one person
- 42:30finished up. And that was.
- 42:33Some we don't need to talk about the last or or last week who was
- 42:36the closest. We don't have to talk.
- 42:37We don't have to talk about it. You know that I was always.
- 42:40Yeah, yeah. But anyway, so yes, I came in
- 42:43first place by like an enormous amount and I was nervous about
- 42:47it. You knew that I was nervous,
- 42:49that I was. Not.
- 42:51Going to place at all? I kept telling you that you were
- 42:53going to win. I was like, you're shooting very
- 42:55well. Like you didn't even in my class
- 42:58which is the the premier class technically score wise you still
- 43:03beat some people. Yeah, yeah.
- 43:05I would have came in. I would have came in fifth or
- 43:07sixth out of eight or 10. Well, you would have made nine,
- 43:11yeah. I would have made 9, so I would
- 43:13have made fifth or sixth out of nine, and had I not gotten that
- 43:16one freaking zero, I would have gotten. 3rd or. 4th place out of
- 43:21everybody in the entire tournament, which is like over
- 43:24100 people. Yeah, yeah, there was.
- 43:27There was a fair amount, but yeah, I shoot Sir, 60 targets.
- 43:34I shot 31 twelves, 31 twelves. So over half we're here I am
- 43:43saying how some of it's hard and technical.
- 43:45What'd you shoot, like 12? I shot 1212. 12:00 So I shot
- 43:493112 and I shot I think 181 or two eights the whole time.
- 43:56Everything else was So I ended up up 58 up 58.
- 44:05It's got to be an all time course record. 658's absurd
- 44:09dude, but everything was hitting the center.
- 44:12Yeah. You're just you're dialed with
- 44:14that bow. And I do think it is like you
- 44:17attribute a lot of it too is like your alignment is just so
- 44:22centered and the riser is so long with all of it being so
- 44:27close to the riser. It's just like there's no
- 44:31variable and there's no like there's less much, much less
- 44:36likelihood for wind to affect your shot weight being off
- 44:41centered. Like there's no need for a back
- 44:43bar or any of that stuff. On the balance is so good and I
- 44:48mean, gosh, I don't know, I everything about it, the arrows,
- 44:53the bow, like I just feel, I guess, you know, I haven't
- 44:58really shot a bow this style before with a super extended
- 45:02riser and a more parallel limbs. I usually shoot more aggressive
- 45:06bows with like more of a forward limb pitch.
- 45:10But I'm telling you, I mean, the pen just doesn't.
- 45:13It just just sits. So that sits there, you know,
- 45:16like I was telling you and David, I'm like, it's just like
- 45:18it doesn't move. It just gets on there and I'm so
- 45:21comfortable because it's not doing any fidgeting.
- 45:23It's just like on the target. I mean, the bows died, you know.
- 45:29And then admittedly last week and this week, well, the first
- 45:34six targets of last week took a little bit of adjusting.
- 45:38Had to bump the site to the left or move, move the arrow, hit
- 45:42placement, hit where I'm hitting to the left and then.
- 45:47Now, did you move it at all again from last week to this?
- 45:50No, I didn't. But with that being said, I was
- 45:53adding two yards on every. Track champion.
- 45:55Yeah, So what I need to do and not, not, not like scaling.
- 45:59It wasn't like 1:30 and like 5, but it was just two on
- 46:03everything. So if I was 23 yards, I would
- 46:05shoot for 25, it was 42 a shoot for 45 and so on and so forth.
- 46:1044. 44 yeah sorry, but I need to get up in the range and just fix
- 46:20the elevation and then once it's fixed it'll be perfect so yeah,
- 46:24the bow is freaking great everything about it nose button
- 46:27I think makes a difference. The sight, of course, the dual
- 46:31track. I love, I love the dual track so
- 46:33much. And yeah, just everything feels
- 46:36good. Yeah, the SIG binoculars are
- 46:41helpful for sure. I mean, you can just index so
- 46:45easily, so that's nice. It's almost like if if they're
- 46:49around me, I can't use them because once I use them once, it
- 46:54makes it like almost impossible to go back to my and I have good
- 46:58binoculars. So there's nothing wrong with
- 47:00them. You know, it's not the best
- 47:01glass out there on the market, but like they're good and
- 47:04they're clear. But once you use those sigs,
- 47:08it's just like, I mean, you can just sit there and the glass is
- 47:11amazing. One like the picture is crystal
- 47:14clear, but a picture is also crystal clear on mine.
- 47:18It's just the movement that makes things a little blurrier,
- 47:21you know? But when you take that movement
- 47:24out and you put it in like slow motion, you could index the shit
- 47:30out of targets. And I love index.
- 47:32Yeah, it's the word that. Makes a big difference.
- 47:34The amount of times I heard the word index yesterday, editing is
- 47:38definitely the word of these videos.
- 47:40There's a few edgy bars and some of these videos coming out, but
- 47:43people like them. All right, one last question.
- 47:46And then I got to get going to edit this before I leave to go
- 47:49golfing. OK, I know you, you know, you
- 47:52had some frustration with a couple things in your setup.
- 47:55You know, are you pretty excited to go have the Archery Shepherd
- 47:59MFJJ fix it? Would you say I am?
- 48:04I'm excited to go up there and have him change out my my peep
- 48:11and no more like fancy peep. I just want a normal peep, maybe
- 48:17one with a little shade cover thing on it, move my housing in,
- 48:22tie down my D loop so it doesn't slide around and make it a size
- 48:27that I like. Like you just get in there and
- 48:29you can fine tune things. And so I'm excited.
- 48:34I am excited, you know I am and. That'll be a good video to kind
- 48:39of you and him working together to get you comfortable with the.
- 48:43Rig because I am I am comfortable with the rig.
- 48:47You know, I've always told you that I like a longer bow and I
- 48:51am enjoying the longer bow. Like when it's short shots,
- 48:54granted you're not going to see your pin move as much because
- 48:57you're closer, but you know, shortly average 20 to 30 where I
- 49:03can still see my whole housing, you know, between the nose, the
- 49:08peep, the nose button, the nose button and the bow.
- 49:13Like you knew it was always a problem for me to get like
- 49:16settled into my my, you know, setup one.
- 49:20It comes back and it just hits my nose and I know I'm there And
- 49:24then the bow is just, I mean, it's still in my hands like I I
- 49:28do. It's very similar to that, that
- 49:29like I feel very confident with it.
- 49:33It's just those additional things that need to still be
- 49:38fine-tuned. And like it's almost to the
- 49:40point where I feel so confident with this bow when I am shooting
- 49:44well, when like I can see, you know, the target.
- 49:50Like, I don't know that I would switch this bow in November when
- 49:55new bows come around. Maybe I'll switch the limbs out.
- 50:01But I think I'd keep running the boat.
- 50:04Like unless, unless they hit me with a golly whomper of a, you
- 50:10know, female's bow that's not made for midgets since, you
- 50:15know, still as fast, what's the point in switching?
- 50:20Yeah, chorus arms are great. Bow.
- 50:22I mean, I shot it for a whole year, really liked it.
- 50:25The only I would like them to do is like yours I would like which
- 50:29is I don't think happening but I would like the the insat thing
- 50:37do. You have it, you just need a
- 50:38different site. Oh that's true, but I don't want
- 50:41to switch my site. I like my site.
- 50:43So there you go, can't do it. Anyways, it's been a pleasure.
- 50:46Shout out to Southwest Bow Hunters for hosting a great
- 50:50shoot. Shout out to Bow Tech for making
- 50:52great bows. I mean, I've never even shot
- 50:54better. I don't think Brianna shot
- 50:56amazing and everyone who supports the the mission and the
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