Video of me shooting 70lb Drenalin

[danrulz01]

Hey guys, I'm fairly new to archery but I'm trying to get as much help as i possibly can. I'm currently learning how to edit videos and this is one of my attempts i thought i would share with everyone. Let me know what you think. heres the link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5EpztLngdU

[Dale Furze]

The editing looks pretty good to me, I don't know how to do it yet. Just a little thing I noticed, the bow looks a little heavy for you to draw, you should be able to hold it out in front of you and draw the string straight back without straining too much. If you are comfortable with that, so be it.

Dale.

[hunt or be hunted]

awesome group mate.

dan.

[johnno]

Just a little thing I noticed, the bow looks a little heavy for you to draw, you should be able to hold it out in front of you and draw the string straight back without straining too much.

Yeh ditto...I aint an expert but "skying" the bow the way you are is a sure sign of being overbowed...try holding the bow in front of you with your bow arm shoulder relaxed and draw the bow and the peep straight back to you...to check if you are over bowed try sitting in a chair with your feet off the ground and try drawing the bow..if its a GREAT effort your overbowed.. also the draw length looks a little long for you as you seem to be leaning back and your elbow is a bit high...I am sure others on the forum may have other comments....If you make these slight modifications and turn down the lbs, say to 65#.. at 15m you will be tearing the fletches off...:D

[PeterM]

Also it might be the camera angle, but your draw length looks to long, you can see your leaning back and bow your arm is a little too straight which would explain why you need an arm guard.

[Sparra]

It's also extremely dangerous to draw your bow back like that especially in a suburban area.If your release aid goes off by accident the arrow is gone out over the roof tops and who knows what damage it will do...The video is about the clearest I have seen on youtube....
Cheers...Sparra

[Neix]

Awesome Video, Great Grouping, But as alot of said, you Skyed the bow while drawing back,
Simply just drop it down to where you can draw it nicely and after a few months you can gradually get stronger and move the poundage up, and the draw length is a bit long also i noticed, Maybe try a 28" or around that mark,

Other than that excellent work mate.

[cutthroat]

In a competition if you skyed your bow more than twice you would be asked to leave the shooting line,that is for fita.Like Sparra said not only do you have to worry about your release aid but also that your d loop is tied on properly.About 5 or 6 years ago someone in their backyard was trying a new sight and they did not make sure that everything was alright and the arrow went over the fence and hit the neighbour in his back and killed him.70# could go a long way

[danrulz01]

Thanks to everyone for all your comments, this video was shot today (3rd time i have had it cranked to 70lb i usually use it at 60, so i will take the advice of turning it down to 65. and now that i think about it, if the release were to malfunction i could wind up in jail and have licensing bought in for bow owners, and we deffs don't want that. So once again thanks for your advice, once i change these few errors ill post another video and see how we go. Thanks again for feed back, Dan.

[danrulz01]

It's also extremely dangerous to draw your bow back like that especially in a suburban area.If your release aid goes off by accident the arrow is gone out over the roof tops and who knows what damage it will do...The video is about the clearest I have seen on youtube....
Cheers...Sparra


The reason its very clear video, is because i used my new sony HDR-SR7 video cam, anyone looking to get a video cam for High deff video, get this one. ill be taking it with me, when i got hunting next sat. :)

[spiderbait24]

great video mate, but as everyone has said dont over weight yourself, i did once, i had it at 60# and was shooting ok, i did it because i thought that 50# wasnt enough power, my mentor told me to crank it down to 50# and i was shooting at least 3 times better, i thought it was amazing that that little change could help so much, in my opinion 65 may be too much but thats your choice.

nice vid and groups again mate.

[danrulz01]

thanks spiderbait, im gunna spend the next 3 days tweaking my bow and technique cause I'm on holiday from work. Ill keep u guys posted ;)

[Waldganger]

nice group mate, and like the other guys said don't sky the bow but otherwise I'd say you are shooting plenty good for a hunt.

Good luck

[spiderbait24]

no probs mate, im pretty new to archery too but i know that you should never over weight yourself.

[Jeremy87]

Draw length looks a little long, you can see the arrow tip bobbing backwards and forwards at full draw, yeh drawing back like that is a little scary as stated above an arrow shot out of that bow would go a long way, i got bored on a hunt once and decided to see how far my drenalin @ 70lb would fire an arrow, plotted it out with the range finder easy 350metres.

[Clemo]

I am no expert but I also have a 70# dren LD which I have just finished tuning, I noticed that your bow hand is closed around the grip. Once you have drawn the bow relax your bow hand and open your fingers. I think you will find that it will make a big difference with your dren as they are very easy to torque. Also as others have said you may want to back that poundage of a bit. I also found 70# a bit much on the draw so I backed it of one full turn (each limb) and had the draw weight checked, it is now 65.9#, if you read your manual it will say that one turn is between 2-4#, if your draw weight is comfortable you will shoot better for longer, accuracy is more important than poundage in my books.

P.S. They are an awesome bow.

[Thwack!]

Hey Danrulz01,

Great idea putting your clip up for us to check out, we can see both your editing skills and shooting form all on one go.

Your editing skills are looking good, you shouldn't have any problems coming up with a great vid when you have got yourself some footage. Do you plan to self film your hunts or do you have a mate/cameraman? Either will take a bit of planning and practice. Good luck!! What editing software are you using?

Your shooting form has already been well covered and it seems you don't have a problem hitting where you are pointing. The only thing I would add to the "Sky Drawing" thingy is that in a hunting situation drawing with a skyward action does create a lot of extra unnecessary movement that may result in you being busted by your prey before you can get your pin settled. It's something you want to avoid if you can.

All the best with your hunting plans and I hope to watch a well edited clip of a successful hunt in the near future.

Aaron

[danrulz01]

Hey Danrulz01,

Great idea putting your clip up for us to check out, we can see both your editing skills and shooting form all on one go.

Your editing skills are looking good, you shouldn't have any problems coming up with a great vid when you have got yourself some footage. Do you plan to self film your hunts or do you have a mate/cameraman? Either will take a bit of planning and practice. Good luck!! What editing software are you using?

Your shooting form has already been well covered and it seems you don't have a problem hitting where you are pointing. The only thing I would add to the "Sky Drawing" thingy is that in a hunting situation drawing with a skyward action does create a lot of extra unnecessary movement that may result in you being busted by your prey before you can get your pin settled. It's something you want to avoid if you can.

All the best with your hunting plans and I hope to watch a well edited clip of a successful hunt in the near future.

Aaron

hey Thwack, thanks for your input, im using Pinnacle Studio Ultimate, version 11 as my editing software, its really good but is fairly involved. i hope to have an awesome video for you all real soon. :D
My good mate Bird, who will also be a member on this forum soon is coming along to help me shoot some good footage and hopefully up our chances of taking some game.

oh and by the way everyone, turned the limbs down so i can draw it straight with out skying it... and i tore the fletching off the first arrow with the second and third shot. :o

[Thwack!]

"oh and by the way everyone, turned the limbs down so i can draw it straight with out skying it... and i tore the fletching off the first arrow with the second and third shot."

.... NOW YOU ARE TALKING !!

It's good to see/hear a young fella smart enough to take good sound advise on-board and use it. Rather than take offense and turn you back.

I wish you all the best with you hunting and filming, mate.

Aaron

[Tali]

One more thing, try to get use to put your arrow in the string by holdin it from the nock, its a lot faster, and you will not have problems cocking and arrow in a hunting situation when you get nervous.

Get a sling, it will help you learn to shoot with your hand open.

Nice bow! Hope to see some videos soon!

[will]

Well done on the improvement mate, sound advice goes a long way, i started off skying the bow, gripping it like a bike handle bar, and generally getting into bad habits. Once corrected (Howie) my shooting has improved tenfold.

Those groups are deadly!!! :)