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Bear Archery Brave 3 Right Hand Bow Set Review

A compound bow has significant advantages over the traditional bow. The unique advantages come from the innovative design of the bow, plus the special materials used in fashioning it. Accuracy and increased power are the major advantages of using compound bow such as the Bear Archery Brave 3 Right Hand Bow Set. This compound bow is one of my best picks for young archers. Just like other well-structured youth archery bows, this compound bow has been designed with features and components to help young kids master bow shooting.

Why is the Bow a Smart Choice for Young Archers?

Recently, I recommended this archery bow to a colleague who is looking for not-so-pricey compound bow that delivers good result. Just like other parents, he wanted an archery bow for his young son who is fanatical about shooting bow. And, this innovative bow suits his description.

This young starters’ bow from Bear is an ideal start for any young archer. In fact, it is flaunted as “America’s No. 1 brand in youth and institutional archery” Besides, the manufacturer, Bear, has for eight decades offered more archery bows than any other manufacturer. In essence, more people have come to embrace this fun sport and hobby known as archery through Bear. So, the manufacturer’s track record in archery tool production is one of the major highlights and lure to this special bow.

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Here are the highlights of the features that placed this bow in my list of highly recommended bows for young shooters;

Built Specifically with Young Archers in Mind

One of my major focuses when trying to choose and recommend a compound bow is its age appropriateness. Just like other young shooters’ compound bows in my list, this archery bow has been built with components that highly promote young kids’ ability to develop their bow shooting skills optimally, safely and with much fun. Such features and components are particularly seen in aspects such as the axle and draw length.

Age Appropriate Axle to Axle Length and Draw Weight
The 26 inches axle to axle feature is appropriate for a bow designed for young folks. Young bow shooters do not need longer axle-to-axle length, so that they can shoot conveniently. Also, the 20Ib draw weight is just perfect and suitable for a young kid learning to shoot compound bow.

Cordura Nylon to Proect the Bow from the Element
Cordura nylon feature of this bow helps to protect the bow from the element. This nylon fabric has water-repellent coating. This may not be the best protective feature for a bow, but it is highly helpful in masking and shielding the compound bow.

Durable Composite Limbs and Riser
The composite limbs of the bow are durable since they’ve been fashioned with study materials. This is also the case with the riser feature of the young archers’ bow under review.

Right Handed Bow
While this feature may not be favorable to left-handed bow shooters, it is a plus since most bow shooters (young folks inclusive) are right-handed. Using an archery bow designed to target right-handed kids promotes a worthwhile experience.
Other features include the following;
• 6 inches brace height
• 65% let off
• …and more

Pros & Cons

Pros: The features above are obviously good evidence that the bow will deliver value for the money invested into it. Also, I forgot to mention that the draw-length can be suitably adjusted. Overall, it’s definitely a good choice of bow for young bow shooters.

This compound bow is also easy to maintain like most compound bows. This is because of the laminate material used in designing this kind of archery bow. Just ensure that the bow stays away from water.

Cons: It’s a right handed-bow – is this really a bad feature? Definitely no, particularly for right-handed shooters. But, for the left-handed young kids, the bow may not be a good pick. So, if your young archer is left-handed, you may have to look for Bear youth bow that suits his disposition. If you don’t find one among the Bear bows, you can seek out other brands.

Final Verdict

I highly recommend this Bear kids’ archery bow if you want good functioning and inexpensive bow for your young folk. The bow delivers desirable value for its money worth.

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How To Sight In A Compound Bow With 3 & 4 Pin Sights

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How to Choose a Compound Bow & Buying Guide

Compound Bow Buying Guide. This is a step-by-step guide on how you can buy a perfect compound bow. It would be wise if you pay attention to every detail, putting as many factors as you can into consideration to enable you buy a bow you’d love for life!

This article would focus primarily on those would are looking to buy a compound bow for hunting purposes. It would also apply to those who are buying compound bow for competition purpose or to achieve target shooting. Several options will be explored in this article that should cover both as much as possible.

Now below are some factors to consider as you go shopping for compound bows:

Types of Compound Bows

Types of Compound Bows	Features	The Good	The Bad
Binary Cams	The binary cams were introduced in 2005 as a novel concept, by Bowtech Archery. It is an innovative 3-groove twin-cam design. This cam system slaves the bottom and top cams to each other, and not to the limbs of the bow.	- Level nock travel - Extremely high velocity	- Extremely complicated design, leading to regular tuning and maintenance.
Twin Cams	Twin cams simply means the compound bow is integrated with two cams that could be elliptical or circular, on both ends of the bow.	- Great accuracy - High velocity - Level knock travel	- Completely complex concept, which translates to repeated tweaking and maintenance.
Hybrid Cams	The compound bows with hybrid cams have evolved to become quite popular and widely sought-after in the past few years. Hybrid cams come with double or twin asymmetrically elliptical cams. On its top is a control cam, while on the bottom is a power cam.	- Tuning is easy - Minimal maintenance is required	- Reduced or minimal nock travel
Single Cam	Single cam compound bows are also known as One Cam or Solocam. On the top of this compound bow design is a circular idler wheel, while the bottom features a power cam that is elliptical in shape.	- User friendly - Noiseless	- Compared to other designs, the Single Cam is more difficult to tune or tweak.

Technical Considerations for Choosing a Compound Bow

Now, when it comes to choosing a compound bow that is best for you, there are also some technical considerations you need to put in view such as the following;

Axle Length: This refers to the entire length of your compound archery bow. For shorter bows, maneuvering is easier. However, it is harder to shoot with short-length bows, requiring the user to put in more practice in order to master shooting. Short bows tend to be more popular among archers who shoot from tree stands.

On the contrary, if you are just getting started with bow shooting, the bows with longer axle lengths are the most suitable for you, they are also more forgiving in design.

Draw Weight: The draw weight of a compound bow is expressed in Ibs (pounds). It simply refers to the extent of effort or work an archer needs in order to achieve full draw with his or her bow. The best bait is to go for an archery bow that you can pull back without pressure, and in a smooth and slow manner.

Body Type	Suggested Draw Weight
Small child (40 to 70 lbs.)	10-15 lbs.
Child (70 to 100 lbs.)	15-20 lbs.
Women and large-framed boys (100 to 140 lbs.)	30-40 lbs.
Women with a larger frame & youth boys (140 to 160 lbs.)	40-50 lbs.
The majority of males (160 to 190 lbs.)	55-65 lbs.
Larger males (190+ lbs.)	60-70 lbs.

To make it more practical for instance, if your compound archery tool has 50 Ibs draw weight or more, it is sufficiently weighty to hunt down a whitetail (if your plan is to hunt for games with your bow).

Brace Height: The brace height of a bow is nothing but the distance between the bow string and the grip at rest. If you want faster bows, then go for the ones with lower brace height; however, bear in mind that they are less forgiving, plus shooting is more difficult.

On the other hand, bow with higher brace height offers more forgiving feature, but performs slower. It is best to experiment with different brace heights to determine what works best for you. Averagely, a lot of compound bows come with 7 inches brace height.

Draw Length: This refers to the distance from a bow’s grip to its bowstring at full draw. Innovative bows usually come with adjustable features, including the draw length. So, you can get the length of your bow adjusted in a local archery shop to suit your shooting need.

However, if you decide to go for a compound bow that doesn’t enable adjustment, it is better to choose the one with less draw length, as ‘more’ or additional draw length would mean increased negative impact in terms of accuracy and speed.

Overall Bow Weight: This is an essential consideration if your target is to employ your bow for hunting. Bows with light weight will promote ease in lugging around your hunting area or in the woods.

However, get ready to endure the noise since lighter-weight bows produce more vibration. On the contrary, bows with heavier weights are burdensome to carry around while hunting in the woods. However, they are usually quieter since they vibrate less.

What’s Your Price Range?

The prices of compound bows vary, just like any other sport equipment. You will find bows that go for as low as $50 and as high as $1500. Your budget would determine what you get.

A good quality compound bow targeted at beginners and middle-range starters would cost around $350-$550. State-of-the-art bows would range between $600 and $1000 or above. If you are buying a bow for the first time, we would suggest you go for a complete bow setup that cost below $500.

And, the package would usually feature a bow, release, block target, arrows, as well adjustment features; unless of course you can afford something bigger.

Other Things to Look Out for

Since you now know where to get what you want, you need to know the things to look out for in an ideal compound bow. What do you want your bow to have? While there are lots of things to add to your bow, it would be good to focus on the most important, which are accuracy, possible power, and quietness. Also, you may consider camouflage feature as well.

You need a bow that suits you properly in terms of your shooting needs such as strength. This is what will make you maximize the kinetic energy that your arrow requires to produce the desired force and effect.

While some people think energy is stored in the bow’s string, the truth is that the energy produced when you draw your bow is stored n the limbs. The string actually, is just an avenue of transmitting energy to your arrow from the limbs. If you transfer great energy to your arrow, it will become heavier, thereby imparting more kinetic energy onto your target. It’s that simple.

Get a befitting bow and play your own part in maximizing the energy deliverable. Draw weights that are heavier store higher energy and will lead to increased arrow weights and velocities. Go for a very high draw weight, which will at the same allow regular practice.

Accuracy

If you have a bow with all the power in the world but cannot aim accurately, it is just a waste of time. Great sights, ideal form, some quality arrow rests and a correctly set bow are some of the properties that depict accuracy.

While the others can be bought, a proper form is learned in time. Buy top grade three-pin sight (e.g. brands like Tru-Glo, Cobra, Apex, as well as Sword) and an innovative arrow rest (e.g. the Trophy Ridge). Then, get your local archery shop to set it up to meet your shooting needs.

Silence

Arrows do not fly in a fast manner. The fastest archery tool (bow) is much slower compared to a gun considered to be the slowest. Your quarry therefore may be able to hear the sound of your shooting prior to the arrow getting to them. If you intend to hunt therefore, ensure that your vibration reduction and sound inhibition are on point.

An animal’s reflex action as it looks up is sufficient to make you miss a shot, or make you achieve a wounding or a crippling hit. Buy a great stabilizer bar, limb dampeners and string silencers. You will find lots of them in the market and in different price ranges.

Camouflage

This is not so much of an issue as you can find wide range of varieties in the market, and will be able to choose 1-2 good ones that would match the bow of your choice.

Your camo finish can be redone by hydrographing (sending it out for dipping). The game you intend to hunt and your environment will determine your choice of camo pattern. It is not quite a needful feature as a good number of bow shooters shoot without a camouflage.

Conclusion

Indeed, bow shooting can be a fun sport and hobby. However, your performance will largely depend on your choice of compound bow, which is why we have taken out time to provide this extensive and valuable guide on how to buy the right compound bow for you.

As long as you keep all of the considerations, features and factors pointed above in mind, you can be sure of landing the best compound bow that will promote overall optimum bow shooting performance.

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Diamond Infinite Edge Bow Review

Indeed, bow shooting is both fun and sporty, especially when you engage the right archery tool. Great shooting bows help to boost accuracy and ease in holding the weapon in a proper shooting position. In addition, less strength is required to hit at your target precisely. And, shooting your bow in a straighter path comes easier when you have the right archery weapon such as the Diamond Archery 2013 Diamond Infinite Edge Bow Pkg Black Ops Lh 2013-30″ 5-70#.

What You Need to Know about The Diamond Infinite Edge Bow

First, just like other Diamond Bows, this one is also manufactured and designed by Bowtech, one of the renowned manufacturers of compound bow world-wide. And, if your target is to get a compound bow for a youth, kid, or female who is in the process of becoming an archer, you have just found the right bow.

The bow has been designed with sufficient features for small-frame shooters, so that they can keep shooting up to adult stage. It is a customizable archery weapon and does not require a bow press to accomplish your desired customization.

This archery weapon comes with versatile adjustable settings, making it highly customizable for the targeted users. When you buy it for a kid such as a five-year old kid, you don’t have to bother about buying another bow in the next 10 or 15 years since the bow has been designed to promote usage up to later years. Let me quickly mention that even an adult male can also use this bow once it is set to suit his shooting level and capacity.

Indeed, when it comes to bows designed with kids and youths in mind, there are only few rivals to this bow.
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The Attractive Features at a Glance

Some of the features and characteristics of this bow that you will find irresistible include the following;

Adjustable Draw Length and Weight: You can adjust the draw length from 13” all the way to 30”, while the draw weight’s adjustable range is from 5 to 70 Ibs. As a result, this archery weapon is well suited for target archers and hunters of all sizes. And, as the kid or youth masters a particular draw length or weight, you are able to make adjustment for a more suitable draw length and weight. So, as your kid grows in age, the necessary adjustments are carried out on the bow to suit his or her new status.

Top-notch Cam System: The cam design is the dual eccentric system type, completely innovative. These elliptical-designed cams’ movement has been accurately synchronized for excellent straight arrow travel.

They are as powerful as the cam you will find with typical adult shooting bows. Besides, they are completely smooth, making the bow’s draw cycle very friendly for starters. And, the cable slide has no sign of roughness, plus it is durable. This is not just my opinion, I’ve heard the same from other archers in our community as well.

Ideal Shooting Speed for Kids and Beginners: At 310 FPS, the shooting speed of this innovative Diamond bow is ideal for kids and amateur archers. Your setting can affect the actual shooting speed. Well, shooting speed is not a particularly important feature for a bow targeted at kids and beginners. You should concentrate more on proper form as well as accuracy, which is the major target of this innovative bow.

Less Noise Levels and Vibration: This archery weapon is light weight in design, to make it less pressurizing to the young shooters’ muscles. And, this will help them shoot for extended period without getting easily tired. Consequently, accessories that help in noise and vibration reduction have been integrated. However, the noise and vibration level has only been minimally dampened, since the aim for young shooters is not to hunt down games.

Smooth and Slower Draw Cycle to Suit Young Shooters: The non-aggressive cam system promotes slower and smoother draw weight, regardless of the settings. This is something desirable, considering the fact that the bow is targeted at young and beginner archers.

Different Levels of Kinetic Energy: Depending on the setting, the bow gives off a low or very powerful kinetic energy. Since the kids and beginners’ target is not to hunt down a game, a setting that will promote a lower kinetic energy is just fine.

What’s in the Package?
The package contains the following;
• A Diamond Infinite Edge bow
• Octane DeadLock Quiver
• 3-Pin Tru Apex bow Sight
• Arrow Rest – The Hostage XL type
• BCY String Look
• Tube Peep Sight
• User Manual
• Warranty Card

Pros & Cons

Pros:
Obviously, this bow is loaded with tons of age-appropriate and general features. The highlight of these features include;
• Highly customizable and adjustable bow
• Perfect bow for kids and beginners
• Continuous use up to early adult age
• Ultra-light weight bow
• Perfect for both target practice and hunting
• Tons of accessories

Cons: Actually, there’s no concrete complaint about this bow other than the grip that has a sort of square shape.

Final Thought

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND the bow for kids, beginners, youths, or female archers. Indeed, it will remain a top-performing archery weapon even as your kid grows older. It is great value for money.

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Bear Archery Cruzer Ready to Hunt Compound Bow Package Review

When savvy archers handle a bow, archery seems simple, fluid, and graceful. It is possible to train yourself to a stage where you hit your target in an almost automatic manner, and this is the point when archery as a sport becomes an art. All it takes is to develop accurate stance, sight, draw, and release through constant practice. Of course, attaining this point where you shoot like a pro also requires great archery tools such as the Bear Archery Cruzer Ready to Hunt Compound Bow Package 70lb RH A5CZ21007R. I love this compound bow because of its unique features.

About the Bear Archery Cruzer

The all-new 2015 Bear Archery Cruzer Ready to Hunt Compound Bow package has been designed and tested to surpass the shooting needs of every bow shooting enthusiast, whether the young archer or the adult bow shooter. The draw length of this all-new shooting bow is incredible and spans from 12” to 30”. The draw weight is adjustable, starting from 5 Ibs, all the way to 70 Ibs.

This new design is accompanied with the most innovative and superb quality accessories designed by Trophy Ridge. The axle-to-axle length is 32”, height is 6.5”, weight is 3.6LBS, and IBO is 310.

Feature Highlights

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When I explore bows to present to the archery community, I pay closer attention to the features, to see if the bow offers the most widely sought-after features that can help enhance bow shooting experience. And, yes, the archery weapon under review is more than a bow, it is a complete package with all that both the novice and savvy shooter needs to enjoy this worthwhile sport.

The innovative features that would draw anyone to this bow include the following;

#1: Aluminum Material to Boost Sturdiness and Durability: By experience, archery weapon designed with aluminum material is usually sturdy and durable. Simply put, your bow is able to withstand pressure from constant usage and/or rough handling.

#2: Advanced Grip Design for Enhanced Accuracy: The grip design of this shooting bow is something that any shooter will like. This is because it has been designed differently from the regular grips. Hand torque has been eliminated in this new bow (unlike the previous versions), which in turn enhances accurate targeting. The grip has also been designed in an ergonomic manner to enhance comfort and convenience.

#3: Maximum Preload Quad Limbs for Increased Power: Also, the bow is integrated with preload quad limbs, to the optimum. As a result, the draw and overall power of this bow will greatly increase your chances of hitting your target unmistakably.

#4: Loaded with Relevant Accessories: Saving every extra dime you can is something desirable when investing on a shooting bow. Most bows come alone, requiring you to create extra budget for other shooting accessories. On the contrary, this Ready-To-Hunt bow comes with additional accessories that you need to start shooting immediately.

#5: Adjustable Draw Lengths and Weights: Since this compound bow targets different levels of users (old, young, novice, and savvy archers), it has been designed to allow users adjust both the lengths and weights to their own shooting capability. So, you are not regimented to a fixed draw length or weight.

#6: Great for Both Young and Old
As mentioned earlier, just anyone can leverage this shooting weapon to hone up their archery sport skills. It has been designed to suit both young and old, armature and savvy shooters.
Other features that are worth highlighting include the following;
• Offset spring suppressors
• Quiver
• Peep sight
• Dart stabilizer
• D-lop
• Whisker Biscuit arrow-rest
• Trophy Ridge sight
• MV-Cam system
• Very smooth draw cycle

What is in the Package?
It’s a complete package, meaning you can start shooting immediately without waiting to buy additional accessories. The components of the package include the following accessories;
• 1 Bear Archery Curzer Compound Bow
• High quality whisker biscuit arrow rest
• Fiber optic sights
• A quiver
• A stabilizer
• Wrist strap

Pros & Cons

Pros:
No doubts, this compound shooting bow comes loaded with desirable shooting features and accessories. These include adaptability to all levels of bow shooters (young and old, novice and professional), draw length and weight that can be adjusted to suit each user’s capability.

Also, any archer will love the fiber optic sights feature, which enables you to shoot at various ranges. And, the accessories listed above help to increase savings on your archery weapon investment, plus you can start shooting immediately you receive the package. The bow is typically customizable to suit each shooter’s need. In all, the bow is truly an all-new design that has included lots of things lacking in previous designs.

Cons:
The truth is, this bow is desirable in its entirety. The only challenge is that you will need the tool set up for you. Well, this would be for new archers or young shooters. Professional archers like us will require few minutes to have the bow all set up accurately without any assistance.

Final Thought

This compound bow is worth acquiring, whether you want to buy it for adult users in your home or for young users. I highly recommend it and will vote 4.9 stars/5.00 stars to the bow.