- What is up friends? It's so good to have you here
because today we're talking about a new bow that I've been shooting for about a month now, I'm going to tell you
what I think about it. If you're new to archery, or if you just want a
new bow or a cheap bow, like $119, ridiculously cheap, goodness, this bow may be for you, today we are reviewing the
Black Hunter Recurve Bow. (relaxed hip-hop music) (package rustling) (bubble wrap rustling) (metal clanging on table) Here the bow is now
specs isn't everything, so I'm going to go over
specs really quick today. I'm more interested in
comfortability of shooting, if it's worth the price,
and how enjoyable it is and right off the bat, I
would recommend this bow. It's the best one I've reviewed yet, especially for the price range. And this is a personal opinion. I'm going to tell you why in this video. So let's quickly go over the specs. The bow comes with 2 26 inch
limbs and a 15 inch riser We're talking to 59 inch AMO bow length. Also comes with two limb
bolts where the riser contacts the length there's pre-installed felt. I love this feature. The riser has locator pins
for perfect limb alignment. My bow is a 40 pound
bow at a 28 inch draw. This bow comes with an endless
loop D-97 bowstring and an Allen wrench to tighten the limb bolts. After testing, this bow is in
fact 40 pounds at 28 inches. From my 29 inch draw, I'm
pulling the 43 pound bow. This bow is fast. 197 feet per second, with 375 grain arrow, which
at my 43 pound draw rate is 8.7 grains per pound of draw. There are no accessory
holes for quiver sights or stabilizers, which I don't mind. It is a smooth shooting,
quiet and fast bow. I started to group with his bow very fast after I started shooting.
And there you have it. There are all the specs for this bow. Okay, so here is what
I like about this bow. Here's a quick interruption for
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I like about this bow. I feel like it's a really
smooth to shoot bow. It's shorter. It's more
compact than the previous recurve bow I reviewed, which
I liked that bow overall. I just did not like the
metal fittings on it, that I needed to put a felt
in between to make it quieter. And I had to do some
modifications, which is fine, and that works well, but it
also came with a few accessories like that arm guard that I'm
never really going to use, that I think they make the bow
a little more expensive for. On top of that, they also have fittings for whether it's bow
sights or a stabilizer and things like that and I
don't really use any of that and this bow's cheaper because
they did the bare minimum, which is exactly what I want
in a bow at this price range. It's a really smooth shooting bow. I found that I can group at this bow pretty well with just a
little bit of practice. I'm impressed because a lot of times, the shorter bows can be
harder to group with, but in the end, I'm shooting
this bow as good as any bow I have right now. I don't really have a ton to
say about this bow, except yes, this is what you should do making a bow at this price range, give it the bare minimum, make
it easy and smooth to shoot, and that's literally it. We don't need weird fittings. We don't need crazy arrow rests. Just throw a leather arrow rest in there because that's what
this price range is for. You can spend thousands and
thousands of dollars on bows, and that's when you get
into more technical, more advanced things. And sometimes what happens
is these cheaper bow manufacturers will try to put
some of those features onto the cheaper bows. And it's like, no, let's just keep it simple. If you're making the cost really low, let's keep it simple and put
that effort into a good limb design or something that
actually is really smooth to draw and really smooth to
shoot, instead of throwing a $2 arrow rest in there
and a bunch of fittings that we don't really use anyway. It's the thing I'm most
impressed about this bow is that with the short riser, how
little hand shock there is and how smooth the arrow
comes out of the bow. in a previous review, I said "After shooting 500,
1000 shots through this bow" and people commented and were asking "How in the world you shoot
a thousand shots a day?" I don't, I get a bow,
I review it for a month and then I tell you guys what I think. And a month in, it's still
a sweet shooting bow. If you are a beginner to
archery and trying to get your first bow, the biggest mistake people do is get a too high poundage of a bow. I personally am not a super strong person. I'm probably somewhere around average. And here's the thing I can draw back a 55, I can draw back a 60 pound bow
and I can hold it right here, you know, but the thing
is, that's not comfortable and what happens, I'm
using the wrong muscles. And so I've been practicing actually with a 30, a 25 pound bow, so half of what I can pull back. When you're looking at
bow poundages to buy don't look at the highest
thing I can draw back. You want to be able to draw
it back and then hold it comfortably for a long time,
engage those back muscles, that way you can transfer to hold and pull through your shot. So it's really important to not go too high poundage of a bow. If you're a beginner to
shooting traditional archery, and you're average
strength, you would say, I would recommend getting
about a 30, 35 pound bow. And this is going to get you
the correct habits when you first start and it's going to make it so much more enjoyable. It doesn't really matter to get the extra 20 or 30 feet per second. It's going to be a lot less
fun if it's difficult to shoot for you, and you'll create
a lot of bad habits. It does not make you more manly
to pull back a stronger bow. Remember that, and don't get into those
childish thinking ways and just get something that's
really enjoyable to shoot. So this is a super, super easy review. I recommend this bow. This is one I've been
commenting back to people recommending to them to buy
their first bow. It even, I think last time I checked,
they were 10% off or something. It was like $109 on Amazon,
which is ridiculous. Now, warning, if you go buy this bow or a
few people go by this bow, I've had some people
who make these products jack up the prices after
I make a review on them. I don't know if they think they
can just make more or what. But, at the time of
saying this, the $109 bow, absolutely ridiculous, shoots really well. If I were getting into archery
for the first time and I didn't want to make my own bow,
this is the bow I would buy. I would highly recommend
this for your very first bow. Boom baby, quick and easy. Thanks so much for
watching this video today. If you haven't already
go ahead and subscribe. Thank you to everyone who has, be positive, stay shatterproof, and I'll see you on the next video.
