Archery Supplies

Video Transcript

"Hi, my name's Chance Platt from Humphries Archery here in American Fork, Utah. Today we're talking about what equipment you need for archery. We'll go over just some of the basics. Really, at the rudimentary level, all you need, really, is a stick, a string, and a stick....a stick, a string, and another stick that you can use as an arrow. Obviously, you're going to probably want to be a little more high-tech than that, so you can actually enjoy what you're doing and have some repetitive nature to your business. We'll start with bows. You have a traditional re-curve. And they also have, in the...kinda the traditional sense, a long bow, which is similar to this. Doesn't have any cams at the end, it's just a string attached to the bow. Then you'll have what they call a compound bow, which will be somewhat similar to this. This one is Matthew's DXT. It has a big cam at the one end of it. It's a solo cam bow, so it has one cam at the end of it....at one end of it. The cam allows you to be able to have...get more mechanical advantage out of the bow, itself, so you get a little more speed and it'll be a little more friendly when you're drawing it, so that you'll have less poundage you're holding back when you draw the bow. A little more let off. And then, if you are in to more of a target nature, in competing, then they have a target bow, which you can see it looks a little bit different, but everything on it's just made for.....give you a little bit more of an edge with competition. But it also, it's compound. It has pulleys on it, and it's a solo cam. It has one cam at the bottom. And, that what we use for that. Has a stabilizer on it. A stabilizer will help, not only take the shot...the shock out of the shot when you shoot, but it'll help you be able to hold the bow a little more steady. Helps balance things out. This one actually has stabilizers on the back, as well. You have a sight, which is adjustable for different yardages. It'll attach to the bow. You have a rest your arrow will sit on. Some bows have a stationary rest. This bow has a mechanical rest, so, when you draw the bow, part of the draw cycle actually lifts the rest up, and lifts the arrow up. We'll put an arrow on it so you can see that. So when you draw the bow back, it'll actually lift the arrow up. Then when you shoot, it drops out of the way so nothing's touching the arrow when it shoots. So it just helps a little bit with accuracy. Another component to the bow is the riser, itself. That's what we call this portion of it. So you got a riser, you have limbs, which attach to the bottom and....bottom and top of the bow, then they have strings and cables. And, they all work together and make the bow function. See, you have a quiver. This one has four tubes, and they'll hold anywhere between, you know, three and six arrows per tube, depending on what size tube and what kind of arrows you're shooting. This one has some pockets and that sort of thing, just to keep tools or whatever else you want with you on it, on the belt. Then you have a couple of other things, a wrist guard. This will go...it's a wrist guard or a forearm guard. It will strap on to your arm right here, so that when you're shooting, and a lot of people, especially the traditional archers, will use these, because as they're more apt to hit their arm with their string when you're shooting. That way your string will hit this instead of hitting your arm, if it happens to....if it happens to hit your arm. So you don't end up missing flesh, or getting hurt. Also you have releases. And releases come in about....several, well, several...several types. We'll go over two of 'em today. This is a hand held, and so you just hold it....you'll hold it by hand. This is a wrist strap, so that actually straps on to your wrist. Your wrist will go through here. It'll actually strap on. So then it clips on to the string. Then when you draw the bow back, you'll actually....most of the strain is on your wrist itself instead of on the grip of your hand. People use 'em for different things, and people have different opinions on what's best. It's really...boils down to what you do better, and what you're more comfortable with. But that's essentially the basics. When it comes to arrows, you have, just a shaft, your nock, your fletch, and then whatever tips you're using for whatever you're doing that day. And that's essentially it."