Hey everybody this PJ Reilly from Lancaster Archery out here on a beautiful fall day
exciting day we want to introduce to you the 2022 flagship series of bows from G5 Prime
this is the Inline series and the reason i say that this is exciting is that occasionally we
see from every one of the bow manufacturers a big change in what they do normally from year to year
we see incremental changes and then we see a big change and this is the big change year for Prime
because as you can see if you know Prime bows what's the first thing you look for parallel cams
we don't have it on the Inline series here that's because they did a lot of engineering to figure
some issues out that they solved with this bow what i can tell you up front is it shoots awesome
minimal vibration you know those dual cam bows there was generally some vibration from them
as well as the weight they've cut down on the weights of these bows but tons of technology that
we have to dive into with the Inline series first let's give you the specs the Inline 1 measures 31
inches axle to axle it's got a seven inch brace height 332 feet per second ibo speed rating
it's got a mass weight of 4.3 pounds let off is going to peak at 85 percent you're going to have
adjustable draw lengths on a module on the cam so you can adjust from 26 to 30 and one half inches
and it's going to be available in peak draw weights of 40 50 60 65 70 and 80 pounds
the Inline 3 measures 33 inches axle to axle it's got a six and a half inch brace height an
ibo speed rating of 337 feet per second it's got a mass weight of 4.4 pounds the let off is gonna
peak at 85 percent draw length is going to be again that adjustable module that takes you from
26 to 30 and one half inches and it's going to be available in peak draw weights of 40 50 60 65 70
and 80 pounds the inline five measures 35 inches axle to axle it's got a six inch brace height ibo
speed rating of 343 feet per second it's got a mass weight of 4.5 pounds you're gonna have let
off that peaks out at 85 percent the module is going to give you draw length adjustments from
26 to 30 and one half inches and it's going to be available in peak draw weights of 40 50 60 65
70 and 80 pounds so as we mentioned the most noticeable thing about the Inline
series is Prime went away from their parallel cam system that's what they were known for for years
and the engineers described to me what that system what it's designed to do is you had two cams
you had you know bow strings on each cam that came down to a single string so now you have
two strings up top pulling down on the cams and you had your cables in the middle of that
so everything was centered everything was pulling down on the center of the cam as well as the axle
the payload was even that eliminated cam lean and it just made everything function super efficient
so why would they go away from that if it worked so well well the engineers recognized the parallel
cam system it's complicated the nexus series bow that bow had seven strings to it between the yokes
and different parts to the system with the cables and the string if you replaced a set you had to
get seven strings and cables that's complicated also those dual the parallel cams that created
vibration and noise it was also extra weight so they recognized there were pluses and minuses
to that and so then their job as engineers was to simplify everything they said that as you progress
things should get simpler and function better so in comes the inline cam system so this actually
does many of the same things that the parallel cam system did as well and what you're going to
notice when you look at this cam from the back is it looks like there's some really nasty cam lean
that's kind of an optical illusion it's this the string tracks are on an angle the cables sit at an
angle but what happens is when you go to full draw these cables are going to actually shift towards
the cam and when you come to full draw it's pretty ingenious the string and both the cables will
actually be in line with another right underneath the cam what's that do there's your inline system
everything is even the load on the cam is even the load on the axle is even so that's how they were
able to achieve the benefits of that parallel cam system with the single cam system i mean it is a
three track binary cam but for the one for each cam that's what's happening as you go through the
draw cycle those cables shift over and then the load is even between the cables and the
string on the cam so that's the basis for this cam system now in doing that there are other effects
engineering you know you change one thing it's going to affect something somewhere
else so coming down here to the limb pockets if you take a good hard look at this the other
thing you're going to notice is this limb pocket does not sit dead center in the riser
it's adjusted over a little bit that's to account for that adjusting load by the cables
while maintaining they still wanted you to have your 7 8 inch center shot in other words the
center shot for this bow is going to be 7 8 inch out from the burger hole
they wanted to maintain that so to do that they had to shift the limb pockets everything off to
the side so you'll notice when you look at these at this limb pocket that it is not physically
centered in the riser there that's on purpose all right so now it comes to tuning the Prime Inline
bows how are you going to do that if you need to eliminate a left right tear well right here these
silver spacers in the middle there right now what i have in here these are both the same size spacer
and then in the box you are also going to get a large and a small spacer it's different
thicknesses the large is thicker than the small and you're going to get enough spacers that you
can affect both cams which if you've seen some of the other spacer systems with bows
that's an added benefit that you get them in the box usually you have to buy them afterwards
but for folks at home the way you would change out these spacers is you press the bow take the
axles out and you're going to switch around the spacers there is a tool for dealers that you're
going to get basically you'll see this gap in the spacers at the top there these functions
similar to an e-clip we've all seen e-clips holding the axles in on the end here and there's
a tool that functions like the e-clip tool that will spread those parts and pop them out so you
don't have to do anything all you have to do is put this into a bow press just to hold the weight
of the bow you're going to take one full turn out of each side here just to create some space
pop those spacers out and then you can make your adjustments now that tool is going to
be for prime dealers only that's not going to be something that's available to the public but again
as we mentioned the public if you're doing this at home you can make those adjustments to the spacers
simply by removing the axles as you do with other systems another piece with this cam system that
they have this year is prime went back to a limb stop they had been cable stopped for years and
some of the engineers said they were hearing feedback from archers who liked the real solid
back wall of a limb stop so they put the limb stop back in so now when you come back to full draw
hit that wall i mean it's just like a brick you're not going anywhere so they have reinstated the
limb stop all right so what else do we see with the uh Inline series of bows we got this nice
riser here which is that 82x aluminum that Prime has been using the last couple years it's the
Prime engineers say it's the best combination of strength to rigidity while still maintaining
a light weight that's the best combination they could found in this 82x aluminum that they use
in their risers of course coming back to something prime has done for the last couple years is they
have their center grip positioning the throat of the grip is in the physical center of the bow
that gets more weight more riser down underneath your hand helps with the balance of the bow
helps with knock travel just makes this a super stable bow to shoot and you're going to notice
they've been doing what they call the swerve you're going to see this swerve down here in the
bottom of the riser basically mirrors the swerve at the top engineers said that helps to manage
the vibration in the bow by having it the same at the bottom as it is at the top the frequencies of
the vibration they kind of cancel each other out minimizing what's felt by the archer down here at
the bottom we've got some new vibration dampening and again the engineer said this is actually
attached to the bolt that holds the limb pocket in place so as that vibration is coming off those
limbs hits that limb pocket at the bolt these vibration dampeners are designed to take some
of that vibration out again so you don't feel it as much at the hand by the archer speaking
of your hand we've got this grip this is the nano grip that prime has had for the last couple years
and what's unique about it is inside there's a material called aero gel and what this gel does is
act like an insulator okay you know we all know if you've been out there on those cold days you got
your hand in if it's directly on the riser or even if you have a grip there your hand can get cold
pretty quickly well prime has this nice rubberized grip it is slim they they took material actually
out of the riser so they could really slim the rubber portion of this grip with the arrow gel
underneath i mean this thing is warm to the touch it's incredible it's a cool day out here now
and that grip just feels nice and warm it is a nice grip slender thin it's got a nice flat
spot on the back here nice rounded edges great for promoting good hand position we have again another
legacy technology from prime you have their flexus ar cable containment system and this arm basically
it flexes in and out through the draw cycle to kind of control the load these cables the side
load that they're putting on the bow they've had that for several years with much success
in the middle here you're going to see two burger holes if you have an arrow rest with room to get
two bolts in there man that's a real solid way to lock that rest in place bow hunters were out
there banging things around with those two bolts in there you know that rest just isn't going to
move so lastly we wanted to mention something prime's been doing for years is this lifetime
free replacement of your strings and cables every year and a half that you own this bow you can get
replacement cables and strings for free from prime just take it to your dealer they will set it up
boom you can get those replacements i mean that's at least 130 dollar value right there
every year and a half you can get for free so that is an added value for the prime series all
right so for shooting the prime inline series i have here the inline five this is a 35 inch bow
that's what i set up to shoot but it's nice that prime offers multiple options you've got the 135
31 inches 33 inches 35 inches so depending on what you like as far as the length of a bow
you've got an option all the same technology just different lengths so i think that's
a great offering uh from prime what i noticed with this is all the things that the engineers said
i've shot primes in the past and you would feel a little bit of vibration in your hand they did
tend to be on the louder side that's not an issue with this bow this uh inline five just holds like
a dream i was impressed at how fast i was able to get super accurate with this bow it holds nice
you know with that extra weight down low the draw cycle super smooth it's going to require
effort at the front end and then everything's just going to let off as you come back to the back wall
that limb stop i really found i really like that there's no creeping because you can stay into that
back wall just by pulling into it and just a super shooting bow it took me almost no time to get it
tuned i know we talked about the spacers but all i had to do was make adjustments in the rest and
i was able to get a bullet hole within just a couple minutes arrow flight is incredible and
i came out here and i was shooting it out to 50 yards and once i got my sight dialed in man the
everything just fell right behind the pin it was effortless you know some bows can be super
accurate but you kind of have to work you have to pay attention to every little detail to get that
bow to work for you this is not one of those bows this is one where you can kind of relax
just let the bow do what it does and things fall into place i guess that's forgiveness is what they
would call that i tend to like that one because i am not perfect in my shot process so it was nice
to shoot this bow and get that kind of performance so i can't stress enough that it's it's enjoyable
from my end to see when a company makes one of these big jumps in their technologies you know
which may take them away from things that they are known for and of course Prime you know going
away from the parallel cam systems but still you know with the inline system they were still able
to achieve the things they accomplished with the parallel cam system with single cams with just a
regular binary cam system that's incredible to see how they were able to work through that process
to get this system to function and do everything that that parallel cam system did so that is the
Prime Inline series the Inline one Inline three and Inline five great innovative new bows from
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