hey guys dan pickar here with eastman's bowhunting journal and beyond the grid uh we're gonna do a
bow review today on the bear refine eko be sure you guys like this video subscribe hit
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bear's new flagship for 2022 we have a 33 inch axle to axle with a 6 and 3/8 inch brace height
this bow has the ability to run a draw length from 26 and a half to 30 and a
half ibo is 342 feet per second we are going to test it on the chronograph here in a bit
but uh just a nice little compact bow for 2022 their same good grip that they kind of refined
a couple years ago nice flat back grip nice smooth sides you don't even know it's there
but it holds in the same place every time which i really appreciate
dampening system 25 percent quieter
than previous models
and one little thing that i really like about this
bow is the align lock technology and it's really not that much i don't know why this hasn't been
a thing in the past but it's brilliant but there's a bubble that's built into the riser
and what that does is it tells you when that bow is perfectly level on your left and right
and where that really plays a huge importance is your third axis and those times that you're
shooting at angles whether you're up or you're down if your third axis is off if your bow's
leaning right or leaning left and you don't have perfect level you will miss right or left
if your bow's off especially at those farther distances and so that's why that third axis is
very important so all i have to do is level this bow up by looking at the bubble and then look
at the site with the bubble on the site and correspond those two bubbles so they're both
level identically and that'll tell you that way out here on your site housing is perfectly level
with the riser of your bow so that's what really matters this bow is really easy to adjust once
again 26 and a half to 30 and a half draw length you don't even need a bow press for this thing
you just have a couple allen screws and then it just slides right around so super handy especially
if you have a kid or somebody that's growing into a bow and you have to adjust their draw length
i think my step boy he grew so much last year his draw length increased by two inches so
that's pretty crazy so that that allows you to change that really easy and to grow into a bow
so all right let's shoot this thing through the chronograph we have these new vector zmr arrows
a pretty lightweight arrow
325 spine arrow
uh but 434 grain so not a light arrow not a heavy arrow
either but i expect some good speeds out of this arrow
so we're gonna roll our digital react pro site to the top
from trophy ridge be sure you uh check this link out above on the
review on this site kind of a cool piece of technology but uh yeah let's see what we got
we got our chronograph turned on uh my specs our 29-inch draw 70-pound draw weight uh once again
342 ibo so this thing should be close to 300 feet per second with this arrow is my guess
303
what i really like about this grip is how in place it goes into the meat of my palm
there's really not room for movement it just wants to go into one place and
it's very solid there's really no wiggle left and right in this grip so if your grip is on
it's kind of that nice flat back it's just going to have a high level of consistency to it
sweet that's a pretty quick arrow i mean as a bowhunter shooting broadheads i don't
like to really shoot faster than 300 feet per second especially with fixed blade broadheads
i've just found at distance your your groups and your consistency will get a
little bit squirrely when you're shooting this fast it's just one of those things
i've tried to you know all the tuning make sure my bow is shooting perfectly
and still you will get some inconsistencies in broadhead flights at distance so something to
keep in mind 303 feet per second that's a pretty fast arrow but yeah i don't like to go much faster
301 that's pretty good so i wouldn't go with a lighter arrow than this for this bow if anything
i would just i would i would kick it up maybe 480 or so maybe 500 grain arrow just to
knock that speed down a little bit and to quiet the bow down too that's all it is with archery
it's a lot of give and take there's a cause and effect for any decision you make and so
you have a light arrow your bow is going to be a little bit louder your arrow is going to be faster
and you might get some more erratic broadhead flight compared to a heavier arrow gonna quiet
down your bow a little bit but you're gonna have a little bit slower uh speed of an arrow so
do what you think is right for you there's really not a wrong option out there
we'll do one last one
duplicate 301 so there you go 434 grain arrow out of the refined eko
301 feet per second pretty cool bow for 2022 be sure you go to your local dealer and check it out