hey guys dan pickar here with eastman's bowhunting journal today we're going to do a bow review on
the bear redemption eko now while i got you here be sure you subscribe to the channel
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get right into it now this is a new bow for 2021 from bear archery it's their flagship bow
just a great 31 inch axle axle all-around bow hunting bow um 342 feet per second is the ibo
six and a quarter inch brace height just kind of that mid-range what we've been seeing uh this year
in flagship bows uh size uh four pounds what i do like this year from bear is the grip
they did a grip change nice flat back kind of gotten used to that over the years
i like what they did too with this line on this grip it kind of just gives you the ability to
eyeball center shot and it makes setup of the bow and the rest just easier they do include their
original style grip with this setup if you prefer that as well but i do like that slimmer feel
and they did a really good job with the ergonomics of that this year with their riser design
what also stands out to me is this align lock technology and what they did is they put a
little level in here inside the riser and what that does is it gives you the ability to really
get that second and third axis leveling very quickly it's it's way easier than it used to
be back when i was working on my third axis probably back in the day 10 years ago or even
with bows that don't have a level is i'd put them on a door frame after making sure it's
level and putting that bow on the door frame and then kind of eyeballing it and getting my sight
level but this just makes it so easy there's a level inside the bow there's a level on your sight
you line them up you can tell if your sight is not level and you can adjust your third axis slick as
you please you're done in a matter of seconds so that's really cool so this is the new vrs system
which is the vibration reduction system cuts the vibration by 25 percent on this year's bow
so that's awesome what i really do like about this eko cam is the adjustability and what i like about
the adjustability is no bow press required you can adjust the module to your draw length 26 to
30 inches and then you can adjust your draw stop whether you want it on the cable or you want it on
the actual limb but you can adjust it from 75 to 90 a pretty wide range of let off that
you can set to your liking now the peak is is pretty sharp on this and then the let off into
the valley it's really easy to hold this is set up at 85 percent let off so it's it's pretty easy
to hold and as that draw comes back right at the peak a little stiff and then it breaks off and
you could 85 percent you can hold that a long time uh there are some states that uh 85 percent is not
legal i think montana is one of them so you can adjust it to make sure your bow is legal for when
you do go hunt montana and so you can adjust uh that let off and like when when i'm going to let
this down i feel like i almost have to like push it down because it's so the valley is so deep it's
it's yeah just super easy to hold so that's good especially for kids or maybe somebody that's
not necessarily familiar with the bow or maybe have doesn't have the muscle tone that big let
off is handy for that and of course being able to change the draw length is huge the ability to
adjust your draw length on the fly if you need to let somebody borrow your bow if you have a
kid that's grown into a bow that's fantastic a lot of bows these days you have to switch out
the whole module and which it's doable but this just makes it so convenient so i love that about
the bear redemption this year is the align lock for the third axis and the adjustable eko cam
so pretty awesome set up they have here okay so we have the trophy ridge hotwire side on here
nice streamlined light sight great all around sight four fixed pins on here so nice and simple
so we have the whisker biscuit 5 max on here i've never really shot whisker biscuit too much you are
limited by using straight veins through a whisker biscuit the pros are with this rest is its full
containment so you can knock an arrow and you can crawl through the bushes and stock an animal
and do whatever you want to do and that arrow is just going to stay in place
so that is a benefit also with kids or if somebody new into archery is going to shoot this bow
the whisker biscuit makes it just very simple to load knock your arrow drop it in it's contained
it's very simple so i highly recommend a whisker biscuit especially if you're new into archery or
you're getting your kid into archery or you just don't want to deal with
uh you know a drop away and maybe you don't like to tinker or you know there's many other reasons
but they do have their redeeming quality so i've shot this bow a fair amount and i like
it i like the rest i like how it works and when you drop back it's not noisy either so
i mean they made them so it's quiet full containment it's pretty nice
all right guys we're going to run this thing through the chronograph i always love doing this
i got the aerotech alaska 300 standard size arrow spiral weave i like these arrows are tough
and i'm running about 461 grains we'll round it up it's 460.8 if i remember right
so a nice heavier arrow out of this 29 inches 72 pounds make your prediction this ibo is at 342
so i'm going to say it's got to be about 292 293 somewhere in there maybe 290
i'm going to say 292 let's go with that all right here we go
288 over guessed it a little bit that's all right that's still a plenty fast arrow 288 feet per
second that really is kind of the sweet spot usually i'm somewhere i like to be somewhere
between 285 and 295 once you get more much more faster than that it's hard to get really good
broadhead flight out at distance but 288 that's a good number let's see what we got one more
and 460 grain arrow i mean that's that's no light arrow
duplicate 288 i'll take it it's a good speed 460 grain arrow all right guys here we go that's
the uh flagship from bear archery this year the redemption eko great bow nice 31 inch axle axle
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