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I bought a Compound bow for 75 dollars on Amazon. Is it worth the money?
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- I bought a Compound bow for 75 dollars on Amazon. Is it worth the money?
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Hi Lilly! I'm a 14 year old girl, and I'm such a huge fan! For the past year or so, I've practiced with my recurve bow and I've watched you for that long as well! I love bushcraft a lot like you and love the forest and I'm so glad I have the amazing experience of living in the woods! Thank you for being such a huge inspiration to me and posting videos! 😊🥰
Hey Joy! Lily is a Babe!!! She can do so much. So can you. Take forward steps in your life, young lady. This old boy encourages you!
@@MrPossumeyes Thank you! It's always nice to watch Lilly and learn more everyday
@@joydasko5171 it's so cool to read your comment and know that at least one kid these is interested in the outdoors and sitting inside on the phone all day.
@@kennycampbelljr5896 lol I hear that a lot, it has it's cons though. Since it's sort of uncommon, it's a little harder to make good friends. But like you said, it's better than sitting on your phone all day 😂
@@joydasko5171 why don't you put up some content and teach us some stuff Joy!
Imagine you're a kid and Lilly is your Auntie and its birthday time. Everybody is gifting unicorns and rainbow pillows and Lilly rocks up with a compound bow and teaches you how to shoot! Brilliant 👊
YES!!! EXACTLY!!! Lucky, lucky kid!!!
Then the kid can shoot the unicorns. Perfect!
awesome christmases and birthdays would be just like mine was 😁😁😁 i had all the toys i was lucky ..
@@tomhughes5123 We were too poor to have many toys. We learned to make our own.
@@TheAefril we all worked hard from being teens nothing was given without having to work for it , it wasnt like these days ,
Nice presentation and I think I will order a thank you very much and I wish you good luck for the future!
We could hunt with that👌
@@naturalautonomy4002 I think we can hunt small species or go fishing
the young lady is lucky to have you in her life, god bless stay strong.
Masz rację ! Pozdrawiam z polski:-) !
whoever the young lady is. she is very lucky i'm sure she will love it
Hi , yes I'm sure the little girl will love her new bow , and especially you done some of your own work on it to make it Lilly .
Well done .
Lilly.
When she sees how much extra work Survival Lilly put into it she will appreciate it even more.
Lilly, you sure know what you're doing with a bow! I learned a lot just watching you. I looked at my own bow and realized I don't have any of that stuff on mine. I've had it twenty years and I need to upgrade. Thanks! I also learned a lot of bowdrill skills from you and thanks to your videos I was finally able to get a couple of embers. Thanks again!
It's so nice but really stressful to work in a child first bow. If the bow doesn't work or they don't like some aspect of it, an archer is not created. If they love it, a new archer is converted. That's how archery propagates, lol. I have successfully got into archery 3 kids in 5 years. It's a good success rate.
I live in a place where imported compound bow are very expensive, so i make the bows from PVC pipe and the arrows from wood and duct tape fletching. It's does works quite alright and it's very cheap. They usually tell me it's the coolest gift they had ever got :)
Your well thought out improvements did yield positive results. Thanks for the documenting all your hard work.
Geez. I bought the same bow a few years ago with 3 arrows,quiver,sight,armguard and finger tab. But I'd never ever thought of 'tuning' such a bow for a young kid. You're a kind of perfectionist, Lilly,and we clearly see it's your PASSION. Keep up the good work. (M.G., Qc., Canada)
As someone who loves to tinker i think you did a great job upgrading the bow. I'm sure you got alot of satisfaction after seeing how much you improved its function. Thanks for sharing .
@Survival Lilly , Maybe contact a bow company for some samples to develop a "Survival Lilly Spec" bow which can then eventually offer on to your website. Limited run perhaps? It would also make for a great video series on the whole process. Possible to even pop on to Kickstarter to gauge interest or demand.
Love your vids Lilly. Very thoughtful gift.
One of the things to consider when getting a kid their first bow is that if you give them a REALLY crappy piece of equipment, you're kind of setting them up for failure. The kid can't get it, can't really improve, then they think that this sport isn't for them and quit. I really do think that a lot of kids are in this position. The parents think, "I'm not spending a ton of money when I don't even know if the kid will stick with it," but we can go too far down and guarantee that they never get the bug.
Glad Lily's fixing this up for the girl.
I was lucky. Back in the 80's I marched into a pawn shop with my babysitting money and bought a VERY nice compound bow, with all the trimmings... for $35. Shooting that thing was a dream and I improved very fast. That started my addiction.
I was thinking of getting a bow and practicing in the little back yard behind my apartment but realized that shooting bows within city limits is banned.
Ugh. I could just go to my gun range but that's 45 mins away and defeats the whole purpose. I kinda miss living at home when I was a kid; had 5 acres and woods to do whatever the hell I wanted.
Oh dear, well your young friend will benefit from your experience and craftspersonship. Good job Lilly, I bought your big survival knife some time ago. I consider you a great success.
4:25 "I don't think a 6 year old girl can pull a 25 pound bow"
Well I hope not. I'm 66 years old & just starting out with a 20 pound recurve. Hope to move up to 32LB limbs soon.
These improvements to this bow are fantastic. It would be frustrating for your young friend to use sub-par equipment and wonder why she's having issues.
You're awesome Lilly! The kid is really lucky to have you looking out for them. You really went above and beyond what was required. You did a really fantastic job. Well done! You have a good heart.
FOR A "FIRST TIME" ARCHER, this bow will certainly do nicely ! IF they continue in archery (a BIG if), they can always get something nicer / more expensive.
Lily You are Amazing in turning a mediocre compound bow into something that shoots reasonably well. Your well thought out improvements and hard work is fantastic. Thank you for showing us how to make improvements to a bow and how to use your ingenuity and determination to make any bow better.
This is awesome. Great job on the improvements. The little girl will love this.
Wow! you are so talented. The little girl is going to love you for sure. Fortunate little girl. God bless you Lily.
Simple yet perfectly effective way to compress a compound bow and change the cable. Great, I love it. Well done, and thanks 👍🏼
No holes in the drywall, I won't try that in my garage, that's for sure! Brave and skilled.
In my experience I have found that Amazon rarely has the best price. So much so that I do not shop with Amazon any more. Jeff Bezos is rich enough that he can do without any of my money.
Yeah he is rich af and the employees get paid a slave wage. I dont understand why he doesnt pay his employees a decent salary.
Former amazon employee here. The best part of working there was the day that I left.
trying also to get off Amazzon - local and E-Bay
@@SurvivalLilly yeah it's called capitalism. don't like something about the company? you are free to seek employment elsewhere.
I call it Scamazon!
I think it's so great you have setup that bow for her and getting her out and shooting. Awesome Lilly
You really outdid yourself! That's a wonderful bow now. I'm sure she's going to love it!
And I think I know who her instructor is going to be😁👍
Am really impressed at your knowledge and the skills that went into improving this bow. I hope you will share this video with her so she will appreciate your efforts . I'm sure your little friend will enjoy it. And if she doesn't, you don't have much $ invested. Thanks for sharing with us.
It’s also the little girl’s “how to manual” for her next bow?
I got an old compound off a friend for $25
It only took $227 extra to get parts replaced and to make it reasonably functional for back yarding. 🙄
That was really interesting watching the modification. Thanks, Lilly. 🙂👍
I am so impressed by your knowledge and the way you adapt and overcome an issue, Lilly. I’m sure the young lady will love it.
Lily you are truly an Artemis or even a Dianna in the flesh. Thankyou for your expert and hard work...mentor that young lady.
Can I get a woman like this on Amazon, I found my dads credit card?
Nah, both of those people would know how to install a peep properly.
It’s been a long time since I’ve watched one of your videos. It is gratifying to watch a female showing great skill, and egoless commentary. I’m going to go back and get caught up on the videos I’ve missed. Thanks for sharing. It was fun.
One might be tempted to say "good enough for a child" but when a child learns things, they learn it much quicker and it becomes the basis for future motor function learning, and if you give them a faulty bow, they will get frustrated because there won't be any consistency, and will either drop it forever, or will learn habits that they will have to later unlearn, thus making it more frustrating again, for the child, so having a properly balanced bow, with good symmetry and soldly build frame, then they can get good at a much faster rate, and with an Auntie as into bowmanship as she is, she can help with problematic issues in a proper way and offer tips that can and often do make all the difference as opposed to parents who haven't a clue about the sport. Good on You for doing your best to make the bow as serviceable and accurate as possible! I love seeing this kind of thing, you know in a few years that the child will be almost as good as his/her Auntie, or at least just as knowledgeable on how to check certain things when issue crop up! I wish I had that kind of influence when I was a kid and was learning Archery, and the Teacher who taught me was a complete noob to it as well, so I didn't learn anything useful from him and just walked away from Archery because I didn't have the help of a teacher with a functioning knowledge on how to get better. Keep it up, you are being a great example for others and soon they will be doing the same thing, more or less.
Compound bows are so much easier to shoot than recurves. Good video and it shows that some things just aren't worth the money - you've probably saved someone the cost of buying one of those 👍👍👍
Nice tuning and modding on the bow you bought.
I remember your video of making a bow, arrows, bowstring, and quiver out in the forest. That totally rocked.
Quite interesting. I have seen your videos, they show up in my feed occasionally but I've never watched 1 until now. You are a very talented young woman. I'm not into archery at all but I certainly do appreciate watching a skilled person illustrate their craft. Thank you for your time
I got so engrossed in this video, I let my cup of tea go cold and that never happens if you are from the UK, absolutely loved it, thank you.
Y'all I use a tubing cuter to cut my arrows works really well and doesn't leave any fraying on the end..... food for thought....
That was brilliant. You made that bow the best it can be and overcame every problem along the way. Also I agree that because the berger hole and nocking point are not central a perfect paper tune is not possible.
Its evident you have no idea what you're talking about. Just stop talking.
Backyardbowyer just did a video on making a recurve for a child. I think 75 bucks is a little much for something made completely out of plastic. I bought a small compound bow, its supposed to be office decoration, but its made of metal and fibreglass and i paid around that much. Regarding your paper tuning, it could be the bow is so light and the tips are so heavy that the arrows nosedive, or it could be the timing of the cams being off. There are a lot of very accurate compound bows where the arrows are not shot through the center of the bow, Prime does this.
Good point on the bow being point heavy.
Wow thanks Lily. I've always wanted to take up the hobby of archery and was very good in high school. A friend of mine in HS, his dad was in an archery club and came to our school to teach safety protocols. Being I was his son's friend he took to me, like a fish to water and taught me some sighting and shooting tips. Ever since then I've never took it up. Now I'm much older and bought a compound bow used. It was a good deal with everything in the case that I need. So I have o excuse and seeing this informative video I am going to enjoy this sport. Thanks again.
Congratulations on 900K+ subscribers. On the path to 1mil.
Ok for a starter bow. See if they are interested. Not the best quality and leaves a bit to be desired, but until you know what they want it will work. It's really about the archer and how they develop their skill than it is about the bow.
10 minutes delivery time for the arrow rest, nice! They really got the same day delivery to a new level...
I can't imagine a child shooting a 'children's' bow like that at another child for fun.
Hey Jimmy. Let's play Robin hood!!! Put this apple on youre head really quick. Don't worry, this is a children's bow not a real one...
Another great video! Lucky little girl! Your skills/knowledge know no bounds! Appreciating the great work here in London England 👍
Fantastic job Lily. You are awesome. I am sure that she will love it.
Have you considered selling your own youth compact bow & arrow sets? I think your clear knowledge would help with something of quality for the younger ones!! I know i would be interested in purchasing from you!
I'd grab one
No idea you had such mad mad skills.
WOW thanks for all your time.
Cheers
When you're 'trying to fix whats broken' and succeed
I'm sure she will love it, hope you have some great time together. I've just bought myself a Samic recurve as I've always been keen about archery, however I couldn't leave without a much lighter "kids" recurve for my young grandchildren 3 of whom are girls between 8 and 11. They will use it at my house when they visit. Thanks
Wow....you are definitely a "master archer".
It's one thing to use the tools...a wholly different thing to understand the tools and improve them.
Well done!
Lily, I have learned more about Archery from watching you than anywhere else. I'm grateful you make it simple! 🏹🏹🏹🌸😎👍✝️💜🙏
Getting close to 1 million subs! Great work!!
Great job , Lilly!! It’s nice that you’d go through all that work and all those hours to repurpose that bow for your friend!!! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
A couple of washers under the biscuit should be enough for the front of it to clear so you can move it forward. Great job most people are intimidated by the technology in modern bows
Great job Lilly👍
Very lucky little girl !! Lilly your a kind Pearson .
Thanks for another great video. While this is a video for a child's bow, I am sure someone looking to get into this hobby can follow along with their own bow. You have such a great attitude and explain what you are doing in a very understandable way.
P.S. I'm sure you will have a new archery partner soon. :)
Tschüss!
For sure. Cheers!!
Well, you have done about 1000% more than anybody else would have gifting a 6 year old. What a lucky little girl to have you in her life...
Oh ya you should come back and let us see the young one learning this new craft...
Wow super impressed with ur knowledge and skills changing, upgrading, n making parts to the compound. Never saw the stick n string bow press b4.
all that time and effort to make a little girl happy...priceless
my god Lilly putting such good stuff a poopy bow... it's like putting golden rims on the wheels from the trash bin
Just buying a gift for someone is one thing but putting alot of time and effort to make that thing better really shows how much you care. Im sure whoever that gift is for is really lucky
Awesome Lilly! You managed to take a $40 bow and make it nearly a $100 bow.
I'm a grandpa and so far have set up young shooters . Started out with a slightly smaller/lighter bow and moved up as they showed interest and potential . I second the idea of going to a bow shop . Once mine moved to your black bow's level I was able to pick up used/trade ins at the bow shop for around $100. And caught a couple honest hunting bows for that also when the model was discontinued . I also have found a brand of hunting compound that adjust from I think 7 pounds to 70 pounds . Awesome bows , especially since as the shooter grows the bow can grow with them . And I've also had the regular carbon arrows cut down to match their draws .
Got one grand daughter that the first sentence from her when I drive up always is " Can we go shoot bows?! Thank you for what you do .
..a few months later.
1. Set the Nocking Point where it gives the cleanest papertest.
( That's the location on the string with the least oscillation. You're stuck to that oscillation point. Move away from it and precision goes away... )
2. Then adjust the whisker biscuit to correct the way the arrow points...
( In this clip, raise it up to correct the arrow pointing downward. )
That is great that young girl is lucky to have Lilly in her life to teach archery and bush crafting .
You put a lot of work in to that! For someone without your drive that wouldn't be willing to put in so much effort to get something to work well, I'd imagine spending more on a better compound would probably have been much less of a headache. But it was really interesting to see how you were able to take that bow from being what I'm sure would be a very poor experience for a child just starting out, to something that was actually pretty decent and would be much less frustrating for them.
Plus, I can definitely respect someone that's willing to do some tinkering.
Very interesting video, thank you. That's one lucky little kid, getting the COOLEST gift EVER!!!
Lilly we have a man who makes recurve bows, and shoots tennis balls in mid air. Really amazing stuff.
Greetings from the US, Lilly!
Short answer after all the work involved: no.
I had the same exact reaction as you when you shout the paper lol. Btw that’s such a nice gift to give someone 😊
dunno shit bout bows and knock points and all that but this was very informative and interesting big up Lilly from Croatia!
i have found that to be true too, where amazon does NOT have the best prices anymore
Respect - how you modified this bow 😮 I bought the recurve of the same manufacturer for my kids and immediately changed arrow rest, arrows and sinue. With slim line, light weight arrows it's much better now.
Did I miss where you said what you spent on all the accessories and your total costs? Nice job you must have spent hours and hours on this. Imagine if a shop had to do all this and the resulting costs.
Right?! A labor of love.
Always good to see you and your videos.
Bear Archery Brave youth bow set at Bass Pro Shops $54.99 US dollars. It comes with a whisker biscuit arrow rest and has adjustable draw weights from 15 to 25 lb draw length from 14 to 19 in. I think this would have been a better choice for a beginner youth bow and your dollars also
Yep , but she was looking for the cheapest on amazon in Europe .
Wow! So many steps! How is it expected for youth without experience to ever have accomplished what you have done here with this bow?!? I'm an adult and still know none of this! Fantastic job.
Very clever improvisations. Your out of the box thinking is wonderful. I fully expected that you were going to Robin Hood an arrow. Changes in form will make a difference in arrow flight, and with the draw length so short for you it might be really hard to get consistency.
Wonderful all the work you've done on it! If your daughter start showing if to her friends, your cell will ring off the hook (so to speak) and you'll have a full time job! It's lovely to see you.
The plastic arrow rest was common during the 80's when the compound bows first became widely popular (even though the patent was in 1969) . Of course, the original compound bows were longer with smaller diameter rubber cams, at 47 inches end-to-end and the D-loop was not developed yet. So finger drawing was common and the defacto standard back then.
The whisker biscuit came much later, so she was simply unaccustomed to it.
Overall, it's important for any archer to be familiar with both old and new methods and equipment of archery, so they can use a large variety of bows rather than becoming picky to a few specific and preferred bows.
If she is ever in a survival situation and she has to make her own bow, she won't have those options.
Nice that you took the time to improve the bow and make it the best it could be for your young friend/student. :)
Lol! I belly-laughed when you said "whisker biscuit". In american male vernacular, a whisker biscuit is definitely not found on a compound bow. 🤣
Mega, the washer idea is much better than a grinder. :)
So you can apply the best tools and knowledge to something, but when the base you build on is just not good enough, nothing will make it great. Fantastic video to learn a bit more about bows!
I have been debating getting into the bow hobby for years now and I really like the aspect of building and modifying a bow to your needs, as well as shooting it well.
to stretch a rope (made of clean degreased filaments) :
damp the whole thing in clean water (distilled water is best)
adaptive tension when it dries in fresh air
water again
adaptive tension + drying again
max static tension several times
water again
adaptive tension + drying again
static tension from a high point to a free weight above the ground for a few days
warm wax under tension and 'clean' the day after
wait a few days with the rope still under tension
warm wax again and 'clean' again
wait
final wax and almost no clean
wait again under tension
dry 'clean' and let under tension
release the rope and move it freely between big wheels with moderate tension
avoid torsion
repeat with smaller wheels and smaller wheels until reaching big pulleys
clean and wax and clean at will during those steps
finished
final product should be very, very flexible, kinda shiny, hydrophobe and good looking
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when making cordage with natural fibers :
twist the fibers in one direction
assemble the threads by rotating them in inverse direction from step one (and do all the first water+tension thing if you want perfection..)
assemble the new bigger threads rotating them in inverse direction again
etc
reach final diameter and use knots going against the torsion direction at extremities
store kept under tension for a few weeks
final storage is in big loops + small torsion against the force of the loop to avoid a 'coil' effect when using the rope
never use 'sticky' substances when making cordage
never rub alcohol or use soapy water to 'clean', only water steam and water
only use a very diluted resin on secured extremities and friction prone parts OVER A LAYER or 2 of ROLLED AROUND THREAD
secure the end of the 'thread sheath' or 'paracord sheath' with NO GLUE or resin or melting (use fishing knots and a heat retractable tube or hot was+pressure), just enough so that the protective layer won't slide over the cord
protect all cordage and thread from UVs
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"But, Aunt Lilly, WHY can't I watch your channel until after my birthday?" "It would spoil the surprise for one of your presents."
ALWAYS look beyond Amazon. Shop locally if possible.
It is possible that the limb screws need to be matched to get your paper test to show a straight flight. Each limb has a screw to tighten or loosen the draw on the top or bottom. Tighten the screws until each limb where it meets the riser is the same distance from the bow string, 90 degrees. Also fixing the arrow rest/ nock point at 90 degrees to the center of the whiskers is best..
I just case across this channel from JoergSprave and I'm impressed. She not only seems to know what she's doing but she makes her own DIY mods for the cheap amazon bow. That's just awesome.
Very nice modification. You could paint It with military colors and don't forget the screw.
Hi, I'm a former archer, I used to shoot 45 pounds but a different kind of archery.Don't know if you know that kind. Even went to Germany for that in 1988 the Europa Meisterschaften Wippschiessen in Troisdorf. Started with a normal bow, afterwards a compound bow (Bear) then a PSI. My first sight I bought myself you could change milimeter by milimeter costed at that time 4500 Belgian Franks (+- 112,50 euros) but we don't shoot with an automatic releaser like I see you do. But great video & you changed everything yourself on that bow I couldn't do that. Keep up the good work
Lilly! This video Kicks a$$, You could open a bow shop.
Bravo in deed.
Kind of an insult to people who have been shooting for 20, 30, 40 years or more.
@@jtnoodle ...or how about a friendly reminder to keep your ego in check?
@@AtimatikArmy no, hes right. After watching her butcher this setup you realize how far experience goes. She screwed that thing up someone is gonna lose an eye when the rubber on that peep snaps.
@@GANJAxZOMBIE I'm not experienced enough to know so maybe you guys are right. However, I think she used good common sense and I would be surprised if you guys actually are right; personally, I think that's doubtful. Internet is full of opinions and expert know it alls though.
Never know w/young girls/boys w/all the stupid information they're subjected to from media & friends etc.. sometimes you catch the right wave of enthusiasm. Good luck & I hope she picks up on the sport. Everyone could use a little more keen poise in their formative years.
Instead of just buying something, you modified something and created a unique gift the little one.
You have amazing talent for making and fixing👍
I’m so impressed by your skill and knowledge, it was a pleasure watching a pro