Great video, I love seeing both you and Lucy. My own daughter has discovered her talent for archery and out-shoots me easily these days, so I love finding good father-daughter videos that we can watch together. Keep up the great work, both of you inspire both of us!
As always Jeff great video! As a father of a daughter myself it's great when you can share a activity together! Awesome times and great memories. Thanks for sharing.
Hey there, excellent review. I've been looking at one of those for while. Its a very helpful review. Thanks. Your daughter handles the bow very easily. And yeh they do look like Tribbles.
Heu there, excellent review. I've been looking at one of those for while. Its a very helpful review. Thanks. Your daughter is an excellent shot and handles the bow very easily. And yeh they do look like Tribbles.
Great vid. Sounds like the AuSable has many desirable traits usually associated with much higher priced bows. Just like Jeff I learned with recurves but want to try one of these out for myself now. Also thanks for the Star Trek humor Lucy. From now on I'm referring to large string silencers as Tribbles! lol
Very funny. Most enjoyable video, and shooting. You guys made my day. So, happy to find you on RU-vid. I will be watching,all your videos this weekend. I subscribed today. A lucky find here. Will help to improve the instruction process, with my family. You are welcome in Wisconsin 24/7. I like your style Jeff. You are a very proud. My instinct tells me so. Thanks for sharing your gift with us. Don't change a thing. Mighty fine Jeff. Mighty fine.
I am glad you mentioned the grip. I picked up a used Montana, and customized it with auto body filler because the grip was not good at all. Now it's like the AuSable grip. You might enjoy the Montana more if you try the same. I just taped off the riser above and below so that I wouldn't make a mess and then sanded it down to perfection. I used the grip on my Shakespeare Yukon as a template. I covered it with a homemade bullhide grip afterwards. It feels great in the hand and the performance is not affected at all. BTW I still use my old 31# Shakespeare Yukon to work on my form. :) Bet wishes to you and the family!
Hey Jeff just wanted to say thanks for all the information you give. I shoot a Bear Kodiak Glass Powered Magnum Recurve in 45# with a 52Amo and love it. Thanks again and if you could do a review of this bow for other viewer's.
Aanii, greetings,I was also thinking of buying a bear ausable ,nice to sée the review,looks like a great longbow,I shot a Ragim wolf custom 55lb.pull,for a long time,it not an expensive bow but light as a feather,good shooter with the right arrows,keep up the good vids,great info,peace out!!
Lucy. Take pity on the poor ole fella. Birthday... ... or, put in for one for your birthday? (For him, unless you want the new one. :) ) Thanks for having us over. Great shooting as always!
Good Video... Both- Great Shooting! This AuSable.... it's on my short list...along with the '59 Kodiak... + the Hoyt Tiburon... and even a compound to shoot with only a rest... traditional style. Guess I'm a bow junky.... oh.... and the Bear Super Grizz. ... can't forget that one.
I took my new Bear Authority compound down to the local shop yesterday to get some help with the setup. Among the things we talked about over the course of it was strings. He said he's not impressed with any of the strings manufacturers put on their bows, compound or traditional. A year or so is about all you can expect from an OEM string. In the case of my two trad bows, it was weeks.
Hi Jeff. Thanks for the Ausable review. You mentioned not liking the string that comes With this bow. What string do you suggest with a 35 lb draw weight? Dave in Puerto Rico
It has been a while since jeff putting out a video of himself. I hope he's doing well health wise. But these videos with Lucy Cavanaugh is just as good and heart warming.
+Baba Baba Thanks for thinking of me. Yes I am doing well and I will be having a bunch more videos coming out in the future on shooting and hopefully we will be filming some of our hunts thsi fall as well. We will see how well I can film them. lol
Great stuff Jeff. Amazed Lucy can pull that 50lb and still be deadly accurate! I have a few mates who struggle pulling my 45lb cottonmouth, however, they aren't using proper form i suppose
1, great chemistry between you two, always positive! Refreshing in this political climate! Thanks! 2, knowing what a Tribble is...!? Wow! 3, 50lb!? That's serious control! Very impressive. 4, have you consider "ruining" her by having her compete in Olympic style shooting. I'm not sure if instinctive and Olympic style will conflict or compliment (I use Olympic style with sights, rods, different limbs etc. I do own a 50lb wood recurve, no sights & stable rod, to change up my practice routine). Lastly, great vids, looking forward to see more.
Jeff, I had the Ausable for a long time, and it was a fantastic bow. The noise was one thing that bugged me though. I was able to make it dead silent by making my own yarn silencers for it. The trick is to have 2 sets. one at 10" the other at 14" - Instead of making a silencer that weighs 25-30 grains for one, I split them up to weigh around 12 grains a piece. After I did this the bow didn't make a sound even with a 8 gpp arrow. It also doesn't lose anymore performance by adding two heavy silencers. just thought I'd pass it along since you like a quiet bow for hunting :)
Nice video. I have no doubt Lucy can take a deer with any of her bows. Shooting moving targets like she was just really impressed me. I like Bear bows. I have a Black Bear II compound bow and I'm looking at getting a recurve and considering the Sonoma. Been looking at different brands and models too.
Great Videos Jeff! I wonder which bow you like the best between the AuSable and the new 59. Also would like additional comments on comparison with the Montana.
She's got better skills than the exaggerated archers in movies do! Keep up the good work Jeff Kavanagh, this is quickly becoming one of my favorite youtube channels very quickly.
hey Jeff... all the way from the UK. Love your videos, I've learnt a lot from them. I was checking out your videos from the past and maybe I missed it but I was looking for information regarding aiming when shooting bare bow. I'm ok when shooting three fingers under as I use the shaft of the arrow as a reference point, however, when I shoot with one over and two under I have no sense of what to use as a reference when aiming. Maybe you could do a video on aiming/sighting your target?
+T1G3RKN33 I don't aim when i shoot. I shoot instinctively and don;t use the arrow as a reference point at all. What you are describing is Gap shooting and for that please check out Jimmy Blackmon. He is an incredible archery and he gap shoots and has wonderful tutorials to learn from on RU-vid. I would consider him one of the best there is.
Thanks for the review. What a beautiful bow. Also... does your family put bows in your cribs when you are born? My god can you two shoot! Really impressive SKILL with the bow.
if you had to choose between the two... and hand shock is ignored. Wich of the 2 would you choose? Ausable or the Montana? I love the Montana for its looks. But looks can decieve... And the Ausable looks aggressive.
Big Beary ( in Australia ) Love your clips, great chemistry and obviously inspiring shooting by you both. I'm not sure if you guys still read these comments...or hopefully reply to them?? A year ago....I was adamant about getting a mid-weight Bear Recurve, but at 6'3" and with about a 30.5" draw, I was worried about stacking and possibly even compromising any of the ( one piece ) Bear models. This clip made me swap my choice to the longer ( 64" ) AuSable Long-bow....Jeff's words..."there is no hand-shock, at all" are now ringing in my ears. I had to pay up front and wait 11 months for my 45lb bow ( about 50 for me ) In the shop it felt way powerful and I guess all the shop distractions made me miss the noise and yes...hand-shock. It has the D97 Flemish Twist string ( as supplied ) and I set the brace height at 7.5" ( as suggested ) Initially I was firing the arrows I had plenty of ( 400 spine, 32" ) and these were predictably way too light. I then played around with a heavier field tip ( up from 100gn to 125gn ) and then fitted a full length of heavy line-trimmer cord...thus making a reasonably balanced 600 grain arrow ( or about 12grains per pound ) STILL the bow is heavy on the shock....I think it may go better with an even heavier arrow?? Also, I think the bow's extreme light weight means that there's no mass to absorb the huge forces. I have reduced the brace height a bit and that appeared to work a little...I'll keep dropping it down in increments towards the minimum suggested ( 7" I think ) Other than that, I'll try a padded glove in my left ( Bow ) hand and see if that helps. I saw one suggestion by "Fuzzy Puppy" 7 years ago, about applying TWO sets of string silencers...I will definately try that. Now that I have a 50lb AuSable, I'm even MORE impressed with Lucy's technique and un-canny strength. Any comments about this bow, with a tall shooter would be much appreciated.
I am also shooting a 45# Bear Ausable. I have the brace height at 7.3". I don't get hand shock often, but it can happen - I think when the release is not clean.
@@johanfynbo5377 Thanks for your comments Johan. I think you're correct about anything other than a good smooth release being punished. I did change back to split-finger ( effectively raising my nocking point ) which helped straight away. The worst thing is my damaged wrist. The best solution came in the form of a retro-fitted RECURVE-type handgrip which I cast out of polymorph and put over the existing handler. This now places my wrist in its strongest possible shape and totally pain-free shooting followed...a huge relief. The retro-fit handle does not interfere with the beautiful ( Bubinga ) riser in any way and is totally removablle. Cheers Mick
Hi Jeff, great video as are all videos you put up, your daughter is an amazing shot, I will show this to my wife to show her how nice the au sable handles. My question is what is the main concern with the Bear strings, I bought a new Bear grizzly and love it but the string is still streaching after several hundred shots and after 50 -60 arrows, the brace has shortened so I am continually having to deal with this.........is this simply a factor of B50 dacron strings? thanks for your help. Regards from nova scotia Canada
Yes, unfortunately it’s unavoidable with B-50 strings. I had a grizzly (it was my first bow and ended up selling it to get a fast fight compatible bow. Other than that, grizzlies are great!
I am sorry but I really don't get a chance to see bows other than the ones I have bought for myself. I have heard they are nice bows though. I have heard many good things about them.
Nice format ! As the father of two feisty young daughters now young ladies I would like to say you’ve done well! Thanks and I’ll bet it won’t be long before she out shoots you. Maybe get her to wear the wrist protector correctly or is that just me? Opening clips
