you ever wonder why you could shoot great with one frame but not with another well fork width might be the reason we're gonna explore this today so stick around [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] all right let's go have a look all right we just took three shots with a 90 millimeter frame so we have two that are pretty much the exact same height one is maybe a half centimeter higher than the other the other one was a little bit low but that could have been from from us from a from a slight movement on my release
sorry guys i shoot 90 millimeter frames almost exclusively i sometimes go a little bit below or a tiny little bit above but there's a reason for that now i want to explore this today on how uh changing your frame size may actually uh affect your shooting uh later on down the road so basically what we're gonna do as i took my first three shots like i showed you just before with a 90 millimeter frame now we're going to shoot one with a slightly bigger and one with a slightly smaller uh frame and we'll see what
the difference is and then we'll go to a really big frame and see what the difference is yes there are different bands and different pouches and all that stuff that's on these band on these things but it still holds true to how it will shoot and how will affect if you maintain your same anchor point at all points or all times so i'm going to basically use the fork tip on every single shot as my reference point and my anchor point always gonna be my thumbnail on the point of my on the point of my
uh cheekbone here and uh we're gonna take all these shots and we're gonna see how it's gonna affect the height now i'm not gonna pay too much attention to the left and to the right i may go a little bit farther left or i may go a little bit farther right just so it's clear on the shot but we're still gonna be aiming right at the center of this uh this red dot uh basically to make our aim i may use the nine or the eight but in the end we're gonna see how high or
how low these uh balls were gonna fly just a quick uh note about anchor points especially for people who are just starting out i really don't think it's a good idea to be changing your anchor point depending on the frame you're shooting all the time uh it may cause some inconsistency problems you may be starting to shoot and then you know getting used to this one but no now it's over here so now you're shooting more left but now it's over here now you're shooting more right it can cause you all kinds of problems in
the beginning you're better off to find a frame shoot some paper find a frame where when you put your fork tip on it's very close to where it lands and then you can make small adjustments in your reference point to be able to make your aim just my opinion there's other people who don't think it's an issue by moving around your anchor point that's totally up to them i'm going to show you what i do at the end of this video when i'm adjusting uh adjusting for uh for frame widths so uh just to show
you real quick what we got going on here we took our first three shots with this guy this is the um the prime fork beagle custom that i have that's a 90 millimeter millimeter fork we've got this guy here which is an 87 this is the pfx2 this guy is very very close to this but i do have to make an adjustment when shooting with that frame [Applause] this guy here is uh i can't even remember what this thing is called uh it's one of uh gamekeeper john's kits i made this guy and it's got
a 110 uh millimeter fork width on this thing it's actually really really wide it's the biggest frame that i have then i've got this guy this is the uh camera what's called the wasp mustang or something like that anyway great little frame but it's only 85 millimeters wide which is quite small it's on the small end for me which makes it a little difficult and then we got the evo everybody knows about the evo 95 millimeter fork width and uh it's a great little shooter um but also just outside of my sweet spot a little
bit on the big side so i have to make an adjustment for this one as well so let's go ahead and uh take a couple of shots i guess we'll start off with the big boy first and we'll take a shot with that and see where it goes and keep in mind i am going to keep using the same anchor point all the time thumbnail on the cheekbone [Applause] all right we can have a look but i don't even think it hit the target that's how low it was all right you see we still have
the three beagle shots and i hit right down here i could feel the dent with my finger let's see if i can give you a look at that can you see it that shot hit right down here because that fork width is way too high uh way too big for my uh anchor point look at that all right this is the wasp we're gonna go ahead and take a shot with this it's an 85 millimeter fork width let's go ahead and take a look take a shot and see how it is [Applause] all right so
there's our other shot it landed right here behind the hook the hook hole so that's our 90 millimeters and that's a difference that five millimeters made on the small end that's how much it made only a half centimeter gave us all this distance over 10 meters crazy but that's how it is guys all right now we're going to take a shot with the evo uh the evo is a 95 millimeter frame so we're going we're basically going one step uh one full centimeter uh bigger in width um but only a half centimeter bigger than my
sweet spot so let's go ahead and take a look and see how this one goes uh again same anchor point same reference point on the fork and we're aiming still for the very center of that red dot on that on that target so here it goes this is our uh three shots of 90 millimeters pretty close pretty decent grouping we have an 85 millimeter uh shot up here look take a look at the distance which is five millimeters smaller than my sweet spot and down here is a 95 i was a little bit off to
the left of that one for some reason but this is a 95 but look at the distance that's five millimeter bigger that's five millimeters smaller it's almost identical from my sweet spot now let's try one with 87 millimeters and see what happens all right pfx2 it's got an 87 millimeter uh fork width let's go ahead and take a shot with this guy and we'll see how everything lines up uh in the end uh we should be shooting a little bit high considering let's see how it goes all right we dropped our other shot about a
centimeter higher than this guy for some reason um we're only two centimeters off our sweet spot but as a higher uh a centimeter higher than my regular shot which is not so bad i am trying to aim here but if i raised up it just a little bit or came down a little bit on my shot i don't know but this shot should be higher so we're just going to try one more to confirm that all right so i put this shot over to the right just so we can get a clearer shot because i
thought maybe we might land back in the same hole again but uh we are slightly higher than the other one uh but pretty close so 87 90 any anywhere in that range of uh of a fork width seems to be one that's going to be great for my anchor point now what do i do to try to drop a shot in here with like say a 95 millimeter fork with let's take a look so what does this mean if you actually see online a frame that you really really like and you want to try out
but it's not it's a bit wider or a bit shorter than what you're used to well i'll show you what the difference is we're going to go ahead and take a shot with this evo same distance same anchor point but we're going gonna have to change our reference point on the fork a little bit so basically what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna go ahead take a shot we're gonna go take a look at it where it landed and then we're gonna i'm gonna talk to you and show you basically what i've done uh to
make my shot land where i needed it to let's take a look all right now you can see our height which is basically what our issue was by changing the fork size we dropped that height we actually hit the nine i was actually aiming here and i pulled it off to the right a little bit to the left again for some reason i'm gonna take one more shot just to see what happens but we've adjusted the height issue so that's that's something else if it's hooking to the left there's a most like it's most likely
that i'm actually pulling my arm a little bit to the end when i'm releasing so i'm pulling my shot as i would say but let's see if we can uh let's take one more shot and see how that works for 90 mil frames i typically shoot using the corner of the of the fork now shooting this 95 millimeter fork i gotta raise that up just a little bit i pop it up maybe uh i don't know maybe one eighth or a quarter of an inch to be able to hit the center of that thing and
we were just just off just off there that could have been many things but that's a fine-tuned deal so if we end up gonna end up using one of the smaller guys like this wasp instead of shooting off the tip you're going to want to drop that down so we're going to find our line you're going to drop it down just a touch and then you're going to take your shot and that should land right in that center let's go ahead and try that sorry guys there you have it i had the aim down here
to make the shot come up to anywhere near that uh that 40 mil spot now we are a little bit off to the right so be it uh i was flip-flopping frames too much today and uh it makes it a little difficult to to remember uh how each one of each one of them are going to react when i'm shooting but in the end uh what does this mean basically it means it's for especially for you guys who are just starting out and you pick up one frame and you can't figure out why there's a
good chance to fork with it's not working in relation to wherever your anchor point is so uh if i decided to shoot my anchor point at the corner of my mouth while i was shooting where all those shots landed today would have been all over the place it would have been different different uh reaction to everything compared to having the one here now basically how i settled on on my cheekbone with the 90 millimeter frames well i went and i stood in front of a mirror and i held my i held my frame out and
everything like that and i checked to see if the bands were lining up even uh to my face and that's where i started from it and then i started shooting at paper targets to work out all the kinks when i'm bringing different frames to you guys and you know even a 90 ml frame and a 90 ml frame may have a longer fork or a shorter fork and all these things will make a difference once you find one and you settle in on something that's actually keeping you consistent you're shooting all the time don't change
from it stay with it keep on going with that keep on working it and eventually you're going to be stacking shot on top of shot now i'm telling you from experience over the years i've been i mean i haven't been shooting very long it's uh just a little over a year two years now i think uh somewhere around there but shooting at a 40 mil flipper when i shoot consistently with the same frame same band same pouch same ammo for a good couple of weeks all of a sudden i'm stacking shot and top a shot
i can hit a 12 uh a 10 centimeter flipper uh sorry uh a a for a centimeter flipper over and over and over again my i think my record so far is 13 13 hits consecutive which is pretty damn good i'm proud of that but when i'm flipping back and forth with frames and bands and pouches and all this stuff all the time it actually hurts my shooting so for you guys to gain consistency in the beginning find a fork width find um an ammo and a band set that you you find good it's got
you know a decent pull a decent grip on the pouch shoot those exclusively for a long time and you're gonna see your your accuracy just shrink down to a tiny little spot in no time anyway i hope this video helps somebody out thanks for watching i'll see you again soon it would be awesome if you could hit that like button and subscribe uh that's all i got to say guys you guys take care get on practice stay safe be good to each other i'll see you again soon i love you guys are freaking awesome it's
the most important takeaway from this video is consistency there are so many variables while you're shooting you know your slingshot your bands your form your release your posture everything if you could eliminate your gear from the equation always shoot the same stuff the same frame same ammo same bands then you only have to worry about your form and your form is the most important thing of all once your form was the same and consistent all the time you can work on your release your release is good then you're just dropping shots and bull's-eyes all day
long i hope you guys found this video useful um i'll have some more for you in the future you guys take care see you again soon
