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Matt Pell Accubow

Sure I can give a little short synopsis of AccuBow’s timeline Matt Pell AccuBow and then we can dive into how it should benefit us all to be the best hunter that we can be whether it’s with the weapon that we’re using or it’s so that we can make it through a challenging hunt like you said you were just out west and burning a lot of calories on a day to day basis. After a time it has an effect on your ability to harvest whatever animal you’re after.

So getting back to what I originally said, AccuBow was started pretty much exactly a year ago to this day. I launched a product on Kickstarter and if you’re not familiar with what Kickstarter is, it’s crowd funding website where inventors go and they launch their product. They launch the idea because the product itself hasn’t taken manifestation yet, and so I launched the idea, in a concept stage of the prototype I built in my garage.

the first successfully funded archery product on Kickstarter

And the project was successfully funded, the first successfully funded archery product on Kickstarter, I will say it’s not necessarily the perfect target market for the bowhunting and archery community, but it worked out and we’ve taken it a long ways from the bottom up and we’ve been featured on a few television shows so far and it’s really just growing and gaining in popularity. Matt Pell AccuBow

We’ve been really busy the last month or so now that hunting season’s getting underway and people are knocking the cobwebs off their bow and stuff and realizing they actually have to get ready for the upcoming season. And so things have picked up a lot and it’s exciting. And the AccuBow itself what it does is it provides everyone, whether you’re a beginner or an expert in the sport of archery with a way supplementing the time, and the money, and the effort that you spend firing arrow after arrow after arrow in order to increase your physical capacity to shoot with your bow better. Now as bowhunters and archers, we all know that our ability to be effective with our bows is largely determined by our physical capability such as our strength, our stability, our stamina, our muscle memory, our ability to repeat our shot time after time with the same form, same consistency, same routine, and that’s how we get those tight arrow grooves.

And so with that being said, what the AccuBow allows you to do is adjust the resistance from 10 to 70 pounds very simply through what we call our AccuDial, and we’ve built in a laser sight on the front of it which gives you that interactive stability response and allows you to mimic the same feel of holding a pin on your target but instead you’re able to see exactly what that pin would be doing as that laser bounces around on your target.

So now if can picture this, if we can effectively hone in that laser to be more stable around our target, what that’s gonna translate into is being able to hold our pin more steadily over our target for longer periods of time thus translating into greater accuracy and tighter arrow groups as you continue to train with the AccuBow.

Bruce: Now are laser sights legal in every single state?

whenever’s convenient for you

Matt: The AccuBow itself does not shoot arrows, Bruce. So what it does is it provides you with an at home on the go you can train anywhere with the AccuBow. Whenever you have 5, 10 minutes of time, whenever’s convenient for you, the AccuBow’s an arrowless training device and so you can dry fire the AccuBow as many times as you like, it’ll never damage the product. And so that allows you to work on your release while you’re building your strength as well as going through the routine of holding on your target and improving that stability and your stamina.

Bruce: So instead of having to set up targets 50 yards, 70 yards out, I could’ve taken the AccuBow and I could’ve gotten my same muscle memory and everything doing that quicker than taking the time after the hunt, before the hunt, well 3:00 in the morning, 10:00 at night I’m not gonna practice my bow so if you found some time during the day on an extended hunt like I am, that probably woulda helped.

Matt: Yeah, you know it’s tailored to the user and it’s user specific. For example, your situation may be a little bit different than somebody else’s let’s say that’s living in the city and an archery range isn’t necessarily always the easiest thing to access. Maybe you have to drive 30 minutes away to go to an archery range. Maybe you can’t just hop out in your backyard and you’ve already got a range set up ready to rock. Maybe it’s like you said. You’ve got a busy schedule and come 3:00 a.m. do you really wanna go outside and set off the spotlight and try to shoot your bow? This allows you to more conveniently supplement the time that is convenient for you when it is convenient to go to the range and shoot your bow and practice. That’s obviously a necessity, you have to do that, no doubt about it. But, shooting with your bow is not always the most effective way of improving your physical capacity.

Yeah, you know it’s tailored to the user and it’s user specific

So related to that, everybody in the MLB, they take batting practice, right, and that’s great and all. But when they’re not taking batting practice, they’re also at the gym because they know that they can only hit a baseball so far, or you can only hit a golf ball so far, and you can only throw a football so far. How are you gonna be able to throw it further or more accurately? Yeah, you have to spend time actually doing whatever it is that activity is, but if you really want to increase your capabilities you have to train. And going back to what I said, doing that with your bow isn’t necessarily the most effective way and that’s two-fold. If you’re shooting a compound bow, let’s say you’re pulling back 70 pounds, right, you’re maxed out. Well, okay, that 70 pounds with 80% let-off or 70% let-off or 90% let-off, whatever it is, you’re really only holding about anywhere from 10 to 20 pounds at full draw resistance, right? So your muscles really aren’t under a whole lotta strain at that point.

Now if we could put our muscles under greater strain than that in a similar fashion, then the next time we go to hold that 70 pound bow with 80% let-off, it’s gonna feel that much easier and you’re gonna be able to hold your pin that much steadier on your target for longer periods of time. You’re gonna be able to practice at the range for longer periods of time before you get fatigued. Because you know we all know, once you start getting fatigued when you’re at the range shooting your bow, your group’s spread out significantly, right?

Bruce: So basically folks, we have a tool, created by Matt, that’s gonna help you whenever you have the to build muscle memory, eye-hand coordination, and get steady on your target, is that correct?

So basically folks, we have a tool, created by Matt, that’s gonna help you whenever you have the to build muscle memory, eye-hand coordination, and get steady on your target, is that correct?

Matt: Yep, build your strength. What you’re doing is you’re targeting the specific muscles with a specific motion, with a product that looks and feels and acts just like your bow and can do all that a bow can do besides fire arrows, and we’re just gonna build up all those physical tools and put together all the pieces, so that the next time we go to shoot our bow we’re gonna be that much more effective.

Bruce: Interesting. How’d you come up with this?

Matt: Well, Bruce, I’ve been shooting a bow since I was about 10 years old, I’ve also been an avid proponent of physical fitness since I was a young kid. So I’ve been working out, I’ve been shooting my bow for a long time now and what I’ve noticed is, my time in the gym just lifting weights, doing a bench press, this, that, whatever it may be, I never really felt like it was translating into me shooting better with my bow. So I put the two pieces together and thought, “What if there’s a way I could specifically target the same motion and everything involved in shooting my bow so that I can incorporate that training with the time that I spend shooting arrow after arrow?” Because like I said, I’ve been shooting since I was 10, 15 years now. I’ve been going to the gym for maybe 10 years now, I still get fatigued when I’m shooting my bow at the range. I still feel like there’s times when I’m not able to hold my pin steady enough on my target. And so what I’m saying is, no matter how experienced you are with a bow, I think that there’s always room to improve. Nobody is perfect. And what the AccuBow does is it allows you to try to reach for that perfection and be the best shooter and hunter that you can be.

Bruce: So you take that, then you combine it with physical fitness, now have you always been interested in physical fitness or is it something that’s just come along with your archery?

I was a bowhunter and that was one hobby, and then I enjoyed staying in shape and going to the gym as another hobby.

Matt: No, I would say that they were two separate hobbies of mine. I was a bowhunter and that was one hobby, and then I enjoyed staying in shape and going to the gym as another hobby. And I’ve seen in other sports how important it is to incorporate specific targeted training with whatever sport it may be that you’re involved with. And with the AccuBow I’m really trying to generate an awareness of this concept of you need to improve your physical capacity to be the best bowhunter you can be. And this whole concept, it’s getting more and more popular I think in the archery community. But I think the archery community is still years and years behind with this concept of just shooting your bow is not the only way that you can improve yourself as a bowhunter.

Bruce: And I think some of the people, we all know who Cameron Hanes is, but there’s a lot of people out there that really have started to say, “Okay, here’s a year-round program.” Jeremy Krieger [SP] does that and he mentors people from all around the country who want to get more efficient, want to get more sharp mentally. Because to me when I’m sitting eight hours in a stand during a rut, Buffalo County, it’s tiring, it really is.

Matt: Oh, it’s a mental grind and I’ve been there before so I know how it is. And here’s the other thing. When you’re sitting for eight hours, and the time’s going by, you’re not seeing animals, your muscles stiffen up especially if you’re in the cold weather. Man, if you’re in the cold weather and you’re sitting there for eight hours and you’re bundled up in your gear, you’ve just taken your normal shooting abilities let’s say, in a perfect setting, 70 degrees indoor range, and you’ve put yourself at about a 50% disadvantage I would say. So while you may be good in the perfect setting, you should strive to be even better than just good. Because when you’re not in the perfect setting, that’s when most times you’re presented with the opportunity to kill the animal of your lifetime, right?

Bruce: Yeah. So what kind of drills do you do and do you have DVDs? Or talk to me about the physical fitness portion of your company.

Matt: Yeah, so we’ve got all sorts of different workouts that you can with the AccuBow. For example, if you’re working at a lower poundage say maybe the 10 to 40-pound range, this is when you’re really focusing on your stability control and your stamina. I’m sure we’ve all been in a situation when we’re bowhunting and an animal comes into range and you get that one opportunity where you know you have to draw back before that animal’s going to see you so you take that chance, but then that animal doesn’t step into your shooting window for maybe what feels like two minutes or so.

And by that time you’re shaking like a leaf, right? So we can improve on that situation by really training with the AccuBow and locking in on our target for long periods of time, long intervals, say maybe 30 seconds to a minute and really working on keeping that laser let’s say within a two-inch target at 10 feet for the first week and then let’s say we move back to 20 feet the second week. And then maybe we shrink the target down to a one-inch circle for the third week. So it’s all about progression, really in training with the AccuBow.

So it’s all about progression, really in training with the AccuBow.

Everyone’s starting out at a different level so what’s nice about the AccuBow is it’s very easily adjustable. So as you progress in your weeks of training you can increase the poundage that you’re training at with the AccuBow. You can reduce the target size. You can increase your distance. Throwing in all these different variables there’s so many ways you can switch up your training. And on our Facebook and Instagram pages the AccuBow Facebook and Instagram pages, we post workouts weekly. Our weekly workouts to show everyone else what we’re doing. And to give people different ideas of how they can incorporate the methods into their own routines when they’re training with their AccuBow.

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