Nicely done on this. I guess you could say I started bow fishing when I was a kid. Hahha. After watching some of y’all. I played with a bow and got some fish. I think I want to get back into that. I would like a decent rig. However I just plan to play with it. Excellent job on this video. Have a blessed weekend. Dale.
Bro the adjustable foot tension screw binds up if you got to tight. One side is right handed threads and other is left handed that allows you to tighten or loosen going one direction with nut. I was watching your video because I’m putting one on tonight. Take the rod seat off take out two Allen screws I had use pliers after took off left hand threaded side to get adjustment nut loose. Then it tightened up nicely.
I have owned one for a EIGHT DAYS. I am retired, I spend most of my days walking canals and ponds here in South Florida, Shooting Gar, Tilapia, Mayan Cichlids... Etc. I spend many, many hours shooting fish from the bank and my boat. Yesterday I had an Off day, I was consistently missing fish and slinging arrows wide, high and low. I thought it was me.. It wasn't. It was this reel. I lost 4 brand new arrows during the course of my shooting today. It seems this reel has decided to not retract the pickup pins all the way.. most times it does, other times they stick out far enough to interfere with the line going out putting a whole lot of drag on it and stopping the arrow short of the shot I was making.. and several times far enough to catch the line mid shot and break off my arrow!! I had to bring it home and operate on it.. hopefully it works correctly now.. I have had this reel only a short period of time and it has progressively gotten worse. I have fired roughly 1200 shots through it.. It was delivered to me on the 8TH of this month.. this is the 16th. If you are a regular daily shooter this is a DO NOT BUY. EIGHT DAYS AND IT IS JUNK.
yep I had the same problem with my pick up pins. once I changed them out to different pins I didnt have that problem. it seems to be the new stainless pick up pins are not made quite right. JMO. other than that I love the reel.
@@muddyriveroutdoors4855 Well its a good thing I am an aircraft mechanic.. I tore it down, after several hours of studying it, it seems that the two pickup pins sometimes interfere with one another depending on where the ramp cam is when the button is pushed. I removed one of them and then re contoured the edge of the other so it falls every time. I then made a new spring for it with more tension. It drops clear with a little snap every time now. One pickup pin seems to be plenty.. and it is working 100 percent now. It should have been this way out of the box.
Very cool video. I’ve been wanting to build a g-nat too. I have been shopping around for reels. I’ve always shot ams bottle reels. I think I’m going to make a switch to the muzzy tourney reel. What are the lights in the front of the reel? Those are badass brotha
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08D1QLYMW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s01?ie=UTF8&th=1 These are the lights I used. I just cut two strips of 3 or 4 leds out of the lenght and put them on the inside and wired them in to a external battery. it was kind of a pain to do. I think I made a video of it. I will look and see if I can find it and upload it.
Nicely done on this.
I guess you could say I started bow fishing when I was a kid. Hahha. After watching some of y’all. I played with a bow and got some fish. I think I want to get back into that. I would like a decent rig. However I just plan to play with it. Excellent job on this video. Have a blessed weekend.
Dale.
thank you sir for watching.
Bro the adjustable foot tension screw binds up if you got to tight. One side is right handed threads and other is left handed that allows you to tighten or loosen going one direction with nut. I was watching your video because I’m putting one on tonight. Take the rod seat off take out two Allen screws I had use pliers after took off left hand threaded side to get adjustment nut loose. Then it tightened up nicely.
I never had any problems with my pickup pins on my tournament reel
Good to know. Like I said I dont think they all were that way but I have herd of some of them having problems. Thanks for checking out my video.
I have owned one for a EIGHT DAYS. I am retired, I spend most of my days walking canals and ponds here in South Florida, Shooting Gar, Tilapia, Mayan Cichlids... Etc. I spend many, many hours shooting fish from the bank and my boat. Yesterday I had an Off day, I was consistently missing fish and slinging arrows wide, high and low. I thought it was me.. It wasn't. It was this reel.
I lost 4 brand new arrows during the course of my shooting today.
It seems this reel has decided to not retract the pickup pins all the way.. most times it does, other times they stick out far enough to interfere with the line going out putting a whole lot of drag on it and stopping the arrow short of the shot I was making.. and several times far enough to catch the line mid shot and break off my arrow!!
I had to bring it home and operate on it.. hopefully it works correctly now..
I have had this reel only a short period of time and it has progressively gotten worse.
I have fired roughly 1200 shots through it.. It was delivered to me on the 8TH of this month.. this is the 16th.
If you are a regular daily shooter this is a DO NOT BUY. EIGHT DAYS AND IT IS JUNK.
yep I had the same problem with my pick up pins. once I changed them out to different pins I didnt have that problem. it seems to be the new stainless pick up pins are not made quite right. JMO. other than that I love the reel.
@@muddyriveroutdoors4855
Well its a good thing I am an aircraft mechanic.. I tore it down, after several hours of studying it, it seems that the two pickup pins sometimes interfere with one another depending on where the ramp cam is when the button is pushed. I removed one of them and then re contoured the edge of the other so it falls every time. I then made a new spring for it with more tension.
It drops clear with a little snap every time now. One pickup pin seems to be plenty.. and it is working 100 percent now.
It should have been this way out of the box.
Very cool video. I’ve been wanting to build a g-nat too. I have been shopping around for reels. I’ve always shot ams bottle reels. I think I’m going to make a switch to the muzzy tourney reel. What are the lights in the front of the reel? Those are badass brotha
I put led lights in the cap of my Muzzy Tournament reel. I suck at hitting fish so I figured I should atleast look cool. LMAO!!!
Would love for you to make a videos of your upgrades on your lvx
No LVX here. Just a G-Nat and I also have a RPM Nitro.
What kind of light is in the inside of your real housing? That’s pretty cool. I would like to do the same thing with a different color.
www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08D1QLYMW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s01?ie=UTF8&th=1
These are the lights I used. I just cut two strips of 3 or 4 leds out of the lenght and put them on the inside and wired them in to a external battery. it was kind of a pain to do. I think I made a video of it. I will look and see if I can find it and upload it.
Do you know the width of the part that sandwiches the riser for the reel seat?