UV SLIDER SIGHT - Unboxing and First Impressions

All right, everyone. Welcome to today's video. We have a very new, exciting, all new UV slider in my hands. And this is a fully production box site, as you are going to see it as if you buy one. This is actually going to be my first time actually opening up a fully finished, polished, everything that you're going to get in one box altogether. I've obviously been shooting it for quite a while, and this has been such like a fun journey to actually come out with an all new site by UltraView. So I think what I'm going to do, so we're going to open this up, and we're going to run through the top features and kind of explain why we did them the way we did them, and kind of, you know, the theology or the thinking behind it, because it has been a pretty sweet process. So the big thing with this site is stay in the moment. We have thought on it a lot, and this really stemmed from the overall process of designing and building the site, of speed and ergonomics, and allowing yourself to, quote unquote, stay in the moment as you are, you know, in a hunting scenario, you have a, you're in the box running in, you have like five seconds to change your sight, hurry up and shoot. You don't want anything to take you out of that adrenaline moment, or get your mind off of things, or have to worry about, you know, moving something weird or not grabbing it or whatever. This keeps you in the moment because it just makes sense. So you lift this up, we have very simple initial instructions right here, just how to install your scope onto your rail. So we'll pull those out real quick. And we also have a QR code for additional instructions and warnings. So we have a lot of QR codes all throughout here because we want it to be very easy for you guys to get to any instructions that you have. So boom, here we go. This is the first quote unquote feature of UV slider. It's the carrying case. We send it in the carrying case, you can travel with it and keep it all nice and pretty. Boom, there we go. So you can see there's three main parts right here. This is the sight rail and bar. So that is going to be separate from the scope and like rod assembly. So these are gonna be sent separate. And then this is the world archery kit. I'll explain that a little bit later, but before we dive into this, I'm just gonna go through a hundred percent everything that comes in this case. So we have instructions, obviously a QR code. We love our QR codes and additional hardware. So those are everything that is going to come in the travel case. And of course, make sure you keep your travel case. It's designed and meant to really travel with or store it or whatever. So I'll go ahead and open these up real quick. We have, boom, sight tapes. We have tons of sight tapes here that I'll go over a little bit. We have instructions and extra hardware. So we'll put that off to the side right now and we will dive into this. So first assembly, how you're going to assemble it is there is this piece of foam right here that you're gonna have to take out and it actually protects these pins and travel and along with just keeping this nice and fresh. You are going to have to unlock this locking lever right here. And then you're going to simply push it in until you hear a click. And then you're good to go on the assembly. So biggest feature, first feature, the most novel thing about this process, what I had to just do to install this is the dial. This is called our dual dial wheel. It has your vertical adjustment along with your horizontal windage adjustment all in one little nice and neat package right here. So we wanted this whole thing to be ergonomic. We wanted it to make sense and we wanted to build it in a way that your hand functions actually while shooting archery, while bow hunting, while everything that's not. We didn't wanna like just engineer something and then work it backwards. Like, okay, how can we make it actually usable? We were like, no, we wanna make it usable. How do we engineer it to be that way? So the first thing is the lock. So in order to seamlessly do a vertical adjustment, this lock unlocks with your index finger. And it's in a way when it's in your bow, when you go to grab your elevation, however, which way you grab it, your index finger always land somewhere right here. And that allows you to very simply unlock it. So we're gonna unlock it, move it slightly. And then whatever way you land with this, your thumb is somewhat always on top right here and you can boom, lock it down with your thumb. So that is kind of the motion we knew we had to engineer this as, where your index finger unlock, thumb lock. So locking lever, super easy right there. And this very fine adjustment. We wanted it to be zero backlash and super fine. So the engineers really went to work on that. They got some secret special sauce in there to make sure no backlash, no nothing. When it stops, it stops. And also with that is even when it is locked down, I call it the override. You can put a little bit more pressure on it and still have it move, but it's locked down. It is locked down in the locking position. And you really do have to kind of ream on it to get it to move. But I call it the override. If for some reason you're in a pinch and you're like, I just can't, I'm at a weird angle, I can't unlock it. You can still move it and quote unquote override it. Okay, so our left and right adjustment. We were able to have it in the same little form factor of our dual dial system, the left and right adjustment by having it pop out like a watch crown. So right now it's in the lock position and all you have to do to unlock it is pull it out. You'll hear a click and then you can turn it to go right, turn it to go left. And when you're done, all you have to do is push it in and it's back in the lock position. This was absolutely mind blowing when they were like, hey, this is probably what we're gonna do for this. I'm like, I've never even heard of that. I've never even thought of that. So engineers really geeked out about that and it's super tight. It doesn't stick out very far, just enough to grab with your fingers and push back in. And when it's in the lock position, it is not going anywhere. So this is kind of the most profound feature of this entire product is the dual dial system. So we have vertical elevation, super, super fine tune. I mean, it's unreal how smooth this is. And that is probably my most favorite feature. They lock it down and obviously left and right. Next is triple mark. So we experimented and came out with a three pin in the UV3 XL. I've shot it a lot. A lot of guys have shot it a lot and we were like, okay, how can we incorporate now our triple pin into a site system that makes sense? And again, works as the ecosystem of the site, not we didn't engineer it and then re-engineer it, how to make it useful. We did, how can we make it useful and then engineer from there, if that makes sense. It's not like we wanted it just to make sense as a complete system. So we have our three pins and we have our triple mark. We have three small little indicators right there that are super, super fine tipped. And they actually are kind of bezeled in a way where the light reflects off of it. So you can follow the light all the way down to the middle of the site tape. Fine tip and also really close to the site tape. One thing is if your pointers are far away from your site tape, distance wise, and you look at it at a weird angle, you can really get like quite a bit of variance on that. And that's, you know, using other sites and stuff. It's like, man, there's really a lot of variance. So we knew we wanted it super fine tipped and also really close. And it's also very strong. Like they have a really big base on them. There's no reason these are gonna bend at all. They're very, very strong. So those are micro adjustable. The two green ones are micro adjustable. If you, you know, spread it out and get your top pin and your bottom pin where you want it, and then you match it up with here. And we'll touch on the scope in a little bit when we talk about that. But this is TripleMark. Matches up any distance, any distance you want when it's all set up, they're all gonna have a yardage, which is awesome. What I like to do is set up 20, 30, 40. And then whenever I rack it, I use my third pin, my bottom pin as my slider. But even if I rack it, let's say I moved to 65. If I have a quick glance, I still know what my next two pins up are. If I'm in a pinch or I'm like, oh, he just, he moved forward a little bit. What am I at? I can just look real quick and it's like, okay, my top one's at 40. I'm good. So it's a good quick little reference. Our next big feature on this that I wanna highlight right off the gate is what we call quick break. So there's actually this little tiny flipper knob, I like to call it. It's almost like a little latch on here. And the same thing on how we installed it, we're gonna do in reverse. So you're gonna rack it all the way down, push that little switch out the way, keep racking until you can't anymore. And then you're gonna pull down and it pops off. Now why this is cool is I'm gonna use this quite a bit this year because on big adventure hunts, on elk hunts and travel for airports or whatever, it's so nice to pop this off, store these separately. And what this really does is it relieves stress on your second and your third axis. Because if you guys know, let's say you put your bow in your case, you go to Total Archery Challenge, you take your bow out and your third axis is cranked like that. Because DSA, they had to open up your bow case, they put it back, your bow wrong or did something weird and it leans on your scope weird somehow, your luggage and it gets cranked. Well, now you can just pop it off, you can store them separately and your chances of stuff getting bumped decreases by a ton. So I love that. I don't know how many times I've been traveling and gone in storage and I come back and somehow my axes are off. Well, this just helps with that big time. So all you have to do to reinstall it, just like we did earlier, is make sure that latch is all the way open. You're gonna slide it until you hear the click and you're back engaged. And it's not gonna pop off on the bottom because that little latch pops back open. All your marks are gonna be right back on point. What's also really nice is when you pop this off, what it does is it exposes all of your gears on your inside. So if for some reason you drop your bow in some mud or some dust, right in the back of a side-by-side gets all dusty, you can actually go in here, clean off all your gears, clean off your rail. I mean, it's really nice to be able to quick break down your site. So that is our third biggest feature here. Another big feature that we thought about, I mean, a lot of this is like, as we're designing it, it's like, how can we make this cooler? How can we solve this problem that we've experienced? And one of those is having multiple site tapes. Now there's always some sort of setup tape and then there's some sort of site tape system. So we were like, how can we always kind of have those systems in play if we change our setups, or maybe we have two setups or essentially everyone always wanted more options. So we have a double site tape system. So we have a site tape on our right side with a single indicator. And then of course, angled towards you on your left side, you also have another indicator. And on this side, or on both sides, these tapes have a sliding section so that you can actually micro adjust these. So if you need a fine tune something, or you're a yard off, it's the right site tape, but you're a yard off or something, you can loosen those up on the top and the bottom and just move it back and forth. And same on this side. So what I like to do, especially at first is I will actually put my setup tape on the right side and keep it on the right side. And then I have my actual site tape on the left. So if I ever have to go back or re-reference or I have new arrows, I just need a new site tape or whatever, I always have it on the right side. Also what I might do, which I've played with a little bit, but I might actually like set it up this way is have on my right side, be my floater pin. So that single indicator, I'm gonna set up at 40, that is going to match my bottom pin over here. And then if I'm ever in a weird position or my bow is like this, I'm spotting stocking, it's always on my, if it's on my right side, I at least have that one pin of reference. Then if I ever go back on this side, it's always gonna match up with my third pin indicator here. So a lot of neat ways you can mess with that, having dual site tapes and have them kind of work together is a pretty awesome system. Let's see here. Let's talk about our second and our third axis on this bad boy. So we do have first and second is combined in third axes. And what I mean by first and second axis is combined is from factory, what we do at UltraView is we make sure that the scope rod is aligned with the site rail from factory. And that essentially is making sure that your first axis and your second axis are aligned and are the same because what your first axis is is aligning your site rail this way with your scope rod this way. So we do that in factory. We go through a bunch of quality control checks during assembly and we make sure that's good. So essentially it's eliminating a step for you guys in setup process. So when we do our first and second, we have it labeled first and second axis right there. You're gonna break loose this top one and bottom bolt. And then we actually have a little micro adjustable screw right there that is spring pressured. So when you break that loose, it's not gonna like snap on you. You can just very easily fine tune that and it's actually going to move your whole scope. And what combining your first and your second axis do, it kind of eliminates the need for the little Hamski tool because now all you have to reference is your bubble site. Make sure your bow is level, but all you have to do is align your bubble with your bow being level. So kind of cool. And then same thing with the third axis. We have these two screws right here and then we have a third axis labeled micro adjustment with a spring in there. So it's not gonna like snap loose on you or anything if you gotta work at it, work on it a couple of times. So I love that feature. It's super, super easy to get ripping and rocking. Okay, so let's talk about the UV3XL-SE. This is the new scope that's going to come on the new slider site and the most apparent feature is the blackout. The blackout matches the complete site. It is only going to be available in blackout right now, but I absolutely love the blackout. And I actually would probably always run the blackout, but Colby got mad at me for using the old limited edition blackouts because every time I used it, they would get a bunch of customer support questions on when they could use it next. So I had to use the standard one. So I'm super pumped that I can use this one now. The most apparent change is our new vis ring. This is actually a little color ring. It only comes in white right now. We will be offering other colors in the future, but it's just this little clip in that actually snaps into the inner ring. And if you don't like it, all you have to do is pop it right back out. Or let's say when we come out with colors, you want to swap them out. Super, super easy to pop it in and out, but it really helps with aligning your peep site. We knew that that was a big pain point for you guys. If you like, some people don't like it. So we understood that you can pop it out, but a lot of people did like it, you know, to the point where even aftermarket people were building it. So we have our new vis ring, our color ring, whatever you want to call it, that I actually love and I'm super excited about. We still have the same light cartridge system as our previous models. And then one of the most coolest features, this whole thing, because I've lost so many of these, is our little set screws now, never back out. Let me show this. These little set screws. I'm not quite sure what this process is, but they never back out. So I am trying to loosen it and I hit a wall. And there's something, I forget what the process that they did here, but these screws will never get lost. These screws will never come out. So you see, I'm backing it out. I just stopped right there. They don't go any further. So super awesome feature, a good headache relief, because I have a whole baggie of these little things because every now and again, I lose them. And they're no longer on the inside. They're only on the outside. So a couple neat little features on that. Also, updated fiber colors. So these are green, yellow, green. We knew a lot of people really didn't enjoy the red, especially it was very, very delicate in the assembly process on how we really installed it. Sometimes it would be super awesome bright and sometimes it wouldn't be super bright. And I know I was always like, hey, I just don't really like the red. We knew a lot of people at Ultra who didn't really like the red. And we did a lot of testing. And this yellow actually is super, super nice to aim with. And these all come in 15,000. So our top three are 15,000. And our little bonus pin down there by the bubble comes in 10,000. So that's like your, I heard one guy call it like your total archery pin for your super long shots, 140 yard shots, super fine tip 10,000 because a lot of times shooting further, you want your aiming device to be a little bit smaller. And then our triple mark aligns with your sight pins. So we have green, yellow, green on the pins and your mark. So quick reference, no confusion right there. Micro adjustable, same as our previous three pin micro adjustable on the inside. You can break it loose and there's actually a little rubber O-ring in there. So when you loosen it, it's not just gonna fall on you. You can very easily just adjust it. I've actually really enjoyed that. And actually you can actually pop this cartridge out, lay it on your sight tape and get it very close just by laying it on your sight tape and visually going through it. But I can show you guys that in a little bit. So this is going to come standard as you see it. But the only thing that you have to select and change is the actual mounting bar. So this is the bridge lock version. We are going to also have a Picatinny for Hoyt models and also a straight version. If you mount it on the side of your bow for like, you know, some other Hoyts or leads, or for some reason if you want to mount it on the side of the bow on a Matthews, you can do that too. So three options there, but this is how it's going to come. This is how you're gonna see it completely. So what we're going to do is I'm going to grab, let's see what sight tapes we got here. So we have right-handed sight tapes and left-handed sight tapes. So there are some differences in the right and the left-handed sight tapes, the way the numbers are oriented. So on these right-handed sight tapes, the numbers are oriented on the right-hand side. And then of course on the left, they're oriented on the left-hand side. So that just helps when you put this on, the markers don't cover it up. So we want, you know, equal opportunity here for lefties and righties. So we have lefties and righties sight tapes. And let's go ahead and let's just do this. 40, I am never going to use sight tape number 40. So I'm going to show you how to peel them off. We do have these, them kind of die cut out. So all you have to do is peel the corner. They peel right off. And then let's do this, let me down a little bit. To install these, you can either take the whole thing off, like the whole, ooh, let's actually do this. I just thought about this. That's actually dope. Another reason for click rate. I can take this whole thing off. I can lay it on the table and I can very precisely put on my sight tape without having to worry about my scope, worrying about my marks or anything. And then what I can do is I can micro adjust this tape up and down slightly if I need to move it ever so slightly. But there we go, that's the look of it right there. Actually on the sight tape. And we have this little green section for a one yard. It goes one yard above and one yard below every 10 yards. And we were thinking about that, you know, other manufacturers do this too, but it's like if you are in that green zone, let's say you range it and it's like, okay, 40. I have a quick decision and I'm watching my pin. And as soon as I land in that green, I know I'm good. I'm within a yard. I'm going to hit within an inch of what I'm aiming at. So it's really nice just to, boom, right in the zone there. And that's kind of the thought process on that. And obviously it changes as you go throughout these sight tapes. You know, a smaller sight tape, they're gonna be smaller. And a bigger sight tape, they're gonna be bigger. Also, we have 140 yard sight tapes. So 140 yard sight tapes, depending on your speed, you can obviously see that kind of starts dwindling as you go further. Like number 10, you can only get 131. And then number 20, you can only get, you know, 100 and 119 still actually. But sight tapes designed for you. And we have a setup tape on there that is super, super easy to use. Plop it on the side, get sighted in at 20, and then scroll down whatever you land on while getting sighted in for 60, whatever you land on matches up with the number on the sight tape. UV slider, a very directional changing for UltraView as a company. I know you guys, if you guys have been following along in the channel for some time, it's always been fun working with UltraView on these special projects. Oh, this would be a good time to show you guys. It's always fun to look at a couple old prototypes. So this was an earlier prototype, still quite a bit long, but this was a functional thing. Quite a bit changed from here. You can see this dial wheel got shrunk down a bunch, a couple fine-tuned things that you really can't see. Those are our old indicators. And we have upgraded the indicators quite a bit. This was our next round of indicators. This is before we decided on changing it to yellow, our fibers and stuff. We had red on there. So it's always fun to work on prototypes with UltraView and everything. But what a big product for us this has been. It's been hands-on, everyone in the company, all the way from designing, manufacturing, assembly, marketing, I mean, all around. It's been such a fun thing, such a fun thing to watch come to market here. And honestly, it's very exciting what the future brings now for UltraView and everything. We're on a trajectory that's trying to make archery better, trying to solve problems in the archery space. And it's very exciting. I'm very excited to finally show this to you guys. And I'm very excited to actually use this thing and be able to show it to you guys. So this is UV Slider, the ultimate bow hunting site. Stay in the moment. This site does not take you out of the moment. That was what it was built on. Does not want to distract you in any sort of way other than to shoot your bow. And I think I'm super, super happy with it. I think you guys will be too. So thank you all for watching. And we will catch you guys in the next one.