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DRAKE Archer - 66" - 26-60 lbs - Longbow
The DRAKE Archer is an excellent bow for beginners and those who want to start long-range archery. A simple, slim line with a pronounced grip area allows the bow to lie comfortably in the hand and ensures outstanding stability and good performance. You can choose from right- and left-hand model with appropriately shaped window, or without one.
The laminated, multi-layer bow is made of a core of maple wood with reinforcing layers of fibreglass in the limbs and an outer layer of zebrano, yew, ash or poplar. The DRAKE´s handle is kept simple and only slightly pre-shaped.
The laminates from the special woods offers the optical attractive look. The choice is yours:
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Zebrano:
It grows up to 30-40 m in height in West Africa, but never exceeds 1 m in diameter. The sapwood is light and can even be 10cm wide. The freshly cut tree smells unpleasant and is difficult to dry because the wood tends to break. Its clear grain with the regular, dark stripes makes it so interesting and popular. -
Yew:
This evergreen, diocesan (separated sexually) tree or spread out shrub is protected and grows very slowly. The radius of its trunk increases in 40-60 years only 1" (2,54cm), therefore the wooden rings are very dense (0,5 mm) and narrow. Except for the seed coat, all parts of the plant are toxic. The fruit is a red berry. Yew wood is one of the most traditional woods in bow making, which probably had its greatest distribution in the Middle Ages when longbows were the standard weapon of the English army. The high demand for yew wood minimized the tree population enormously and almost led to the extinction of this tree species. Especially beautiful is the warm colour and fine structure of the wood. -
Ash:
The native ash tree, also known as common ash or ordinary ash, exists in more than 60 species worldwide. Thanks to its positive characteristics, ash wood is one of the most important useful woods and counted among the noble deciduous woods. It is used whenever elasticity, toughness and strength are required. Sounds like ideal conditions for use in archery. Or? And this is also the case because ash wood has always been used in the construction of sports equipment, e.g. wall bars, wooden baton athletics relay race or bows. -
Black poplar:
Black poplar is widespread in Central Europe and can often be found near water. They grow up to 150 years old and reach heights of up to 30m. The wood is relatively light and soft. Especially the burl wood is provided with brown burl eyes and a clear and very decorative pattern.
The bows´ individual characteristics depend on the natural materials and craftsmanship used for production. The resulting draw weights are therefore not specified as exact values, but can only be specified and selected in smaller draw weight ranges.
Available as right- or left-hand model.
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Bow length |
Draw weight |
Recommended Brace height |
max. Draw length |
Gewicht
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Material
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66" |
26-60 lbs |
7" |
32" |
approx. 630g |
Wood, fiberglass, |
Delivery include:
Bow with the string
Characteristics
Right-handed or left-handed?
Determination of the draw hand
The draw hand is the hand that pulls the string. This means that a right-handed bow is held in the left hand and drawn with the right hand.
Determining your personal draw hand has far less to do with whether you are left-handed or right-handed than you might initially assume. It is much more about determining the dominant eye. The dominant eye is used for aiming. This then automatically results in the draw hand.
The term dominant eye refers to the eye whose visual information is superimposed on everything. If a shooter tried to aim with the other eye, he would have to close the dominant eye.
There are two ways of determining the dominant eye: On the one hand, it is the eye that is generally favoured, for example when looking through the viewfinder of a camera, through the peephole or similar situations. On the other hand, there is a small exercise that can be used to determine the dominant eye beyond doubt:
- The arms are stretched out and a triangle is formed with the thumbs and index fingers of both hands.
- A small target is aimed at through the triangle, for example a socket or a cupboard knob. Focus on this object.
- The hands are now slowly brought towards the face without taking the target object out of focus.
- The triangle of thumb and index fingers will involuntarily tend towards one side of the face and this is where the dominant eye is located.
If the dominance of the eye and hand do not match, the bow should still be selected according to eye dominance. The arms can be easily retrained for the new draw hand, but not the eye.
More information on choosing the right type of bow, the right draw weight and the right arrows can be found here: A brief introduction to archery