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Description
ANTUR Janus - 68in.- 15-55 lbs - Longbow
The longbow Janus is a simple and classic bow, which convinces with best price/performance ratio. The grip is made of walnut wood and lies very comfortable in the hand. Its solid bamboo limbs with clear glass provide highest efficiency. The oiled surface creates a velvety feel. It is simply fun to stroke over it with your hand and shoot it.
Available as right or left hand model.
Technical data:
Bow length: 68 inch
Draw weight: 15-55 lbs in 5 lbs increments
max. draw length: 32 inch
Weight: approx. 0.630 kg
Riser: walnut wood
Limbs: CNC taped solid bamboo laminates
Laminate limb: clear glass
Tips: multilayer Micarta
Recommended arrow weight: 9 gn / inch
Recommended brace height: 7.5 inch
String: FastFlight capable
Scope of delivery:
Bow
FastFlight string (matching the tensile strength of the bow)
Antur fleece wrap
String holder Antur
Arrow rest
Tip protection clear
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
