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DRAKE Steam - 64" - 30-60 lbs - Take Down Recurve bow
If you take a first look at the riser of the DRAKE Steam, you might think you have a compound bow in front of you. But if you then look in the direction of the limbs, you will be surprised to discover that it is a recurve bow! - And what a recurve bow!
The riser is certainly the most unusual part of the DRAKE Steam, as it doesn't look like a recurve bow at all. Its clearly reflexive shape is only known from compound bows, which are designed for hunting and offer advantages there. The shape, in which the lowest point on the grip is clearly behind the imaginary line between the limb holes, allows higher arrow speeds and more penetrating power than with deflexed bows.
Made of a high-strength aluminium-magnesium alloy, the riser naturally has all the stabiliser, button and arrow rest bushings, as well as integrated damping elements. Due to the special shape of the riser, compound bow arrow rests are more suitable, as recurve bow arrow rests and buttons are too small or too short for the wide cut bow window. The limbs have a bamboo core and are covered with black fibreglass laminate.
Characteristics:
- Bow length: 64"
- Draw weight: 30-60 lbs
- Length (riser): 23"
- Brace height: 7,5" - 8"
- Max. draw length: 32"
- Weight (riser): approx. 1030g
- Weight (limbs): approx. 390g (@ 35 lbs)
- Weight (total): ca. 1420g
- Material (riser): Aluminium alloy with 5% magnesium
- Material (limbs): bamboo, fibre glass laminate
- String: Dyneema
- Tips: Fast Flight suitable
- Only available as right hand model.
Scope of delivery:
1x bow with string
1x arrow rest
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
