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DRAKE Athling - 26-60 lbs - 70 or 74" - Hybrid Bow
DRAKE´s Hybrid bow Athling is offered in two variants as a 70" and in an exceptional length of 74".
With these bow lengths, the DRAKE Athling clearly belongs to the longbow category, at least at first glance, because at closer look it is noticeable that limbs ends have a reflex shape, i.e. that they are bent forward, which is untypical for a longbow. - But what is the Athling then, if no longbow? The answer is quite simple: it is a modern hybrid bow that cleverly combines the best of two (bow) worlds: The advantages of a longbow with the performance of a recurve bow. The result is a bow with a particularly soft draw length, good limbs performance and optimum arrow speeds.
The laminated, multi-layer bow is made of a core of maple wood with reinforcing layers of fiberglass in the limbs and an outer layer of zebrano, yew, ash or poplar. The grip area of the DRAKE Athling is kept simple and only slightly pre-shaped. A leather cover provides a pleasant grip and sufficient hold in the hand.
The laminates from the special woods offers the optical attractive look. The choice is yours:
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Zebrano:
The wood Zebrano gives the bow an interesting appearance with its distinct grain with regular dark stripes and is particularly pleasing to lovers of light-coloured woods. -
Yew:
Yew is one of the most traditional woods in bow making, which probably had its greatest use in the Middle Ages when longbows were the standard weapon of the English army. Even today, this wood is still used for bow making. The warm colour and fine structure of the wood is particularly beautiful. -
Ash:
Due to its positive characteristics, ash wood is one of the most important useful woods. It is always used when elasticity, toughness and strength are required. For this reason, ash wood has always been used in the construction of sports equipment, such as crossbars, bats or bows. -
Black poplar:
The black poplar is widespread in Central Europe and gives the bow a special appearance. Especially the burl wood has brown burl eyes and a clear and very decorative pattern.
The bow´ individual characteristics depend on the natural materials and craftsmanship used for the 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 |
Weight
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Material
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70" |
26-60 lbs |
7" |
32" |
approx. 680g |
Wood, fiberglass, |
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74" |
26-60 lbs |
7" |
32" |
approx. 750g |
Wood, fiberglass, |
Delivery include:
Bow with 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