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DRAKE Black Velvet - ILF - 62"-66" - 20-44 lbs - Recurve bow
The new DRAKE Black Velvet recurve bow is elegant. The matt black riser and the black JACKALOPE Zircon limbs, which make the wood visible on their flanks, form a combination that simply looks good. The delicate wooden accents of the limbs contrast with the very technical-looking riser, but complement it perfectly.
The 21 inch long DRAKE Black Velvet riser with its 1160g is comfortable to hold and even more important, pleasant to shoot. Because with its optimal weight it is not too heavy to allow shooters to successfully complete longer training sessions and competitions, but also not too light to give the shooter good feedback and a binding feeling when shooting.
Manufactured from high-strength aluminium, it naturally has all the standard bushings for button, arrow rest and stabilizer. It also has adjustment possibilities for lateral alignment of the limbs.
Limbs with ILF connector system
Made of black fibreglass laminate with a core of high-quality maple and mako wood, JACKALOPE Zircon ILF limbs offer everything you need for a successful start: good stability, excellent performance and a wide range of draw weights and bow lengths.
The limbs are attached to the riser via the International Limb Fitting System (ILF). They are simply inserted into the worm arm receptacles on the riser and not screwed. This innovative, standardised system allows the use of ILF limbs from different manufacturers and does not bind the shooter to one manufacturer or the manufacturer of the riser. This means that the limbs can be mounted quickly and easily or exchanged for other traction weights or models.
Characteristics:
- Bow length: 62", 64" or 66"
- Draw weight: 20-58 lbs (depending on the bow length)
- Length riser: 21"
- Weight: approx. 1550g
- System: ILF
- Only available as right hand model.
Scope of delivery:
1x 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
Notes on draw weight & bow length
Limb labelling
The limbs of a bow are always labelled with an inscription that not only indicates the draw weight of the limbs, but also the length of the riser or the bow length to which the draw weight refers. This labelling can look like this, for example:
25 lbs @ 19 inches or
19H 25 lbs 62 inches or
25 lbs @ 62 inches or also
62 inches / 25 lbs
If no length of the riser is specified, a 25 inch riser is usually the basis for the draw weight specification. In the case of special bows where the limbs are only suitable for the respective riser, the draw weight is of course based on the corresponding riser.
Many limbs are also available in three different lengths - usually called short, medium and long - with which the bow lengths 66, 68 and 70 inches can be achieved despite the same riser.
Converting the draw weight and bow length
Many limbs have universal mounting options that allow them to be used at least on different risers from one manufacturer or even across manufacturers. However, it is important to note that the use of a shorter or longer riser will result in a change in bow length and draw weight.
As a rule of thumb, you can remember the following:
-2 inch riser length = -2 inch bow length & +2 lbs draw weight
or
+2 inch riser length = +2 inch bow length & -2 lbs draw weight
I.e.: If the riser is 2 inches shorter than the length to which the draw weight specification on the limbs refers, the bow is 2 inches shorter and the specified draw weight increases by 2 lbs.
Example table for limbs with the draw weight specification for a 25 inch riser (e.g. 20 lbs @ 25 inches) and a bow length of 68 inches. The table is incomplete and can be continued as required depending on the centre section length.