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SPIDERBOWS Volcano Dark - 66 or 68 inches - 20-50 lbs - Longbow
Longbows have a long tradition at SPIDERBOWS. During their development, excellent performance and pleasant shooting behaviour were always in the foreground, along with an optimal price-performance ratio. An appealing design, paired with modern throwing arm technology and the finest craftsmanship, distinguishes not only the one-piece Volcano, but all bows of the SPIDERBOWS brand.
With a length of 66 or 68 inches, the Volcano is a modern, one-piece longbow which, with its filigree limbs, manages to find the perfect balance between optimum performance and maximum shooting smoothness. Its grip area consists of slightly curved elements made of grey actionwood, which are separated by a middle strip of coloured teknowood. The middle layer of wood is framed by two 2mm thick Micarta inlays, which increase the weight and provide optimal stiffening of the riser. All to increase comfort and bring the necessary stiffness to the grip area.
The sandwich construction of the limbs has a core of bamboo wood, on top of which lies high-quality fibreglass. In combination with Spiderbow's own special limb geometry, this construction delivers limbs with very good shooting characteristics and high torsional stiffness. In the carbon versions, an additional layer of carbon is embedded, which makes the limbs even more torsionally stiff and faster.
SPIDERBOWS - The brand at a glance
100% Made in Europe - Constant quality and workmanship at the highest level are the decisive factors for Spiderbows to meet the high standards they set themselves. For this reason Spiderbows has decided to manufacture their bows exclusively in Europe. The bow making manufactory convinces with a maximum of experience and craftsmanship. In combination with the best materials, Spiderbows creates unique and handmade jewels of the art of bow making. European production is the most important component of a perfectly cooperating team around Spiderbows.
Features:
- Bow length: 66 or 68 inchs
- Draw weight: 20-50 lbs (selectable in 5 lbs steps)
- Brace height (66 & 68 inches): 7,50 inches
- Weight (@ 68 inch / 35 lbs): 835g
- Max. Draw length: 32 inch
- Minimum arrow weight: 7gr/lbs (draw weight of the bow)
- Material (riser): Actionwood, Teknowood, Micarta
- Material (Standard limbs): Bamboo, Fiberglass
- Material (Carbon limbs): Bamboo, Carbon (inside), Fiberglass
- Available as right- or left-handed model.
Scope of delivery:
1x bow
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