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DRAKE Grasshopper - 12 lbs - Compound
bow package
The DRAKE Grasshopper compound bow is ideal for an easy introduction to archery.
Because of the construction with the string, cable, pulleys and 2-split limbs
made of fiberglass, hardly any force is required to draw the bow´s 12 lbs.
This package is perfect for children and teenagers and includes the bow, a
quiver and 2 fiberglass arrows as well as a pin sight, an arrow rest, a finger
tab and an arm guard. You can get started right away!
The bow is
ambidextrous and thus suitable for right- and left-handed shooters.
The package includes:
1x compound bow
1x pin sight
1x arrow rest
2x
fiberglass arrow (24 inches)
1x quiver
1x arm guard
1x finger tab
Specifications:
Draw weight: 12 lbs
Draw length: 24
inches (approx. 61 cm)
Weight: 0.5 kg (1.1 lbs)
Bow length: 34 inches (approx. 86.3 cm)
Arrow speed: 75 fps (approx. 82.3 km/h)
Let Off (draw weight reduction): 60%
Limbs: Fiberglass
Riser: Plastic
Recommended arrows:
26 inches or 28 inches wooden or fiberglass arrows.
Characteristics
| Speed in fps: | less than 285 |
| Draw Weight: | 11-20 lbs |
| Kind and Extent: | Youth |
| Shipping weight: | 1,40 kg |
| Item weight: | 0,80 kg |
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