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DRAKE Mantis - 18 lbs - Recurve bow set
The DRAKE Mantis recurve bow is ideal for an easy start into archery.
The one-piece construction consisting of a plastic grip and fibreglass limbs is easy to use due to the draw weight of 18 lbs and is ideal for children and teenagers from 12 years of age who want to start archery or have already gained first shooting experience.
This fully equipped set is ideal for children and teenagers and includes the bow, a quiver and 2 fiberglass arrows, but also a pin sight, a finger tab and an arm guard. This way you can start having fun immediately.
Suitable for right- and left-handed archers.
The set contains:
1x recurve bow in black or green
1x pin sight
2x fiberglass arrow (24 Inches)
1x quiver
1x armguard
1x fingertab
1x replacement string
Specifications:
Draw weight: 18 lbs
Draw length: 24" (approx. 61 cm)
Weight: 0.98 kg (2.15 lbs)
Bow length: 44" (approx. 111.8 cm)
Arrow speed: 80 fps (87.8 km/h)
Limbs: Fiberglass
Riser: Plastic
Recommended arrows:
26" or 28" wood- or fiberglass arrows
Characteristics
| Speed in fps: | less than 285 |
| Draw Weight: | 11-20 lbs |
| Kind and Extent: | Youth |
| Shipping weight: | 1,00 kg |
| Item weight: | 0,65 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