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Grips like the Black Hunter

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#1 ·
Caught my 55lb Black Hunter longbow looking at me with needy eyes. So I took it off the hook and out for a shoot today, leaving my current goto, a fancy carbon fibre and alu ILF rig, in the lurch. I found myself grouping very well out to 25m in no time, after weeks of not touching it. Arrows slapping. Yet again confronted with the mystery of this bow - so well designed as a point and shoot, so easy in hand and so accurate. Most of all, how can it have so little torquing at the grip, without added weights? And just as well with a limb-mounted bow quiver loaded with heavy arrows?

Laying it out next to my other bows, I'm convinced that the design brilliance of the Black Hunter is not just in the materials and careful mass distribution, but in the grip. It really is something else, with a thumb locator that sets the thumb forward, rotating the hand into a bone-on-bone at wrist and seemingly mitigating for torque. You slide the hand in, like a controller with a glove. There's an old joystick it reminds me of in fact. You'd think looking at it however that it would be high-torque, as it is very wide, chubby around the palm.

Does any BH owner have another bow or riser with a grip like it? Any comparisons? I'd like to know how to describe it, references etc, so I can possibly explore other bows with similar.
 
#2 ·
Black hunters seem to be quite an enigma for what is a cheap bow in monetary value.. The grip for myself is exceptional and does really make the bow what it is.. The way the grip fits into
ones hand and fills the hand without stretching it uncomfortably is uncanny.. I am going back3/4 years when a person was on a/talk called b/hunter and asking hundreds of questions about
bows and likes/ dislikes around bows and some people gave him a hard time over it and basically told him to f/o and he drifted off.. Well i wonder now if he/ she is/ was the b/hunter bowyer.
The Chinese were using bows before we where even thought of 2000/3000 years bc.
 
#3 ·
Damn, I hope it wasn't the bowyer that was pushed away from AT. No joke, whomever that person(s) is/are, they are bloody talented. Few bows under 500 bucks would have ever sold so much, and celebrated by so many accomplished shooters no less. I reckon this bow has helped bring more people to trad than any bow in a while.
 
#4 ·
This is how I gelt about my BH experience. There is something almost odd about how well I shoot with it. Switching bows was not something that worked well for me at all. Actually I seem to be the type of shooter that should own one bow and only shoot that one bow. While I shoot my Satori full time now, I still take a few shots here and there with my BH and the arrows shoot so well for me, it always makes me wonder how can that be. The BH and Satori are vastly different in every way.
I had an OMP sektor woden ilf riser that was alot like the BH gripwise. At least to me. I regret selling that riser. There was something about that grip as well.
 
#6 ·
Before the Black Hunter my favorite grip was on the Jack Howard Gamemaster Jet. It just felt perfect. The grip on those bows were a llittle higher wrist than the BH but the BH feels just as sweet to me. My hand settles in and the placement is perfect.
 
#9 ·
The BH is a wonder of a bow, the Chinese certainly did their homework and filled a huge gap in the industry, building a solid traditional hunting bow at a cost anyone can dip into. Hell my arrows cost me more. I fought the urge to get one and now I can't put it down. I'm very impressed with how consistent this bow shoots. Now imagine if some smart bowyer here started to make better after market limbs for it, between having a fantastic grip and the possibility of having higher quality limbs I'm sure it would be the icing on the cake and dare I say a sure competition vs ILF bows in the bow market.