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.
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.