Stickbow Target Archery Forums

DAS Kinetic offers a nice short plunger that would proably work well for you. n
I recently purchased a Cartel Expert flipper rest that works nice with the DAS plunger on my DAS bow.

Thanks Scooter -- the plunger sounds good -- should help to keep those nice wooden lines as clean and uncluttered as possible

John, your description is a good one -- incredibly recurved is right. The Mirage is a wonderfully smooth, solid, and sweet-shooting bow. Haven't measured speed or range, just have shot it inside so far. The 40-lb Mirage bareshafts almost the same as my 40-lb Synerzy -- about an inch stiff -- using the same arrows.

ArcCaster, your last post would seem to indicate you got one. Tell us more...we want specifics. (smiley face goes here)n
Dave

Hi Dave,n
Just got it -- So far, I've only shot it for about an hour.

It is an understated beauty (made of fairly dark Shedua), solid, smooth, fast. It shoots where I look, and it groups!n
I need to explore it more fully. I alternated shooting it and my Zenit/Synerzy -- and emerged with a greater appreciation for both. The feel of the two bows is very different -- but both are great!n
I had been feeling guilty getting such a bow when what I had was perfectly satisfactory -- but when I draw it, and shoot it, and look at it, I feel much better

Arc,n
I'm not that familiar with their bows. I assume it is a recurve. What length and poundage? It the riser small or large like a Widow? What is it's phyiscal weight?n
All the above is just friendly curiousity.

Dave

Hi Dave,n
It is a recurve -- the most exaggerated recurve I have seen, except for those horse bows.

40 lbs and 68 inches, big sight window (FITA bow size) drilled for a plunger button, wooden riser, special anti-twist limbs, riser reinforced with very thin strips of carbon and resins (19 layers in all) so the bow handles fast flight and light arrows. It probably weighs about three pounds. It other words, this is a competitive field archery bow made of wood, not metal, designed for the barebow archer
In order to eliminate possible problems caused by the extreme recurve, Border Bow has a special material that makes the limbs stiffer torsionally -- that is, they don't twist.
The wooden riser is appealing. Adding a plunger button means I can tune it so that it is possible to sight down the arrow without using any 'offsets' -- that is, look right down the arrow at the X. And that is where it goes. I know you can do that on many bows without a plunger button, but the button makes is SO much easier.