WHAT’S ON YOUR BOW: DAVID JACKSON
RISER: Uukha Xpro2, the lightest 27in riser on the market, weighing in at 1225g “Uukha were my first sponsors. They are a French company, so it felt natural to start there. Very good equipment, I have been with them for five years now, but I will be trying the latest Gillo, as I am quite curious about all the hype behind it.”
LIMBS: Uukha SX+, S-curve profile. I shoot a 72in bow, poundage on the fingers is 39lb.
BUTTON: Prestige Micro Click by Arc Systeme (France) uses magnets instead of springs. “It is an interesting plunger and you can be very accurate in your tuning, and it is especially easy to adjust on the course. I have used the previous plunger by them, too, but before that it was Werner Beiter. A useful feature on the Arc Systeme is that you have gradation marks on the adjustable part of the button, visible to you. With Beiter these are not that visible, they are on the inside of the screw. “Colour is important to me. I need to have specific things of the same colour or it doesn’t shoot well. My plunger is red, my nocks are red and there is a little bit of red on the Uukha logo.”
WEIGHTS: By Avalon. “Now I have in between 800g and 900g. With the current riser I can only mount them on to the front, so some are placed closer to the middle of the riser and some more at the bottom.”
GRIP: “I use the standard Uukha grip, but
I have remade it completely, using a file and grip putty. Mine is quite like how [Jake] Kaminski makes his, a very flat grip. I have put the putty where the web of the thumb goes, at the top of the grip, and I would say it makes a medium-low rise. I use no additional tape around it.”
STRING: BCY 8125, currently 20 strands. “For my poundage, the recommendation is
16 or 18, but I have not managed to tune my bow properly with the arrows I currently shoot. “My string is just one colour – black, same for the serving string, sometimes grey. I can see it well even if it is black on black.”
TAB: “The one I am currently shooting is made by a Chinese company, Bicaster Archery, very new. I just found it on Amazon and tried it. It’s a good tab, I was quite surprised. It has an elastic strap for three fingers. The only thing I did to it was cut the leather to my size. My previous tab was a regular Olympic recurve tab by Fivics that I have made into a barebow tab.”
ARROWS: DK Bow-factory Gugnir arrows (Germany). Very light arrows, inner diameter of 4.2mm, consistent in spine and straightness: 006 for training, 001 for competitions. “I use 4in KSL Jet6 Vanes, the new shark profile, all in black – looks classy. Stringwalking is not good for arrow flight, so I like to put big vanes on mine; complemented by 100gr points and red or yellow Beiter Asymmetric nocks.”
ARROW REST: Arc Systeme CL10 (magnetic) EQUIPMENT CHANGES FOR INDOOR AND OUTDOOR: “I use the same set-up and arrows for both, only changing the points to a heavier 120g, which makes my indoor grouping better. “Every year my equipment changes quite a lot because I get new gear from Uukha. Four or five years ago I used to shoot about 45lb, but now I am down to 39lb because I realised that control is better than power.”