Recurve Lineup | Product Overview

Hey guys. Shane here with Great Plains. And today I wanted to talk to you about kind of how Great Plains got started. Great Plains started with a three piece recurve. This would be like the original design started with a straight beam running through the riser. The limb profile has not changed over the years. Also, the angle of attack on the limb pad is the same on our B model recurve. It's used for hunting or target shooting. It's got a real stable platform for either one. It's a little bit longer. Some guys prefer a shorter recurve for hunting, but it works great for it. But the riser is 19 inches and that gives you a very stable platform for shot consistency for either hunting or 3D. We probably sell more of these. A 60, 40 mix, 60% more target archery, 40% hunting for this particular series. Just because the shot consistency is so stable on it. But let me string it up for you. There you have it strung. And this is a working recurve. It is not a static recurve. So the recurve uncurls. Now I'll show you kind of the progression and more of our modern B model three piece. This is the first Great Plains bow and the first three piece recurve that I ever owned. It's what got me really interested in Great Plains. This is the B model three piece. This is a 62 inch bow, 50 pounds. I shot a really nice mule deer buck with this bow. It's the same bow, but you can also see that there's already curved laminations in here instead of the straight beam. So we changed all that. You've got a curved grip, lamination and then a curved cap elimination. Same angle of attack, same limb profile and everything. Curved laminations are just to dress it up. It doesn't add any performance whatsoever. It just looks pretty. That is the bow Great Plains started with. Then we've got this bow. Now this would be what we build today in the three piece B model. It's not a whole lot changed in the one I just showed you. You still have the same basic bow. We overlay all of our limbs on the 3 piece B model series. But same limb profile, same angle of attack on the pad, the limb pad. So I wanted to show you that we have the B model one piece recurve. Now. It's still called the B model because when the company started we had a three piece recurve and a one piece recurve. They were both called B model. Limb profile you can see is quite a bit different than the One I just showed you the way that it flattens out here and then recurves. That allows for a lot of smoothness in this bow. Even though this is only a 60 inch recurve, it's still very smooth. It's got real pleasing lines to it. Real pretty bow. This is our Rio Lobo series, the Wolf's head and custom stippling. I'll quickly string this up for you. So there it is. Strong. You can see the profile strong. And I'll draw it for you. Real smooth on the draw. It's not a longbow. It's only 60 inches, but it's a very smooth drawing bow and it's a lot of fun to shoot. Then we've got the Kiowa here. This bow, it's kind of an even mix. People use it for hunting in 3D. It works great for both. This Kiowa is kind of an introductory to custom bows here. Again, it's easier and cheaper for us to build because it's got the style, straight beam, there's no belly overlays. And we generally just put laminated tips on. We can do horn or antler. It's got a more economical price, but still a great shooting bow. This particular bow is a 64 inch. That's what's cool about the Kiowa. You can get them in 60 or 64. Quite similar to the B model one piece in the limb profile. I'll show you that these Kiowas, they are very great shooting bows. They're fast and they're smooth. See that limb flex there? Again, that's not really a static recurve. That recurve is opening great little introductory recurve to the custom bow world. Now our Swift series is incredibly popular with our hunting customers. It also people do use it for target archery. But I would say where the B model series 3 piece is more 60% target, 40% hunting. It's probably the reverse of that with the Swift series. It's probably 60% hunting and 40% target, but they can cross over. The cool things about the Swift 3 piece is it's a 16 inch riser. So it's a very short riser. It can fit in a lot of places. You can hunt out of ground blinds, tree stands. The other thing about it is if you look at the limb pad in comparison to our B model series, it's probably hard to see that. But the angle on the limb pad on the Swift is actually not quite as aggressive. That sets that limb forward a little bit away from the archer. So when you do that you build in potential energy which turns into kinetic energy. You can see it's a real aggressive recurve. It's got a lot of curl to it. It's actually 90 degrees. It's a very fast bow, very smooth. The SR Swift. The SR stands for short riser. This bow, like I said primarily would be used for hunting. So very high performing bow. I'll string this up for you quick. You can see there again, it's pretty much a working recurve. The limb profile, the actual limb is not a lot different than the B model three piece. It's a little more aggressive. Most of your speed and extra energy that's stored in it actually comes from the angle on the limb pad. But it is a little more aggressive of a recurve on the limb profile. Also definitely is our most popular recurve limb profiler series that comes in four different configurations. So I don't have a full bow in the Swift 4 size recurve one piece. But what I do have is a riser model. And this just kind of shows you what it looks like. This is for customers that can get their hands on it and feel it. But it doesn't have limbs on it of course. But you can see what it looks like as a one piece 1, 3, 4 wide. What we call our full width full size Reeker. That only comes in a 58 inch. These three pieces that I've been telling you about you can get all the way from the B model. You can get from 56 to 68 or where the Swift goes from 56 to 62. So there's quite a bit of lengths you can get in our three piece recurves. This of course is the one piece Swift. Like I said, there's four configurations of the Swift. Now the Swift long curve is more based on a 50s style platform. This would be the fastest bow that Great Plains produces. It's got real aggressive limb profile. It's only an inch and a half wide. Smaller limb profile results in a faster bow and more efficiency. This is a very, very high performing bow and it's smooth and fast. Now it only comes in a 58 inch at this time. Eventually we'll probably come out with longer lengths, but it's great for ground blinds, treestands. Just a super efficient high performing hunting bow. I'm gonna brace this up for you quick and show you how that looks braced. It is the Swift limb. So pretty similar to the Swift three piece in the way that the limb flows throughout. It just looks quite a bit different throughout. Here there's full draw. You can see the recurve opening. You can get it in a two piece. It's a socket and tenon system for the two piece. I'll show you that in longbow. I do not have one right now. But I'll show you that. Just a socket and tenon system comes apart. No tools. Extremely efficient. You got a carbon and glass sleeve and then the tenon slips right in there. String tension holds it secure. You really can't tell it's a two piece when you're shooting. It feels like a one piece. So that's the system we use for the swift long curve two piece. The original long curve actually was designed far before the Swift. There again, it's kind of a 50 style recurve platform. A little bit thinner throughout the riser portions. It's got a longer riser but it is a longer bow too. It only comes in 60 inches. Very smooth bow. The limb profile would be fairly similar to the Kiowa. Probably the Kiowa more than any other. Recurve somewhat mimics the B model one piece recurve. This bow is exceptionally smooth to draw. Not quite as fast as the swift long curve, but plenty fast. The recurve portion isn't quite as tight as the swift profile, but still nice and tight. It's a working recurve. This looks similar to a horse bow. Actually. A lot of people like the way that looks kind of a traditional. Kind of looks halfway between a Mongol horse bow and a 50 style recurve. There's a full draw. It's a little bit lighter bow because it's got less mass through the center of it than the swift long curve. Very smooth bow. And it looks great on your wall. You can also get that in a two piece. Now down to our last recurve is our youth model. This bow comes with 52 inch. It's an inch and a half wide. Very, very zippy little recurve. Great little bow for young archers. I set our last recurve. We actually have another one. This is our three piece longbow. But we can put recurve limbs on this bow. For people that want a longbow and a recurve in one. It's actually a high performing bow. It's got a lot of potential energy built into it. But those just go right on there. This is not finished out of course. And this limb profile. It would be similar there. Again, the B model one piece. It's a nice little option for archers that would like a longbow and a recurve with the same riser. So that's an overview of our recurves here at Great Plains and kind of what we started with and what we have now. Every bow that we started with, you can still get the very first bows that we had from the beginning. The beam model three piece are still available today. If you have a riser from any of these bows, we still have all the jigs we can produce limbs for any of the riser that we have. No line of bows has been discontinued. Can get everything that you could 35 years ago. Thanks for watching.