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IWA at the Nuremberg Messe
New accessory IGEL FIX backpack
The LeoPro crossbow in black
Pavel Ivanov , incentor and father of the LeoPro
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A cold weather and gray sky over
Nuremberg, Germany welcomed the exhibitors and
visitors of the 2008 edition of the IWA, the
European largest and most important trade show for
outdoor and hunting gear. This year the show
attracted more than 1055 exhibitors and over 31.000
visitors from more than 100 nations. The show
organization was, as usual, flawless.
We had a chance to spend a couple of days at the
IWA to see new products and talking to industry
executives.
As the IWA comes a few months after the ATA show
(that we covered here) there was no major news in
the crossbow business however we managed to see
something interesting nevertheless.
Armcross
Armcross from Moscow, Russia, was at the IWA with
its famous LeoPro. The LeoPro is an unconventional
design crossbow with the limbs reversed “pushing”
the arrow as opposed to a conventional “pulling”
design. This design is now licensed by Horton and
offered on their reCon crossbow as well.
Armcross now offers also a line of accessories
including a backpack to transport the crossbow. The
backpack, named IGEL FIX allows the crossbow to be
safely transported and quickly deployed. Thanks to
the original and extremely compact design of the
LeoPro the crossbow, when carried in the
backpack, does not exceed shoulder width . At
the Armcross booth we had a chance to briefly speak
with Pavel Ivanov , inventor and designer of
the LeoPro. He has many new and exciting ideas on
crossbow, unfortunately, being located in
Moscow makes it is a little more difficult to
develop these new ideas. Having seen the LeoPro we
are excited thinking what he could come up with
next!
Armcross at its booth also had two of the
prettiest hostess of the show (Not strictly crossbow
related but it was a pleasure to come over their
booth again and again… J ).
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