I like my ILF riser (Morrison Phenolic) I have two sets of limbs (55 and 45 I believe) I tried many longbows but I enjoy and shoot a compound grip better.
I'm after a dead-quiet bow. Dead-Dead quiet...and the only bow I've gotten that from was a little Kodiak that was over-arrowed and wrong-handed for me.
I need to decide if I spend money on limbs or spend money on
makinf "super" heavy arrows.
Who has tried longbow limbs on ILF risers. How much difference did they make?
I have recurve and longbow limbs for my ILF set ups. I have made them both quiet. Heavy arrows help, and good tuning is important also. Longbows tend to be a bit more silent. I might lean towards the longbow with heavy arrows.
I have tried them and they didn't make much difference. I can send you a video on how to make a type of string silencers (sort of like mountain mufflers) that will quiet you bow down to almost nothing. Pm me with a phone number and I will.
I prefer Dryad's ACS ILF longbow limbs on my DAS 17" metal riser with a low recurve grip, very quiet, accurate and efficient. Speak with Mike at Dryad as limb length for your riser and draw length is important.
I'm a big fan of quiet bows, too.
Longbow limbs may or may not an improvement. I have a couple of Morrison ILF risers with recurve limbs that are quieter than a good many hybrid longbows. I'm very happy with them.
My dead-dead quiet bow is a Pronghorn.
Guess I will disagree, then. My Morrison ILF riser is much quieter with longbow limbs than with recurve limbs no matter what I do. I prefer a quiet bow, and think trying to get arrows heavy enough compnsate for a noisy bow is an exercise in futility. I have killed alot of stuff with a noisy recurve, but I have also had animals react pretty strongly to the noise in quiet conditions when they are on edge. Not a scientific study, just my opinion and experience.
Forgot to answer your question. For me longbow limbs have been consistently quieter than recurve limbs on my ILF setups without the need for heavy arrows or lots of supplements to quiet them down.
Strings can make a huge difference.
Agree that well made strings make a big difference in how a bow can sound. Here lately I've found that in mass produced ILF limbs that the absence of carbon makes a huge difference in how it sounds. I have a phenolic riser bow and used a cheap pair of TT wood/glass limbs this fall and it was as quiet a rig as I've used and it was evident in the woods this year.
Soilarch, get some stiktammers from 3 rivers they are great and they WORK.
What works great for me is a 6 Strand D97 double served with 1" rubber whisker on top and bottom,,,,And 12 grain per pound arrow.
the morrison metal riser and tt recurve limbs I used to have were pretty quiet, funny that later I got tt longbow limbs and they sounded slightly louder, could be a tiller/finger pressure thing though.
my quietest bow is the toelke I'm shooting these days with 12 gpp arrows. im finally starting to like this setup and be accurate with it.
Boy hush and hush puppies have had great success on ILF recurve my customers have told me..... that along with maybe a slightly heavier arrow maybe the ticket
Thanks guys. I'm suspecting string since I make my own and that really quiet Bear was one of the few that didn't have "my" strings on them. I have a Pittsley predator ('92 I think) that I cannot quiet down but I hear that's common.
I've tried endless and flemish, "standard" and skinny. Rubber, wool, limbsavers, 1/3 node and 1/4 node...brace height all over the charts....I can not make the Predator quiet.
My ILF has two limb sets. The ones I'm on now are black max...I assume they do not have expensive carbon.
QuoteOriginally posted by Terry Green:
Boy hush and hush puppies have had great success on ILF recurve my customers have told me..... that along with maybe a slightly heavier arrow maybe the ticket
"Boy Hush" ???? i think you got a typo going thetre or is that a new product?
:biglaugh: :biglaugh:
Kirk,
He has two daughters running the bow hush business, so "Boy Hush" is probably in development. LOL
Mike
I have a 5yo brother-in-law now.
Where do I buy this Boy-hush.....bulk discounts!?!?
QuoteOriginally posted by Terry Green:
Boy hush and hush puppies have had great success on ILF recurve my customers have told me..... that along with maybe a slightly heavier arrow maybe the ticket
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If you have seen Terry's daughters he needs BOY hush to keep them away, lol
QuoteOriginally posted by Kirkll:
QuoteOriginally posted by Terry Green:
Boy hush and hush puppies have had great success on ILF recurve my customers have told me..... that along with maybe a slightly heavier arrow maybe the ticket
"Boy Hush" ???? i think you got a typo going thetre or is that a new product?
:biglaugh: :biglaugh: [/b]
It was a back hand product when I was a kid!