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Title: Short riser v. long riser
Post by: GMMAT on March 02, 2009, 07:26:00 PM

Guys...excuse my interruption into your sancutary (I'll leave quick).

I know arhery's got it's tradeoffs.

What are the benefits and pitfalls to a short v. a long riser (TD recurve)?

Thanks.

Just "in general" would be great!

Title: Re: Short riser v. long riser
Post by: Apex Predator on March 03, 2009, 06:28:00 AM

Long risers make shorter limbs, and vice versa.  If you have a short draw, the longer riser might make the limbs work more for you.  A limb is designed to be stressed over a particular length range for best performance.  Two different length risers will make two different bows with the same pair of limbs.

Title: Re: Short riser v. long riser
Post by: GMMAT on March 03, 2009, 11:03:00 AM

SO there aren't advantages and disadvantages of either (in general).....as long as everything (limbs/riser) was built for one another?

Did I say that, correctly?

Title: Re: Short riser v. long riser
Post by: Glenn Newell on March 03, 2009, 04:17:00 PM

This is my experience with building laminated bows. I have a longbow I sell, it's 64" in length and I always made it with an 18" riser and it shot very well. On one of these bows I made a 20 riser for the bow to see how it would effect the bow and I can tell you the bow never shot better as far all round performance went. It shot faster and was smoother to draw. The differance was very noticable. So these day I change the riser length on all new models until I find that magic furmula between riser length and limb length, it's well worth the effort and materials...