QuoteOriginally posted by overbo:
cons,
Static tips are more sensitive to finger pressure at release, Static tips generally use a wider thin core limb, which makes them likely to twist, and their string life is shorter.

Pros,Been covered above but better performance. Not buying that.

I respectful disagree with all of the above too. There are quite a few Static tip bows out there that have full length width taper to them with narrow working section that are rock solid in the stability dept.

Take a good look at the old Ballistic bows. those limbs were seriously narrow. I designed my own Sasquatch SS after the ballistic design and are just above 1.5" in the working section of the limb and they track like they were on rails.

The only cons about static tip RC bows would be the care it takes stringing them.

I own a RER vital and couldn't discover any con's. I use a bow stringer for all my bows, and a static tip isn't harder to string up then any other bow.
I must also admit that good bows stay good bows. I own two other bows that are not static tips that shoot equally well, much much pre-load too.

I've owned a Ballistic and 2 other static tip RCs. Compared to many other design, they have wide limbs. They may track to their pre-draw position but they can more easily twist to full draw than a narrow thicker core design. Just stands to reason why one must use more caution to string one. We all know what happens if the stringer isn't placed in the center of the limb tips or if you don't pull the bow up in perfect line w/ the stringer. You get a bow that abruptly flips 180 degrees before it's strung. ST's are far more likely to have this happen.
From my experience,
Static tipped RCs aren't as easy to bare shaft as other designs. They seem more critical to shooter's era.
If you like your ST's. Fine, and enjoy shooting them. I couldn't get out of them what I wanted.

http://www.stickbow.com/sovereignarchery/bowdesign2.html
orth reading.

Actually my static limbs profile taper is relative to bow weight. I go from a mid taper to a full tsaper in heavier weights. CAre should be taken in stringing all recurve bow. The lighter weight re especially vulnerable because they inheriently do not have super torsion stabilityHowever this is also correctable. Most problems with Static bows can be tracked down to the bowyer wanting to cookie cutter the limb profiles or not knowing how to adjust to various weights. Also some limb designs are just not all that stable and then we have the problems Stephen is describing. If he had full width limbs from Soverigne then they may have been built when John was in a learning process. All of them I have seen have been a full length taper from 1 5/;8 at the wedge to 3/4 in at the tips. with .0015 taper in the lams. They were also pretty stiff limbs with good stability and wonderful shooters.
God bless, Steve

Not sure about pro's and cons...but I will say I shot a lot of Jack Kempf's Kwyk Styks before they left my shop. They were the smoothest pulling bows I have shot. I haven't shot any other bows that had static limbs or tips from other bowyers but I'm sure they were smooth pulling with no loss of performance.

I have had two RER static limb bows and still have my Orion Static Limb recurve and I can't think of a single con in any of them. The RERs I had didn't fit my hand the way I wanted, but I certainly find no fault with the limbs nor the quality. I've killed deer, turkey, squirrels, rabbits, and a coyote with my Orion. It is incredibly quiet, smooth drawing, and as accurate as my Kanati, which says a lot.

I have a sheepeater spirit, and I've been really impressed by how quiet the bow is. I'm not sure about it, but the static recurve must do something on quieting the bow.