Limb Stability

[Bob Morrison]

What is more important mainly in recurves. Limb side to side stability with good speed or a little less side to side and more speed?? Nice problem or do you offer both????

Bob

[BOWMARKS]

I would go with more stability and good speed.
Both side to side and face to back.

[LongStick64]

Just me, but I would think a more stable limb would perform better than a less stable one.

[Whip]

To me, stability is number one on the list.  Speed is nice, but ranks a distant second.  

I have bought and sold more bows than I should ever admit to.  There have been some burners in the mix, but I don't own a one of them anymore.  The ones that have stuck around have been those that are more stable.  To me that means forgiving of form errors, of which I have more than my share.

[Jason R. Wesbrock]

I'll gladly take stability over speed, but thankfully, such decisions aren't and either/or situation any longer. My main recurve sports Winex limbs, and they are by far the most stable (and quite fast) limb I've used.

[Bob Morrison]

I've been working with a different carbon and some different layups. 2 that I'm real happy with. Both are stable, one is super stable costs a bit more, very quiet. I'll do some chrono work with them tomorrow........ I'm glad to see I got more response from TGers than the other 2 sites combined. I'm also working on the longbow,double carbon fast but kinda flippy....I'm going to try the layup that is so stable in the recurve and see that I get.

[SERGIO VENNERI]

I vote for great stability and good speed. Stability and quietness are paramount.

[stujay]

Bow limb stability for me also.

[Ragnarok Forge]

Limb stability over speed every time.  Accuracy and forgiveness trump speed.

[Sixby]

Bob I vote for both and it sounds like you are going to get it.
I personally do not believe we have to settle for either or.
If you can build a stable recurve then you should have absolutely no probs with the longbow. Unless its a heavy D and R with poor verticle stability.

In that case its back to the drawing boards unless you settle for a verticaly unstable bow as some have.

I wouldn't and I am sure you won't. I ended up haveing to take reflex out until the bow was a bit more of a d shape with strung.

God bless you and good luck,. Steve

[Bob Morrison]

Steve, I'm happy with both layups, I'm just not sure if there is a thing as too much side to side stability??? I only got to shoot 8-10 arrows out of this evening, it felt real good. chrono will tell me whats going on.

[last arrow]

Please define side to side and front to back stability and how it is measured.   I hear the term a lot and don't always know what is meant (I think people use the term differently).

[Bob Morrison]

Side to side is limb ability to twist. front to back is like resting the bottom limb on your leg and having it fold in or collapse,worst care... As far as I know there is no measurement for this.

[Jwilliam]

Stability with good speed.    


Bill

[Hawkeye]

Bob, I'm impressed that you are still experimenting and looking for innovations after you've ALREADY come up something so good in your current designs.

It's good to hear your most stable design is also very quiet.  

For my personal choice, it is Quiet (#1), Stable (#2) and Speed (#3).  Like any good American, though, I only want it all!!!

[rdoggsilva]

Originally posted by Hawkeye:
 
For my personal choice, it is Quiet (#1), Stable (#2) and Speed (#3).  Like any good American, though, I only want it all!!!

I agree 100%

[Tater]

I will echo what most have said, stability over speed, but mostly I want a bow that is whisper quiet upon release.

    If it shoots a 12gpp arrow at 190fps so much the better!!..........  

[KentuckyTJ]

I have had and shot a few bows that the limbs were very unstable front to back. I dislike that the most, even though the bows shot just fine. I always refer to that as the limbs being too "Bouncy".

As far as side to side stability I do know that is an issue bowyers have to ponder when designing a new limb. Limbs have to be made for the general public and be designed to be strung and unstrung for the folks that really don't know what they are doing or don't take care in being careful while string. To make them "Dumby Proof" hinders the line of performance the bowyers can achieve I would guess.

[Bob Morrison]

Chrono, shooting machine 9 GPP 28". 4 shots high thrown out.

Less stable averaged 191.1
More stable Averaged 194.2 Plus 3.1 FPS

[Sixby]

I vote for more speed and more stability.
GRIN            

Looks good Bob. God bless you all, Steve