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How would you describe carbon vs. bamboo? Or wood? I have never used a carbon limb but have fallen in love with Legends Mountain Bow...And will own one asap (Damn finances anyway lol)
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I have tried foam and did not like them. I prefer bamboo. JMHO
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"Glass Powered hard rock maple" Boo Other woods
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quote:Originally posted by shirikahn: How would you describe carbon vs. bamboo? Or wood? I have never used a carbon limb but have fallen in love with Legends Mountain Bow...And will own one asap (Damn finances anyway lol)
have TT carbon/wood limbs and I think they feel pretty nice. But if I didnt get them used for $120 I wouldnt own them. Most likly would just got wood cores since most of my wood core feel just as smooth if not more then the carbons. This is my only experience with carbons though. Here it depends on where they put the carbon
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I've never really liked the feel of bamboo cores in a longbow and prefer maple, elm or yew.
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I've had a few carbon/foam limbed bows. Not sure if it is the carbon or the foam but they were definitely louder than the same model bow with boo cores and I didn't really notice any performance difference. I like the boo cores.
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We have used a lot of Bamboo over the years, and it is a smooth draw material.About 3 fps slower than Maple or foam cores.In hot humid areas, bamboo is the worst for drawing moisture and coming apart, any wood core is next. Foam cores have pretty much eleminate this problem. Foam cores with Fiberglass with cat whiskers is one of the quietest limbs I've shot. Carbon is or should be used more for the stability than for speed, we only gain 2-4 fps with foam. Our Max1 limbs can only be made with carbon, fiberglass is just not stable enough for our limb design.
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If a bow shoots good for you, core material should not matter. To buy a bow or not by a bow based on core material is not the best idea. More important issues in buying a bow I think.
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Kirk at BIg Foot built me a bow not long ago. I told him I wanted it built for speed, smoothness of draw and to be 48lbs. at 29-1/2". I told him I don't want to second quess myself later and wonder if I could have picked up a FPS with this option or that. So we came up with a 64" TD with triple carbon, foam cores and no veneers.
This bow draws smooth as silk..not one iota of stack or change in felt poundage from 7" to 8" brace height to as far as I've pulled it...29-1/2". Like others have posted, the limbs are louder and I will see what I can do about damping them down next wk. The bow shoots so fast I'm not really concerned about it. Shoots good also..this was my first session with it at about 20yds. So I guess I'm a foam core guy.
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I am yet to shoot a bow with foam cores or carbon but I have one on it's way, a 60" Sasquatch Take down 60#@27" triple carbon & foam cores but I opted for thin Bocote veneers under thin clear glass as I prefer the look of wood to carbon. I will let you know what I think. As far as noise goes I think it is only common sense that a heavier more dense material would absorb more vibration or shock which would reduce noise in most cases.
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We've used fiberglass for a long time now, but the rest of the bow was wood or bamboo, so they just seemed to keep a close kinship with the selfbows that started it all. With beauty and personality.
Now with bows of carbon, foam cores, and metal risers they have become siblings with compounds, and tools of zero warmth or beauty. They can be very efficient tools I'll admit, but still a just a tool.
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I give me carbon/boo.Best of both worlds IMO.Been shooting a carbon/boo bow in sweaty Va. for the past 4 years w/ no issues(knock on wood.LOL).
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