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Title: Bear takedown longbow limbs
Post by: bswear on October 04, 2023, 11:09:28 AM

Anyone have any knowledge of how the new longbow limbs from Bear perform?  I know the old ones had poor reviews…just wondering if they addressed the concerns with the new ones.  I am a recurve guy but definitely interested in these.

Title: Re: Bear takedown longbow limbs
Post by: Gun on October 04, 2023, 07:56:33 PM

Now I'm gonna have to look them up, just because.

Title: Re: Bear takedown longbow limbs
Post by: bswear on October 04, 2023, 09:53:24 PM

Maybe there is someone from Bear on here that knows something?

Title: Re: Bear takedown longbow limbs
Post by: Yellow Dog on October 05, 2023, 06:51:07 AM

Sounds like they’ll be 62” on a B riser and a R/D design. Available sometime in early 2024. A pic of the originals, which were 70” on a B riser next to a set of the new design.

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Title: Re: Bear takedown longbow limbs
Post by: smokin joe on October 05, 2023, 10:14:44 AM

I would love to see Kirk Lavender (Bigfoot Bows) chime in on this topic. He makes custom R/D longbow limbs for the Bear TD riser and I have heard that his are excellent. I wonder how much he can tell about the new Bear versions just by looking at them.

Title: Re: Bear takedown longbow limbs
Post by: SS Snuffer on October 05, 2023, 10:40:42 AM

Ya what smokin Joe said, I'm very interested too!

Title: Re: Bear takedown longbow limbs
Post by: M60gunner on October 05, 2023, 03:07:51 PM

Just being a R/D design will help performance. How much remains to be seen. Like the original ones a novelty.

Title: Re: Bear takedown longbow limbs
Post by: Steelhead on October 05, 2023, 04:08:12 PM

Looks to me in the pics that they have slight deflex and moderate reflex.I think the slight deflex will work well on the Bear riser vs a limb with alot of deflex.They do string  up into a D shape it looks like to me from the pics I have seen.The reflex should give them some pre-load and little zip to the arrow.

I would prefer overall and its being picky that they made a 60 inch bow on the A and 64 inches on the B riser.

I would definatly like to try a set out sometime!

Title: Re: Bear takedown longbow limbs
Post by: Gun on October 05, 2023, 08:24:53 PM

What I missed when I hunted w longbows was being able to slide under sticks w the limb tip and flicking them out of the way while stalking.  :goldtooth:

Title: Re: Bear takedown longbow limbs
Post by: bswear on October 06, 2023, 10:38:53 AM

 Thanks to Yellow Dog for the picture!  Not sure how you came up with that but seems clear the new ones are a better design.  Now I want a set even more.

Title: Re: Bear takedown longbow limbs
Post by: Gun on October 06, 2023, 01:50:25 PM

There are pix of it strung on their web site

Title: Re: Bear takedown longbow limbs
Post by: Kelly on October 06, 2023, 05:09:18 PM

Yup, definitely going to try them.