take down help~

[Lone Ranger]

Thinking about getting a 3 piece take down recurve, looking at Blacktails as I dont think ANYONE has not loved those bows. are limbs and risers interchangeable with different manufacturers? is there some common mounting system for them? if I got a 60" black creek and wanted to try someones longbow limbs from say a zipper bow on that riser is that possible? exactly what does ILF stand for anyway?

L.R.    :confused:

[stykbow67]

Limbs and risers from custom bowyers won't be interchangeable due the fact that there's different designs from bowyer to bowyer.The ILF bows I believe are interchangeable but I haven't researched them much so I'm not 100% sure on those,I can't even tell what ILF stands for  

[Lone Ranger]

glad I'm not the only one that doesnt know that.

so just cause its a 3 piece take down does NOT mean it is an ILF bow?


L.R.

[huntmaster80]

Internation limb fitting. If you go with an ilf, limbs and risers will be interchangeable. I shoot a 15"Morrison riser with Dryad epic recurve limbs.

[Schafer]

Only ILF bows are interchangeable. So a custom take down by a bowyer that isnt a ilf can not have different limbs put on it. However sometime the same bowyer has different models limbs that go on the same riser. Hope this helps.

Schafer

[YORNOC]

What these guys said. Even the samne bowyer often doesn't interchange limbs, so you have to ask.
Ahhh yeah. Blacktails are "okay"  guess..  

[hvyhitter]

Not ALL ILF limbs will fit ALL ILF risers ......but they're supposed to......