Author Topic: Dryad ACS LBX ready for prime time (Read 729 times)

wingnut · « **on:** January 08, 2015, 12:06:00 PM »

Well the new triple carbon version of the ACS LB limb is ready for the market place. As you know we do a lot of stress testing on our products before we put them up for sale. This long limb mounted on a 15" riser endured 215,000 cycles drawn to 30". That's 3" beyond the recommended max draw on that 60" setup.

The limbs are available in both ILF and for the Orion Bolt-down riser.

Our testing shows this as the fastest limb we have in our stable. I'll let John share any tech data he wants but let's say that on a 17" riser the 62" bow shot at 28" and 9 gpp is as fast an any recurve we have tested.

John is going to put some pics up today to show them on different length risers.

We are pricing them at $675.

Mike
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JRY309 · « **Reply #1 on:** January 08, 2015, 12:27:00 PM »

Sounds great,looking forward to seeing the pic's.I know my Dryad Orion ACS RC shoots a pretty fast and flat arrow!

Rando · « **Reply #2 on:** January 08, 2015, 12:52:00 PM »

Maybe its a good thing I couldn't afford to pull the trigger on a second Orion (for myself) during this past Black Friday sale... gives me something to look forward to when I do put the funds together!
I appreciate that you keep looking for ways to improve an already excellent product.
Rando

John Havard · « **Reply #3 on:** January 08, 2015, 01:27:00 PM »

A few photos on different risers.

To clarify what Mike said just a bit more about performance. This is the fastest ILF longbow limb I've ever tested. I have tested two ILF recurve limbs set at essentially the same brace height that were 0.5 fps and 2.0 fps faster than this ILF LBX longbow limb. So it's fair to say that there are a couple of recurve limbs at a lower brace height that will exceed its performance a small amount but I've never tested any ILF longbow limb that would come close. Perhaps there's one out there but if so I haven't found it yet.

The bolt-down version will be a bit quicker because we have the luxury of precisely optimizing riser and limb geometry so we can get the most out of the limb.

The performance of the LBX limb is very good, but what we wanted to do (and succeeded in doing) was to significantly increase the vertical stability of the ACS longbow limb. Both the LB and the LBX are more vertically stable in this new version.

Friend · « **Reply #4 on:** January 08, 2015, 01:32:00 PM »

Not good...not good...not good!!!

The dim light at the end of the tunnel of resistance was an illusion. Once again, the bite is a big one for the fish is me.

Am not even going to subject myself to makng a futile attempt to resist.... can't even wait for John's revelation since havinge been on the fence for some time now regarding a desired longbow limb. I have fallen in the green pastures of Dryad Land once more.

nineworlds9 · « **Reply #5 on:** January 08, 2015, 01:46:00 PM »

Awesome!!!

Pat B. · « **Reply #6 on:** January 08, 2015, 02:39:00 PM »

Sounds like you guys have really done your homework.. Congrats !

Friend · « **Reply #7 on:** January 08, 2015, 07:02:00 PM »

Placed my order today.

Have been gut hooked.

Sky-Dogg · « **Reply #8 on:** January 08, 2015, 07:10:00 PM »

Yep, me too. Order is in. Brian

pamike · « **Reply #9 on:** January 08, 2015, 07:36:00 PM »

Gotta post some speeds....

John Havard · « **Reply #10 on:** January 08, 2015, 08:01:00 PM »

pamike,

I tested the LBX (and the comparison top-end ILF limbs) on a 17" Dryad Epic ILF riser. All tests were done at the mid-point of the ILF limb bolt range, with even tiller, at 28" AMO, with a 9 grains per pound arrow, using the same string (all limbs tested were longs), with all shots being taken out of my Hooter Shooter shooting machine. The LBX limbs shot 198.1 fps with a BH of 7 1/8" (which is about the mid-point of BH recommended range for those limbs on this riser). I tested the 3 best-performing ILF limbs I own at 7" BH. One of the recurve limbs is the latest and greatest 2015 model, another is last year's top-end model from another highly respected company, and of course I tested our Dryad ACS-RC limbs too. At 7" BH the three ILF recurve limbs ranged from 199.6 fps to 197.3 fps (ceteris paribus).

nkartscher · « **Reply #11 on:** January 08, 2015, 08:34:00 PM »

Whats the wait time on these?

John Havard · « **Reply #12 on:** January 08, 2015, 08:36:00 PM »

This time of year around 6-8 weeks.

Friend · « **Reply #13 on:** January 08, 2015, 10:00:00 PM »

John...Do you expect the Orion bolt-on LBX limbs to generate approximately a 4 fps increase over the ILF LBX limbs?

Stump73 · « **Reply #14 on:** January 08, 2015, 11:03:00 PM »

Scott I knew you couldn't resist.

John Havard · « **Reply #15 on:** January 08, 2015, 11:40:00 PM »

Scott, yes, that's about right.

**DONOTDELETE** · « **Reply #16 on:** January 09, 2015, 12:08:00 AM »

Hey John, what was the draw weight on the bows you tested?

John Havard · « **Reply #17 on:** January 09, 2015, 10:06:00 AM »

Kirk, they were in the range of 45#

wingnut · « **Reply #18 on:** January 09, 2015, 01:06:00 PM »

We are looking at early April on these orders for build dates. Scott yours will be ready towards the end of April. LOL

Mike

Friend · « **Reply #19 on:** January 09, 2015, 01:49:00 PM »

winglessnut....soooon enuff!


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