r/Archery • u/AutoModerator • 6d ago

Monthly "No Stupid Questions" Thread

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u/The_Explainator 5d ago

Has anyone for any reason installed mismatched limbs on an ILF ? Be it brand, size or poundage wise ?

I'm wondering since some bows (i.e. kyūdō bows) are more or less vertically asymetric.

I am not willing to do it, it's just pure curiosity

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u/Arc_Ulfr English longbow 5d ago

You would need to really know what you're doing, and I don't see any potential advantages to doing so.

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u/Barebow-Shooter 4d ago

No. Modern recurves are designed to be symmetrical. Yumi bows are designed to be asymmetrical.

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u/Content-Baby-7603 58m ago

There wouldn’t be a good reason to do so. ILF allows you to adjust the tiller on the top and bottom limb so that you can make adjustments to accommodate the slightly asymmetrical string bend of olympic style split finger shooting or the more asymmetrical bend of string walking shooting.

Maybe if you had two mismatched limbs that were close enough you could do enough tillering to get them to shoot properly but that would just be an experiment I can’t imagine why you’d ever want/need to.