What's the highest weight that can be achieved?

[doctorbrady]

I was curious what weight maximums can be achieved on commonly WARFED risers with standard ILF limbs? I know that weight isn't everything, but I was curious about using a warfed bow for Africa and Water buffalo.

[thisbucks4u]

Well, some of the old hoyt talon limbs were pretty stought Ive had my hands on 65 pound short limbs. Those on a warfed bow should well break the 70 pound range. Currently availible stock from most manufacters is usually in the 48 to 50 pound range, and I think using those or the heaviest quinn limbs would get you above 60 pounds with a little tweaking. Either way, what you should realize is that at most any quality ILF limbs pound for pound are going to outperform their "custom bowyer" counterparts. For example, I have a set of 52 pound Hoyt FX's on a custom riser, comes out to roughly 60 pounds at my draw that shoots exactly the same arrow at exactly the same speed as a friends 80 some pound BIG (yes very big) Name longbow.

I believe Dsturgis has taken quite a few african game animals with a couple different bows. I cant remember what bows he used, but he might be able to give you some suggestions on what worked for him.

[the other DWS]

A lot depends on the riser selected. I have warfed a couple on 15 and 16 inch risers and the pounds REALLY stack up fast when you go short. I have a set of Martin Aurora ILF limbs that are indicated as being 49#@the standard 28#. When I put them on the 16" Morrision ILF riser they were pulling between 65 and 70 at my 29.5" draw length.
I kindof "warfed" a Martin Gazelle (an older high grade machined 15-16" youth/womens competition compound) by simply mounting Martin's Metal risered Lynx recurve limbs to it---it was a stright clean bolt on---non-ilf of course. my Lynx recurve was 65# on I believe a 25" riser, on the little Gazelle it was almost 85# too much for my to get a real acurate reading---almost too much to string. Fortunatley Larry hatfield Found me a set of lighter Lynx limbs that got the draw weight back down to #65.

So If you really wanted a heavy weight for really big game, work with the shortest risers you can.

[doctorbrady]

Which of the bows that Bob usually warfs has the best riser for creating heavy bows? I am getting the bug and noticed several black bear bows for sell. Is there a riser that is more shorter and more likely to get me up in weight?

[the other DWS]

better talk directly to Bob Gordon about that. Bear archery used the "black bear" name on at least three or four different compound risers over the years.

IF, I remember correctly the ones with the metal handles are better/more desireable/more WARFable than the ones that were designed for use with a plastic grip.