Let's try this again. The rain is back. my son and I were shooting our 76ers earlier. We both commented on how well these bows shoot and perform when tuned. We have 6 strand padded loop fast flight strings and .600s and microflight #8 shoot like darts. I was wondering why no one has made an up graded limb for these risers. the bows are cheap to buy , fun and easy to refinish, shoot great but lets face it the limbs have plastic tips and have a little shock to them. I think an "aftermarket" limb could make these bows the "super sleepers"...got your cheap original limbs for bowfishing and fancy customs for the 3d....for way less than a Bear T/D..all about options. Any one tinkered with these?
Never heard of any.
Heard someone kick around the idea of modifying "cheap" ilf limbs to fit. Were the max poundage on the originals 55#@28'? pretty stout for that riser...
I guess the 76er was just a color variation of the Minuteman. The old catalogs show 50# max for a couple of years and 55# in 1976. I never had one, heard they shot pretty good. Would be interesting to modify some ILF limbs to that bow.
I have 2 Warfs (3 more on the way:) made on the mini-mag riser, setup to take ILF limbs
I think it is the same riser as the minuteman,
dave
pretty simple limb base design. I am no bowyer ...but way simpler than the limb wedges for the latch system. The minuteman limbs I believe are maple laminate but the 76er are just fiberglass. I'm thinking a nice static tip bamboo core at 50 # would do nicely.....
The minuteman and 76er risers are slightly different and not interchangeable.....don't know why Bear felt the need to make such a subtle change
not much demand for after market limbs on the MM but heck maybe if someone made up a set or two that was reasonably priced they may sell a few sets of them.Most bear after market limbs run from 400.00 up to over 650.00 because of the wedges.I bet a guy could do the MM limbs for a bit cheaper with a bingham type kit bd
in all your free time, bowdoc, make up a few pair and i'll test 'em for ya