Best value in a metal ILF riser?

[Gdpolk]

I'd like to set up a metal riser bow for a bowfishing rig.  I've been curious about ILF risers for a while so I figure it's a good place to start. 

It needs the inserts on the side for the AMS Retriever reel and a stabilizer insert up front for me to mount a flashlight on it.

What out there would be the best value for such a rig?

[acedoc]

Try to pick up a sky archery riser, they stopped manufacturing so you might get them secondhand.  They have all the bells and whistles for most any attachment.
I have one which I contemplated selling but that bow shoots so good and fast its staying.
New the riser was 450 or so. Second hand should be way less.

[ron w]

I would pick up a used riser. 17 or 19 inch , almost any brand will work for you. It will also be the cheapest way to go.

[katman]

PM sent Garrett.

[Tooner]

For a bowfishing rig, this is all you would ever need...and more.


http://www.lancasterarchery.com/galaxy-explorer-21-recurve-riser.html

[Todd Cook]

Tooner is correct. Dont spend much on a bow you'll throw in the bottom of the boat. Bowfishing can be rough on equipment.

[Woodpuppy]

Flashlight mount? Great idea! Down here I'd use that for mullet. And to stare longingly at all the reds....

[Hoosierarcher88]

I use a junxing f166. Its a 21" ilf riser with medium limbs making it a 64" bow

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[TomMcDonald]

Best value? Used or Chinese.

[Hoosierarcher88]

I will say this about my cheap chinese junxing. I received it in january and since has been shot at least 30-40 shots every single day with some days being a few hundred shots. I paid less than $100 to my door for it new. There have literally been zero issues with the bow 8 months into owning it. Limbs are straight, the ilf fitting is nice and snug with no play, nothing has needed tightened back down on it and it just plain shoots good. I take this thing out into the marsh and have had to use the limb tip to retreive a sunken shot frog more times than i can count. Im not saying its compareble to a ghillo or cd with $700 limbs but it does every thing i ask of it and without issue.

[acedoc]

I will say this about my cheap chinese junxing. I received it in january and since has been shot at least 30-40 shots every single day with some days being a few hundred shots. I paid less than $100 to my door for it new. There have literally been zero issues with the bow 8 months into owning it. Limbs are straight, the ilf fitting is nice and snug with no play, nothing has needed tightened back down on it and it just plain shoots good. I take this thing out into the marsh and have had to use the limb tip to retreive a sunken shot frog more times than i can count. Im not saying its compareble to a ghillo or cd with $700 limbs but it does every thing i ask of it and without issue.

I would have said used but hard to argue with such a testimonial!

[Hoosierarcher88]

I will say this about my cheap chinese junxing. I received it in january and since has been shot at least 30-40 shots every single day with some days being a few hundred shots. I paid less than $100 to my door for it new. There have literally been zero issues with the bow 8 months into owning it. Limbs are straight, the ilf fitting is nice and snug with no play, nothing has needed tightened back down on it and it just plain shoots good. I take this thing out into the marsh and have had to use the limb tip to retreive a sunken shot frog more times than i can count. Im not saying its compareble to a ghillo or cd with $700 limbs but it does every thing i ask of it and without issue.

I would have said used but hard to argue with such a testimonial!

im not gonna lie, this poor bow has been put through things i would never normally do to a bow but at the price i look at it as a simple tool. Speaking of which i really need to clean the swamp much and frog blood off it these next 2 days off

[creekwood]

It is pretty easy to drill and tap a metal riser for any kind of attachment...

[nineworlds9]

Used or chinese for sure, for bowfishing id try to find the cheapest hunk i could