How do some bowyers get their bows not to stack? I shoot a 31 in arrow and shot a 60 in bow today that was smooth and had no stack at all I thought geometry was geometry?

papa -

Typically making the limbs longer and the riser shorter for the same OAL and adding deflex (to both the riser and the limb angles).

Viper1 out.

Less overall taper in the limb laminations will help, too.

Thanks Viper that makes sense.

what viper and Rick said. Longer limbs and less stack taper.

Longer limbs? So how do you explain smooth drawing recurves like Little Sucklings and such? Papadeer, I believe is inquiring about bow design not limb options. But it is true, longer limbs do produce smooth pulling bow. How about reflex/deflex designs? I like bow designs like Predator, J.K. Chastain, Cascade and such for smooth pulling bows. My Predator is 63# @28" and at my 27" draw feels nothing like a 60# range bow. Super smooth. The old Zippper bows too were dream to shoot even the 60# range. The new Zipper designs aren't what they were in the 90's so I cannot comment on their design now. I may have some reckoning with Viper for this post.

Little Suckling in particular is smooth drawing because they have an abnormally high brace height. Not uncommon on short bows.

It still has to do with working limb in relation to draw length and OAL bow length.

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