If you’ve been following along, you already know what the ZSHJGJR 17-inch wooden ILF riser did when I paired it with the Bosen longbow limbs. This time I swapped in the Sanlida Hermit X8 recurve limbs, and the result is a 58-inch ILF hybrid recurve that I honestly wasn’t prepared for. Same riser, completely different bow — faster, crisper at the shot, and somehow even quieter than the longbow build. That last part stopped me cold, because the Bosen setup was already one of the quieter traditional bows I’d shot. This recurve configuration ended up being one of the quietest recurve setups I’ve ever put an arrow through, and I tested it across both 500 and 600 spine carbon arrows at 43 pounds draw weight. It shot them all cleanly without any significant tuning.

The bigger story here is what this build proves about the ILF system. For less than 90 dollars in the riser and the cost of a set of Hermit X8 limbs, you are putting together a genuinely capable traditional bow that looks beautiful, shoots quiet, and gives you room to grow. Swap limbs, change draw weights, build a longbow feel or a recurve feel — same riser handles it all. If you’ve been on the fence about getting into ILF, this video makes the case better than any argument I could write. Check it out and see what you think.