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Title: Duh, quick question
Post by: trapperDave on March 16, 2008, 10:01:00 AM
When using a stringer, (with the leather pocket on each end), how does one remove the string from the bow? Ive always been a step thru kinda guy till recently and have a bow with a string that needs replaced. Back to the step thru till the string is on?
Title: Re: Duh, quick question
Post by: vermonster13 on March 16, 2008, 10:03:00 AM
Use the stringer to let the bow down. Then remove the loop from the bottom nock and then slide the top loop off the upper limb/nock.
Title: Re: Duh, quick question
Post by: Bert Frelink on March 16, 2008, 10:07:00 AM
Dave,
more bows get ruined with the step thru method that anything else, get yourself a stringer that has a pocket on one side and a flat rubber(bottom limb) or neoprene square on the other(top limb)
Or learn the push pull method of stringing a bow.
Regards, Bert
Title: Re: Duh, quick question
Post by: trapperDave on March 16, 2008, 10:09:00 AM
man, i feel like a real genius this morning  :D  Maybe i should go back to bed. Thanks. Glad you cant see my embarrassment   :o
Title: Re: Duh, quick question
Post by: Killdeer on March 16, 2008, 10:11:00 AM
Have some coffee, Dave. You just took one of the steps the rest of us stumbled through.

Killdeer  :)
Title: Re: Duh, quick question
Post by: trapperDave on March 16, 2008, 10:15:00 AM
lol maybe I better drink two   :coffee:    :coffee:    :biglaugh:
Title: Re: Duh, quick question
Post by: blueslfb on March 16, 2008, 10:37:00 AM
Just remember Dave, we are all laughing at you and not with you or is it the other way around.  Better to ask and get it squared away than sit there wondering.
Title: Re: Duh, quick question
Post by: trapperDave on March 16, 2008, 10:41:00 AM
in my defense(as if I have one) I work the off shift so this is EARLY AM to me  ;)
Title: Re: Duh, quick question
Post by: trapperDave on March 16, 2008, 10:43:00 AM
Funniest part is....all my bows are on the wall in the other room......unstrung
Title: Re: Duh, quick question
Post by: vermonster13 on March 16, 2008, 10:52:00 AM
Glad to be of service.    :p
Title: Re: Duh, quick question
Post by: D.Sheppard on March 16, 2008, 10:53:00 AM
I like the kind with the leather pockets but it work on some of my bows with the smaller ends so I have both. It's awkard sometimes to use the stringer with the rubber block on longer bows cause the block doesn't go far enough out the limb. I guess nothing is perfect.

Hows that broadhead collection coming along ?
Title: Re: Duh, quick question
Post by: Blackhawk7204 on March 16, 2008, 10:54:00 AM
The push-pull method is easy on the bow but will be very hard on your face-eyes if your hand slips while doing it.  :scared:  Be just about like putting your face in front of a limb tip while someone is shooting it!
Could even lose an eye that way. Use your stringer,
Title: Re: Duh, quick question
Post by: trapperDave on March 16, 2008, 10:59:00 AM
its starting to look like a collection  :)  I need to make some sort of display case when the weather warms.
Title: Re: Duh, quick question
Post by: Killdeer on March 16, 2008, 11:11:00 AM
Wall space is mighty precious here, too.  :scared:
Title: Re: Duh, quick question
Post by: bowdude on March 16, 2008, 11:32:00 AM
Some of those pockets are too deep if that is your problem.  Easy to happen with bows with smaller nock ends.  Put paper or leather in the pocket so enuf of the nock on the bow is exposed to remove the string.  Just don't put in too much!