I'm curious........who uses dacron strings on bows made to handle non stretch material.


I have a couple of recurves that I go back and forth on......non stretch and then dacron.  Man, I love the quietness of dacron. I also feel the difference in the draw when using dacron; it feels to me smoother.

Joe
Shooting a dacron on my new double carbon 560...smooth and QUIET....

Had to do that on a noisy bow a few years ago it was a last resort and worked. Normally it is the other way around-ff on dacron bows for me.

I'm not a fan of dacron,they make a bow feel springy.A low stretch modern string just feels more solid,to me.A dacron string can increase handshock on some bows.I don't have any problem getting my bows quiet.I made a 8 strand D97 for my friend on his Bear T/D and it was quiet without any silencers,old mag riser with new Bear limbs.I make my own strings so I can play around with different strings materials.I find some bows quieter with 450+ and some with 8125 and some with D97.The only bows I'll shoot dacron on are a couple of older vintage recurves.

I shoot b-50 on all my bows

I use dacron on all my bows. Quieter and no worries about damaging bows.

Not me--I only have one non-FF bow that I'll even shoot, and it's because of sentimental value.

A word of warning--Harrison longbows void the warranty if you use a dacron (or flemish) string on them.  No idea why--wasn't able to get an answer after several tries--but it's worth noting.  

Chad

All of my bows are FF.  That being said, I use dacron exclusively.

X2 what Kat said.

I had a new set of limbs made for my Schafer this spring.  I paid the extra $35 for the FF tips, but I'm still shooting B-50.

What some people call springy, feels normal to me.

B-50 on everyhing...... its quiet, it works great, and with 8 spools I have enough for about 5 lifetimes................

I love FF expecially the skinny strings,I use it also on my old Bear TDs with the cheap green tips and no issues till now,very quiet too,I don't see any difference in noise between the 2 material.
With FF I have a stiffer arrow,heavier too,flying faster;plus the FF takes more punishment in the mountains.

B-50 or B-55 on everything, on FF bows I use the original string as back up. I still find Dacron quieter.

I'm in. Hap

Depends on the bow,I have some skinny strings that work great,bows that are hard to quiten I use b50

Only have one bow for FF, but use B-50 or B-55. Just like it better.

I have some limited use of skinny strings on a couple of longbows that made them even quieter and to my eye seem to be faster. But what I have experienced with these skinny strings is constant stretching. It takes weeks for the creep to be gone.


On some 3 pc recurves with heavier risers that I cant get quiet enough with non stretch strings, B50 has always done the job.


I also can feel a increase in hand shock with dacron; but it doesnt bother me.

all my bows are of modern manufacture and i would NEVER go back to polyester again.  why would anyone wanna deal with dacron's crazy stretch and creep?  because hmpe is NOISY?  nope, hmpe is not a noisy string fiber at all, particularly with low strand counts - something you could never do with dacron.  8 strands of any "standard" modern string fiber and yer good to go up to and past 70# holding weight.  and noise?  "hand shock"??? nope, ain't any more than dacron.

Rob, I have to tell you that, I have utterly no problem with "crazy stretch and creep" on the dacron strings I make--none whatsoever.  After making the string and putting it on the bow I manually stretch the string by pressing on the limb tips--and I can feel it stretch--and then leave it strung for a while.  After that I do not have any problems and basically never have to readjust after I get the string settled in in this fashion. What's wrong with me???  :confused:  What am I doing wrong if I'm supposed to be getting lots of crazy stuff going on?  Maybe I'm just an ace string maker, huh?    :D    :D    :D    

david, what's yer bow's weight and how many strands in yer dacron string?