Push Pull for all my longbows....period.

Selway Limbsaver Stringer for all recurves.

I have a selway limbsaver for my longbows but rarely use it if at all...it hangs on rack.

I use a stringer on recurves and push-pull on most of my longbows. I do use step through on a couple of heavy longbows that I lack the strength to do with push-pull. No splats so far.

Used the "push/pull" method for about 6 years on longbows without incident until about 5 weeks ago...!!!! After the Baltimore bowmen shoot, I came back and was practicing, and decided to take down my hummingbird longbow. My friend Brian was standing behind me and said to me "hey look at this..!". This was right as I just pushed the top limb away from me and got the string out of its string notches. Like an IDIOT I Instinctively turned my head back around as lowering the limb and my hand slipped off the upper Limb allowing it to recoil straight back and have the limb back strike me Directly above the left eye....perhaps four or five inches below the limb tip. Effectively bludgeoning me  and the blood rushed out of my head.....! After inventing 17 New swear words and clearing the cobwebs......I learned a lesson I already knew! 5 weeks later I have a dandy scar. So keep your head low and out of the way when you do the push-pull and never turn at a distraction.........A wise man learns from his mistakes! A truly wise man learns from others....embarrassed....Jackdaw

MvDave stated............

"I'm not sure how well this method would work on a longbow that is highly reflexed, but it works well on the straighter longbows I have."

I use push pull method also. I do have one longbow that's got a lot of reflex and it is harder to string, was kinda scary for awhile but I got it figured out and it works fine. Just seems harder somewhat.

I use the Webster stringer on all my longbows. Available at Braveheart Archery.

Push Pull

Push pull for longbow.

Stringer for recurve

Push/pull for longbows,  too!

Have used step thru,  for both  but use stringer for curves!

Watched Bob Lee string and unstring curves with push/pull at Clovdrdale, years ago!

He made it look easy!