does anyone know how to get out a hair line scratch on my riser just did it today and its making me sick to my stomach

Get some Rottenstone and linseed oil, mix together and rub lightly over the scratch. Rottenstone is a very fine abrasive that is used with linseed oil or water to put the final touch on the finish of fine furniture. Go easy and use your bare fingers, if the finish is not very thick you stand the chance of rubbing thru it.

Take it on a hunting trip; wear the use marks with pride.

Are you serious?

When I got my Black Widow about 2 months ago, it was in mint condition. Turkey hunting, bear hunting, and hog hunting in the last 1 month have fixed that.

My Widow is scratched and banged up, but shoots like a charm.

I don't plan on selling, so I really could care a less about the 50 or so marks and scratches that I have put on it over the last month.

To me, it is a tool and I use it. When it wears out, I'll buy another. Until then, it goes through the brush, gets thrown uphill to free my hands when climbing out of a hole etc.

But then again I am a newbie. What do I know  :D

Never felt right about using anything I own until it had it's first scratch......then it became fun to use. No more worries about trying to keep it pristine. Bows should not be showpieces IMHO.

Lightly used marks? Sure. But not abused...

I'm with you Black!

I had a friend (deceased now) who use to take his wife's nail polish to cover scratches on his skis! My view? They're not scratches they're scars, memories of fine hunts and laughable mistakes! I always push my bow out to block a branch that's about to hit my face when going through thick brush. Other men prefer to use their face apparently! My face is prettier than my bows!        

Everything you own will soon enough belong to someone else. No "safe queens" with me! I'm going to USE what I have! Not taking a hunting bow into the thick woods where it WILL get scratched is like buying a greyhound and keeping it in an apartment!

I heard a story that a guy was worried about scratching the bed of his new truck. His boss grabbed a cinder block and threw it on the truck bed and said: "It's a TRUCK!"    

yeah it would be fine if i was using it when it happened but my friends wife stepped on it while it was on the floor of my crew cab so the scratch doesnt count

You will be fine now the first one is hard.After a while you will not notice them.Kip

Nk,

I hope you didn't mind a little ribbing. I was actually hoping to make you feel better.     I had a bow slide off a 3D target and hit a cinder block that never should've been there and I did let out an (expletive deleted) but after a short time the damage just blended in with all the other scratches. I actually like my bows and truck better now that they have that "worked hard for their purpose" look. They've earned that look!    You can however get the bow refinished. bowdoc on this site does an extraordinary job.
Take care,

Steve

I like scratches, they tell a story...even if it's a story about a bonehead friend.

I was running down some concrete steps in the yard carrying my brand new second generation St. Charles T Bird and a 1959 Grizzly that had just been refinished. Anyway in my haste I tripped and rode both bows down the rest of the way into an explosion of skin, Yew, and fiberglass.
Both bows and archer, were badly scarred but unbroken.
Naturally there was shock and consternation; but
today, when I shoot either bow I still remember that ride and smole!

Well put George! Great story (and attitude) Bjorn!

I might be the odd one here. My grandpa is probably to blame. He always taught me to take care of my stuff. His car was always clean and I also remember how he would even clean and oil his shovels after using them... If I get a scratch on my bow, I usually fix it. I use a light sand paper and use a satin poly sprayed lightly to cover.

Bill

My bows like barb wire fences, actually, the seat of my pants do also.

QuoteI heard a story that a guy was worried about scratching the bed of his new truck. His boss grabbed a cinder block and threw it on the truck bed and said: "It's a TRUCK!"

Wnet throught he same thing with my boss not too long ago.  We were moving a network rack and he was looking around for a blanket to wrap the thing in to keep it from scratching the bed of my truck.  I told him "That's why I own a truck and not a BMW.".

Don't sweat the little stuff.

yeah the first scratch is the hardest when i used to shoot compounds i never really cared if i beat them up even when it was an eight hundred dollar bow   but now my bow is to pretty to beat up

Where I hunt in the NW it is extremely thick and blackberry bushes are every where.

I put 4 trail cameras out yesterday and had to use a machede to get into my area. Yes, it is that thick.

The deer travel and bed in the thickest stuff and I like to have my trail cams set near their bedding areas.

When I hunt this stuff, getting scratches in inevitable. I wish that were not the case and I would rather have a pristine bow year round, but it is just not possible in this kind of cover.

Paul

Brand new Morrison Cheyenne, received Christmas Eve, 2007.





February 2008...





It's got scratches now.        
Yeah, I didn't want them. I just rubbed them with a finger and moved on.

Ya know how when you buy a used bow off the auction site, or the classifieds, and when it gets to you, you look at it and see the dents and scratches and say to yourself that this ain't bad for a '65? I got a pristine '65 Bear, with the box and papers, and said to myself, "why can't I be the one that first gets to hunt with this bow? And if it gets nicked, why can't I be the one to nick it? This is the same as if I were of hunting age in '65, instead of a nine-year-old, and I can shoot and hunt with this new bow."

I don't think I nicked it, but it went to Baltimore and ATAR with me, and into the deer woods in 2007. It is there to use and enjoy.
Killdeer      

Killdeer

Swweeeeeeett riser

That sure is a beauty, Killdeer!