TomyD, Belle Island's stepthru method works, but it's the bow-killingest stringing method ever devised. If you get the least bit careless, that bottom limb will get twisted. Other methods are less dangerous to the bow, but highly dangerous to the shooter. A stringer is the easiest and safest method, for both the bow and yourself.

A stringer is nothing more than a long, heavy string with a large leather or nylon cup on one end and a smaller cup or friction plate on the other. You make sure the string is fully into the bow's nock on the bottom limb and slide the large cup over the limb tip -which will hold the string in the nock- and position the other end of the stringer. The friction plate will rest on the back of the limb as far up the limb as possible, the small cup will position right on the very tip of the limb. Both leave the upper limb's nock exposed. Then, stand on the body of the stringer, pull up on the bow's handle with one hand to bend the limbs. With the other hand, slide the string loop into the upper nock. Then slowly let the bow down to brace, making sure the string stays fully in the nock.

It takes far less time to do than it takes to describe it.

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