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Been reading on other forums about the Switchback and winner choice strings loosing speed. Any truth to this? thanks for all...........Mitch

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I have winner's choice on my switchback and love it. I have not had any decline in speed with mine at all!

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Thanks for the reply. I did put on a WC and gained about 2ft/sec. So far so good.

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Let's do this right. Winner's Choice what? In other words what material are you asking about. Almost all string makers prefer a certain material but will make strings with what you want. Some material is faster than others. Now if you're talking about a string made of BCY 8125, which is pretty standard, then you may gain some speed.

I got my string and cables about a month ago and headed for the shop. I chrono'd the bow at 272fps. Then went and changed the rigging and set the bow to the same specs and checked the speed again. The gain was 11 fps, more than I expected. My factory rigging was two weeks old and made of Brownell UltraCam.

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That's interesting. What are some of the differences in these two strings? Did you think to weight them before setting it up?

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Honestly, I couldn't say. Although I've got over 30 years shooting compounds and routinely tear them apart and tinker, I'm a bow technician and not strings. It's probably the one aspect of archery that I've never gotten real involved in, sorry to say. I do know that most aftermarket strings are much better than fatory so I always replace them. I've only ever used Prostrings and recently went to Winner's Choice ( I get them really cheap).

A couple other things that I noticed quickly are that because the strings are prestretched there was very little break-in time. About 20 shots was all. My peep rotated just a tad during this time but not enough to adjust it. And it doesn't rotate whatsoever now.

These WC's are made of BCY 8125, which I know is a bit quicker than UltraCam, but I never dreamed 11 fps. I expected upwards of 6 fps. I don't know, maybe the amount of twists has something to do with it. Lighter center serving.

Let's just say the results were pleasing.

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I thought it was the "exclusive string-building techniques" that are used by winner's choice that sets them appart. But what do I know, I never used them before, or ever really plan to. But from what I hear, thay are darn good strings.

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I still have the factory zebra twist on my Legacy, but I think my next string will be a Winners Choice.

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Yep. 11 fps. That a lot of ground
:D

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WC is a great string. In 8125, it is fast. No doubt. I shoot dual cams and have my cables made of 452x and string made of 8125.