Can you string a bow without a bowstringer?
#31
Spike
Join Date: Jun 2016
Posts: 6

I prefer push-pull anyway, but I'll confirm what everyone says that if you don't do it right it is just as dangerous as they say.
I've got lots of practice; I'm teaching a friend to make Flemish strings and the guy forgets something at least once a month, so when I go over I actually have to remind myself not to treat his bow like I do mine out of courtesy. It works fine if you know what you're doing.
Hope this link can help you string your bow : http://hunthacks.com/string-recurve-...hout-stringer/
Thanks all!
I've got lots of practice; I'm teaching a friend to make Flemish strings and the guy forgets something at least once a month, so when I go over I actually have to remind myself not to treat his bow like I do mine out of courtesy. It works fine if you know what you're doing.
Hope this link can help you string your bow : http://hunthacks.com/string-recurve-...hout-stringer/
Thanks all!
#33

I usually use a stringer. But if I don't I use the push pull method when I can. I say when I can because my arms ain't very long and on some recurve bows I have trouble reaching the upper limb tip.
Besides, the stringer method is much much easier.
Besides, the stringer method is much much easier.
#35
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: Mn.
Posts: 3,399

10 years later and I’m still using the step through method without fail and it’s still easy peasy kinda, I just don’t hunt with traditional or compound bows anymore due to health issues I have now but I do have 6 crossbows now.