A good stringer; especially good for shorter recurves...

[Benny Nganabbarru]

I mentioned that I was having great difficulty stringing my 65#, 60" Kodiak Hunter with my Thunderhorn stringer (you know, the one with the little rubber knapped arrow head). Tony and I have also had difficulty stringing his 70#, 60" Super Diablo. And yet, it is easy to string my 80#, 62" Silvertip recurve with that stringer. On the 60" bows, I huff and puff and put myself through all sorts of heartache to get the bow strung, whereas it is nearly effortless with the heavier 62" bow. Today, I remembered that I had a stringer tucked-away in my mess that I'd never used. It's made from something like seatbelt material, and I bought it from Tim at Braveheart Archery in the USA. I dug it out, and was delighted to see that it had two pockets at one end, one for small tips, and one for larger tips. I tried it out, and it is now effortless to string the shorter recurves. I suppose it's all about leverage. Anyway, it's a neat little stringer, if you're looking for a good one, and it's supposed to be nontangle-able.

Here is the Thunderhorn stringer, struggling away:


Here is the one from Braveheart Archery, stringing the bow effortlessly:


Here they are side-by-side:

[pdccr]

nontangle-able.

Interesting

[clinglish]

Ben, My recurves have very fine tips do you think it would be suitable or put to much pressure in a direction opposite to which it is designed?

[Benny Nganabbarru]

Sorry, I don't know the answer to that one. Glenn Newell would be better to answer that. Perhaps send him a PM.

[Night Wing]

I've got one very similar from Blacktail Bows.

[UPTHETOP]

Im the same Ben. I had a few stringers with the pockets at both ends but just couldnt get my head around the tips snaping off. ( they never did ) so I youse the limb stringer these days every time I string the bow.
I still grindge when I see people stringing bows between there legs, broken toes, briused legs,and at least 3-4 broken bows, limbs etc I have seen.
But each to there own.

Cheers Wayno

[muntries]

I have both a tip stringer and a limb stringer. I don't have much confidence in the limb stringer with the supposedly non slip limb tab bit slipping and sliding on the limb when I string and un-string. I prefer the tip stringer.

[Jeffro]

I have one similar Ben but the pockets are so small that it will work with none of my bows .
They probably come in different sizes I imagine

[roscoe]

I STILL USE A DOG COLLAR AND HAVENT HAD A LIMB TWIST YET....ROSCOE

[UPTHETOP]

Roscoe but where's ya dog?

Cheers Wayno