How to travel with bow in a hot car?

[Longtoke]

Going on a little road trip and want to bring my bow with me but I know I will have to leave it I. The hot car sometimes. Has anyone found any magic tricks to keep it cool?  The best I have come up with is wrapping it in blankets

Thanks for any advice.

[Terry Green]

leave it unstrung and Crack all the windows....
and keep it covered and out of direct sunlight

[Pat B]

..and don't brace your bow until you are sure it has cooled completely.

[Benny Nganabbarru]

All of the above. Do you have air-conditioning? With a little thoughtfulness bows are very robust in the heat.

[Benny Nganabbarru]

With regard to not bracing until it has completely cooled, this is something I would do only if I had made a terrible mistake and left it in direct sunlight in the heat. If I simply put it under cover in the back of the ute to travel, with some insulation whether from a case, bag or blanket, it is good to go by the time I reach my destination (could be hours away). Heat is a reason why Outback tradbowmen always unstring recurves after use.

[kill shot]

I ruined a bow by leaveing it strung in a very hot car. I was just a kid but it haunts me to this day. Good advice posted above. The bow was a browning backpackerII.

[KY..Rob]

Sun shields in the front and back windows helps a bunch. Keep it low, unstrung and covered.

Rob..

[Pine]

Someone makes a solar powered air circulater that fits in a car window . You set it on the top edge of the window and roll the window up till it touches . It will circulate outside air in your car .

[Pine]

https://www.amazon.com/Solar-Powered-Auto-Cooler-Cooling/dp/B005UL97HQ
I think this is one .

[damascusdave]

Mine get wrapped in a quilt...just as effective in keeping heat out as they are at keeping heat in

DDave

[M60gunner]

I believe I can add to this. I unstring and case my bows in the summer months. I usually take two bows for a morning shoot season. I do crack my windows. But I have AC on. Just came back to San Diego from Phx. Az. I brought my Bear SK in a case unstrung. We have a SUV so no hot trunk. When we used a car I never put bow in trunk. Of course out here in summer almost everyone uses AC.
Only issue I ever had was with wood arrows but never a bow.

[Longtoke]

Luckily I have AC. Hatchback crossover style car so no trunk. I am more worried about leaving the car parked with the bow in it. Outside tema should not be over 105f at the hottest.

[Tajue17]

I have one unstrung and it lays in the back of my fully closed up car all day and everyday, its a 56" wasp which was bought just for that purpose to leave behind the back seat covered in the hatch area.  I wouldn't leave anything expensive  in there like that but have to admit that bow is as fine as when I bought it.

outside temp here in Boston I think has been 98 max a couple times but nothing like the heat some of you experience elsewhere.