String stretch

[wildwood]

I am sure this has been addressed before, but I have been trying to tune arrows and find the right brace height for my bow I got a few months ago. I've shot it a few hundred times and let stay strung for periods of time. I am still losing a 1/4 inch or so on my brace after I shoot it a half doz. times.   Is this normal?

[Javi]

Depends on the number of shots, and the type of material used in the string..

[wildwood]

the string is a flemish  B50 if that helps any.

[Javi]

B50 will settle and stretch every time you string the bow, although over time the degree will diminish.

[wildwood]

I am thinking of looking into fast flight,not sure if Mad Dog bows are built for that, have to e-mail Mike Mecredy. I do like my new bow jut trying to get things settled in.

[Swamp Yankee]

Javi is correct.  Also, the more wax the string was twisted up with and/or the more twists there are in the string, the longer it will continue to stretch.

[bigbadjon]

When my brother makes a flemish string we puts a weight on the end and lets it pull the intitial stretch out.  Once the initial stretch is out even polyester strings will stretch very little before settling. I shoot vee polyester strings that are much stretchier than B50 but I don't bleed brace height while shooting because it has settled. By nature flemish strings will always have some stretch while drawn. To truly have a consistent string one would have to shoot a endless string.

[Jeff Mundy]

wildwood- Don't look at fast flite, pick some of the other more modern string materials. I had to put my back up string on my bow about 3 weeks ago (it's a fast flite string)& i've had to twist it up 3 times since then to maintain my brace height. This string was previously shot in as well. Needless to say I can't wait until my new strings arrive.

[BWD]

Stretches worse in hot weather too.

[Night Wing]

Try a B55 bowstring. It supposedly stretches far less than B50.

[Stone Knife]

Yep B50 strings will stretch more but if you buy a quality string it will do this a lot less. I had a couple made for my Hill by Oliverstacy and they settled in faster than any I have used before.
   Strings by oliverstacy

[awbowman]

That's why I was taught toalways have two used (stretched) strings when I hunt. The more modern string materials will pretty much settle in after a few hundred shots I am told.

[wildwood]

thanks for all the input

[paperenginner]

I would suggest keeping your stringer with you and adjust while shooting.  I had the same issue but after a month or so of shooting it settled out and I rarely change it anymore.

[Blaino]

can a string be twisted too much?

[Swamp Yankee]

Originally posted by Blaino:
can a string be twisted too much?

Yes.  

More than 1 or 1 1/2 twists per inch makes any string stretchier (new word?) than it needs to be.  To the extreme, twisting until it starts to kink is risking a broken string.