Skinny fast flight strings W/padded loops on non fast flight bows?

[rollin]

I remember reading in the past about some members doing this..Just wondering if all was still going well.

[Bjorn]

Still going great on my '59 Grizzly. Not recommending, just reporting.

[Flying Dutchman]

Still doing great on my longbow. No probs at all, only advantages

[Orion]

Still fine on my Bear red-tip takedown limbs.

[BenBow]

Did it to my bbo and it turned it from a bitch to a babe    

[Stumpkiller]

There are bows I would not try it on.  If you have a bow with a laminated micarta or other hard tip overlay - maybe.  Some of the others with no tip overlay on the back - probably a bad idea.  

I have seen bows with the limbs peeled several inches when the FF string split them from the nock grooves toward the riser.  Ouch.

[frank bullitt]

I have and hadn't had any problems! I have seen pics and heard over the years of split limbs, but never witnessed it myself!

When F.F. was first put out in the '80s, folks were trying to use the same strand count as their dacron strings, or less! Without padding!

The original F.F. Spectra, Duponts trade name, was very abrasive, also.

So the padding to cushion the tips, and bowyers using micarta, and such to reinforce them.

Also the trend was lite arrows, superlites, which added to the stress!

[pruski]

dangerous!

[widow sax]

Turned my schafer from a ok bow into a super great bow and still working great.   Widow

[Shawn Leonard]

Agree with Stumpkiller, but it is your bow and do what ya want. I have padded the loops and laid a strip of velcro down the string groove about 2"s from where it ends(beyond) and had old Pearson and Bears hold up fine. Not recommending it just I have done it. To me for the gain in speed it was not really worth it. Shawn

[Rob DiStefano]

i have a loving family, i have good friends, i don't need to be maimed or dead.  messing with hmpe bowstrings and old glass/wood lam bows is plain nuts.    

             

[Knapper]

Why use Fastflight on a bow not designed for it as Fastflight adds less than ten percent to your speed and is very noisy. Does the added speed , risk of breakage, and noise really help a good shooter at traditional bow ranges, I do not think so.  It is just a crutch and does a good shooter need a crutch, no.

[Stone Knife]

I'm siding with Rob on this one...†

[Blackstick]

Excuse me, but I didn’t see this as an opinion question. The question was directed to people who have tried it.

How’s it going?

I don’t want to come across as testy here, but I am also interested in results that other members have had and how they did it.

Go ahead and shoot me.

[Shawn Leonard]

Again, I agree with Blackstick just a question for guys who have tried it. Shawn

[Blackstick]

Thanks Shawn!

[JamesV]

I built a fastflight string (S4) for my Browning Wasp takedown. This bow did not have tip overlays. 3rd shot destroyed the top limb and this was my only try.

James.........................

[widow sax]

I don't know if I can put down in words how putting a fastflight string on my shafer improved that bow. I would not keep this bow or shoot it with a b50 string on it no way I hated the way it felt and the performance of that bow. I could not take it any longer so I tried a SBD 8 stran D10 string on it and man you could not believe how much it improved that bow could not believe it was the same bow. It brought the performance up to were most bows in that weight class and made it quiet and vibration free. Just to give you a clue about performance gains that bow went from shooting a 405gr arrow at 167fps to a 505gr arrow at 170fps that is huge.    Widow

[fireball31]

Go for it, but when you bust your bow or worse yet yourself over a few FPS don't say you weren't warned. it's my opinion that if someone asked for experience from people who have played russian roulette, I'd warn them not to try it to even though I've never tested it.

[motorhead7963]

Again opinions weren't requested, I have FF strings on a couple non FF bows and have had no Ill effects, infact one bow is a 60#er it has improved the shootability of the bow in my opinion. The hand shock has greatly diminshed and vibrations way down.