How do you hang your bow (store?)

[rluttrell]

I am looking for some ideas on how to store my bow. I have a T/D recurve. Do I take the lims off or do I keep it together and put it horizontally on its lims?
Do you guys happen to have pictures?

[Flingblade]

If you shoot it regularly leave it strung and just hang it on two pegs or nails by the string.  Most damage to recurves happens during the stringing/unstringing process and unstringing is unnecessary.  If you are not going to shoot for many months unstring and place upside down on limbs on pegs or takedown and store in case.

[Sean B]

The bow that I shoot everyday, is left strung and I hang it by the strings on parallel pegs.  My other bows that I don't shoot regularly are unstrung and hung face down on pegs.  i try to get the pegs even on the limbs.

[Bowtie]

I hang my recurves unstrung vertically on one peg (by the top limb & string), when not shooting them for awhile. I very seldom take my 3-pc. bows apart.

[Shawn Leonard]

All my bows remain strung, even if I am not shooting them regularly. T/Ds as well as one piece bows. I do a Sean B but hang by string on nails nailed horizontal about 3 and a half ft. apart. Shawn

[FrankM]

I have one of these:
http://www.3riversarchery.com/Bow+Accessories+Miscellaneous++%26+Arrow+Rack+Kit_c46_s55_p0_i6304_product.html

I hang my Martin on it strung. I've also shot at least 1K through it, probably 2-3x that by now. Since the Jags have a rep for falling apart, I decided to torture my bow to find out. So far so good, been strung for a year.

[rdoggsilva]

I hang mine the same way as Bowtie. I also very seldom break my 3 piece bows apart.

[ishoot4thrills]

Originally posted by Shawn Leonard:
All my bows remain strung, even if I am not shooting them regularly. T/Ds as well as one piece bows. I do a Sean B but hang by string on nails nailed horizontal about 3 and a half ft. apart. Shawn

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[Gray Buffalo]

[Night Wing]

I store my take down recurves fully strung horizontally in a bow rack.

 

[macksdad]

Gray Buffalo, Do you actually get time to shoot all of those, Awesome collection!!

[maineac]

When I had just one bow I stored it like this


Now that I have several I hang them like this

The ones in regular use are left strung, those on deck are unstrung.  Don't know if this is good, but I have had no problems.

[Jack Shanks]

This is what you do when you have 120 bows and only enough room to display 40.

[trad_bowhunter1965]

I leave my Pronghorn Longbows strung I talked Herb Meland and he told me he had some of his bows strung for 3 years or more with no problems,I do hand my bows vertically.

[Elkchaser]

I follow the always strung, by the string, on two horizontal nails crowd.

[Rob DiStefano]

with modern laminated stick bows, don't matter all whether strung or not - vertical or horizontal.

[ber643]

My lams I hang horizontal, from string, strung (on a Turkey foot rack i built). My Annewakee Addiction  and behind it an old Browning Wasp (recurves):



My Primitives (woods) should be horizontal, unstrung but if you don't have room you can hang vertical and rotate (end for end) monthly (to distribute effects of humidity). Since I don't have wall space (that isn't already covered, etc.) I use blank door space with expanding plastic/wood coat/hat racks:

[hvyhitter]

Bowsocks and laying under the bed.......gotta knock the dust bunnies loose when I drag one out to go shoot.

[Pon]

I use the same expanding hat/coat rack that ber643 uses but I keep them horizontal, when strung I hang them by the string

What I'm noticing is that I have them the upside down as everybody else         Do you think it matters if the bows are resting on the back or the belly?

[Dave Bulla]

I hang mine horizontally on pegs unstrung.

One thing I found amusing reading this is people don't seem to mind leaving a bow strung but several mention hanging them horizontal and used phrases like "evenly spaced", "face down", "face up" or "rotated monthly".  I can't help wondering at the idea that leaving a bow strung is okay but if you unstring it and rest it on pegs you need to keep it even for some reason or face down or face up makes a difference.  Heck, if being strung don't hurt anything, you should be able to just lean them in the corner and forget about them.  

I personally still believe all bows should be unstrung for storage and prefer them horizontal on pegs.  I can not comprehend leaving a bow that costs hundreds of dollars or maybe over a grand strung just out of laziness or a belief that you might harm it by stringing or unstringing it.  If that's the case, ya need to put a little effort into learning how to do it properly just like you should try to learn to shoot it properly.