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Author Topic: How do you hang your bow (store?)  (Read 1600 times)

Offline Ralphie

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Re: How do you hang your bow (store?)
« Reply #20 on: April 13, 2011, 04:26:00 PM »
I decided to go the vertical route. Four bows can hang on one small 4 hook, plastic multi hook Ikea sells for about $6 it's called the "Periskope"
The bows hang out from the wall, are not scratched by the hard plastic multi hook, and four bows occupies a space of lesss than 6 inches wide or deep.
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Re: How do you hang your bow (store?)
« Reply #21 on: April 13, 2011, 04:30:00 PM »
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Offline sawtoothscream

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Re: How do you hang your bow (store?)
« Reply #22 on: April 13, 2011, 04:33:00 PM »
i unstring mine.  the top of my rack is made of horns of my first deer then i have loops pf string coming off that. just slide the bow through the loops
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Re: How do you hang your bow (store?)
« Reply #23 on: April 13, 2011, 04:51:00 PM »
Any way I can.

 

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Offline bucksbuouy

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Re: How do you hang your bow (store?)
« Reply #24 on: April 13, 2011, 04:51:00 PM »
Most manufacturers say you should store you bow un-strung, horizontally, on it's back or side.
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Offline ber643

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Re: How do you hang your bow (store?)
« Reply #25 on: April 13, 2011, 05:56:00 PM »
LOL - Dave, live and let live. The "Rotated monthly" is the considered advice of Art Butner of WV, whom I personally respect highly in all matters pertaining to wood bows (and cane arrows - among other things, unmentionable -   ;)   ). Other folks are welcome to either follow it, or take it with a grain of salt. Everybody is gonna do what they are gonna do, enyhoo, as we all know, and can certainly see in these varied answers.
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Re: How do you hang your bow (store?)
« Reply #26 on: April 13, 2011, 06:02:00 PM »
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Originally posted by Elkchaser:
I follow the always strung, by the string, on two horizontal nails crowd.
I am in the same boat...although it's not nails but antler tips on a bow rack...but same concept, strung up and hung by the string.

I posted a pic of my bow rack on a diff thread and it has the bows resting on the limbs not the string....but that was for pic taking purposes only.  ;)
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Offline EL Mejor

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Re: How do you hang your bow (store?)
« Reply #27 on: April 13, 2011, 07:06:00 PM »
NICE RACKS,,,COOL
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Offline ishoot4thrills

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Re: How do you hang your bow (store?)
« Reply #28 on: April 13, 2011, 07:15:00 PM »
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Originally posted by bucksbuouy:
Most manufacturers say you should store you bow un-strung, horizontally, on it's back or side.
Interesting.......I find just the opposite true. Black Widow, Pittsley Predator makers(Huntersniche), Dave Beeler(Beeler Bows) and Jason Kendall(JK Traditions Kanati), among others, all say it's okay to leave them strung.
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Re: How do you hang your bow (store?)
« Reply #29 on: April 13, 2011, 07:18:00 PM »
Dave Bulla, to each his own my friend......    :)

I guess I'm one of the "lazy" ones!
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Offline L. E. Carroll

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Re: How do you hang your bow (store?)
« Reply #30 on: April 13, 2011, 07:36:00 PM »
Here's how I hang mine... the Tall Tines  [9 th from right] is the bow I'm currently using at this tine. Therefore, it's strung up...the others are un-strung.

 
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Offline Javi

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Re: How do you hang your bow (store?)
« Reply #31 on: April 13, 2011, 09:02:00 PM »
I use a 6 gun, gun rack..
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Offline Spookeytooth

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Re: How do you hang your bow (store?)
« Reply #32 on: April 13, 2011, 10:03:00 PM »
Occam's Razor approach
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Offline mwosborn

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Re: How do you hang your bow (store?)
« Reply #33 on: April 13, 2011, 10:08:00 PM »
When I asked Sue at RER - she also said leave it strung and hang it by string on pegs.  So that is what I do.

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Offline Spookeytooth

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Re: How do you hang your bow (store?)
« Reply #34 on: April 13, 2011, 10:09:00 PM »
"nothing exceeds like excess"
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Offline Shawn Leonard

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Re: How do you hang your bow (store?)
« Reply #35 on: April 13, 2011, 10:19:00 PM »
Dave, not out of laziness at all. It does not hurt them to be strung at all. I have known of recurves to have been strung for 40+ years with no ill effect what so ever. It is much easier to just be able to go in and grab one and start shooting. Leaving one standing in a corner(strung or unstrung) can and will hurt a bow, so the reference makes no sense. Shawn
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Offline TDHunter

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Re: How do you hang your bow (store?)
« Reply #36 on: April 13, 2011, 10:32:00 PM »
I unstring after every use and hang horizontal on the limbs ( bow rack)
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Offline rluttrell

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Re: How do you hang your bow (store?)
« Reply #37 on: April 13, 2011, 11:17:00 PM »
Thank you all This has been a ton of good info. I am thinking I will go with a gun rack or antlers. Actually I want the antlers but being a rookie the gun rack seems to be more realistic or closer to happening.
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Offline Fortun81

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Re: How do you hang your bow (store?)
« Reply #38 on: April 14, 2011, 12:47:00 AM »
I like that one hanging on the chest of drawers. I had my widow hanging from the pull up bars in the doorway for a while until I got my bow racks put up in the new house. Hang em by the string, strung. That's how Black Widow says to do it. Unless you aren't going to shoot it for more than a few months. NEVER set it in a corner!! NEVER. It WILL warp it.
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Re: How do you hang your bow (store?)
« Reply #39 on: April 14, 2011, 07:15:00 AM »
Always good to see what others are doing. Each to his own "phobia" and so what? As mwosborn, obviously more bows won't hurt!
I keep the "shooter" strung and horizontal, in close proximity to the back door and it's arrows. The "excuses" are harder to come by that way. Those in waiting are unstrung and spread around a bit. I like that 4 hook vertical hanger idea. Nice and compact, out of the way.
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