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Author Topic: Chopped my string!!  (Read 230 times)

Offline TAWL

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Chopped my string!!
« on: April 18, 2011, 08:05:00 PM »
Practicing with my broadheads this evening and yup, you guessed it. Bounced the blade off my string.    :thumbsup:
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Offline Bigkid

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Re: Chopped my string!!
« Reply #1 on: April 18, 2011, 08:15:00 PM »
Glad you didn't get hurt popping that string.
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Offline ChrisM

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Re: Chopped my string!!
« Reply #2 on: April 18, 2011, 08:17:00 PM »
OOPS!!!!!
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Offline hvyhitter

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Re: Chopped my string!!
« Reply #3 on: April 18, 2011, 08:27:00 PM »
I aways have 2 or 3 strings set up and broken in for each bow just in case I do that during hunting season..................
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Offline David Mitchell

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Re: Chopped my string!!
« Reply #4 on: April 18, 2011, 09:41:00 PM »
Yep, done that here as well.  :banghead:  That's the beauty of making your own strings! In less than an hour you got a replacement ready to go.
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Offline Eugene Slagle

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Re: Chopped my string!!
« Reply #5 on: April 18, 2011, 09:43:00 PM »
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Originally posted by David Mitchell:
Yep, done that here as well.   :banghead:   That's the beauty of making your own strings! In less than an hour you got a replacement ready to go.
One of the joys of having a Recurve or Long Bow & also knowing how to make your own.

Not many bows with training wheels can have the string & cables replaced while in the field.
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Offline RM81

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Re: Chopped my string!!
« Reply #6 on: April 19, 2011, 08:24:00 AM »
I need to learn how to make my own strings.  Glad you didn't hurt yourself when the string broke.
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Offline Dave Worden

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Re: Chopped my string!!
« Reply #7 on: April 19, 2011, 09:20:00 AM »
The term "second string" comes to mind.  One should always an already broken-in and tweaked string in the car, tackle box, quiver, somewhere handy.  When helping someone get started setting up a new bow, one of the first things I tell them is to tune everything in, then take that string off and put it away; put on a new string and do it again.
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Offline bigbadjon

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Re: Chopped my string!!
« Reply #8 on: April 19, 2011, 09:48:00 AM »
My dad hit the string with a chisel when we were making a bow. Oh the excitement.
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Offline TAWL

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Re: Chopped my string!!
« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2011, 07:24:00 PM »
No harm done to the bow or myself. Just a dumb accident. I will definitely have spares before the season arrives!!
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Offline paoloi

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Re: Chopped my string!!
« Reply #10 on: April 19, 2011, 10:39:00 PM »
How do you do that? Do you have a bow quiver?
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Offline Fortun81

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Re: Chopped my string!!
« Reply #11 on: April 22, 2011, 01:25:00 AM »
:banghead:  
Yep... done it to. I got lucky as well. No damage to the bow.
That reminds me of a story though... I was trying to get a buddy into trad archery, and was showing him how to string my long bow, and was telling him to be extra careful when doing this as it could slip and if it did it would probably hit him in the face if he weren't careful. Just at that second, the string slipped off my 65# Flat bow, and it hit me square in the jaw. Apparently... ... it knocked me out, but luckily, I woke up on the way down, and managed NOT to land on my face. Lesson learned...    :laughing:
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Offline David Mitchell

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Re: Chopped my string!!
« Reply #12 on: April 22, 2011, 11:52:00 AM »
Ouch!!!  :scared:
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Offline Swinestalker

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Re: Chopped my string!!
« Reply #13 on: April 22, 2011, 01:17:00 PM »
Sounds like something that would happen to me, wait, it has happened to me!
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