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Hazel longbow, 100# @ 28"
Badger:
You can twist the hell out of a string and it won't hurt it. Fast flite string does not stretch. I have built hundreds and hundreds of them. You will get a little stretch on a new string until it pulls tight and that's it. We need to find out what you are doing wrong. Too low of a brace height will put extra stress on a string also. Is your stretched string at least 3" shorter than your nock to nock?
FilipT:
It's not fast flight, but spectra fishing braid. I used the ring to adjust string to be about 3" or bit more shorter than ntn length of bow. When I put it on bow and it lengthens by these 3". These process was repeated at least five times, each time stretching.
It's not untwisting like the previous badly made string so I am really wondering where does it get that additional length.
Badger:
It has to be the string, I am also using some spectra 100# test at the moment because I ran out of string. I am not getting any stretch. I say get a different string.
DC:
Are the loops getting bigger/ smaller? You say it's stretching 3". Does it recover at all? If the 3" was coming from the loops they would have pulled out by now I would think. Especially if you did it five times. That's 15" of string that had to come from somewhere. Somethings not adding up.
DC:
I have heard stories of counterfeit Spectra out there. The word "Spectra" wasn't hand written on the label was it ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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