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Hazel longbow, 100# @ 28"

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meanewood:
For what it's worth, I have an ongoing back injury and I can sympathize with anyone struggling to brace bows no matter what technique they try!

The problem is caused by reaching out or twisting or both.

My solution is to make the stringer just long enough to fit and then use a short stick with a concave end to sit against the bow belly and a string slot to take the stringer.

The stick just needs to be long enough to get the bow to brace height.

So now you can brace by securing the bowstring while the bow is held at brace by the stick, no leaning over and no twisting!

My stick has a small piece of leather glued into the concave end to stop it slipping and prevent any scratching to the bows finish.

This small piece of kit is easy to take out into the field with you. Mine hangs off my quiver.

WillS:
Nice :D

I imagine it still causes issues getting those nasty slipknots out of sidenocks though ;)

FilipT:
WillS, I would have to see this stringer you are talking about, mine is simply two loops string.

P.S. I don't bother myself with +120# bows and horn nocks because I didn't even finish this bow. After a few years I can start to think about this further.

meanewood:
Hi Filip

To understand what Will is referring to, Take one end of your stringer and pass the loop through the loop on the other end and pull it all the way through. That end now has a running loop.
Now take the running loop and take it back to the other end and pass the whole running loop through the loop on that end and pull it all the way through.

Now you have running loops on both ends and they will tighten up under tension so that you don't need a second slot on your nock. Just tighten the running loop about a half inch above your upper limb nock slot. The lower limb running loop can rest right up against the bowyers knot.

Hey Will
I can't believe you haven't got the hang of it. Your not still using that F/F plastic stuff are you?

WillS:
Nope, linen.  Simply doesn't work.  I'm not alone though, nobody I've mentioned it to can do it either with bows over 130lb.

Filip the reason I mention 120lb bows is because that's what you said this is at the moment.  You may be aiming for 90lb, but it doesn't make a difference.  If you need to winch your bow down just to put a string on, you're doing something wrong no matter what weight it is. 

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