I was reading some posts and I have noticed several people say that they where changing the strings on their new or nearly new bows. The question I have is Why? Am I missing something? Are people changing them just because of color choice or is there a performance advantage of aftermarket strings over stock ones. I'm fairly new to doing my own stuff to my bow so I'm still learning and asking questions. Thanks guys.
I changed mine purely for asthetics. I'm going with red accessories and wanted my string and cable to match. Most new bows come with strings that are more than adequate for bowhunting. Sent from my ADR6300 using Tapatalk
That's cool. Justin is your Helim camo or black? I just wanted to make sure that the stock strings where not junk.
My bow is camo for this year. I did black the past two seasons, so I'm switching it up a bit. Went with a black/red set of strings and cables to match my sting loop, kisser, and peep.
That should look sweet. I love my Helim. I'm not sure what I want to do to customize it to me though. I want to do something just not sure what yet.
I am changing strings on my Mathews Z7 Extreme this week. I had the string de-rail during a letdown. Very exciting when the string comes off and the bow unloads. No damage to the bow, but I don't trust the strings after this event. I put everything back together in my bow press, but I am holding off shooting until I get the new strings on the bow.
Some of the bows out there come with less than desireable strings. That is to say that some factory strings aren't as good as most of the custom sets. But that doesn't mean that all custom sets are better than factory. I have saw some custom sets that weren't great.
Mine is for two reasons. I wanted custom strings and colors to begin with but, was forced to change out do to stupidity on my part. I wasn't going to share it but, what the heck. We all do stupid stuff from time to time. I am not sure exactly what happened because it happened so fast. I preach never draw a bow without an arrow loaded and I also preach don't draw one without a release. I did both a week ago this past Sunday. Call it a brain fart lapse of brilliance or just plain dumb but, I drew it back and about half way threw the draw, pow!! I don't know if I had it torqued and let back down slightly without realizing it and it derailed or what but the string snapped at both cams, came around and smacked my middle finger and my thumb so hard it split the tip of my nail and gave me a nice blood blister on the tip of it. When I told my pro shop owner and told him the bow looked to be fine, he simply said, "It will be perfectly fine, its a Hoyt" Then went on to say how he has seen so many Hoyts dry fired without damage compared to others. My bow checked out fine. Anyways, that's why I am changing mine. lol I went with a tan and bright red to match the lettering on in the "Carbon Element" on the riser and the red accents on the limbs and red on the draw modules. The sample looked good so should the finished product.
That sucks that that happened Stick! But good thing is the bow is fine and lesson learned right? We all have brain farts once in a while like when I was just out the other day sighting in my HHA and I was drawing back and got to close to the trigger and punched one of my new easton FMJ arrows about 70 yards down range and about 10 feet up in a tree. I like to call them expensive reminders on how NOT to do things.
Yeah, I'll never do it again and neither will Jess. She was in our bedroom with the door opened and I was in our den. It sounded like a .22 went off. She was getting ready for church and stuck her head at the opening of the door after I said "Oh crap!!" and she said "what was that?" I just held the bow up and showed her. she wasn't happy about it. She especially wasn't thrilled when we took it to the shop. She gave me heck for a few min and let it go. She's a very understanding woman. Oh and I've done what you did too. lol When I first started shooting. luckily I didn't have it drawn but, about 10" on an old bow. Since I then, I keep my index finger behind the trigger and push forward on it while drawing. Haven't done it since.
Glad to see I am not the only one with bad luck. The thumb trigger release is just challenging for me as I am switching over from a wrist strap. Hope to avoid any more excitement.
Yea normally I keep my fingers behind the trigger to but on that shot it was a brain fart and I was at pretty much full draw so when it let loose it went like a bat out of he**. It good to have a good woman behind you even when you screw up. Thats one great thing about my girlfriend she is very supportive and accepts when I screw up once in awhile.
Woman like that is definitively a blessing. Men have those moment from time to time. Hey without brain farts we wouldn't have funny stories to tell people would we?
When I buy a bow, I shoot in the factory set and put a peep and a d loop on it. Then I order a new set in the color that I want from Vaportrail and put them on it, shoot them in, and put a peep and loop on them. THis way I have a sweet looking bow and a backup string that is ready to rock. Vaportrail's have never left me down, I've put a slice in them with my razor when changing a peep, but that was just my stupidity.
Happens to all of us at one point or another. I look at it this way. In the past year and eight months and somewhere around 9,000 shots, I have been lucky to have this happen once and the only other two mishaps was one string that was god knows how old break and a "D" loop come loose and my first bust me in the mouth, I have done pretty good.
