Unknown stringer

Red Dwarf · January 10, 2007, 07:32:00 PM

I have just been given a bow stringer, but it is not like anything that I have come across on the forum. (I am very new to archery).
It is a length of string that runs through two holes in a metal handle. On each end of the string there is a metal hook, one of which also has a pulley wheel attached.
How do you use these things, and are they safe/recommended?

Red Dwarf

Gray Buffalo · January 10, 2007, 08:47:00 PM

Its from the dark side. Get rid of it.

Charlie Lamb · January 10, 2007, 08:49:00 PM

Red... sounds like what you were given is a stringer for older model compound bows. Don't know of anything like that for trad bows.

It won't do you any good.

kawika b · January 10, 2007, 08:51:00 PM

i'm with gray buff,LOL!

Red Dwarf · January 10, 2007, 08:54:00 PM

Thanks again guys.

It is on the way out the door as we speak!!

Red Dwarf

vermonster13 · January 10, 2007, 08:56:00 PM

Glad you didn't try it on that beautiful Bear. Hey is that coin brass or silver colored by the way?

Red Dwarf · January 10, 2007, 10:23:00 PM

Dave

The coin is brass coloured, not silver.

RD

rtherber · January 11, 2007, 01:30:00 PM

Yep, its an old compound bow stringer. Back when they used the double teardrop cables. You could catch the"claws" on one side of the teardrop and slip the new string on. Then slip the old string off the other teardrop. Definitely not traditional gear.

swamper · January 15, 2007, 08:31:00 PM

rtheber is right,no good to you