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Amazing wonder bow story! MUST READ!
Sep 15th, 2012 at 12:48am
 
  Hey, my dad sold a bow to a boys parents 2 years ago, he shot it here at the shop, we showed him how to string it and use it properly and the parents gave it to him as a present.  They live far away from here and fast forward two years they came back this summer and brought the bow and went out shooting with my dad.  HERES THE KICKER.  The boy strung the bow and shot it for about an hour with my dad, the bow working beautiful and the kid shooting very accurately.  Then my dad looked at the bow closer and kind of thought it looked funny, then he noticed...it was STRUNG BACKWARDS!!  He immediately took it and unstrung it, expecting it to blow up at any minute.  The kid asked why and he explained it was strung backwards.  Both the boy and his parents thought that was the proper way for it to be strung and they had been stringing it and shooting it this way for 2 years!!!!!!!!!!  The bow was perfectly fine and completely undamaged and still is shooting great for them, STRUNG PROPERLY now, (we hope.)
   We have decided to call it the miracle bow, as for the life of us we have no understanding how it survived, I would have expected it to explode at the first shot with that much crossgrain at what should be the front of the bow at the back...it just boggles the mind.  But it goes to show how tough some bows are and what you can get away with sometimes.  Strung right that one should last forever.
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Re: Amazing wonder bow story! MUST READ!
Reply #1 - Sep 15th, 2012 at 7:04am
 
Yeah but can I say... don't try this at home!  Cheesy
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Reply #2 - Sep 15th, 2012 at 9:45am
 
That pretty much proves your dad sells some d*mn good bows
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Reply #3 - Sep 15th, 2012 at 3:52pm
 
Yeah, that would definitely kill most of my bows.

What kind of wood and limb design was it?
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Reply #4 - Sep 15th, 2012 at 4:36pm
 
  Howard hill style, solid raised handle with flat limbs.  He keeps his bow woods secret as he has been doing it a long time, (about 50 years,) and knows some things he likes to keep to himself.  But he uses a hardwood on the inside and softwood on the back generally, hardwood to compress so it doesn't crush, softwood to bend on the outside, but that isn't a solid rule and he does a good few one piece bows.  I believe this was a hardwood/softwood laminate though.
   The biggest thing that happens when we are selling at the market is people coming up, grabbing a bow and trying to pull it WITHOUT STRINGING IT... I just can't comprehend the thought process behind that...how could that possibly work?  The string is hanging slack and sliding up and down, a moments examination and you should be able to figure that right out, but I think they are just acting on impulse.  It really happens a lot.  You have to be really careful of people dry firing it as well, which I do understand them doing as you really need to be told that, and over-drawing is nasty as well, a big guy might take a short bow from his son and pull it back 36 in. and wammo! that's happened more than once.
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