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It's easy as pie as long as you have the appropriate tools.<br>
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You will either need a stringer designed for crossbows or a "bastard
string" and both are simple to use once you have been show how and it
is not conceptually any different than stringing a longbow or recurve.<br>
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A bastard string is really just an overly long string for your
crossbow, It is just short enough so that when this bastard string is
but on the bow and the bow cocked that the prod will be flexed just
enough for the real string intended for use on the bow to be put in
place. Then you decock the bow and remove the bastard string and you
are done. Often the prod has to be built to accommodate the bastard
string with an extra set of string nocks for it to fit into (this is
particularly true for straight prods). For recurve prods the stringer
or bastard string can often rest in the recurved portion of the prod in
the same way a pad type stringer does on a recurve handbow.<br>
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Modern crossbow vendors sell bastard string type of bow stringers.
This is an example of the the stringer sold by Excalibur crossbows for
their recurved crossbows. <br>
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<img alt="http://www.scabrewer.com/pics/ExcalStringer.jpg"
title="http://www.scabrewer.com/pics/ExcalStringer.jpg"
src="cid:part1.06000501.06070400@scabrewer.com" height="267"
width="320"><br>
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Here is a picture of it in use.<br>
<img alt="http://www.scabrewer.com/pics/ExcalStringerUse.jpg"
title="http://www.scabrewer.com/pics/ExcalStringerUse.jpg"
src="cid:part2.02090202.03070709@scabrewer.com" height="500"
width="500"><br>
You slip the blocks on the end of the stringers over the prod and allow
them to rest in the recurve portion of the prod. Then you cock the
crossbow with this bastard string. The bastard string is just long
enough so that when the crossbow is cocked the prod is flexed just
enough for you to easily get the real string onto it. The real string
is put into place through the large holes on the blocks in the bastard
string and slipped onto the string nocks on the prod. Then you
carefully decock the bow and remove the bastard string from your now
strung crossbow. You of course reverse the process to unstring your
crossbow for storage or transport.<br>
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While the Excalibur stringer has UHMW blocks your could make one that
is just cord with rubber hose over it to help keep the stringer from
slipping on the prod.<br>
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A couple of guys can man-handle a string onto a lightweight crossbow
but it is no necessarily safe and increases the risk of damaging the
bow by applying uneven or unnatural pressure on the limbs. Using a
stringer is always the way you <u>should</u> do it and I think the
only safe option for higher poundage bows.<br>
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I am going to to TRY and be at the Grand Assembly of Archers. Find
me and I'll show you how you are supposed to string a crossbow.<br>
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-EA<br>
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Len Billett wrote:
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<div>does anyone know how the bloody hell to restring a crossbow? i
unstrung it for storage and cant get it restrung. im in the process of
re adjusting it and cant really test it unstrung. if anyone can help me
to get it strung up again and would happen to be at the namron practice
or the grand assemb. please drop me a line at <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="mailto:lordleno666@yahoo.com">lordleno666@yahoo.com</a><br>
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