I shoot daily at home and lately, the laziness in me says just leave it strung for perhaps 3-4 days at a time. But, wondering if it will have harmful effects?
If you are shooting it every day and they are a good set of high performance limbs I would imagine its ok, that being said when left alone, its at rest in a bow stand not supported by the limbs or string.
I have to wonder if stringing and unstringing the bow isn't a bit like taking of and landing a plane, which I've heard the most dangerous part of flying. So rather than just wondering if leaving the bow strung is ok, I wonder if that there might actually be something gained (besides time) by not stringing and unstringing the bow all of the time - such as a reduced chance of twisting a limb, plus less wear on the limb fittings. So even if the bow were to lose an fps or two a year (not sure if anyone has done a sound, statistically significant study with a large enough sample size) there might be a gain to go with that. Risk vs. reward...
Also, I'm assuming you are referring to a modern, glass, carbon/glass or carbon powered bow. Never leave an all wood bow strung all of the time, such as a stave bow. All wood bows take on a set when left strung.
Personally, I also do not have a need to string/unstring my bow very often. I leave my strung for maybe a week at a time. Never had a problem with glass or carbon limbs. Never noticed a difference with FPS.
Depends on the bow. if it is something considered vintage...I'd unstring it per use (less shooting it every other day or so) If a newer bow...I just leave it strung.
On an old bow, I'd unstring it if not using it for more than a few days, but modern recurve limbs are just as advanced as compound limbs, which obviously stay strung forever with no problems.
Mine stays strung because I shoot every day (Axiom + limbs) . And one of the coaches leaves hers strung (GMX riser, 720 limbs) as well. I don't notice any ill effect. Might want to check brace height now and again.
Thank you people! I'll just leave it strung up then. So much easier, just pick up the bow, sling, tab, shoot. It's a SF Forged+ with Premium Carbon Wood limbs. Yeah Stardog, I'll keep tabs on the string length and brace to see if it changes at all.
If it is on a bowstand or otherwise properly supported (as described above) and not in direct heat/sunlight such as in the back window of a car, it should be OK. I string my camp bows (wooden handled TD's with alminated limbs) at the start of the summer and unstring them at the end. They are stored in a closed shed, supported string-side up between 2x4s resting on the base to middle of the limbs. No problems.
Unless compound limb technology is significantly different (and they might be...I'm not a limb expert), I'd assume that if you don't unstring a compound, why would you NEED to unstring a compound? Seems reasonable to think that heat or impropoer 'hanging/storage' while strung would be a problem for both, too.
Come to think of it, I last shot my compounds in 1992 and they've been strung up all this time, 20 years. Shot them last year for a couple weeks just to see and no difference whatsoever that I could tell. I did relax the limbs and put them away again.
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