When should you change your bowstring and what signs should you look for? Watch and learn as we share our best techniques in helping you learn how to maintain your bowstring.

Hey guys, Ken here with North 40 Outfitters, Lead Archery Tech at our West Great Falls location. Today, our tech tips gonna be just about your string maintenance and ways to take care of your bowstring to prolong the life of it, and then things to look for to let you know it's probably time to go ahead and replace those strings.

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So as far as maintenance goes, you really just want to make sure you're storing your bow in a really consistent temperature area. You don't want it to be super hot, you don't want to be super cold outside of when you go hunting with it. It really shouldn't go through a bunch of changing temperatures all the time, cuz you're gonna basically bleed the wax out and cause the strings to basically deteriorate at a faster rate. And if you do that, if you store it correctly, you shouldn't have to really wax your strings a whole lot.

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When you do wax, typically what I do is if I'm getting ready to go hunting, I'll just get a quick coat of wax on it. I really, you don't want to over wax. And then all this serving here where there's thread tied around your bowstring, you don't want to do any wax on this stuff. Because what ends up happening, is that wax gets in between the threads and it'll hold onto dirt and that dirt is gonna actually deteriorate your serving faster.

So you really just want to do it on the exposed actual bowstring. And what you'll do is, like this is a boning accelerator wax, you just scrape just a little bit off on the string and you just work it in with your fingers kind of melted into that string. And that's gonna be more than enough for that section of bowstring to keep it covered. If you feel like you put too much on, you can wrap some serving around the string and be able to scrape off the excess wax off your bowstring.

And then things to look forward to let you know it's time to go ahead and replace your bowstring if you see any separation in your serving, where the string underneath it is being exposed, you're gonna want to go ahead and get that replaced. Basically, this stuff here is to protect the bowstring underneath from these high abrasion points on your cams and your mods. So when that starts to deteriorate and break down, you're gonna want to go ahead and really think about putting a new string on it. If you have more questions or you need help with anything, please feel free to swing by your local North 40 Outfitters or check us out online at north40.com.

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