I am not knew to Archery but have been away for a long time.


I shot a lot with my dad when I was a Kid and decided to get my Family into it.


We set up a foam target and were practicing today.


For the little guys (5,7 & 7 we got the cheap walmart bows to make sure they like it before moving on to a more pricey bow.





My question on bow storage




Strung or unstrung storage?


Horizontal or vertical?

Mine is a take down recurve


The 2 long bows and a compound





There is so much contrasting info out there





Here's a the target we set up so far







 

I store mine horizontal on a rack. If I'm going to be shooting again the following day I leave it strung. If it is going to be several days I unstring it. Just use a good stringer and pay attention to what you are doing. People twist limbs by not using stringers or using poor ones and not checking their setup before the pull.

You have a recommendation on which stringer to get?



 

This is what I use but they are no so easy to find - last time I saw them for sale was at Cloverdale annual shoot.

I'm the same.  If I'm shooting the next day, I leave it strung.  If it's going to be more than 24 hours, I'll unstring it.  

When I store it, it sits on a shelf.  This a Damon Howatt Hunter recurve one-piece.  

I also have a Mongolian horse bow that I treat the same way.  


As far as stringing, I use a stringer for my Damon Howatt.  It's a string with two heavy plastic, well, cups for lack of a better term, on each end.  

The Mongolian bow I use the old around the leg method as that was what the manufacturer suggested.