How To Hang A Recurve Bow On The Wall

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How to hang a recurve bow on the wall.

Some bow racks hold multiple bows and include pegs to hang your quiver. Bow racks are fantastic for showing off your bow and making it part of your home s décor. But for recurving archers it s better to unstring the bow before you hang it. I ve been taking the vertical approach with my traditional bows my olympic recurve and my compounds.

Decorate and display your bow and arrows for a more organized space all while keeping them ready for use. At it s most basic two pegs are hammered into the wall spread apart so that they can evenly support the weight of a riser put on top of it. I just put a big screw through the wall cover. For the compound bows you can hang your bow on the wall without doing anything before.

I live in a tiny house and i own a gorgeous recurve bow. They re fully protected and always ready to travel. I ve heard some say keeping bows vertical and hanging them by the loose string towards the top will warp the limbs. A purely at home means of storage wall pegs are the simplest way to safely store a recurve bow and is a method that harks back to the earliest days of archery.

Compound bows and recurve bows and you need to do different things before you hang them. As you already know there are two main types of bows to hang. Most bow cases can also store your arrows and other. A matching pair of holders are included each held to the wall with one screw and a 2 mounting post to support the limbs of the bow.

I used to hang my bows vertically never saw any damage from it. The horizontal archery bow holder is a unique way to display any bow. The tips of the recurve bow are designed to bend backward so resting them on two pegs keeps the bow in top shape. For space efficiency and some bonus wall art i d like to hang it vertically flat against the wall such that the string is perpendicular to the floor.