Bow care after rain.


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Bow care after rain.

I'd wax the string really well before you go hunting. Bows are pretty durable anymore, but adjustment screws and the like can still rust on you. I like to get my gear home after a hunt in the rain and I wipe it down real well and apply a light coat of oil on my screws and such.

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Bow care after rain.

Rain ? Y'all don't use a hose to clean your bows off after a long day of shooting? I didn't think water hurt a bow? Man... I thought it was the humidity making my bow rust and creek and crack sounds. The guy I bought my bow from said just use a water hose to clean it after shooting and wax string once a month cause the moisture from hose should keep it lubed up.

You guys are just messing around like the snipe hunting thread huh ???

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bows are pretty resilient but I still dry mine off. can of air works good. it's good to keep your string waxed all the time. not necessarily to work it in though. just a light coating on the outside will do. doesn't take much. everything is sealed but at the ends of your cam axles it's good to put a tiny dab of wax. it'll keep water out of there. Q-tip works well to get the screws a thin coat of rust preventive oil. I use the same stuff as on my guns (Hoppe's Elite T3). How much of this all depends on how nasty the weather is. Most of the time I hunt in a blind during rains and all I have to do is dry my bow off from the little that got on it.

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I basically do the same thing WStreblo does except I may break out the hair dryer for the cracks & crevices. If I don't do that, I'll set my bow on end in a corner (on carpet) & let it dry before applying the oil. I do have some unscented oil someone gave me a long time ago. Don't know where he got it.

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I don't hose my bow off I don't even take it out in rain I baby the heck out of that thing. I was just seeing if anyone would call me out on being an idiot lol !!!!

@ bh97 just out side New Orleans

Haha, you're missing out dude, one of my all time favorites is bowhunting in a light drizzle. Nothing like the cover it provides for sound and motion. I love it.

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Mine gets rode hard and put up wet lol. I've never "cleaned" my bow. All stainless/aluminum/composites, don't know what there is to get damaged by a little water.

Agreed, bows are pretty resillient now a days and they're pretty "weatherproof", i've had mine out plenty of times in rain and don't notice any rusty screws or anything, stainless, aluminum, composites... = great!

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