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crossbow string oil - Barneyboy - 28 January 2012
hello is there any thing you can use for crossbow string oil I,E veg oil meat fat or the like will it brake the string cheers
RE: crossbow string oil - NorthernRaider - 28 January 2012
Just use ordinary string wax which is available from most archery suppliers, actually I think you can also make your own very easily out of something like bees wax etc, try googling making archery string wax.
RE: crossbow string oil - Skean Dhude - 28 January 2012
I tried oil when I got mine at first. The string is so tight that it can't permeat and the oil just went everywhere. On a bow I would hate for it to slip while you are pulling it back and not properly aimed.
RE: crossbow string oil - Timelord - 28 January 2012
Try beeswax. Rub it in, like leatherworkers do to their threads. It only takes a little bit.