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How do you pull up your bow??

LOSTnWoods

LOSTnWoods

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Doyle's or just a lose rope?

what’s are you using and why did you go with what you use?
 
Doyles with the rope (not the ribbon). I don’t want another loose rope tangling while I climb sticks or while I rappel.

Edit: This year I’m climbing sticks with my lineman’s belt, with my rappel rope attached to my saddle by carabiner, with my pack tied to the other end by bowline. I have a piece of paracord attached to the bottom of my pack and attach it to my recurve for pulling it up.
 
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paracord

i can look for a video, but if you wind it in a figure 8, then it doesn't snag as it unwinds

i finish mine loosely and stuff it in my pack's side bottle pocket and it feeds from that well

i had a doyle's and like the paracord better because it's lighter and you can toss the rope onto the ground after you let your bow down at the end of a hunt.....can't disconnect from the doyle's like that because the spring would pull the thing right at your bow on the ground!
 
raisins said:
paracord

i can look for a video, but if you wind it in a figure 8, then it doesn't snag as it unwinds

i finish mine loosely and stuff it in my pack's side bottle pocket and it feeds from that well

i had a doyle's and like the paracord better because it's lighter and you can toss the rope onto the ground after you let your bow down at the end of a hunt.....can't disconnect from the doyle's like that because the spring would pull the thing right at your bow on the ground!
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basically this video but not hanging off the pack

the paracord has to be messed with mid-climb maybe 1 in 10 climbs (gets wrapped around part of your pack or stops feeding smoothly).....so it isn't foolproof but the doyle's could also get wrapped around things and get on a bind occasionally but never tangles on itself
 
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I wear mine on my pack. Everything comes up at once for me. Im a traditional four sticks and a platform guy.
Stick one goes on at ground level. Platform and stick 3 and 4 get attached to tether. Sticks on the sides and platform on me bum. Stick 2 goes on as I’m on stick 1. I wear my pack and have an invention called the bow spider on the top of my pack that my bow attaches to. I can also attach it to my pack for longer walks and be totally hands free.

I also do the figure eight 550 cord method as well as a backup because it’s so light and takes up no space.
 
raisins said:
paracord

i can look for a video, but if you wind it in a figure 8, then it doesn't snag as it unwinds

i finish mine loosely and stuff it in my pack's side bottle pocket and it feeds from that well

i had a doyle's and like the paracord better because it's lighter and you can toss the rope onto the ground after you let your bow down at the end of a hunt.....can't disconnect from the doyle's like that because the spring would pull the thing right at your bow on the ground!
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This
 
I started with the Doyle's and then went to paracord figure 8 wrapped. Then I went to Dynaglide figure 8 wrapped. Now I'm back to using my Doyle's because it just plain works and easy and fast. Especially at the end of the hunt. I know all the figure 8 users will say that their method is fast also and it is but not as fast as just uncliping from your bow. I'll sacrifice a little weight for the ease and speed.
 
Shapeshifter said:
I started with the Doyle's and then went to paracord figure 8 wrapped. Then I went to Dynaglide figure 8 wrapped. Now I'm back to using my Doyle's because it just plain works and easy and fast. Especially at the end of the hunt. I know all the figure 8 users will say that their method is fast also and it is but not as fast as just uncliping from your bow. I'll sacrifice a little weight for the ease and speed.
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I agree on that disadvantage. At the end of the hunt, I just quick wrap the paracord around my arm and shove in the side pocket. I'm not going to sit and set the thing up nice in the dark or when exposed during daylight. Once back home, I have to straighten it out, sometimes undo a few tangles, and wrap it up again for the next hunt.

It's a slight pain. I think I might try figure 8 with mule tape during the upcoming season because I'm guessing it is less likely to tangle.

This downside is more serious if you want to change locations mid-day. Then, you have to re-do the figure 8. It is not hard or slow (takes 1 minute once you've done it enough), so long as you don't have any tangles. If you do you're picking knots and that stinks in the cold because you have to remove gloves.
 
Shapeshifter said:
I started with the Doyle's and then went to paracord figure 8 wrapped. Then I went to Dynaglide figure 8 wrapped. Now I'm back to using my Doyle's because it just plain works and easy and fast. Especially at the end of the hunt. I know all the figure 8 users will say that their method is fast also and it is but not as fast as just uncliping from your bow. I'll sacrifice a little weight for the ease and speed.
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This is exactly where I'm at. Everybody that recommends cord just assumes that you don't know how to wrap it. Even when you can do it with you're eyes closed its not as simple as a Doyle's.
 
Arrowsquirrel said:
This is exactly where I'm at. Everybody that recommends cord just assumes that you don't know how to wrap it. Even when you can do it with you're eyes closed its not as simple as a Doyle's.
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I think it's just a minimalist dividing line thing. I have a Doyle's and fully agree it is easier, but I don't want extra stuff hanging off me. So, I'm willing to put up with the inconvenience of the cord in order to have one less relatively big thing hanging off me.

I don't think anyone assumes folks can't do the figure 8 out of malice. I think we (rightly) assume that the average hunter doesn't know this trick and just uses the cord by wrapping in a basic loop and then tossing it on the ground around the bow. So, we make sure people know about the figure 8 when these discussions arise. It is a reasonable assumption and thing to point out. No offense is intended or should be taken.
 
Arrowsquirrel said:
This is exactly where I'm at. Everybody that recommends cord just assumes that you don't know how to wrap it. Even when you can do it with you're eyes closed its not as simple as a Doyle's.
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,^^^this^^^

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I must be some sort of freak because I could never get the figure-8 method to work for me without knotting and tangling up. I put 40' of Dynaglide (because the EWO kits come in 40' lengths, otherwise I'd have just done like 25') on a Harbor Freight dog leash and love it. I also bought a chalk reel to do the same thing with, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
 
Iron_llama said:
I must be some sort of freak because I could never get the figure-8 method to work for me without knotting and tangling up. I put 40' of Dynaglide (because the EWO kits come in 40' lengths, otherwise I'd have just done like 25') on a Harbor Freight dog leash and love it. I also bought a chalk reel to do the same thing with, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
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did you try it with dynaglide? I haven't, if so maybe that's why? i'm using 550 paracord (standard size)

as I do the paracord the evening before a hunt, I kind of milk the cord to remove twists in it

also, i don't do what the videos show where you wrap it pretty tight as a finisher and then hang off a pack

that makes it more likely that it will hang up

do the figure 8 with rather large 8s (extra large glove size, fingers really spread)

i do one loose wrap to finish and that end is left long with a loop and s-biner and that is attached to pack so i can't loose the whole thing

whole thing is put in the water bottle pocket and the part that pulls out is towards the outside

working fine for 3 years now
 
Iron_llama said:
I must be some sort of freak because I could never get the figure-8 method to work for me without knotting and tangling up. I put 40' of Dynaglide (because the EWO kits come in 40' lengths, otherwise I'd have just done like 25') on a Harbor Freight dog leash and love it. I also bought a chalk reel to do the same thing with, but haven't gotten around to it yet.
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I was thinking about switching out and putting dynaglide on my Doyle's, but sometimes that dynaglide is so slick that it difficult to pull the bow up.
 
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