Who makes good recurve strings?

[MEsquivel]

I’ve been out of touch for a little while.
Any recommendations?
Looking for a mercury 15 strand for a 58” recurve.
Thanks!

[Horsehide]

Pierre Lucas and his son at SBD Strings make outstanding skinny (padded loops) Mercury and Mercury II strings. For D97, I would go with Trevor Fielder at TTT Strings.

[BillyJack1975]

John Hynes make mine and he makes quite a few for a lot of IBO and TBOT shooters. He’s on FB, awesome fellla to deal with.

[MEsquivel]

Thanks for the pointers!!!

[tonyadams]

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[DRT]

Honestly I haven't found one I liked as much as Daniel's strings. They've all been equally as loud and crappy wool puffs on them. The newer 97 and 99 are just not good materials for hunting in my opinion.

[RickBarbee]

You do.

Learn it. It ain't that hard.

Rick

[Trumpkin]

Honestly I haven't found one I liked as much as Daniel's strings. They've all been equally as loud and crappy wool puffs on them. The newer 97 and 99 are just not good materials for hunting in my opinion.

I make my strings out of D97, and they're plenty quiet. Especially on my longbow. Are you still using the old B50 for your bows or something?

[DRT]

I make my strings out of D97, and they're plenty quiet. Especially on my longbow. Are you still using the old B50 for your bows or something?

Field that sarcasm when you've taken as many shots at game as I have.
When you've used the same bow for years and can switch between two strings and hear the difference, even as deaf as i am, the animals can hear it too.

[DRT]

Anyone have any experience with BCY 8125?

[Bisch]

Nothing wrong with D97 or X99!

You might try Mike Harbison with Bayou Teaditional for strings also. Mike makes great bowstrings.

Bisch

[Horsehide]

Anyone have any experience with BCY 8125?

From what I gathered, BCY 8125 does not play nice in warmer temperatures. It gets very stretchy. I have had good luck with well-made D97 strings. Mercury II is also good if you do not mind skinnier strings.

[RickBarbee]

From what I gathered, BCY 8125 does not play nice in warmer temperatures. It gets very stretchy. I have had good luck with well-made D97 strings. Mercury II is also good if you do not mind skinnier strings.

You do not have to settle for a skinny string with M2. The size of the string is all about the builder.
Just increase the strand count until you have the desired diameter.
I'll add - it is an extremely good material - as in right up there with other top of the line stuff.

Edit:
M2 is really easy to work with for flemish strings also.

Rick

[DRT]

Nothing wrong with D97 or X99!

You might try Mike Harbison with Bayou Teaditional for strings also. Mike makes great bowstrings.

Bisch

Says they guy whose hearing is worse than mine.

[Horsehide]

Says they guy whose hearing is worse than mine.

I remember seeing some videos of game reactions to bow vs arrow noise Tim King had awhile back.
Whitetails did not seem to start their ninja moves until way after the arrow was on its way.
But, like you said, you have way more "string time" shooting these guys than I do.