Sunset Hill Longbows and Leather

       After uncasing my longbow from it's sleeve, Schulz asked to watch me string it up.  Placing the lower limb tip against my foot instep, I held onto the handle, pulled it up towards my stomach and sliding my other hand up the limb I dropped the string into the string groove.  "Looks good Nate", he said, "you don't know how many fellas I see that can't string their bow...some of the guys who take my classes even bring a bow stringer!" he chuckled with mirth.  "Hill said you shouldn't shoot any bow that you couldn't string, and he didn't mean with a stringer."  I could see John's eyes shine with humor.           Like the other aspects of John's teaching, he then went into detail on the proper way to string a longbow sans stringer and be safe about it.  After watching fellas struggle with stringing their longbows over the years, maybe it's a good time for me to give a short lesson.          ...