No Wax at all on string?

[Ont_Excal]

Its simple - If you are getting wax into your trigger you are putting on way to much. Same goes for rail lube, having a toothpaste size bead of lube along the rail gives no more lubrication than a thin smear tht you can bareley see. It just end up where it shouldn't and is a waste of money.
I clocked up over a couple of thousand shots from target shooting nearly every day in my first year. Opened my trigger up to polish the latch and check the trigger box out. There was no wax to be seen at all
The problem is everyone has a different idea of how to wax a serving or lube the rail. I've seen people literally large lumps of wax all down there rail etc, and of course when they eventually have a trigger problem "the wax is the cause of it" not the guy who's burried the crossbow in wax

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Good post.

[Cossack]

Danny is old school. (I know, I know almost like saying God is wrong) Dalton's String Conditioner (used sparingly and rubbed in) soaks into the serving and lubricates the fibers under the serving (where they are under intense pressure) and lubes the deck a tad simultaneously.

[sumner4991]

Maybe I will use wax on the second one and compare the length of use.

I've done that, thus why I came up with the 25% number. Doesn't seem like many shots when shooting an Exomax, but, when you add 25% while shooting a Vixen, then it's a bunch of shooting.

Also, adding wax every 25 shots is good enough . . .more often does not give you anymore benefit in extended serving wear.

The 25% number is also a ballpark figure . . .every serving will react differently because we do not get the exact same tension on the string every time along with other variables . . .your results will vary, but, the serving clearly benefits from the wax. . . .unless you have a spur on your trigger claw.

Wax for Danny . . .that would be funny.

[Boo]

Maybe I will use wax on the second one and compare the length of use.

Wax for Danny . . .that would be funny.

Last year I sent him a tube of Dalton.

[BillK]

Thank you all for the replies - I appreciate them all.

Now to just decide what I want to do since there seems to be no right or wrong answer.

I'm totally amazed with my Vortex btw - shooting dead on at 20 and 30 yards consistently is so much fun. Walking back and forth after each shot so as to avoid robinhooding - not so much...

[sumner4991]

Walking back and forth after each shot so as to avoid robinhooding - not so much...

I have about 30 practice arrows . . .I shoot them starting at the top left of the target and work my way across the top, keeping the arrows 1 inch apart. When I get to the right end, I start another line 1 inch under the first line. I keep going like that until I fill the target, all arrows 1 inch apart.

It actually looks pretty cool when I do a good job of shooting and I only have to make one trip every 30 shots. And I wax my string after every trip to collect the arrows.

I have some mishaps because, all my practice arrows do not weigh the same.