Better Bowhunting: The Case for Upgrading to an Aftermarket Bowstring

By Patriot Outdoor News

Jerry Carter’s bowstrings grace bowhunting and 3D archery bows throughout the Southeast, and colorful threads appeal to 3D shooters in particular.

You have to really want to be at Jerry Carter’s place to get there. There’s no passing by; it’s at the end of a long, winding county road that turns into a long, winding driveway through the wooded hills of western Kentucky. Getting there is well worth the trouble if you’re a bowhunter or 3D target archer, though.

Carter and his wife, Margie, own Threadzand and make bowstrings in their well-equipped workshop outside Princeton, Ky. They’ve been at it for a few years, and what started out as sort of a word-of-mouth cottage industry has grown to the point that, via Internet contacts, they now supply bowstrings for archers throughout the country on a fairly regular basis. Jerry reckons he and Margie have produced more than 2,000 strings in the six years they’ve been open. It’s cut into their time as competitors in the Archery Shooters Association target matches around the Southeast, but it’s also become a lucrative sideline.

Having ordered a new bowstring from them for my Mathews Drenalin, I drove up to their shop the other day to have it …read more

Source:: Patriot Outdoor News