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I've been interested in looking into string walking for my target game, but being a hunter first and target archer second, I've struggled with taking it any further other than playing around in my back yard with it.
My main concern would be having to take my eye of my intended game animal target while in the field to find my crawl and execute the draw sequence. I dabbled with a fixed 20 yard crawl, and the results are great in hunting situations around 20 yards. Then you have to gap from there.
However, why not try to come up with a way to get maximum accuracy in the field yet not have to take your eye off your target to set your crawl? So this is what I came up with. Based on a modified Cavelier Elite tab platform.
I work in a manufacturing environment, so I am thinking about making a couple of these to try out. This would be pretty simple to make out of some scrap material and some off the shelf machine screw hardware.
Give me your input on some tweaks that you'd make to the rough design. I'd like to make a few of these, get them into some hands of some hardcore stringwalking hunters, and see what we come up with in the end...
Green Plate is the assembly plate used to screw into to keep the sandwhich together.
Purple is the tab face material. Cordovan preferably.
Red plate is similiar to the cavalier elite face plate. Made from aluminum.
Silver fasteners are flat head machine screws to hold the assembly together.
Gold fasteners are the meat and potatoes of this design. They are able to be placed anywhere vertically in the series of tapped holes to position your crawls. As your target is walking down the trail, you can feel your gold fasteners, make your crawl, execute your shot.


Let me know what you think!
Matt
My main concern would be having to take my eye of my intended game animal target while in the field to find my crawl and execute the draw sequence. I dabbled with a fixed 20 yard crawl, and the results are great in hunting situations around 20 yards. Then you have to gap from there.
However, why not try to come up with a way to get maximum accuracy in the field yet not have to take your eye off your target to set your crawl? So this is what I came up with. Based on a modified Cavelier Elite tab platform.
I work in a manufacturing environment, so I am thinking about making a couple of these to try out. This would be pretty simple to make out of some scrap material and some off the shelf machine screw hardware.
Give me your input on some tweaks that you'd make to the rough design. I'd like to make a few of these, get them into some hands of some hardcore stringwalking hunters, and see what we come up with in the end...
Green Plate is the assembly plate used to screw into to keep the sandwhich together.
Purple is the tab face material. Cordovan preferably.
Red plate is similiar to the cavalier elite face plate. Made from aluminum.
Silver fasteners are flat head machine screws to hold the assembly together.
Gold fasteners are the meat and potatoes of this design. They are able to be placed anywhere vertically in the series of tapped holes to position your crawls. As your target is walking down the trail, you can feel your gold fasteners, make your crawl, execute your shot.


Let me know what you think!
Matt