Care and storage/display of bows

[Chippintuff]

I had a fiberglass bow standing in the corner of a closet several years ago, and then one day I tried to string it. One of the limbs twisted. When I started asking around (didn't know of a forum then), people told me that a bow should never be stood on end, but should be stored horizontally. I would like to know your comments on storing/displaying bows and what can be done, if anything, to correct a limb that twists because of careless storage.

WA

[Jim Davis]

Well, we're not really talking about fiberglass, are we?

Lots of us have been hanging our bows vertically by the string for a century, or centuries. This picture is not me and not my bows. It's from the 1930s or so. I'll let everybody try to be the first to tell who it is. (I do know)

[helmet]

Chester Stevenson!

[Knoll]

I store some vertically from string hooked over wood dowel. Others horiz. laying on pair of wood dowels.
Yeah, Chet Stevenson.

[jeffp51]

Holy cow! I count at least 40 bows and 9 or ten quivers and even more arrows in that picture.  My wife asks why I need the five bows I have. . .

[Pat B]

I hang all my bows the way they are in the pic above.  Standing on end puts all the weight on one end causing the twist. Hanging seema to be a safe way to store bows.
 You can probably get the twist out of your FG bows. Ask around.

[Jim Davis]

Yep, Chester  Stevenson is correct.

Just for the record, hanging a bow by its string STILL puts all the weight on the bottom tip. But, since the bow is truly vertical, there is no force trying to flex the limb. Standing a bow on its end against a wall puts the limbs on a diagonal and there is some force in a direction that might warp a limb--in a hundred years or so.