Wow, a blast from the distant past! Pothunter confirms my first reaction, which is “Geeze, I haven’t heard of anyone using brush buttons since mid-century!” When I first took up archery and bowhunting, many long moons ago, it was traditional to weight bow strings down with brush buttons as well as silencers. For one thing, recurves were all the style then (early ’60s, let’s say), and they do present more opportunity for brush to snag between string and bow tip than do longbows. Still, it seemed obvious to me through experience, even as a kid, that brush buttons were counter-productive. For one thing they slow the string, and for another, in my experience, they worked marginally at best. So my advice would be to forget about them slipping and just get rid of ’em. I have to stop and pull a limb from my bow/string maybe once or twice a year, and that’s many weeks of hunting that involves a lot more than sitting in a tree. But perhaps you have a particularly brushy hunt area and hunting style. Shorter bows help with this also! Best luck …
