all right so this is a tutorial on how to put the string on your pistol crossbow your 80 pound amazon.com mini crossbow how to put the string on because a lot of people have a lot of difficulty with this thing so what you want to do is get yourself a nice strong string like this this is am still it's not perfect and it is you know wearing out very fast but it does the job and tie a knot on each end so that it'll fit on the crossbar fairly loosely without even putting any air into it then you put the string over the self-contain and crack it just like that and put the string the real string on right there get it perfectly straight yeah i wouldn't really recommend dry fire yet but i'm gonna do it cause i'm lazy no not lazy just hard to do with one hand the string is now on the real string and you just pull it over this whole quickly mechanism take the old string one right here takes a little bit of pulling because it's held on by the rail string but the two hands that is no problem that's how you do it folks i'll put the string on just push the crossbow with one hand it's not too bad not too bad and you can carve it with one hand and shoot well you're still recording oh yeah