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Replacement string advice for Mission Switch?

I’ve only had the bow for half a year, but I’ve been shooting the living daylights out of it. I do wax the string regularly, because I take good care of my good equipment. I also like to have spare parts available before I need them, so I’ve started looking into buying a new string just to have on hand.

But seriously, what the hell?! A cursory search turned up strings ranging from $50 (seems steep for a piece of string, but this is specialty string) to $169. What’s the difference? At what point am I getting ripped off? The stock string that came with the bow seems fine; I shoot accurately and recently learned that my arrows are good at killing stuff. But will an expensive string help me shoot straighter, or faster, kill deer deader, or file my taxes for me? I do understand that there can be differences in the quality of materials used and how it’s all put together, but I’m suddenly realizing that I have no idea what I should be looking for. Thanks for any guidance or personal experience you can offer (including when it’s time to actually replace the string).

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