A QUITE BOW

[OLDSALT]

#5509

I WAS JUST WONDERING WHAT EXACTLY MAKE SOME RECURVE BOWS TOO NOISEY WHILE OTHERS ARE FAIRLY QUITE AND HOW DO YOU QUITE THE NOISEY ONES DOWN TO AN ACCECTABLE LEVEL. ARE LESS EXPENSIVE BOWS MORE PRONE TO MAKE TOO MUCH NOISE THAN MORE COSTLY BOWS ARE? I OWN NINE DIFFERENT KINDS OF RECURVE BOWS AND ONE LONGBOW AND SOME ARE VERY LOUD AND SOME ARE PRETTY QUITE BUT I CAN’T SEE ANY ONE THING ABOUT THE NOISEY ONES THAT ACCOUTS FOR THE NOISE WHEN I SHOOT THEM. ANYONE GOT AN ANSWER?

[Buzzard]

#46442

Assuming no quiver, the amount deflex and the amount of recurve can make a difference. Most all your noise is coming from limb vibration and string slap. Poor tillering is also a culprit.

[Bloodless]

#47736

Also, with recurves as well as longbows, if she’s underbraced she’ll slap your wrist and make noise. But fact is, in my experience, there simply are loud and quiet bows. Fast Flight string definitely ads to noise on some bows. I once had a Black Widow that was fast, lovely, accurate … and noisy no matter what I did. We can make any bow louder or quieter through tuning, etc. But in the end it’s inherent in the designs of some bows to be loud or quiet. IMHO and good luck.

[Stephen Graf]

#48119

1 sure fire way to make a bow more quiet is to shoot a heavier arrow.

[Patrick]

#48209

Steve Graf wrote: 1 sure fire way to make a bow more quiet is to shoot a heavier arrow.

Right on. When I first bought my longbow (my first one), it had alotta twang to it, and it wasn’t even made in the South. So I added some cat whiskers. That was when I really paid no mind to arrow weight.

Jump ahead a year, and a huge increase in arrow weight. I took the cat whiskers off and only used brush buttons. Then earlier this year, I took the brush buttons off, just to try it, and long story not as long as it could be: I don’t need anything on the string to quiet it down (to me anyway), but that’s only because I shoot heavy arrows.

[Cottonwood]

#54418

I recently added string silencers of fox fir and then twisted the string a bit, as well as redid my shelf. It quieted down the arrow, and hitting the riser. But I still get some hum, and I’m thinking about adding some fir under the string serving at the top and bottom where the serving is hitting the limbs. I figure it can’t hurt, and if it works, its a win win.

But I do have some heavier arrows coming both in the Easton 2020’s and some 2117’s to use which are heavier than the 2016’s that I have been using.

My goal is to eventually use POC’s.

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