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in reply to: Carbon or Stainless #49774

My carbon brown bears also show rust easily

[katman]

in reply to: Questions about strings, twists, and brace height #15108

Other thing you can try is a piece of adhesive felt on the limb where the string touches the curve, some strings make a lot of noise slapping into the limb. B50 stretches so carry the felt about 2 inches past wear the string leaves the limb.

Also make sure the whiskers are at the quarters.

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in reply to: Questions about strings, twists, and brace height #13921

To many twists if the string coils up on itself when off the bow. Other down side is you have more string/mass than you need. A 58″ amo bow (the 58 on your bow) should take a 55″ string and brace at the recommended height without twisting until it stretches a bit.

Your extra 55″ string was probably put in a 60 amo bag.

Have you put any silencers on the string, cat whiskers work well. Try putting them 1/4 the distance of the string length measured from were the string leave the limb.

[katman]

in reply to: The Silent Arrow #14227

Steve, While your combo quieter I fail to see how you increased efficiency. 😀

[katman]

in reply to: The Silent Arrow #13215

Thanks, sounds like you put in the time to get an arrow you are confident in, good for you.

On first thought and I may be all wrong since I am not an engineer, you find the larger fletching more stable and quieter because the larger turbulator actually deflects air from the feather reducing not only noise but also stabilizing effect. I remember OL talking about breaking up the laminar flow with the turbulator and how little it takes. The one he describes actually increases the fletch ability to stabilize so less fletch is needed.

I used to use black magic tire wet for fletching and had good success with it.

I agree on not hunting in a hard rain, but a light shower and proper shot choices is OK with me.

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in reply to: The Silent Arrow #12026

What is the shape of the 5″ fletching? If I understand your post a 1/8″ wide and 4″ long piece of duct tape wrapped around the shaft as a turbulator, that would make a very large bump, more drag and weight. I had success with the smaller fletching stabilizing wide 2 blade broadheads when using the thin pinstripe turbulator and the 2.5″ x.5″ fletch 1/4″ in front of feather, 4@90, extremely quiet and stable flight. The advantage to the smaller fletching to me is it is less effected by water and quiet. I soaked the fletch in a bucket of water for 5 min pulled it out and shot the wide 2 blade out to 25 yds with good accuracy, did get me a bit wet at release. That smaller fletch refuses to lay down when wet without any waterproof treatment.

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in reply to: 40 # recurve and Ultra-EFOC arrow search #43498

Tom, you will need to check broadhead flight with fletched since you are changing location of the weight, more head weight(325 vs 300) and less in the shaft(100 vs 125), my guess is you will weaken the spine some by moving more weight to the end of the shaft vs inside, that’s been my experience. But since you may be a tad strong that should help.

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