Love my quiet Pronghorn longbow but shoot my Checkmate recurve more accurately. I think the recurve is as quiet as it will ever be and is still is noisier than the longbow. Could anyone recommend a "longbow quiet" recurve? Thank you.
I dont have the experience that some here do, but I can say that the Toelke Chinook is VERY quiet. I didnt notice it being any louder than the long bows I shoot.
I am shooting Miss Hope this month. It is a Dryad Orion recurve and I gotta say that it is as quiet as my longbows.
I have a Chek mate and recurves, generally, are a little noisier regardless of the make. My Kings pawn Deluzxe is very quiet. i use 10.5 gr/inch with Musk Ox wool silencer. do the twist and find the sweet spot.
The quietest recurve I've ever shot was a Whisperstik Mojo recurve and the older Wing Red Wing Hunters.
Mike
Rose Oak, Assenheimer and Timberhawk are the recurves that I have shot and/or owned that were the easiest to "quiet down". I've had longbows that I bought used, that when I received them, were noisier than I like. With a little tuning, they quieted down nicely. I shot a Checkmate Hunter I at Cloverdale one year and it just had a set of "spiderlegs" (rubber band type silencers) and it was very quiet. Good luck! Mike
My Don Assenheimer recurve is VERY quiet. I have a 3-pc Pronghorn and the Assenheimer comes very close to that in regards to quietness. I do shoot tighter groups with the Assenheimer than any of my longbows.
Straight out of the box....Assenheimer.
Add whatever silencers you want and they only get quieter.
I thought that my Chek-Mate Hunter II was very quiet. I'd also give the nod to a Rivers Edge recurve as being one of the more quiet recurves I've had with Rose Oak not far behind.
Hummingbird Kingfisher Recurve, and a Rick Welch Dakota Pro Hunter......are both quiet as a church mouse.
Winterhawk1960
My Zipper SXT is the quietest recurve I have ever shot. That's one of the main reasons I bought it.
Bill
I have two Dryad Orion recurves. Very easy to get the quiet. Oh ya plus they are quick. Very smooth to release. great string angle for the length.
rusty
I have shot and owned many bows and the quietest I have ever shot is the Bill Stewart Multi cam
Along with bow design, tuning goes a LONG way. Proper brace height, silencer placement, nock fit, arrow spine, your release, arrow weight, etc. all play a part. Take the time to tinker some, you might be suprized.
I agree that recurves are usually going to have more noise than longbows--you have the string slapping the limbs on recurves.
Chad
The quietest recurve is a static tip asiatic style tip. The string has a large loop and doesn't give you the boingy slap of the string hitting the limb. I find they are quieter than longbows.
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Morrrison ILF with carbon foam limbs is as quite as any bow i own.
I have shot a number of different "high end" recurves including the 1 pc. Toelke Chinook and a Toelke take down that Dan made for me plus "test drive" bows of the same models. In addition I shoot with 3 friends who shoot Dan's recurves. In fairness, taking someone elses bow for a few shots is not a true indicator of how quiet it might be if set up properly. That said, I have yet to hear ANY Toelke recurve that was not just plain QUIET!
If you use heavy wood arrows it quiets down some of your bows. A bow quiver will also quiet a noisy bow. Using both will make bows whisper quiet.
Great Northern Ghost is the hands down quietest I've ever shot.
browning explorere with raineman string and bow puffs all you hear is a very quiet thump barely even noticeable.
they can all be quietened down,some just take more tinkering with than others.jyho.regards,robert
Have to go with the Toelke Chinook, it's just plain stupid quiet. Even when I use light weight carbon arrows all I hear is a soft thump. It's slightly ahead of my GN Ghost in the quiet department.
whisperstick and a black swan I had.
I've shot Miss Hope also and agree with Rick.
Bona
My RER Arroyo is very quiet.
No such thing as a recurve being as quiet as some longbows can be.They can be quiet enough but never as quiet as possible with limbs that don't have a recurve in them. :)
McCullough Fiftyniner followed by a Whisperstik Mojostik.
Any quality recurve that is setup properly and tuned well. Some are inherently quieter than others, but most of it is in the tuning.
Marriah Thermal...hands down.
Sovereign Ballistik or any of the other static tip recurves.
the Static Talon Recurve that I just started building is as quiet and any longbow I have shot , when the brace height is right. The loudest sound is the arrow hitting the target. It is by far the quietest recurve I have ever shot and the people that have them have all said the same thing. The string comes abruptly off the static curve and does not hit the limb.
As mentioned by a couple of folks above our Orion Static Curve is as quiet as any you will ever see.
Right after we intoduced it we were at a show in Ohio. We had more bowyers then customers so we ended up down on the range shooting each others bows. One of the fellows was shooting our curve and Bob Morrison and I were talking behind the line. When the first shot went down range, Bob said "that's a quiet curve". On the second shot he said "damn, that's quiet" and on the third shot he walked off.
The thing that pleases me most when a customer comes back from trying one out is the common statement: "that's the quietest recurve I've ever shot."
The stats on this bow will be in your next TBM.
Mike
I appreciate the great knowledge! does anyone have experience with Chastain or BlackWidow for quietness?
Mike that is a good looking bow. You are talking about the Sheepeater , right? Or are you building a different one now?
I agree it is really nice when customers that own a lot of bows and have a lot of experience say that is special, I have never shot a recurve that is that quiet. The first time you shoot a real static it is really a heads up.
Sixby,
Nope I was talking about the Orion recurve. We have been building ours for a couple of years now. Just started to build Sheepeaters a couple of months back.
Mike
Assenheimer and Marriah Thermal are the 2 quietest that I have shot
My Partners (early Palmer) is very quiet - because of the two bolts per limb system (like a Bob Lee)
My Quinn Stallion is a great shooter but very hard to get quiet - wish it had two bolts per limb
I had a 56" Morrison TD (pre Cheyenne) and it was very quiet with just a small set of silencers on the string.
i had a b-widow psax osage with boo cores...combine that with the bow hush and hush puppies and it was as quiet and smooth as they get.just didnt like the osage look as i prefer darker woods.
My Kohannah recurve is very quiet.
My most quiet was a morrison cheyenne 60inch but my current Dye is really quiet except when you shoot it 3 fingers under.
My Morrison Shawnee does not need any silencers with it's foam core limbs. Whisper quiet.
Assenhiemer. Also Schafers and TallTines are very quite.
My Groves Spitfire is very quiet...if you can find one for sale. I also feel my Kempf Stealth T/D is quiet. Hey...alot of bows out there with the right string and silencers can all be quiet.
My 52" Rocky Mt. Recurve is very quiet. I just love that bow.
My older Fox High Seirra is about as quiet as I think you can get a bow. It makes a very slight dull thud. With a real heavy arrow it is almost silent. It is what I judge all others by.
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Out of the bows I have owned my Morrison Cheyenne carbon/foam core with thin 10 strand 8125 string/muskox puffs is the quietest recurve I have owned. Its as quiet as most of my best longbows and I could do more like add rubber cat whiskers/bow hush to the bow maybe make it even quieter but its fine so I don't mess with it.
Ok, I'll have to chime in and say of all the recurves I have shot the Blacktail with a 14 strand B50 string and a couple of wool string silencers on it is one quiet and great shooting bow.
I like the whisperstick,Great northern ghost and Morrison with foam limbs,64 inch kodiak 59er,Acadien classic one piece.The black swan is quiet as well.I would think the new foam black Swan limbs would be very quiet.Seems some of the narrower deeper cored recurves tend to be quieter to me.Not an absolute rule though.They dampen out quick though.Most those bows above do have a narrow limb.
Anything wearing a set of hush puppies and bowhush.
Like many have said, getting a curve real quiet is a matter of tuning. String material has a pretty large factor on how quiet a bow can be. My Snakebit had an original hard FF sting on it and it sounded like a .22 going off when I bought it off my buddy. Swapped out the string with a Dyna97 and it was like I was shooting a different bow. Huge difference. Can't say enough for the hush puppies and bowhush to quiet a bow down. Best quieting combo out there.
JL
In my earlier post, I did not mention that the "silencing system" on my Toelke Chinook was catwhiskers that came on the supplied b50 string, cut down to about 1/3 the original diameter. The 54# @ my 29" draw, 60" Chinook with a 7" brace height chronographed a 565 gr. carbon at 184 f.p.s. and one 645 grs. at 172 f.p.s. Again, along with this performance it is a ridiculously quiet recurve!