Simple, who uses them and who does not.
I have beaver-fur on my Hills,just looks more trad.They are quiet without though.............
Well the Hill bows may not need little beaver balls, but they look :cool: .
...and how come we can't see the poll results until it's over? :dunno:
I have tried the beaver and other fur, but my Hill lover the rubber Cat whisker type.
I use a single beaver ball cut in half. Half on to and half on bottom. It doesn't make any difference to heard sound from just a few feet away but it takes away the vibration feeling that a naked string can do. For some reason I just don't like that feeling.
I use fur on some and Rubber Cat Whiskers on some, and both have been very effective. I exactly use the same set up for practice & 3D shoots that I do for hunting. That way it is merely a matter of which quiver of arrows I need to pick up, field points or broadheads.
I have a couple of bows that I don't hunt with and have never gotten around to putting silencers on them, but since I don't like the twangy sound a bare string gives off, I will put them on eventually. I have one bow that sounds almost like a bell chiming when it is shot, and its one of my Hill bows.
If my bow is carrying a B 50 string I often don't use them and my Miller longbow looks plain ol' silly with them on .
Some of my bows like a small cut in half cat whisker with low stretch strings .
Can't say I have ever had a relaxed animal jump the string from the noise of the bow string ...
Now the wired up rabbits that I hunt ? Well thats a different story !!!
Always, Otter or Beaver fur. Always try and get close so sound still travels faster than the arrow loosed from the Bow! Blackhawk (For the results) I guess its just like a Hunting situation, Were going to have patience.
My Hill Half Breed is nearly silent with just wool puffs and a heavy arrow!!
Wool yarn, and a heavy shaft, whisper quiet. :bigsmyl:
Silencers & feather rest. Near unfair.
Rubber cat whiskers trimmed very small to get rid of the string hum/vibration.
QuoteOriginally posted by Blackhawk:
Well the Hill bows may not need little beaver balls, but they look :cool: .
...and how come we can't see the poll results until it's over? :dunno:
I'll see if I can change that, sorry I must have clicked that button and didn't unclick it before it went final.
I use yarn woven through the string. I use it to check the wind drift. I pluck a few hairs of it off and then set loose and watch where they go. Do my bows need them? no.
Yep, I do, I make them out of wool yarn. Make a ball about the size of a golf ball. I have skinny FF strings on all my bows, they are very quiet without silencers, but silent with them, I'll take silent. No, Dacron is not an option!
Eric
Tiny wool puffs the size of a golf ball 12" down from the loop, scotchguard coated. Why have a quiet bow when you can have a silent one?
I use 6 2" strands of yarn on both ends, placed at 16" from ends to keep mine super quiet.
Very small trimmed cat whiskers currently on my Big-Five. Super quiet!
Nothing on my string but a 10 gpp arrow. Still super quiet.
No never they magnify hand shock.
:saywhat: Stone Knife....are you serious?
I Have muskrat fur on Horne's Hybrid longbow (really quiet with them) . I have nothing on my Miller longbow (quiet without any) New Two Tracks Longwalker on order, will have to see if bow needs to have silencers installed.
QuoteOriginally posted by longbow guy:
I Have muskrat fur on Horne's Hybrid longbow (really quiet with them) . I have nothing on my Miller longbow (quiet without any) New Two Tracks Longwalker on order, will have to see if bow needs to have silencers installed.
What miller bow do you own?
Hush Puppy 's on my Half Breed.
I also make them out a small piece of wool yarn but do not cut the loops...they look like little yarn spiders and work nicely.
I also agree with Eric..dacron is not a good option for me...just too hard to get along with.
oops...distracted....
QuoteOriginally posted by ron w:
:saywhat: Stone Knife....are you serious?
Yes indeed I am.
I have some beaver fur strips on my Halfbreed. I added some simply to see if they would make an already quiet bow even quieter. They did, so I still have them on.
My Cheetah has a set of wool puffs on it's b50 string that someone else added. I'll probably take them off, though. They are a natural color and are very visible.
Mine has no hand shock so the wool puffs did not increase it!
Thanks MT Longbow, because of this thread I am going to try some cat whiskers this weekend, J :thumbsup:
QuoteOriginally posted by ron w:
Mine has no hand shock so the wool puffs did not increase it!
:laughing: Just kidding Bro.
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Always, I knew it!
I have since lowered my brace height and taken off my silencers and have found that my bow is just as quiet.
QuoteOriginally posted by MT Longbow:
Simple, who uses them and who does not.
Wow, out of almost a hundred replies, (93) actual.
70 % say yes, always.
20% say no , never.
6% say yes, but only for hunting.
Thanks guys for the comments and the voting, sorry the results aren't visible to those that didn't vote and such, the settings on the polls couldn't get reversed once I posted it.
It's more than I thought would use them.
Me to.....stabow
Rick looking forward to the lil hoots being delivered on May 4th.....stabow