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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: coldpaddler on January 17, 2007, 02:37:00 AM
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I always like to make fun of my friend's wheel bow because it sounds like artillery going off compared to my recurve. The other day I shot with a longbowman and was surprised at how quiet his bow was compared to mine.
It got me thinking, what is the quietest bow you guys have had the pleasure to shoot?
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the bow that has the best design and is properly tuned(brace height,arrow weight and spine,silencer placement)and is being shot with the best form/release will win out most time,,,and i think that the longbows will be an even more likely candidate. my CX is deafly quiet.
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I havent even begun to tune the Schulz grandpa I picked up here recently and I have to say even without silencers it is smoking quiet.
SO is the BBO John Scifres made for me, smoking quiet!!!!
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A longbow of some sort will be the quietest.To be honest some of the newer compounds if set up right will be as quiet as most trad bows.Get rid of the release and metal rest and it is uncanny how quiet some of them can be.
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My friend Jose' and I shot a Northern Mist longbow at Compton's this year and it made very little noise....it had no string silencers or anything.
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The quietest bow I have ever shot is my 58" osage ambush selfbow, amazing how quiet it is...
David
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A well tuned & properly tillered ELB takes some beating, I think. It never ceases to amaze me at shoots, just how quiet an ELB is compared to everything else. They're never silenced & only produce a quiet 'click' of the arrow passing the riser. I'm sure with a soft arrow pass fitted, as opposed to a horn or hardwood pass, an ELB would be silent.
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I don't which is the quietest. But my Rivers Edge take down w/hush Pupies is dead silent. To my ears. :)
Rich K.
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I dont know if it proves anything but, in the summer deer come out in the field 150yds from where I usually shoot in the evenings. I've noticed several times that everytime a recurve or LB is shot with a cabon or an aluminum arrow that the deer pop there heads up. But with wood arrows they never flinch. That being said I still hunt with carbon. Also to test one bows noise level against the other, all things should be equal same type arrow,string,silencer. poundage...ect.
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Both my Ballistiks are very quiet even with lighter arrows and no silencers.
I also have an older Bob Lee Signature (91) that is very quiet with no silencers and a 450+ string.
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The quietest I have ever shot is a Howard Hill Longbow.
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I second a Howard Hill Bow....
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A selfbow will be the quietest. Second to that will be a "D" shaped longbow, ala Howard Hill, Robertson, Dwyer, you get the picture. Some recurves are pretty dang quiet as well. I would have to say the Morrisons that I have shot were probably the quietest recurves.
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I think the quietest bow i have ever shot,is my canyon by mike baker. very sweet bows shoots great also.
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My Adcock ACS CX is the quietest bow I have own.
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My Jay St Charles longbow was the quietest (it was damned quiet!) and now my Morrison Shawnee with Arapaho limbs and a 450+ string made by Rod Jenkins has completely taken over that spot. Imagine that-a recurve with a modern non-stretch string at that!
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well here's my 2 cents: MY chapparal kaibab was quiet as a church mouse my Fedora xcellerator also very quiet it still has a f.f. string on it with cat whiskers but when I received my Hornes brushbow it had a FAST FLIGHT string no silencers and it was quiet, THEN I put on a B-50 string and cat whiskers FORGETTABOUTIT the only way I know I shot is because I have one less arrow in my quiver!
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Been playing w/ a 3 peice pronghorn longbow that seems to be quiet but this is my first LB.Had a Wapiti curve that was the quietest curve I've shot.
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Davids self bow is mighty quiet. I myself am shooting a Cherokee by Roy Hall, moderate R/D and it is the quietest bow I have ever shot, although I have a Harold Couch LB that my wife thinks is quieter. Shawn
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I was kinda surprised at a 3D last yr shootin with the wheel guys when this fella had a wheel bow as quiet as my LB which is pretty quiet typical of LB's in genral.
I guess it depends on how ya set them up,they can all be darn quiet even the rattle traps that we don,t shoot around here
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My RER one piece recurve is very quiet.
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For recurves, of which I have about 20, I would vote for an Assenheimer as the quietest.
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I think mine is the quietest,Ill shoot it right now and tell me if you hear anything!
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Without a doubt and I've heard many bows being shot...Mike Robin (Bamboo) has an Anazi longbow that is super quiet. I was a dealer for a bowyer out of Silver City New Mexico and sold Mike this bow years ago. No silencers, FF string...QUIET.
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My Adcock CX is by far the most quiet bow I have ever not heard!!!!! Jim
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My Rivers Edge TD is quiet, I shot at and missed the same doe 3 times in a span of 5 minutes and she still don,t know what was going on! Danny
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My Liberty Elites shoot so quiet I have a hard time wondering if they even have a noise. I hope they dont outlaw weapons that are so silent (kinda like silencers on a gun) or I might have to figure out how to make my bows make noise. umhuh :confused:
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I've owned a lot of recurves and longbows over the past 7 years. The quietest of all of them is the one I presently own and shoot, a 3 Rivers Dalaa.
Compound shooters who shoot Mathews bows, which are known for their quietness, comment about how quiet my Dalaa is when we are shooting on the line together at the indoor range of the Archery Shop. It is the quietest bow I've ever shot or heard shot.
Bill
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This thread really surprised me. Three of you reported that your ACS-CX is the quietest bow you own or have shot (or something like that). My CX is the loudest bow I own, although I don't think of it as loud. I also have not yet experimented with different string silencers and I am shooting a light carbon arrow. The quietness of my bows seems relative to limb mass and speed. My slowest and heaviest bow is a hickory board bow and it is whisper quiet. I also have an all wood osage/bamboo limb bow that I shoot a 525gr arrow @ 162fps that is very quiet. The CX is screamin with about a 425gr carbon arrow, but it is not as quiet as my other bows. I'm still using the small wool silencers that were on the string it came with. I'm going to experiment with some other silencers this spring.
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a loud CX? hhmmm,,,of all my trad bows(although not many,,,palmer,fedora,warf,swan,appalachian,bob lee,widow adn a few others i can't remember)my CX is the quietest hands down. properly tuned and silenced AND shot with appropriately weighted arrows,,,it's hard to understand how your CX is loud. i've got 2 very small sets of wiskers on the top and bottom of my string,,,i am serious when i say all i hear is the arrows impact upon the target.
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All 5 of mine are dead quiet. (when I have my hearing aids turned off!) :D
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kawika b,
I didn't mean to necessarily imply it is loud. It is however the loudest of my 7 longbows. I would really consider all of them to be quiet bows. Also, I did mention that I have not really worked on making it quieter. It sort of makes a "thunk" or "twang" sound, but it is so darn fast I don't know that it is much of an issue. The CX easily extends my effective range 5-7 yards over any of my other bows. I was also shooting a lighter arrow than I would hunt with. I put the CX away and didn't hunt with it this year, because I didn't have time to satisfy myself with its setup. I plan to get it dialed in as my #1 hunting bow for next season.
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Well now...3 Longbows and 4 recurves, My Leon Stewart is most likely the quietest, in fact unless I fudge the release you wouldn't know it's been shot. Now my buddy got a 56 inch Grizzly that is REALLY QUIET also, a bow I wouldn't immediately think to be so but there you go.
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I've had people comment on how quiet my Doug Duncan Zebra Safari longbow is. Also, my Mosshorn (Super Shrew type bow) longbow is very quiet with beaverball silencers.
Dave in Ft. Collins, CO