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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: Tradcat on January 07, 2013, 07:32:00 PM
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Ok tradgangers...which method does a better job of silencing the bowstring ? One or two sets of silencers and why ... especially for those who shoot 3 under
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I have two furry mink balls on mine. I saw other people using to so it seemed like the thing to do :)
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One or two,whatever works to silence the string,most can use a pair and be good. To many can slow it a bit.Start with a pair and see.
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I like my fast flight bow with two, although one was pretty decent... One set of Black Widow Spiders, one set of Woolie Whispers. I feel like the Whispers made things plenty quiet, but the spiders seemed to deaden all remaining vibration & even quieter yet... My B50 string bow has just Woolie Whispers... Probably comes down to preference and bow dynamics.
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Have D97 FF strings on all my bows and use two sets of silencers on them all.
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I've never needed two sets with B50 string, but fast flight, yes I've done two or whatever it takes to queit it down :biglaugh:
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Interesting. . . I always used 2, THEN I spent time talking to a string maker who has done lots of research over the years (use to test for a large/popular bow company)- He told me one reason that we often see 2 silencers work is that we are slowing the string down, actually losing efficiency, which naturally quiets the bow down. His point: there are better solutions.
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Out of the bows my friend and I have there's only one that has two sets of puffs. He put two sets are on a recurve to quite it down a bit more after shooting a lot of longbows. I went with a skinny string on my pch to get it closer to my chimera in sound. If two sets slow the speed it is marginal in my experience. But then again we're shooting 11-12 GPP arrows...so not the fastest setup either.
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Just my opinion but, If you need more than one set of silencers, there's something not quite right. JMO.
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One set if I'm using puffs...Two sets if I'm using cat whiskers.
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What bow are you shooting, what string material do you have, how heavy is your arrow? To many variables to say 1 set or 2. On my old Wesley Special, a heavy wood arrow made this bow so quiet everyone shooting with me was in amazement.
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Agree with Mike. Additionally, if it is a recurve, I would suggest one set and wrapping the ends of the string with wool yarn from the nock loops to where it last touches the limb. If the bow is noisy, you might try raising the brace height as well.
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I have two sets of rubber cat whiskers on my longbow seems to work great!
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I like to cut one set of Catwhiskers in half and place them at 4 different spots on the string. Or I use the 4 spiders that come with Black Widow strings.
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I switched to one set of beaver hide. They work really great.
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My bows do not need any. :archer2:
furry mink balls? :rolleyes:
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On my fast flight Black tail 4 cat whisker balls, on my Dale dye B55 2 wool puffs, and my other b50 bows 2 beaver balls
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Start out with a well made bow and you should barely need one set of silencers. That said I use a half of a set of the Hush Puppies, thats all my Big Rivers need!
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Whether or not silencers are needed or preferred is entirely subjective and left up to the individual... Each thing you add to the string will reduce energy being transferred to the arrow plain & simple. However the sound & vibration will be reduced with properly implemented silencers... How far you take it is to each his own :-) There are many variables in the equation- arrow weight & tune, string type, brace height, bow design & performance, etc....
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I use 4 on my bows. I use the same amount of material that I used for 2 before, so performance wise I don't see it making any real difference. I like the look of 4 smaller silencers and it seems to my ears to quieter better.
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Most hybrids I can get real quiet with a good 8 stand like a SBD amd half a set of cat whiskers split between two spots. On recurves I do the same then wrap string ends. If I still want it quieter, I will add a second half set, but never really more than one set split up in four spots. This adds no more weight than one set, but I think works better to kull the different tone vibrations in current spots on the string.
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I use two sets of leeches
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Never hit return to previous page with a smart phone if the last thing you did was post!!!! Guaranteed double post! :banghead:
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One set of Musk Ox silencers on my bows.
Bill
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I usually to two sets of cat whiskers cut 1 1/4"
cut out all the vib and shock from my titan ILF set up and wasnt any performance loss that I could personally tell. looks kinda cool to lol
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I like to cut a set of cat whiskers in half to make 2 pairs.
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Lets see now... lets put a half a sheep, with whiskers, and fuzzy mink balls on there.... that should do her..... Oh.... and i'll have a side of fries to go along with that, and a large coke.... :p
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When I use wool puffs I only use one set.
Often with catwhiskers I use 2 sets made very small.As some guys metioned above.Cutting the strip in half.
On inherantly quiet bows one set of catwhiskers cut in half or a smaller set of wool puffs is enough for me to dampen string oscillation.
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The least amount that I can get away with , Hush pups usualy a 1/2 set. Prefere small rubber kind though . Just puts a dead thump in the bow and hard to see.
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All but one bow has one set. The one recurve has two sets of small ones. What ever works.