Thump.

QuoteOriginally posted by classicbowman:
How important is a quiet bow, October 27 1999

It was the last 5 minutes of a 7 day hunt in Iowa
November 27 1999 -- 10:25 AM  a full moon week---
After a week of passing up some nice bucks--
this was it--
Suddenly I herd something coming, sounded like someone walking, then there he was the buck of a life time. If he goes straight up the hill, I will have no shot, if he makes a left, he will come right under my tree.Down the old tractor path
Here he comes, walking with the big buck gate, tired from a night of having fun.
I can't wait,he is point blank, I miss, my arrow goes under his belly.
He continues to walk never hearing the shot, I pull out another arrow from my old 65#  Jerry Pierce bow,
as I pull the arrow from my old quiver--it makes a little squeek,  he looks up-- I am frozen in time,what seems like minutes pass--  the game is up,he takes a giant leap,  I knock another arrow, looking for an opening where I never expected to shoot,through a crotch of the tree I was in-- there he is walking away,
IN an instant the arrow is gone--
At the end of the trail lies a 194" not typical
with only a 14" inside spread - but 22" to the outside-- he is a deer of a life time of hunting--having taken about 40 years to accomplish-- what's a quiet bow worth --
you deside--- the score on this deer isn't important-- he has never been entered in the record books-- it was the moment as deer hunters we all pray for--- Thanks Jerry---

Excellent post!

Personally I will not own a loud bow. Last thing I want to happen is get a chance to shoot a buck of a lifetime and then have it jump my string.

There are a LOT of good quiet bows out there, but to "set the standard" by giving reference to one that many people here have heard shoot and everyone pretty much would agree with as being quiet...I will say "Howard Hill" and Gary Sentman bows are good examples of what a quiet bow is.

I just use a heavy arrow and tune the brace height with no silencers on the string.  I can easily find the sweet spot that way.  Then, when I add some beaver fur, it's as quiet as it will ever get.  I will say that my quietest bow is my BBO. Second is my Hill Halfbreed.

My arrows are louder than my bow. And they are quiet. Church mouse quiet. 9.5 10 gpp and beaver balls. I get comments all the time about how quiet the bow shoots.

QuoteOriginally posted by S.C. Hunter:
My arrows are louder than my bow. And they are quiet. Church mouse quiet. 9.5 10 gpp and beaver balls. I get comments all the time about how quiet the bow shoots.

Same here, I had one gy ask me if I could make his compound as quiet as my recurve.
Since I was this way when I was using the compounds too I told him.

YES.