noisy broadheads

Chub · May 01, 2011, 11:18:00 AM

what does the gang do for hissing sound from there broadheads currently using stingers 125

ChrisM · May 01, 2011, 11:23:00 AM

Don't know but a non vented type is completely silent.

Trumpkin the Dwarf · May 01, 2011, 11:25:00 AM

Chub, I use the Magnus stingers but I can't say that I've heard them hissing. The Magnus heads seemed silent in my opinion. Are you sure it's the broad head and not your fletching?

TradRchr · May 01, 2011, 11:31:00 AM

ditto on the fletcing.
I shoot stingers, and haven't heard any hissing, course I can't hear.

Friend · May 01, 2011, 12:02:00 PM

The hissing most likley is far more noticeable to you than the game.

Being that said - Ventless blades, in my experience, are noticeably quieter.

Night Wing · May 01, 2011, 01:32:00 PM

Shooting broadheads or field points, the only time I hear my arrows "hissing" on the way to the target, is when my parabolic shaped feathers are starting to get "ratty and worn" looking.

SlowBowinMO · May 01, 2011, 02:13:00 PM

Some broadheads are known for hissing but Stingers are not one of them. I've never personally heard a Stinger hiss, even when bow tune was mediocre. Are you sure they are properly aligned, or as Night Wing mentioned, that's its not something other than the heads?

Jeff Mundy · May 01, 2011, 02:23:00 PM

I had some hissing Wensel Woodsmans back in the day. The critters never seemed to notice... until it was too late that is!

Chub · May 01, 2011, 05:30:00 PM

i just got in from shooting ihad a couple of newly fletched arras put bhs on the shaft and its quiet the hissing is comming from the ratty feathers iv been using its a wonderful day when there is a site such as this that i can ask for your thoughts and u get great responses and quickly

widow sax · May 01, 2011, 09:13:00 PM

I just heard a saying this weekend at wittingham trad shoot in NJ (The whistle of death) a very cool saying. Widow

Easykeeper · May 02, 2011, 07:31:00 AM

I don't think the whistle of the broadhead, or new feathers, matter much. I've had arrows with just the right tear or flaw in a feather that sound like a jet plane going downrange. That might be excessive.

That said, the Wensel Woodsman Elite in the heavier non-vented weights (I have the 175gr.) are pretty much silent in flight.

KentuckyTJ · May 02, 2011, 07:51:00 AM

Yep I'm with the fletching guess as well. I have had many packs of vented Stingers and never had one hiss. I have had the vented Woodsman's hiss. I hate it to as I really like there performance on a deer. I am going to try some Big Jim non vented heads this season I think.

flintznstyx · May 02, 2011, 08:00:00 AM

My woodsman's and magnus snuffer's sound like a war movie of bombs comming in. My eskimo's are dead silent and penetrate much deeper. :-)
Use the snuffers on turkeys. they are big and will nock them good. Use zwickey's on deer.

Night Wing · May 02, 2011, 08:43:00 AM

Based on my years of experience and this is predicated on shooting aluminum arrows, there are two things which make an arrow make a hissing sound on the way to the target. They are:

1) Ratty and worn feathers
2) Vented broadheads

I have eleven differently spined aluminum test arrows ranging in spine from 1916 to 2314. They are all fletched with 3, 5" parabolic feathers with eleven degrees of helical twist. Last Friday morning, the 2212 test arrow which I fletched one year ago, started to make a "hissing" sound on the way to the target with a field point attached. Before this, it had never made that sound. After looking at the fletching, one of the hen feathers was getting real worn and ratty looking. I took off the ratty and worn hen feather, re-fletched with a new one, let the arrow sit overnight, shot the arrow Saturday morning and no more hissing sound.

Ratty and worn feathers are usually the #1 cause of a hissing arrow in my opinion.

SEMO_HUNTER · May 02, 2011, 01:12:00 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by Trumpkin the Dwarf:
Chub, I use the Magnus stingers but I can't say that I've heard them hissing. The Magnus heads seemed silent in my opinion. Are you sure it's the broad head and not your fletching?

Same here, my Stingers don't make any noise at all. I bet it's your feathers, change broad heads or put on a field point and see if the noise is still present.

On the other hand, my Magnus 3 blade Snuffers do make a bit of noise but the coyote I thumped at 15 steps this past fall didn't seem to notice.

deaddoc4444 · May 02, 2011, 02:08:00 PM

Mostly the fletching Shield tends to be a bit more noisy than parabolic and banana seems to be less noisy then parablolic IN MY EXPERIENCE
The old Pearson DEAD Heads DID whistle a bit we used to round off the sharp INSIDE edges of the vents and the whislting stopped.
IM still using Dead Heads on my TUrkey arrows and they are quiet.