Quietest Recurve?

The Night Stalker · November 18, 2009, 06:49:00 AM

My most quiet was a morrison cheyenne 60inch but my current Dye is really quiet except when you shoot it 3 fingers under.

leatherneck · November 18, 2009, 06:55:00 AM

My Morrison Shawnee does not need any silencers with it's foam core limbs. Whisper quiet.

Michael Arnette · November 18, 2009, 02:02:00 PM

Assenhiemer. Also Schafers and TallTines are very quite.

joe skipp · November 18, 2009, 05:47:00 PM

My Groves Spitfire is very quiet...if you can find one for sale. I also feel my Kempf Stealth T/D is quiet. Hey...alot of bows out there with the right string and silencers can all be quiet.

Hoser1268 · November 18, 2009, 05:56:00 PM

My 52" Rocky Mt. Recurve is very quiet. I just love that bow.

Burnsie · November 18, 2009, 08:07:00 PM

My older Fox High Seirra is about as quiet as I think you can get a bow. It makes a very slight dull thud. With a real heavy arrow it is almost silent. It is what I judge all others by.

longarrow · November 18, 2009, 10:34:00 PM

WHEN YOU CAN SHOOT (AT) 160+ BUCK FROM A GROUND BLIND AT 16 YARDS 4 TIMES AND MISS, AND ATHE ONLY REASON YOU CAN'T 5 ARROWS IS CAUSE YOUR OT OF ARROWS!!! (NOT A LIE!!!) :(

Steel · November 19, 2009, 12:26:00 PM

Out of the bows I have owned my Morrison Cheyenne carbon/foam core with thin 10 strand 8125 string/muskox puffs is the quietest recurve I have owned. Its as quiet as most of my best longbows and I could do more like add rubber cat whiskers/bow hush to the bow maybe make it even quieter but its fine so I don't mess with it.

snag · November 19, 2009, 01:12:00 PM

Ok, I'll have to chime in and say of all the recurves I have shot the Blacktail with a 14 strand B50 string and a couple of wool string silencers on it is one quiet and great shooting bow.

Steelhead · November 19, 2009, 02:47:00 PM

I like the whisperstick,Great northern ghost and Morrison with foam limbs,64 inch kodiak 59er,Acadien classic one piece.The black swan is quiet as well.I would think the new foam black Swan limbs would be very quiet.Seems some of the narrower deeper cored recurves tend to be quieter to me.Not an absolute rule though.They dampen out quick though.Most those bows above do have a narrow limb.

JL · November 20, 2009, 09:22:00 AM

Anything wearing a set of hush puppies and bowhush.

Like many have said, getting a curve real quiet is a matter of tuning. String material has a pretty large factor on how quiet a bow can be. My Snakebit had an original hard FF sting on it and it sounded like a .22 going off when I bought it off my buddy. Swapped out the string with a Dyna97 and it was like I was shooting a different bow. Huge difference. Can't say enough for the hush puppies and bowhush to quiet a bow down. Best quieting combo out there.

JL

Jim Wright · November 20, 2009, 11:12:00 AM

In my earlier post, I did not mention that the "silencing system" on my Toelke Chinook was catwhiskers that came on the supplied b50 string, cut down to about 1/3 the original diameter. The 54# @ my 29" draw, 60" Chinook with a 7" brace height chronographed a 565 gr. carbon at 184 f.p.s. and one 645 grs. at 172 f.p.s. Again, along with this performance it is a ridiculously quiet recurve!