String Silencers

[DannyBows]

Been using Hush Puppy's which are great, and I just got a couple sets of Two Tracks wool silencers and they are impressive.

[Gdpolk]

Muskrat fur

[Java Man]

I bought a bunch of Two Tracks new silencers at Kalamazoo.  The easiest silencer to install I've ever used, and works very well.

Gregg

[Stringpuller#1]

Bow jax

[Bowwild]

Whiskers are my favorite but I'm not 100% satisfied with them on a bow that I shoot the best.

Based upon using some wool yarn ones that came on a bow I traded for, I'm thinking I might try those on this particular rig. The bow has a metal riser and it seems a bit noisier than my wooden ones.

[ZaneD]

My vote definitely goes to rubber cat whiskers. Not effected by weather conditions, and they do a better job of silencing than anything else I've come across. As said above, tie 'em nice and tight, and they'll look like this:
 
Or go between the bundles of string, and you'll get this:

[Knawbone]

Beaver string silencers work great. If you are going to be in inclement weather you can spay them with fly fisherman's spray. I'v never had a problem, but I also don't hunt in the rain but once in a blue moon.

[JamesKerr]

On longbows I like the kind of wool you get in fly shops for big flies. It does tend to absorb some water if your in a downpour though but man does it make a bow quiet. On my recurves I use a material that I get around home that is similar to bow hush and then use pieces of beaver skin about 8" down from where the string touches the limb.

[Hummer3T]

both Muskox and rubber cat whiskers on every string. Muskox is light, water proof and sound dampening, only complaint is don't use / use but expect clumping in bur country.

[Ralph S]

Wool yarn works great. I have used beaver balls too, wool seems to work as well.

[sticksnstones]

All of my longbows all have the Two Tracks felted silencers.

My hybrid has yarn puffs that have been Scotch Guard'd.

My selfbow's new string is about to get some beaver balls.

I do have several backup strings with rubber cat whiskers on them but I don't seem to ever use them.
Thom

[Steelhead]

I have tried about everything many times and like wool puffs the best for quieting a bow/dampening string vibration.

Cat whiskers are nice if burrs are an issue to contend with.I like 2 sets of those done appropriatly and small.

I may have to try some of those 2 tracks silencers sometime.I have not tried those.They look good

[Ed Frye]

Not a fan of the cats whiskers. In my opinion the beaver balls laced into the string work the best.

Just my two cents worth. At today's market that isn't worth much.