Yarn for silencers??

[nineworlds9]

I went and bought a roll of camo colored 100% virgin wool this afternoon and came home and started making silencers with the plastic hanger jig that Duffer suggested and it works great!!! They turn out perfect and its sooooo easy.  I can make a pair of silencers in a couple minutes.  Perfect puff balls!  And they work, installed a pair on one of my Hill bows and its dead silent now.

[30coupe]

Wool puffs will certainly silence a bow, but we have LOTS of burrs/beggars lice where I hunt. The bottom puff soon becomes a matted mess, so I generally stay with cat whiskers. How do you guys manage to use yarn without this happening?

[Keefer]

Russ,
That just adds that "Rustic look" to it  :D  
Just kidding but I just pull out what I can and a afro pic might help in combing it out...Not sure if that's the correct name for the pic but it's those really thick combs...Worth a try if you like to try and save a Puff...

[nineworlds9]

It was literally so easy and quick to make a puff using the hanger method that I don't see burrs/damage being a problem.  Plus the roll of yarn for 5.99 will last aeons.

[savage1]

Well when your out and about the mountain and the puffs load up with grass seed, dont be surprised if you miss your mark by a pinch when you shoot. I too have had to cut them off because they will get like a pine cone. Before it opens..

For shooting foam they are nice.

Lou

[rick7]

yarn from wally world is all i use anymore

[Ric O'Shay]

Bow Hush and Hush Puppies.    

[BAPilot2]

Looks like I'm heading out to get some yarn!  

Nails, wood, and a figure eight will be my ticket as well.

This is all good info.
Thanks.

[D]

Yarn is all I use.  The way I do it is wrapping a playing card with the yarn and then sliding it between the string bundles and then cut both sides and slide the card out and then string the bow and use a wire dog hair brush to fluff them up and seperate the yarn threads and trim them to shape with sissors.  The dog brush seperates them well and makes them really thick

[macksdad]

I use 100% wool yarn it works great.

[Zbone]

Plucking your string a few times periodicity keeps burrs and matting to minimum.

[wihill]

Originally posted by macksdad:
I use 100% wool yarn it works great.

Same here.  Made a mistake on the first ones by not using enough loops, but the second set turned out great.  Took a while for them to fuzz out like I wanted, though.

[30coupe]

Originally posted by Zbone:
Plucking your string a few times periodicity keeps burrs and matting to minimum.

You obviously don't have beggar's lice (stick weed)in your area. You could pluck your string until you wear it in half and those little buggers wouldn't let go.

[Stumpkiller]

I use wool yarn.  Wrap it around the three largest fingers of my left hand 24 times.  Tie it in the center, spread the (unstrung) threads of the bowstring into halves and slip the wool in, then snip the loops on both "sides".  They was the thread well and twist the Puff in.  After a dozen shots it will be a nice ball.

Spencer contributed the last wool and THE ADMIRAL (my wife) spun the yarn.

   

   

[Zbone]

30coupe - "You obviously don't have beggar's lice (stick weed)in your area."

Nope, haven't a clue what those are, but we have different kinds of burrs around here that seem to jump from a distance like a flea or tick and the plucking of string will work...8^) Especially after a practice shot or two with a judo or blunt.

Stumpkiller - Cool, but I'd like to see a how-to on spinning that yarn from raw wool...8^)

[Bullfrog 1]

Just saw a post where the guy was using B50 for a silencer material?  That is a new one on me.   BILL

[Yolla Bolly]

We have the beggar's lice and cockle-burrs down here in the valley, and an even-more-troublesome weed seed in higher elevation clear cuts and burns;  plucking the string will not get them out, but a metal dog comb will.

[Zbone]

Was at a sports show recently and bought a mitt for $20 that removes burrs. Kinda looks like the fuz side of velcro.... Can't remember the name and thankfully haven't had the chance to use it yet, but in the demonstration it worked good. The selling part for me was when they showed it removing burrs off dogs.

[T-Bowhunter]

This is great information, thanks for sharing.

[Buckhorn47]

Wool is great stuff and as good as quiet gets - water isn't a problem since a  little pluck on the strung string will chase it away, however, burrs are a different story.