What are your techniques for quieting your bow?

[alex]

undesided on what to use on the recurve..most likely some home made puffs of some sort

You can easily make some woollen silencers - they work great for me. My recurve accepts a stabilizer (homemade one) and with it and with the puffs i can say that the bow is almost soundless. Not that i need it, but this way it is much cooler

[Hutch~n~Son Archery]

I use cat wiskers tied like yours hutch thou not as round Im working on getting them served tighter ( pretty rough on just fingers) I have one on each bus /2 on my string (single cam bow) and the cougarIII has a leach in each & 2 cat wiskers on string. limb savers on both rigs. undesided on what to use on the recurve..most likely some home made puffs of some sort

Heres a sight that shows you a great method. And it uses a constrictor knot.
http://www.nbjf.net/pdf/Lage%20strengdempere.pdf

[Spiker]

Alien String Silencers:

...sorry - couldn't resist...

[Hutch~n~Son Archery]

Spiker you've got too much time on your hands lol. Thats funny!
Hutch

[Ehunter]

I have to wonder just how far that thing will fly if you shoot the bow. lol

[ElkSlayer]

yep alex thats the plan..it not loud to start with ... unless I do some thing dumb...lol

Thanks for the link hutch..that should help keep it tight. had to laugh i use clothes pins too

now spiker that almost made me spit coffee all over my laptop ..how do the work for you can you get them in red or mt berry..lmao bet they just come in green huh

[justin]

those are the stock silencers on aliens, although i got mine in the black.....

[ElkSlayer]

oh you mean i have to buy a new bow to get some oh darn "hey honey, I know what i want now"..

[copterdoc]

I use the same configuration my Bullet-X came with when I bought it.

Limbsavers on the limbs, and Super Leeches on the string.

I tried an STS, but I didn't like what I saw on the chrono. So, I pulled the Leeches, and got some speed back, but it still wasn't as fast as it was without the STS.

So, I played around with it for a few days, and finally decided that the Leeches worked well enough at dampening the string twang, that the STS wasn't important enough to warrant a speed loss of almost 10 F.P.S.

Since then, I have discovered that any string stop, including the Mathews limb mounted ones, negate any speed increase from Leeches or speed nocks.

If you must have an STS, you are better off removing the speed nocks, Leeches, or whiskers.

[Hutch~n~Son Archery]

copterdoc, how long do the string leeches last you. I know on my old martin altitude they wouldn't make it 3 months.