Well,,,, after 25 years years of longbows I finally bought a Palmer recurve... Had many tell me they were extremely noisey. I spent maybe 15 minutes and got it to be whisper quiet. Put woolie balls 12" in from loop ends. (one on each end) then I put soem of those stick on limbsavers on each limb 9" in from ends. I had found the limbs to be extremely thin and this caused a rattle at the end stroke of each shot. The limbsavers got rid of that all together. Oh and I also put one of my 12 strand dynaflight strings on it. It outs the arrow exactly were you aim each and every time. Have to sya I am impressed!