a quiet bow

[harry62]

what makes a quiet bow.I have been building r/d longbows and they seem loud to me .other than tuning,string type and arrow weight.what in the bows design make it quite.

[PrimitiveSniper66]

check how much of the string is in contact with the limb of the bow at brace, if there is any contact the bow will be noisy , r\\d bows are very efficient at the the transfer of energy and should be quiet if not, could be limb mass or design , I have found a skinny string D-97 ,8 stran for 50#, will help in the transfer of energy of a noisy bow, a bow that transfers the energy most efficiently will be quiet.  The stored energy that is not used by the arrow is returned to the limbs,  creating the noise.  Curt

[John Scifres]

Limb mass, particularly at the tips.  Limb timing imbalance also screws things up.