String material education - help

Follower · October 30, 2008, 07:04:00 PM

Its been a long time since I had to buy strings for my bows. Back in the day, it was either Dacron B50 or Fastflight. Now there are all kinds of options that I don't know what they are. Can somebody enlighten me as to which are FF and which are not and the advanatages/disadvantages of each. I am wanting to try some different strings on my Black Widow recurves to make the bow more quiet. More interested in quietness over speed.

Thanks

zilla · October 30, 2008, 07:08:00 PM

Hmmm. Brownell B50 is the original stuff.. Safe in all bows.. FF came next, but bows need to be built to handle the string charactoristics. Next is TS-1, and then there is the BCY line. BCY has a variety of string material from a B50 equivelant to D97, and 8125. Go to the respective sites and read up..

In my mind anything that is not B50 or BCY equivelant of B50 is FF type stuff.

Soilarch · October 30, 2008, 07:18:00 PM

I don't know much as I'm pretty new to string materials myself, BUT if you're more interested in quietness than speed you'll probably want to stay with Dacron B50 or B500. I've read somewhere that there is no VOLUME difference between Dacron and FF. There's only a difference in pitch...take that for what it's worth.

DynaFlight97, 450+, and TS1 are FF materials. Most "newer" material is going to be FF...since that's what the compound world uses and they have the controlling share of the market.

I *believe* anything that lists Dyneema or HMPE in it's description is going to be FF. Someone please correct me if that's wrong.

Brownell and BCY make most of the stuff on the market so you can type that into search engines if you'd like.

SHOOTO8S · October 30, 2008, 08:02:00 PM

Acutally FF the original FF has been out of production since the fall of 2004.

Anything thats list Dyneema or HMPE is gonna be D97, 8125, TSplus, FFplus and is one of the componates of 450+ , Ultracam,Excell and 452x which are all blended materials of Dyneema and Vectran

zilla · October 30, 2008, 08:41:00 PM

I still have a ton of the original FF stuff...

Follower · October 30, 2008, 08:48:00 PM

Thanks guys. What is a Mountain Muffler string? Is it FF?

zilla · October 30, 2008, 09:11:00 PM

It will be made to your spec's.. I believe it has wool silencers and dampners on the end loops..

JRY309 · October 30, 2008, 09:29:00 PM

Mountain Muffler string is a custom made string that has wool puffs on the string where it contacts the limb and wool puff silencers,work great on recurves.I believe he makes them in dacron and D97.Bow hush and hush puppies do the same,but you can install them on your string yourself,great products.Mountain muffler strings are made up with all that on the string as a complete package,you just need to put on a nocking point.I myself prefer bow hush because I make my own strings,it's sold here in the sponsor's section.