Set Me Straight... Is It True?

[joe skipp]

My Kempf Stealth shoots quieter with a thinner TS-1 string.  I had a Rick Lepp Summit T/D that shot best and quieter with a D97 FF with padded loops.

Every bow is different Mikey but it's fun to experiment. No matter what string, a good pair of heavy duty whiskers will quiet the bow down.

[Steve Clandinin]

I have SBD Strings on all my bows.Incredible differance.in three cases I had to change arrows.It was like getting a new bow.Pierre at SBD is second to none,you can't go wrong.

[fireball31]

I noticed a dramatic loss of handshock when I switched to a thin string on my HH big 5

[Bowwild]

The folks at Schafer advised me shooting fast flight (if your bow is made for it) will add 8FPS (on average) to the set-up. That didn't ring important to me until she also said this was like 5 more pounds of draw weight.  That is signficant to me because with my short draw of 25.5" I need all the help I can get without being over-bowed.  Any bows I have made in the future will be built for fast-flight strings.

Frankly, before that information I preferred non-fast flight because I thought they would be a bit easier to silence.

[Stone Knife]

I wouldn't change a thing this close to season, experimentation is for late spring and summer. JMHO

[LBR]

Something I haven't noticed in this thread is folks comparing say 12 strands of Dynaflight'97 to 8 strands.  It's more like 16 strands of dacron to a super tiny string.  Of course you'll see a difference--my bet is most of the time that you'd have gotten basically the same results switching from 16 strands of dacron to 12 strands of Dynaflight or 8125.

The comparisons I've seen so far are similar to saying "I switched from a 35# straight limbed longbow to a 55# recurve and picked up a huge amount of speed!".  Not suprising at all.

[kat]

Like most on here have stated; it varies from bow to bow. I purchased an eight strand D97 FF string from a popular string maker. I tried it on my 60" widow recurve, and couldn't get it as quiet as my dacron strings. The dacron is noticably quieter.
I also hear about the increase of speed.  That is very likely.  I never checked it out.  I do find it funny that people will front end load their arrows to get an EFOC, because they are not concerned about speed, but usually want the 8 FPS increase the skinny string will give them.

[Shawn Leonard]

Guru has it right, it will increase speed 99.9% of the time but shot noise varies from bow to bow. Shawn

[Kelly]

I have an 8 strand string on my BW. Comparing it to the standard string issued by Black Widow for spped I can not answer one way or the other-don't have access to a chrono. But what I can tell you that the 8 strand string is so much quieter and its not even close. The standard BW string sounds like a gun going off compared to the 8 strand.

Have one on my Thunderhorn 3 pc takedown and don't even need silencers on it.

I shoot the "skinny" strings just for the quieter shot-speed doesn't matter to me-never did.