Fastflight pros vs cons

[LBR]

I've never come across a bow I couldn't get quiet with a FF type string.  Heard a lot about it, had a few brought by my shop that "couldn't be quieted" that left quiet.  Some bows are noisier than others, and will be loud regardless...but most can be just as quiet or quieter with a FF type string.  

Again, how the string is made, how you tune, nock fit, silencer type and placement, etc. all make a difference.

One thing is you can't just swap from one string to a totally different one and expect to just string it up and go.  You'll have to re-tune, possibly swap arrows or point weights, to get the best results.

Chad

[Rob DiStefano]

if yer bow can handle a modern hmpe fiber string, then by all means, USE IT!  

it really makes absolutely no sense using dacron that will have lotsa stretch and creep.  

hmpe fiber (i.e. - fast flight, dynaflight, whatever) is not about limb/arrow speed, it's all about performance stability.

get yerself a custom hmpe bowstring and don't look back.  

[BD]

With the bows I've used both on, all but one were considerably more quiet with FF. The only exception was a used Palmer that I just couldn't get quiet with any type of string/silencer combo. I sold it-it sounded like a .22 going off regardless of the string

[ishoot4thrills]

What LBR and Rob said.

You gotta spend a little time to retune the bow after changing to a high performance string. Like said before, "you can't just swap from one string to a totally different one and expect to just string it up and go".

I have yet to find that a high performance string is noisier than dacron after I have spent the time to make adjustments where needed.

Heck, I find that I don't even need silencers on my Kanati with it's ten strand, D10 string with padded loops.  

[Rusty Snuffers]

The only drawback I saw when I switched the SBD string is that I had just bought the "right" arrows for my B50.       I noticed a significant increase in speed and the bow seemed a bit quieter with the SBD.

Just my $.02

[TIM B]

Thanks for all the responses!!  I really appreciate it- I'm gettin FF and gettin it dialed in..  Only 73 days till I head west for elk- not that I'm countin haha

[frank bullitt]

First and Foremost, Fast Flight is a tradename of Brownell. Spectra is this product, of which is a creation of DuPont.

I have a p.p. when folks "blanket", the materials under this name!

Rob is right, when he calls them "hmpe' materials.

There is alot more to these materials than just "Fast"! Please take note.

[mattmcdonald]

there was a thread on here a while back about dry firing your bow and most bows that got damaged from dry fires used fast flight strings it might be worth trying to recover that thread and read on it a little

[Javi]

Originally posted by frank bullitt:
First and Foremost, Fast Flight is a tradename of Brownell. Spectra is this product, of which is a creation of DuPont.

I have a p.p. when folks "blanket", the materials under this name!

Rob is right, when he calls them "hmpe' materials.

There is alot more to these materials than just "Fast"! Please take note.

while I agree with you, calling HMPE material "fastflight" is like folks calling any soda water a coke.. it's just a generalization...    

[LBR]

HMPE, Dyneema, Spectra, FF...I'm with Javi on this one.

I've had several bows break on me, known of several more.  Only two of them had a FF type string on them (it actually was original FF).  Both were old bows with skinny strings and unpadded loops.

I've said it a ton of times before--when a bow blows up and it has a FF type string on it, the knee-jerk reaction is to blame the string.  When one blows up with a dacron string on it, then something else gets blamed.

Well, let me back up a minute.  I do know of one other bow added to the list, that pretty much exploded and it had a FF type string on it.  Thing is, it blew up the first time the owner pulled it to full draw, and according to the bowyer it was a new bow.  Obviously the string had nothing to do with it.

Anyway, my point is without any other evidence, just based on my experience, dacron shortens the life of bows more than FF.  I don't think that's the case at all, just making a point.

Chad

[BD]

Right on Chad-I dry fired a bow with dacron once and cracked a limb. Have done it twice unfortunately with FF and not a problem!

[P.J. Petiniot]

I would never shoot a dacron string on a longbow ever again--a Fast flite style string improves the performance and feel of a longbow to the point where you will wonder what you were thinking by not changing years ago--

On recurves, well designed recurves, I have never noticed the night and day difference that I always notice with a longbow--

When I change from dacron to FF on a recurve, it usually means changing the arrow to one that would work on a bow of 10#s heavier in weight--

[JParanee]

If ya can use it

I have never not been able to quiet down a ff bow