String silencers make bow louder?

[nightowl1]

Ok, put a dacron string on my FF capable combo hunter. Learning how to make strings and this is what the gentleman was teaching me with. Not going to look a gift horse in the mouth.

To my suprise. The B50 is as quiet without silencers as the FF material? was with silencers. I thought to myself "This thing is only going to hiss after I put silencers on it".

Well after placing silencers and moving them from 15 to 20 inches it I got extra noise from the bow. Took them off and just a very light vibration noise.

This was with fur silencers. Next I will try some homemade yarn puffs.

Anyone seen this before? I know some silencer material is better than others but I never thought that one could make it louder.

[sidebuster]

As a general rule they should be quieter with puffs.
Try Woolie Whispers.    I have never had a string without puffs quieter than one with puffs.

[shortstroke 91]

I have to put my homemade yarn silencers about 5"-6" from where the B50 string touches the limbs on my recurves, any further down and it gets louder.

[ron w]

I never had any luck with fur silencers, just seem to look good and not work well!

[JRY309]

I rarely put silencers on a dacron string,but too I rarely shoot a dacron string,just don't care for them.I only shoot a dacron string on a couple of older recurves,if I put on silencers I'll use half of a cat whisker.I put silencers on a Hill with dacron string and it increased handshock alot,it shot better without the silencers.

[Night Wing]

I have yarn wool puffs installed in the bowstrings on both of my recurves and they definitely quiet the bow noise upon arrow release.

[Jake Diebolt]

I've only ever used those little rubber whiskers...never had a problem, but it seemed to mattter a lot where i put them on the string to how effective they are.

[threeundr]

I second what Jake said!


-Leonard_

[Rob W.]

I've had a beaver silencer work loose on a string that wasen't broke in yet and make noise.

When properly installed on my recurves they work good. On my longbow they are just for decoration.


Rob

[lpcjon2]

I have a LB that can only use rubber spider type silencers all others make noise.

[nightowl1]

The yarn balls worked like a charm. Easier to make and tie in than fur silencers anyway haha

[ckanous]

If you use the fur silencers you gotta make sure they are tight in and around the string or they will rattle also. I like the looks of the fur but yarn seems quieter to me so thats also what I seem to go with. Not to mention the variety of colors available.

[nightowl1]

Yeah, I am anal about my fur silencers. They are always super tight. Just seemed to added string noise (twang) and even a little handshock on this bow and string combo.

10 wraps of yarn and i was hunting!

[jsparky93]

I only put mine about 8" to 10" from the loops & it quiets my bow way better than putting them in 14" to 15". However that is my set up each setup has its own sweet spot as we all know.

[Neon Quiver]

I like dynapuffs...cheap..quiet..and easy to install...after installed you can move them up and down to find the sweet spot.
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