silencing a carbon recurve

[KodaChuck]

My best combo for carbon limb recurves is the small Bowjax string silencers and Fury string material. I resist putting anything on the limbs ....but spend a lot of time finding the sweet spot in brace height where the bow is most quiet....then I add Bowjax on the string and the sound drops further

[ozy clint]

I just hung a sock over each limb curve while holding the bow horizontal while plucking and all twang disappeared. Wow, it sounded nice. Seems to be the outer limb portions vibrating that is the issue. Not sure string dampening will help because the tips vibrate without the string moving. If the string isn't moving no amount of dampening on the string will help since there is no oscillation to dampen there.

I think that because of the deep curves of the limbs the tips can vibrate without moving the string. On a more conventional bow with straighter curves tip vibration is more readily transferred to the string because there is less tip length in contact with the string. With mine the tips are free to vibrate 'around the corner' without input into the string.
It's hard to explain.

This extreme dampening certainly isolated the limb tips as the source of the twang that's for sure.

[TexasKing]

Bow Jax are a tremendous help

I have a Covert Hunter that I am trying to tame myself....but like several have said, I will live with the twang because there is nothing that touches the performance.

Like Daniel, I also have Morrison Max 4s that are as quiet as any material. For that matter, my Dryads and Zipper Z4s are also.

I think the Border hook is so radical you have a tuning fork, there is give and take. My opinion, more a factor of design than material.

[ozy clint]

Tuning fork! Excellent analogy! That's what it's like. The section that is in contact with the string at brace height is the part making the twang. I imagine it's more pronounced with the covert hunter with even more aggressive curves.

[cch]

Try the mountain muffler trick with a puff up in the beginning of the string groove.

[old_goat2]

Different string might help too. My wife's Dryad ACS RC quietened way down when I went back to excel string material that Mike supplies with the bow. That and have somebody else shoot the bow and listen to it from a distance, it might not be as loud as you think!