silencers for longbow

[Longtoke]

I like the felt scallops

[Over&Under]

String scallops from two tracks archery...the best I've used and the absolute easiest to install and tune

[forestdweller]

What string material are you using, whats your arrow weight in relation to your draw weight, and what's your brace height?

The reason why I'm asking is that with a longbow the lower your brace height the better because the less energy that is put back into the bow the less energy for noise.

With string material Dacron and more primitive materials seem to be quieter.

Too light of an arrow will cause excessive noise as well.

I try to stay away from string silencers because they are just another thing to worry about that can fail on you and in my opinion they are unnecessary on longbows unless it's one of those hybrid designs with a lot of deflex/reflex built in.

[two4hooking]

Yup, that is why I like Hill style bows, thick heavy b50 strings, and a low brace height.  No silencers needed,  pure simplicity .

[YosemiteSam]

My longbows are quieter without silencers than my recurves with silencers.

Unless you're splicing your longbow strings from real sinew, I don't see why you can't split the fibers the same as any other.

[David Mitchell]

Well, after more years than I can count in this sport of archery I have absolutely never had a string silencer "fail".  Seems like we can make the simplest things complicated in this modern day expression of something so old school. I make my own silencers from wool yarn and they are the easiest things to install you could want and no way will they fail or cause angst of any kind.  Just my experience.  

[Car54]

Cat whiskers only for me..they just work.

[Sirius Black]

Wooly Whispers are on all my bows, longbow and recurve, dacron and FF strings. Only $5.25 a set!

[Orion]

Yep.  Wooly Whispers for me as well on all my bows.

[forestdweller]

Originally posted by David Mitchell:
Well, after more years than I can count in this sport of archery I have absolutely never had a string silencer "fail".  Seems like we can make the simplest things complicated in this modern day expression of something so old school. I make my own silencers from wool yarn and they are the easiest things to install you could want and no way will they fail or cause angst of any kind.  Just my experience.      

I've had string silencers fail on me multiple times and I gave them up because they were too much of a hassle. I was using a rubber silencer and it broke right off.

With good tune, not too light of an arrow, and a low brace height a longbow should be dead quiet paired with the right string.