creaky string nocks in cold weather.

[ozy clint]

i finally had the oppurtunity to shoot my bow in canada. i was horrified by the creaking noise it made though. both limb sets too. it took me a little while to work out what was going on. turns out that the noise was coming from the string nocks. a little vaseline on the string loops restored a silent draw.

i've gone from +25-30C to negative temps and i'm sure that the cold weather was the cause.

also, i swear it shoots faster and quieter now.
could cold weather cause the string to have less "springyness"? string is endless dacron.

[Orion]

Cold air is usually drier air, so it's possible there's less moisture in the string.  A drier dacron string will stretch less and potentially pick up a few fps.  Think it would be difficult to detect without a chronograph though.  Don't know what effect that would have on string noise.  High tech strings may or may not behave the same way.  Don't know.

[nanook712]

My guess, might be some wax on the loops that got super hard and caused the noise.

[Overspined]

the wax gets "creaky". had a deer spook as I drew 2 years ago when the string wax creaked about as much as a tiny krinkle of a gum wrapper... sometimes they amaze me more than I had given 'em credit for.