Suggestions on quietening a bow

[Str8Shooter]

I've owned three Gamemasters and I've been able to get all of them quiet. Stock limbs and also upgrade limbs I modified myself. Sounds like most everything that you've got on it is what I did to hush it up. One thing I found is that the string material can really affect the sound for carbon limbed bows. My Gamemasters with D-97 and 450+ were fairly quiet but I had a thin (8 or 10 strand) 8125 string on hand that I tried that was extremely quiet. I shot very light arrows and it was still hunting quiet. When I got up to 9 - 10 grs/lb it was just a muted thump.


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[SpikeMaster]

Tell him to trade it for a Howard Hill longbow. That's the best way to quiet a loud recurve.

[robslifts]

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[eagle24]

Originally posted by SpikeMaster:
Tell him to trade it for a Howard Hill longbow. That's the best way to quiet a loud recurve.

That was real close to what I said before I let him "not hear" one of my longbows going off.

I put the df97 string w/hush puppies on.  Took off the limbsavers that were near the tips and it was much much better.  I tried some light as well as heavy arrows and we could'nt tell a whole lot of difference, but there was'nt a huge weight difference between the two.  He was headed back to school (college) today and took it with him.  He's going to bring it back for "Bow Hush" treatment in a few weeks.  I think with the bow hush installed it will be plenty quiet for hunting.  It is almost there now.  One question I have:  The limbs are not completely snug against the pad on the riser.  There is a small gap between the end of the riser and the limb (both limbs).  I'm wondering if the riser to limb fit is not perfect and may be the biggest culprit.  I'm thinking that a little more pad material in the limb pockets might help.  Any thoughts on this?

[Allan Hundeby]

Will limbsavers at the limb fadeouts increase my accuracy?

I don't mean to hijack this thread, but... A few days ago I installed some limbsavers on my 49# @ 28" 62" Bob Lee Hunter T/D... I did it to make it even more quiet - which was successful, but I swear my accuracy has increased too somehow.  Before that, I was able to get an 8" grouping at 15 or 20 yards, but now I'm grouping at up to 30 yards, and half of my arrows are stacking - even bareshafts. (I'm very pleased!)

Can anyone explain this?