Solution for whistling broadheads

[shedhunta]

Shooting 4 blade zwickeys with 75 grain steel adapters.  The adapters do not fill in the gap made by the bleeder blades.  I feared they might whistle and they surely do.  Anyone dealt with this before?

[woodchucker]

Find a longer adapter that fills the ferule...?? Never had a problem with wood arrows...

[Terry Lightle]

Fill the void with glue

[woodchucker]

Now that's a thought!!! (why didn't I think of that)
I may be old, but I'm still learning!!!

[motorhead7963]

I bought some snuffers several yrs ago and found they whistled(hissed) also. So I did some experimenting, I tried some box tape the clear wide stuff and stuck it to the blades and ferrule making sure I didn't cover the edge, smoothed it on all 3 sides and it made them silent. I don't know for sure but I would imagine glue might add unwanted weight.JMO

[kenneth butler]

Long adapters. Glue if the weight won't hurt your tune. Clear tape over any hole or vent will work for a few shots. Also rounding the edges of the vents,cuts down on the whistle. I really prefer non vented heads. good luck this season.>>>---> Ken

[SuperK]

A little pinch of cotton will work without adding any weight.

[motorhead7963]

Originally posted by kenneth butler:
Long adapters. Glue if the weight won't hurt your tune. Clear tape over any hole or vent will work for a few shots. Also rounding the edges of the vents,cuts down on the whistle. I really prefer non vented heads. good luck this season.>>>---> Ken

If everything is going right you should only have to shoot ONCE.

[David McLendon]

Just about anything with a vented blade is going to sing to you to some degree. Non-vented blades like VPA's will take care of that if it bothers you. That said, I have killed a whole lot of stuff with Snuffer 160's and Simmons Tree Sharks. Anything that jumped out of the way did so because of the string and not a hissing broadhead.

[Lefty]

Put a little bow string wax on them.

[shedhunta]

I just went with longer aluminum adapters and used brass arrow inserts instead of aluminum.  Still getting great flight

[J. Cook]

Originally posted by Lefty:
Put a little bow string wax on them.

I dont follow?  Would you explain this a little more?  I shoot vented heads and they all hiss, so if wax will somehow help that, I'd love to hear more about it.   Thanks!

[DanielB89]

Originally posted by Lefty:
Put a little bow string wax on them.

Bingo.  You could also use some vanilla scented chapstick.  I have read where some say vanilla is a calming scent to animals, but I dont know.  If the scent is a problem, pick an unscented one.

[DanielB89]

Originally posted by J. Cook:
 

Originally posted by Lefty:
Put a little bow string wax on them.

I dont follow?  Would you explain this a little more?  I shoot vented heads and they all hiss, so if wax will somehow help that, I'd love to hear more about it.   Thanks! [/b]

rub it on the sharp edges.  that's what's going the whistling.  Chap stick is the exact same principle, but its a lot easier to apply, unless your wax is very soft.  My string makers wax is rather hard, so I don't use it.

[David McLendon]

What is whistling is the spinning vented hole in the blades. The rotation combined with the high rate of forward speed effectively narrows the openings and accelerates the air being forced through them  and passing over the vertical edge in the back of each blade producing the hiss. I wouldn't get too hung up on it because they hear your string drop long before they might hear  Whispering Death.
My two favorite heads are both vented and I can assure you that they both have a large pile of dead critters to their credit.

[riser]

A few drops of Gorilla glue may help.  It expands at a 3:1 ratio as it dries. Chisel / sand off excess dried glue to blend into the broadhead arrow surface.  

Minimum weight ( minimum impact to arrow flight). Cheap and easy.