String silencers on your Hill bow.

[MT Longbow]

Simple, who uses them and who does not.

[3Feathers]

I have beaver-fur on my Hills,just looks more trad.They are quiet without though.............

[Blackhawk]

Well the Hill bows may not need little beaver balls, but they look   :cool: .

...and how come we can't see the poll results until it's over?  

[lpcjon2]

I have tried the beaver and other fur, but my Hill lover the rubber Cat whisker type.

[ChrisM]

I use a single beaver ball cut in half.  Half on to and half on bottom.  It doesn't make any difference to heard sound from just a few feet away but it takes away the vibration feeling that a naked string can do.  For some reason I just don't like that feeling.

[Sam McMichael]

I use fur on some and Rubber Cat Whiskers on some, and both have been very effective.  I exactly use the same set up for practice & 3D shoots that I do for hunting. That way it is merely a matter of which quiver of arrows I need to pick up, field points or broadheads.

I have a couple of bows that I don't hunt with and have never gotten around to putting silencers on them, but since I don't like the twangy sound a bare string gives off, I will put them on eventually. I have one bow that sounds almost like a bell chiming when it is shot, and its one of my Hill bows.

[Ben Maher]

If my bow is carrying a B 50 string I often don't use them and my Miller longbow looks plain ol' silly with them on .
Some of my bows like a small cut in half cat whisker with low stretch strings .

Can't say I have ever had a relaxed animal jump the string from the noise of the bow string ...

Now the wired up rabbits that I hunt ? Well thats a different story !!!

[Michigan Mark]

Always, Otter or Beaver fur. Always try and get close so sound still travels faster than the arrow loosed from the Bow! Blackhawk (For the results) I guess its just like a Hunting situation, Were going to have patience.

[ron w]

My Hill Half Breed is nearly silent with just wool puffs and a heavy arrow!!

[moleman]

Wool yarn, and a heavy shaft, whisper quiet.  

[straitera]

Silencers & feather rest. Near unfair.

[Dodger]

Rubber cat whiskers trimmed very small to get rid of the string hum/vibration.

[MT Longbow]

Originally posted by Blackhawk:
Well the Hill bows may not need little beaver balls, but they look    :cool:  .

...and how come we can't see the poll results until it's over?    

I'll see if I can change that, sorry I must have clicked that button and didn't unclick  it before it went final.

I use yarn woven through the string. I use it to check the wind drift. I pluck a few hairs of it off and then set loose and watch where they go. Do my bows need them? no.

[WESTBROOK]

Yep, I do, I make them out of wool yarn. Make a ball about the size of a golf ball. I have skinny FF strings on all my bows, they are very quiet without silencers, but silent with them, I'll take silent. No, Dacron is not an option!

Eric

[sticksnstones]

Tiny wool puffs the size of a golf ball 12" down from the loop, scotchguard coated. Why have a quiet bow when you can have a silent one?

[cbCrow]

I use 6 2" strands of yarn on both ends, placed at 16" from ends to keep mine super quiet.

[two4hooking]

Very small trimmed cat whiskers currently on my Big-Five.  Super quiet!

[Rossco7002]

Nothing on my string but a 10 gpp arrow. Still super quiet.

[Stone Knife]

No never they magnify hand shock.