Author Topic: Which Bow do you think is the quietest? (Read 3682 times)

coldpaddler · « **on:** January 17, 2007, 02:37:00 AM »

I always like to make fun of my friend's wheel bow because it sounds like artillery going off compared to my recurve. The other day I shot with a longbowman and was surprised at how quiet his bow was compared to mine.

It got me thinking, what is the quietest bow you guys have had the pleasure to shoot?

kawika b · « **Reply #1 on:** January 17, 2007, 03:12:00 AM »

the bow that has the best design and is properly tuned(brace height,arrow weight and spine,silencer placement)and is being shot with the best form/release will win out most time,,,and i think that the longbows will be an even more likely candidate. my CX is deafly quiet.

AkDan · « **Reply #2 on:** January 17, 2007, 04:45:00 AM »

I havent even begun to tune the Schulz grandpa I picked up here recently and I have to say even without silencers it is smoking quiet.

SO is the BBO John Scifres made for me, smoking quiet!!!!

James on laptop · « **Reply #3 on:** January 17, 2007, 04:53:00 AM »

A longbow of some sort will be the quietest.To be honest some of the newer compounds if set up right will be as quiet as most trad bows.Get rid of the release and metal rest and it is uncanny how quiet some of them can be.

John Nail · « **Reply #4 on:** January 17, 2007, 07:43:00 AM »

My friend Jose' and I shot a Northern Mist longbow at Compton's this year and it made very little noise....it had no string silencers or anything.

Huntrdfk · « **Reply #5 on:** January 17, 2007, 07:46:00 AM »

The quietest bow I have ever shot is my 58" osage ambush selfbow, amazing how quiet it is...

David

robtattoo · « **Reply #6 on:** January 17, 2007, 07:56:00 AM »

A well tuned & properly tillered ELB takes some beating, I think. It never ceases to amaze me at shoots, just how quiet an ELB is compared to everything else. They're never silenced & only produce a quiet 'click' of the arrow passing the riser. I'm sure with a soft arrow pass fitted, as opposed to a horn or hardwood pass, an ELB would be silent.

rustyspike · « **Reply #7 on:** January 17, 2007, 08:20:00 AM »

I don't which is the quietest. But my Rivers Edge take down w/hush Pupies is dead silent. To my ears.

Rich K.

greenie · « **Reply #8 on:** January 17, 2007, 09:15:00 AM »

I dont know if it proves anything but, in the summer deer come out in the field 150yds from where I usually shoot in the evenings. I've noticed several times that everytime a recurve or LB is shot with a cabon or an aluminum arrow that the deer pop there heads up. But with wood arrows they never flinch. That being said I still hunt with carbon. Also to test one bows noise level against the other, all things should be equal same type arrow,string,silencer. poundage...ect.

Plywood Bender at Work · « **Reply #9 on:** January 17, 2007, 09:22:00 AM »

Both my Ballistiks are very quiet even with lighter arrows and no silencers.

I also have an older Bob Lee Signature (91) that is very quiet with no silencers and a 450+ string.

BobCo 1965 · « **Reply #10 on:** January 17, 2007, 09:47:00 AM »

The quietest I have ever shot is a Howard Hill Longbow.

mike g · « **Reply #11 on:** January 17, 2007, 11:12:00 AM »

I second a Howard Hill Bow....

Crash · « **Reply #12 on:** January 17, 2007, 12:29:00 PM »

A selfbow will be the quietest. Second to that will be a "D" shaped longbow, ala Howard Hill, Robertson, Dwyer, you get the picture. Some recurves are pretty dang quiet as well. I would have to say the Morrisons that I have shot were probably the quietest recurves.

mo bo hunter · « **Reply #13 on:** January 17, 2007, 12:36:00 PM »

I think the quietest bow i have ever shot,is my canyon by mike baker. very sweet bows shoots great also.

Lefty · « **Reply #14 on:** January 17, 2007, 03:53:00 PM »

My Adcock ACS CX is the quietest bow I have own.

Bjorn · « **Reply #15 on:** January 17, 2007, 04:26:00 PM »

My Jay St Charles longbow was the quietest (it was damned quiet!) and now my Morrison Shawnee with Arapaho limbs and a 450+ string made by Rod Jenkins has completely taken over that spot. Imagine that-a recurve with a modern non-stretch string at that!

bentpole · « **Reply #16 on:** January 17, 2007, 04:33:00 PM »

well here's my 2 cents: MY chapparal kaibab was quiet as a church mouse my Fedora xcellerator also very quiet it still has a f.f. string on it with cat whiskers but when I received my Hornes brushbow it had a FAST FLIGHT string no silencers and it was quiet, THEN I put on a B-50 string and cat whiskers FORGETTABOUTIT the only way I know I shot is because I have one less arrow in my quiver!

overbo · « **Reply #17 on:** January 17, 2007, 04:44:00 PM »

Been playing w/ a 3 peice pronghorn longbow that seems to be quiet but this is my first LB.Had a Wapiti curve that was the quietest curve I've shot.

Shawn Leonard · « **Reply #18 on:** January 17, 2007, 04:45:00 PM »

Davids self bow is mighty quiet. I myself am shooting a Cherokee by Roy Hall, moderate R/D and it is the quietest bow I have ever shot, although I have a Harold Couch LB that my wife thinks is quieter. Shawn

swampbuck · « **Reply #19 on:** January 17, 2007, 04:49:00 PM »

I was kinda surprised at a 3D last yr shootin with the wheel guys when this fella had a wheel bow as quiet as my LB which is pretty quiet typical of LB's in genral.

I guess it depends on how ya set them up,they can all be darn quiet even the rattle traps that we don,t shoot around here


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