need x-bow help

[tomsdeerd5]

i just recieved a horton x-bow it shoots great but it's real noisey and has a lot of limb shock...is there any way to silence it and take the shockout of it....any help will surely be most apreaciated...thanks and God bless...

[Hotburn76]

Well your just going through the growing pains of crossbpws!! As someone on here once said the best way to quite down your crossbow is a good set of ear plugs. Crossbows are noisey by design, thas alot of power in thoes little limbs. The more stuff you put on to absorb sound the less energy the arrow gets to absorb, which means less arrow speed. If your goal is to have a CB as quite as a compound it will never happen. If you take resposable shots, like less than thirty yards the the arrow will be in the ground before the deer hears it!

[smokepolehall]

The very best thing you can do, is not worry about the noise. You can use heavy arrows it will dampen some of sound, not all and of course slow your Bow speed down. I shoot logs and i don't think the deer mind at all!

[awshucks]

TD5: Ditto's on all the above, and welcome to the forum! There's a real good read on this subject written by a top notch xbow hunter named Bill Troubridge in a back issue of HBM, I'll see if I can find it for ya. Basically, it says that out to 20 yds they can't beat any xbow speed, and w/ the faster stuff like around 300 fps you can stretch that to 30 yds on unaware deer.

[Dnk]

If its noisier than normal you should probably do a nut and bolt check on your machine. If you find any fasteners loose put some blue loctite on the threads and check them all regularly.