Silencing a speed bow.

Black Stick · 12-04-2008, 06:04 PM

I shoot a 2008 82nd Airborne, but it sounds like a shotgun in the range. I'll admit that the range has bad acoustics, but it is by far the loudest bow in the place. I have just about every bowjax product on that thing. The only thing I have left to do is get MeanV2 to make my a string suppressor to replace the stock one. I need to make it quieter. Any suggestions.

SwampCollie · 12-04-2008, 07:00 PM

Shoot a heavier arrow. Speed bows are loud(er) than bows that shoot a little slower... the more stored energy... the more wasted energy.... wasted energy is either noise, vibration or both... but it has to go somewhere.

The other possibility is that something is out of whack... which depending on how much you mess with your bow and your level of expertise is either exactly the problem or just a possiblity.

KodiakArcher · 12-04-2008, 07:24 PM

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ORIGINAL: SwampCollie

Shoot a heavier arrow.

X2!!! Put that wasted energy to good use rather than blowing it off into the cosmos.

Black Stick · 12-04-2008, 07:30 PM

I mess with it a ton. I use it to test every product I recommend because I know that it will test the products to the max. Now, I think that something is out of whack because it was not this loud before, and all I did was add products that should silence it. I gave it the once over and did not notice anything. Got any ideas?

Also, to add credibility to my statement that something is wrong with the bow, there was a guy shooting a 360 fps x-force that was not as quiet at my 82nd before, but was silent compared to mine this time.

KodiakArcher · 12-04-2008, 07:33 PM

Something has come loose or one of those products messed with the harmonics and put them into some sort of resonance amplification (really reaching here

). Try taking them off one at a time and see what happens.

Black Stick · 12-04-2008, 07:55 PM

The only things that I put on were those bowjax that go on the end of the stabilizer. Something else is wrong.

bcvd45 · 12-04-2008, 08:12 PM

Try using cat whiskers....I heard that Bowtech actually put out a study showing that their silencers were the least effective and cat whiskers were the most effective.

Black Stick · 12-04-2008, 08:23 PM

I tried those whiskers and the thing that they do best is slow the bow down. Not worth it. I'd just get a heavier arrow that would penetrate better.

Black Stick · 12-04-2008, 08:23 PM

I need ideas of what to look for that might have come loose.

bcvd45 · 12-04-2008, 08:24 PM

worked for my brother....but he shoots a diamond and it is not a real speed bow.