ORIGINAL: ghemry
I will disagree with you, My Ultra rest, and some high quailty felt and my Carbon Express arrows with buff tuff are just silent.
My response to that would be that your rest is not silent........the high quality felt and choice of arrows is.......that can be said about any rest. In that same frame of thought every drop way out there is louder then anything else.........because your arrow has to be dragged along the riser shelf before it gets picked up by the forks........without felt they are useless...........and in turn they are not quiet........the felt is. I don't have to add anything to my WB for it to be nice and quiet. Honestly, I don't get the noise complaints.........and I am a stickler for sound IMO.
All depends on thepressure the deer have in the deer inyour area.
I agree..........that is why I can't imagine deer being spooked by a WB. The deer I hunt in the state lands of WNY are under relentless pressure and will jump through the clouds if they hear a mouse fart 2 fields over. I haven't had a problem yet.
Atlas in NY on public land has some pretty coached deer(I assume). His setup is very quiet.
Yes..........and yes.
My buddy in Iowa can get away with a bit more noise then me on my farm. He has shot some pigs in Iowa, 202 '' and a 190 ''. He came up here to hunt with me, had a nice buck come in. He reached for his bow, deer look right up at him, then took off. He has never had a deer pick him off before. Deer in Iowa are not as educated as here in MI.
That is funny............I swear that the deer in NY have evolved to include scanning the trees as part of their natural habits now. I firmly believe they have been educated to hunters in stands and I commonly see deer looking up as often as they check the ground level around them. Once the leaves fall in NY it becomes very difficult to find a good spot in a climber where you don't stick out like a sore thumb........they will spot you even if you don't move...........I try to find areas I can hunt transition zones of pines to hardwoods late in the year to hopefully get the pines at my back and just hope they don't see me before I see them.
I imagine Michigan being pretty similar.