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.
Well my arrow is not dragged accross my riser shelf. I use the Ultra Rest(Up position)for that exact reason. This baby is silent to the deer standing 5 yds away or right underneath my tree. I guess whenI use the term silent to the deer standing at least 5 yds away or underneath my tree.
If you stick your ear right next to it, you may hear some noise, but it is unlikley. I spend many hours on this each year. I used the TM hunter, my heat shrink had a hole in it. Pulled back and watch 140'' 8 run away. I was 16 not to bright, now I really focus on the noise my bow makes.
Did you buy a new bow yet?, go shoot a Ross they are one smooth bow.
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.
Exactly people thing I am nuts whenI tell them deer look for hunters in the treesv here. I believe it is part of there natural instinct these days to look in trees.