knobby not trying to say your wrong amd I'm right,but try it sometime.I my experience you hear the arrow coming canceling out the bow(to my human ear's of course)but with the newer and quiter bows that's all I can ear.All you have to do is stand safely down range and you can verfy this.Even stand with your head down not watching your partner,youll be surprised.But still a nervous deer or animal will react to it.Not so much jumping the string because it know's its being shoot at but as a natrual instinct.

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