Best tip for Silencing your bow
09-26-2006, 08:11 PM
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Boone & Crockett
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Best tip for Silencing your bow
What is your best tip? Here is mine
Here is one of my favorite tips to help silence your bow. Growing up and hunting public land in Northen MI I learned early to have my bow as quite as possible. One time I pulled back on a doe and my mathews solo cam MQ1 made a ping noise. I pulled a little to hard, and where the cable an cam meet made some noise. She did not stick around to find out what made the noise.
I then started to put a piece of mole skin on the cam. Below is the picture.
Here is one of my favorite tips to help silence your bow. Growing up and hunting public land in Northen MI I learned early to have my bow as quite as possible. One time I pulled back on a doe and my mathews solo cam MQ1 made a ping noise. I pulled a little to hard, and where the cable an cam meet made some noise. She did not stick around to find out what made the noise.
I then started to put a piece of mole skin on the cam. Below is the picture.
09-26-2006, 08:14 PM
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RE: Best tip for Silencing your bow
Nifty idea. Gotta love that moleskin. I have it on my shelf to keep the arrow from clanging on the shelf.
I have nothing out of the ordinary. Simms products installed, a good stabilizer and shoot heavier arrows.
I have nothing out of the ordinary. Simms products installed, a good stabilizer and shoot heavier arrows.
09-26-2006, 08:23 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: Best tip for Silencing your bow
I got a lot of stuff to get my bow as quiet as possible, including: Moleskin on the shelf, limb savers, Fuse stabilizer, Martin Speed Lizard, cable slide sims, and the mini limb savers on the rest. It's a lot of stuff but it makes for a close to silent shot.
09-26-2006, 08:56 PM
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RE: Best tip for Silencing your bow
ORIGINAL: Rob/PA Bowyer
That and the moleskin I added to my sideplate. Pefect combination.
ORIGINAL: Greg / MO
My best tip? Make sure the sideplates read "BowTech"... [:-]
My best tip? Make sure the sideplates read "BowTech"... [:-]
09-26-2006, 09:45 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: Best tip for Silencing your bow
Man ghemry I thought I was the first one to think of this idea. I did the exact same thing on my Hoyt.I put the moleskin on the draw stop where it touches the cable That noise was driving me nuts!
09-26-2006, 10:16 PM
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RE: Best tip for Silencing your bow
i used to put rubber bands on the sting in place of wiskers, way quieter but they only last about two weeks and then dry rot. also check to see if your slide is smooth when wet. i spooked a deer one time when my slide popped along the cable guard as i drew beause of the morning dew making it wet. i went out and got teflon roller type guards and solved the problem. also think the limb savers are amazing for quieting the bow.