EVER HEARD AN ARROW IN FLIGHT?
 

I posted this before on another website. Has anyone ever stood downrange, in a safe area, and had an arrow shot past them into a target? Last year while my partner and I weretuning up our bow's for the season, we wondered how loud they were downrange when they were shot?

One of us stood back at 25 yards and the other went downrange behind the pool fence and about 8 yards to side of the shooting lane. What was amazing was how quiet the actual bow itself was. Barely audible on a very calm day. What was even more amazing was how much sound was emitted from the arrow in flight. Standing where we were, the arrow sounded like a "sizzle" coming through the air.

That lead us to believe that a deer may hear the bow and duck it when alerted. But the sound of that arrow in flight was more prounounced and more likely to cause the deer to duck. Just some thought for those of you who may not have ever heard this before. Mike

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Yes, and some are louder than others, even when fletched w/ the same fletching. A couple years ago a friend of mine and I did that, I was shooting ACC's at the time, he was shooting Beman Hawks.......The Hawks made a loud "zipping" noise, the ACC's was a much more silent "woosh".......I found it rather interesting.

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I agree, and just as true with different broadheads.

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A deer will detect and hear the sound volume much different then we do.

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Most definatly , I believe they jump the arrow , not the string .

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Yip, especially since they won't be standing behind a fence, which will deflect some of the sound of the bow from your ears, and they have better hearing than us as well, so the noise that the bow makes will be heard by a deer much better than by our ears.

I'd bet thatsome deer standing 20 yards away would flinch just as bad if you were to shoot in the opposite direction of it, in some cases! Which would prove your theary wrong. Might have to have a few of us try this during season to test it.

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Mike, Yes we did the same thing and feathers were the loudest and then the quikspins and then plastic vanes!! Funny how loud it really is!! Walt

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Done this many, many times. It's interesting to say the least.

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I've always thought deer hear the arrow more than the bow unless the bow cracks quite extensively.

And I hate the term, "duck"....It makes it sound like they intentionally try to avoid the arrow when in fact they are only dropping because of gravity to preload the legs, same as we do when we take off. ;)

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I have done that as well. My Phantoms sound like Patriot Missiles!

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You hear it going by but do you hear it if it's coming straight at you.