On one of my calls to bowtech they said the silencers would be replaced when they could improve on them, they are searching for a replacement now.

The ones you have will last depending on the stress they receive.

A perfectly tuned bow shot with a D-loop tied on in both direction for balance, will not be too noisy without them, until a superior creation arrives.

it has been just over 2 weeks since i got the bow, 4 of the 5 nubs are missing from the upper silencer so when i had the bow in to get the sight fixed i had the tech serve a set of catwhiskers in and trim them for me.

I've tried and I've tried, but still come up with a blank.

My Patriot rips the arms off the leechs' in less than 50 shots easily. More like 30.

I bought and installed 2 string bats, but they made the bow sound as if NOTHING was on the string. I should have tried all 4 on the string, but returned them before giving that a go.

I guess I'm down to stinky cat wiskers. I just don't get how we're supposed to jump through hoola hoops trying to be "scent free" and then go and put rubber smelling cat whiskers on our hunting rigs.

p.s.- I'm not crazy, I tied an Allen into my mathews and shot it some, came back inside and had the wfe verify the "rubber" smell. OR maybe we're both crazy?

But then again, I do still have the bass jig skirt trick up my sleeve- Hmm ponderous.

Just went through this silencer issue with my Patriot for the second time (I'm a hard learner).

I tried Leeches - arms ripped off.
I tried Bats - lousy silencing ability. Took the two off the string and kept the two on the cables.
I tried Cats cut to about an inch - beautiful......pain in the butt to install correctly but they work great, they're cheap, and they work.

You are now the fourth person I have spoken with in the last couple months who has related the same thing. I believe it has something to do specifically with the Patriot SC model...in addition to what I mentioned above. Case in point, I had a gentleman come into the shop last night looking for fletchings but we ended up chatting about a variety of issues. One thing that came up was that he had alot of problems with the squidees on his Bowtech. The model? A Patriot SC and he was shooting below 6 grains per pound of draw weight...at a heavy draw weight setting.

i switched to a heavier arrow after i had the cat whiskers put on, when i get aroudn to getting a new string i will try the squidees again.

PAbowhunter,
FYI I'm shooting 65# draw, 418.5 average grain arrows= 6.43 grains per pound.
In your opinion is that too low?
I was under the assumption 6.5 gpp was the magical #er as far as the low end of the spectrum goes. AND that anything over 400 was mo-betta than under.

I'm gonna swing by wally-world on the way home aand see what they have to offer bass-jig wise (no-detectable smell to my nose), but will resort to the cat whiskers if I have to.

One things for sure- I need something on the string, there is a nasty buzz w/out.

I'd like to see the squidees changed into "wagon wheels" to eliminate or reduce to a minimum the catching of the cables by the fingers.