The Bow Hush silencing system is a great, more economical alternative to the raw wool mufflers and silencers. And they can be added to any string where the wool mufflers/silencers can only be added during the string build. A proven bow silencer system made from the best in New Zealand wool yarn.
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All recurves will inherently make a twang noise since part of the string rests in contact with the limb. String silencers will reduce some of that noise but won't eliminate it completely. If you're out on a range it's a matter of does the sound bother you enough. If you're hunting, silencers are more of a must have.
Most string silencers are made from some kind of animal fur like beaver or muskrat but you can make silencers at home with some cheapo yarn. Just cut about 16 2' strands of yarn. Separate them into two bunches. Tie each bunch in the middle then stick the bunch inbetween the strands of your string.
After a few shots with your bow the strands will fluff out then you can trim them down to shape. If of course depends on a lot of issues. If you tune your bow to be accurate and unforgiving (as most high level competition archers) a 1millimeter difference in the brace height makes a difference. If you tune your bow very forgiving (which usually is not so accurate) the brace height does not have much of an effect.Some archers (myself included) coarse tune the brace height by sound. If you take all of the dampers off your bow and by adjusting the brace height trying to make the bow as quiet as possible it will usually give a rough ballpark where a good brace height is. (Some archers do and will have other opinions of this, I know:) After that you can fine tune the brace height by testing the grouping, but this is advanced competition archers stuff.
I just put some rubber cat whiskers on my string (50# recurve) because I hunt with it and I wanted to be as quiet as possible. I noticed immediately that my string was much quieter and I didn't have as much vibration on my release. I didn't notice any change in the velocity of my arrow, but then again, I don't think you would notice such a negligible change as these might cause unless you were using calibrated equipment to do so. One thing to add to that I haven't seen anyone suggest yet, and I don't know if you already know this, your string could be slapping the limbs of your bow due to a loss in tension. You can remedy this by twisting your string a few turns until it sits properly on the ends of the limbs.
All results with my rubber whiskers were very positive.
This instructable will show you how to make string silencers out of synthetic wool yarn! It is an effective and inexpensive addition to any archery rig.I own a Samick Sage 3-piece takedown bow, and I love it! However, because it is a takedown bow (meaning it comes apart into several pieces) it has some extra buzzing when I shoot it from full draw, and I wanted to make it stealthy quiet. Also, this could be used to silence any type of traditional bow, not just a recurve!This is my first instrucable, so I'll take any kind of feedback!Lets get started. Now, grab your bow. While it's still strung, mark where you want to put your string silencers on the string itself.There are various methods to string silencer placement, but I decided to measure the length of my bow and then mark about 1/4 of the way from each end of the string.Some people prefer 1/3, others 1/3 and 1/4. Its up to your personal preference, style of shooting, and type of bow.
Feel free to adjust these!No matter the spacing, you should have two marks on your bowstring now, one on either end of your bowstring. Cheers brother! That was a fun little excersise - I have a Martin Jaguar TD recurve thats mostly black - so raiding the wife's knitting bag for black yarn as well as some mottled blue looked really cool together on the bowstring! Another cheap n easy tip for hushing these things up a bit is to get some of that stick on velcro tape- use the softer, fuzzy 'female' part and tape it to the ends of your bow's limbs so when you send an arrow away the string doesn't slap the the limb as hard - it's supposed to increase the life of the limb as well as quietening your shot. Bit of stick on felt to the shelf (if you aren't using a rest) will kill any noise of tapping the arrow against it when moving with a knocked arrow too - again, thank you!