How quiet is your bow? Why does it matter?
04-24-2008, 05:42 PM
#31
Giant Nontypical
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RE: How quiet is your bow? Why does it matter?
I want my bow as quiet as possible. I like speed but for other reasons, and will not tolerate a noisy bow to get extra speed.
Deer past 30 yards rarely if ever jump the string. The noise (if any) they here is out of their comfort zone and therefore they do Not perceive it as a danger.
Dan
Deer past 30 yards rarely if ever jump the string. The noise (if any) they here is out of their comfort zone and therefore they do Not perceive it as a danger.
Dan
04-24-2008, 07:06 PM
#34
Fork Horn
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RE: How quiet is your bow? Why does it matter?
With my quiet bows , I have had many days in stand where more then 1 deer have come in at a time and I have killed more then 1 of them . The most being 4 . That is why I like my bows to be quiet . Could care less how fast my bow is .
04-24-2008, 07:41 PM
#35
Typical Buck
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RE: How quiet is your bow? Why does it matter?
Speed of sound is about 1130fps, my bow shoots 270fps. At 20 yards, my arrow gets to the deer in about 1/4 second, whatever sound my bow makes gets there in 1/16 of a second. So, the deer has less than 1/4 second to duckSEVERAL inches under my well placed shot. Bad shots, missed deer.
04-24-2008, 07:50 PM
#36
Typical Buck
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RE: How quiet is your bow? Why does it matter?
I have got a second shot at a deer,but the main reason I like a quiet bow is because I want to stack the odds in my favor as much as possible,and it does'nt hurt to have a quiet bow,that's for sure.I have had deer to totally do a 180 at the shot,I will admitt she was very wound up before the shot.
04-24-2008, 10:12 PM
#37
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RE: How quiet is your bow? Why does it matter?
I think Quiet is perhaps #1 most important feature, a big reason I feel matthews did so well early on was because IMO they simply had the far quietest bow and still continue to excede in this category.
Quiet has nothing to do with follow up shots IMO. it has to do with deer not reacting to the shot. Sure a faster bow will get the arrow there quicker, but really whether were talking 320fps or 350, that advantage is null, I think you would need a 500fps bow to see that advantage/reaction time to game, ie where sound wouldnt matter, or someone posted once that you'd need a bow going like 1500fps to make sound negligible.
So really sound/quiet is crucial. You want that deer to hear nothing but the arrow moving....not your bow etc....and ideally by the time he hears it that arrow is in him or just about.
Quiet has nothing to do with follow up shots IMO. it has to do with deer not reacting to the shot. Sure a faster bow will get the arrow there quicker, but really whether were talking 320fps or 350, that advantage is null, I think you would need a 500fps bow to see that advantage/reaction time to game, ie where sound wouldnt matter, or someone posted once that you'd need a bow going like 1500fps to make sound negligible.
So really sound/quiet is crucial. You want that deer to hear nothing but the arrow moving....not your bow etc....and ideally by the time he hears it that arrow is in him or just about.
04-24-2008, 10:17 PM
#38
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RE: How quiet is your bow? Why does it matter?
ORIGINAL: salukipv1
I think Quiet is perhaps #1 most important feature, a big reason I feel matthews did so well early on was because IMO they simply had the far quietest bow and still continue to excede in this category.
I think Quiet is perhaps #1 most important feature, a big reason I feel matthews did so well early on was because IMO they simply had the far quietest bow and still continue to excede in this category.
Dan
04-25-2008, 05:08 AM
#39
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RE: How quiet is your bow? Why does it matter?
I think the word is excell. And you can't tell me that when I shoot my Marquis next to my brother in law who is shooting a Switchback. My bow is both quieter and faster. Both bows are at 65#s and 29" DL.