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Longbow sting silencer?
« on: July 04, 2012, 08:23:59 PM »
Any suggestions on a good string silencer for a long bow used on the OP?  How does the rain affect?   I have only used the widow silencers and considering something different.   I have been stretching an extra sting and find that it is pretty wuit or as quite without so..................

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Re: Longbow sting silencer?
« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2012, 09:01:46 PM »
Cat whiskers are a good choice for wet weather.

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Re: Longbow sting silencer?
« Reply #2 on: July 04, 2012, 09:05:55 PM »
A well woven Flemish string with a poofy ball end works.pretty well and looks.cool too.

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Re: Longbow sting silencer?
« Reply #3 on: July 05, 2012, 09:21:23 AM »
I've been using whatever I have around when I make a string.  Right now I have silencers cut from the tail of a coon I shot with my longbow.
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Re: Longbow sting silencer?
« Reply #4 on: July 05, 2012, 03:50:47 PM »
Brush buttons and rubber whiskers, because the only thing more annoying than having to wrestle your bow back from some tree that tried to steal it, is getting splashed in the face upon release from the water in your silencer.  :bash:
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Re: Longbow sting silencer?
« Reply #5 on: July 05, 2012, 04:08:49 PM »
Musk ox fur is my all-time favorite. Beaver fur would be my second choice.
I'd just like to remind everybody that it's about the hunting, not just the killing. In other words, it's about the total experience, the sport itself and the challenge involved. Bowhunting, done right, is a justifiable and honorable pursuit. Done for the wrong reasons, simply chalking up kills and seeking personal glory, it's taking away rather than giving back to a principled way of life that has to be experienced to be understood. G.StCharles

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Re: Longbow sting silencer?
« Reply #6 on: July 05, 2012, 05:08:51 PM »
Musk ox fur is my all-time favorite. Beaver fur would be my second choice.
waterproof fur is a good choice, I just dont trust it...
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Re: Longbow sting silencer?
« Reply #7 on: July 06, 2012, 05:56:03 PM »
There's a llama or alpaca down the road that I've considered asking the owner if I can clip a little fur from it.  Should be fairly waterproof and will PUFF after a few shots.

I have a friend who is a taxidermist. He tanned a bobcat hide for a fella years ago that had sat around too long and a few patches of fur slipped.  It hung in his shop for quite awhile until I asked him if I could take it off his hands.  So I've been using it for string silencers ever since.

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