Bow Noise tests

My friend Tim (HHS StringHush) recently purchased a very exotic decibel meter to test his new string silencers. We put together a variety of bows and I thought we got some interesting results…

Average decibel level taken over 5 shots. Microphone placed exactly 6 feet from the right side surface of the bow. Pretty much stock rigged bows…

Meland 64″ Longbow ( FF string w Beaver Balls) 87.2 dbs

Monster Dragon (from factory, 2 leeches)89.6 dbs

Monster Dragon (Leeches removed, four 4″ Hush) 88.0 dbs

Mathews Drenalin XT (from factory)…89.8 dbs

Bowtech Liberty (from factory)…84.2 dbs

Mathews Switchback: 90.8 dB

Bowtech Allegiance: 90.9 dB

Martin Slay-R: 93.0 dB

Alpine Denali: 93.1 dB

Hoyt V-Tec: 94.3 dB

PSE Vengeance: 94.9 dB

Darton Tempest: 95.3 dB

Oneida Black Eagle: 98.0 dB

Oneida Black Eagle: 10″ Hush, 4 Limbsavers= 89 dbs

This is great, I always thought those funky looking Oneidas sounded like a beaver smacking his tail on the water!

Joel

I was surprised to see the longbow come in so low. I am a stick/string shooter and always figured everybody knows when I shoot.

My father used to have a Oneida and it sounded like a tree snapping off in wind storm every time the arrow left the rest. Of course in those days a(many moons ago)the thought was “its so fast the deer doesnt have time to react to the sound”. My rig the deer lift thier head, look around and then go back to feeding by time the arrow gets to em.

gotta have beaver balls thou

on your bow anyhow

does it register the swearing after the shot also????

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gotta have beaver balls thou

on your bow anyhow

does it register the swearing after the shot also????

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You betcha…
Johnny, Dacron strings are quite a bit quieter than FF…and I shot a 2115 alum at about 52#…which would help slow the vibration down also. Beaver balls are cool but not very effective…catwhiskers work probably the best but slow the arrow the most…Bear hunters like me really don’t care about speed at all…give me a quiet heavy arrow at a reasonable speed with a razor sharp, big strong head like a Snuffer or Zwicky 4 bld…

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My rig the deer lift thier head, look around and then go back to feeding by time the arrow gets to em

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i wouldnt use beaver balls as they may attract wolves

I thought the only wolves in Sparta were hanging out at the local Pub….

actually …. not to steal the thread but there is a wolf pack on fort mccoy 10 miles from sparta my buddy has multiple trail camera pics and another buddy had his dog (coon hound) killed right in his yard while it was tied up

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actually …. not to steal the thread but there is a wolf pack on fort mccoy 10 miles from sparta my buddy has multiple trail camera pics and another buddy had his dog (coon hound) killed right in his yard while it was tied up

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Thats a bad deal…

Wow interesting Tom. Thanks for sharing this information.

I think it would be interesting to see what happens to the levels on a given setup when a person would add an additional 25 grains to the point – same setup same arrow just a heavier or lighter tip
400 grain arrow vs a 425 grain setup or even 450

Thanks for sharing, that’s some cool info!

Jeff

how bout with blazers

We just did that JDX… I was surprised to find that it took a substantial amount of extra weight to reduce the DBS…I went from a 75gr to a 150gr point and there was only 0.04 DBS diff…

Protour…we also mixed Blazers, Rayzrs, 4″ Vanes, and 4″ feathers on arrows and a few different rests…Quad 4, WB DLX, and a GK Superstar. There was minimal difference on these issues…BUT! Since we were trying to focus on the string noise we didn’t try a lot of variables that would sure be interesting to investigate.
BTW…decibel meters are only about $50 and a Stab mounted Chrony about $100.