Quiet Your Longbow Fast — 2 Easy Fixes for Hunters

So guys, I'm Johnny. This is Johnny Hunt and today we're talking about two things you can do to quiet and dampen the sound and vibration in your bow. Let's get it. Now this works with recurve bows and traditional bows, American semi-long bows like this one here. It works with all those types of bows and what I'm about to let you know here is really simple to do and it's quite universal. People even do it on compound bows too. Okay. So the first thing I'm going to talk to you today about is string silencers. Okay. The obvious one. This is beaver fur right here and this string silencer is generally about 12 and 12 to 14 inches from the tip of the limb, uh, minor down a little bit more, a little bit further than that. Uh, it doesn't really matter that much. Now it is going to dampen the vibration is going to quiet your bow and it's also going to give you something kind of fuzzy and cool to kind of mess with, which is fun and that fun. So who likes it? Who doesn't like touching something really soft like that? Oh my God. String silencers are, are definitely something you should consider if you want to quiet your bow down and you want to reduce a little bit of shock. Okay. Not that these bows have shock because they really don't. A well thought through and engineered, uh, American semi-long bow really doesn't have very much hand shock at all, but Hey, the stuff exists, so why not take advantage of it? Okay. So this particular string silencer is beaver fur. Uh, there's lots of different things you can use. You can just Google string silencers and there's a multitude of things that you can check out. This one has been really well for me. I like it quite a bit and basically it's very easy to install yourself. You don't need to go to a bow shop. You don't need to have anybody do it for you. You basically just split the string in half, put, it's a, it's comes in a slong strip and you just put the strip in, you wrap it around, uh, cinch it up good, split the string, stick it in, string it up and you're good to go. Don't super glue these in, don't glue them in, uh, don't do any of that. Like once you fire this thing, you know, 20, 30 times after you've done this, it's not going to go anywhere. This is just held in by splitting the string and wrapping it in and splitting the string and sticking it in and that's it. There's some glue. There's no nothing. Don't glue your silencers on. You're okay. Cause if you ever want to take them out, you want to change your string or they get all beat up and blown out. Then you want to swap them out and you can't get them out, right? So don't do anything permanent like that. So the first thing you can do to quiet down your bow are string silencers. They work really well and they're really fun to play with because they're soft. So the second thing you can do and is way less obvious is a quiver on your bow. A quiver like this Great Northern right here works really well to, to dampen the vibrations of your bow and to dampen the sound of your bow. The way this quiver is put on is with rubber straps, right? So there's like a thick bicycle tire type rubber, I don't know exactly the compound, but that's about what it's like, just thicker. And you take it and you wrap it around and then you thread it through a little pin. That's right here and it holds it and it holds it really well. The rubber is really sticky. It's uh, you know, I've never had these things move on me that I've never had a problem with them and I have been running them for a long time. So what this rubber on your limbs are going to do obviously is absorb some of the vibration of the bow when you fire. So this rubber is going to soak up some vibrations. The rubber here that holds the arrows are going to also soak up vibration right here. It soaks up quite a bit. There's, there's um, some foam in here, some closed cell foam in here that also soaks up vibration and it really works well. So if you get rid of vibration, you're also getting rid of some sound because if there's the bow, the bow is vibrating a little less, it has less time to make sound. And I noticed a significant difference when I put these on and I noticed a even more significant difference when I put this bow quiver on. Okay. So I hope that really helps. Consider putting on some string dampeners and consider putting a bow quiver on your bow. I'm Johnny. This is Johnny Hunts. Thanks so much for tuning in today. I appreciate all you archers out there in the archery community. Drop a comment down below if you have any other thoughts or ideas on this, or if you have any other things that you'd like to add for silencing your bow, I can think of a couple, but to keep this video short, I'm just going to leave it at that today. Stay safe, hunt hard and get after it.