I know Hush Puppies are great, and I use a lot of rubber cat whiskers too, BUT

For those of you who use FUR SILENCERS, what critter do you prefer?  Beaver, Mink, Muskrat, Otter, Rabbit, etc?

Thanks,
Scott

Scott, I currently use Beaver silencers.  But I have ordered a set of Hush Puppies.  From what I have been told they Work.

I prefer beaver fur wrapped long instead of balled up.

I love Hush Puppies myself (and Bow Hush too), but am researching animal fur right now.  I have tried beaver and like them, but with so many choices, I thought I'd get some other opinions.  I've also tried mink and found them too light to do much.

I use beaver on my hickory self bow, they work great, I have had good success with muskrat also, not as quiet as the beaver, but more water resistant

anyone know how to make them from an old pelt? i got some left over muskrat pelts that i aint gunna sell cuz i skin...well if you can even call it skinning...horribly

I just put some Llama wool silencers on my bow and WOW!!  I love em.

Happy hunting,
Jason

I like beaver.  

I gotta admit a certain affinity towards Beaver too; but lately I have been using Mink. It seems placement is waay more important than the material.
Are we still talking about bowstrings?

Cory, do a search for fur silencers. You will get a couple nice threads with pics and descrption of how to do it.

Hush pups for me! They are just the best out there. And I have tried them all.<><

Beaver and Muskrat.........a little more partial to the Muskrat.

I like frog hair on mine, you can hardly see it dosent take away from the lines of the bow.

Any "water" mammal. beaver, mink, otter, muskrat, etc.. The oils keep them from matting up in wet weather. I kinda like Otter myself.

Cory, 1/4" x 3or 4" strips work great.

Let me just say hush puppies are great but for fur I like to use different fur then the usual.I like wolervine on my flatbow.On my Fred Anderson Skookum with cocbola handle,black glass limbs with black and red string I use red fox a beautiful combo.And on my Green Mt. I used artic fox they are white and very thin hair.I have used fur for the looks and they work also.

Musk Ox works really well believe its called quievet.Not sure about spelling.

I like sheep fur.  
SL

Ditto what SL said.