Black Widow bows still loud?

[sheepdogreno]

like others have said any bow can be loud and any bow can be quiet...I had a PAX that sounded like a 22...but with proper tuning and 10gpp arrow and some yarn puffs made it quiet. BW bows are built for performance and heavy arrows and yarn puffs wont drag them down too much...playing around with string material, tuning, and silencers can prove to make any bow quiet...tinkering is fun...at least for me...some hate it though and expect too much out of the box...

[kenneth butler]

Mine is very quiet with just small wool puffs. They do have string and brace height preferences. Mine is a 3 piece take down.>>>-------> Ken

[nineworlds9]

Widows arent loud, some folks are just tuning challenged.

[goingoldskool]

I was getting a slap when I first got me new PSR in aug, but after tinkering with its string silencers and brace height, it is whisper quiet now... I love it!

Good luck, shoot straight and God bless,
Rodd

[varmint101]

Mountain mufflers and the string puffs! Worked on my '67 Tigercat like a champ! Only thing I hear now is the nock coming off it's nice!

[bear mike]

Shot quite a few Widows 50-60@28 with arrows in the 600gr range they shoot great and very quite that is why I'm going to buy a new PSR in Kalamazoo

[Ryan Rothhaar]

I just read thru all of this, just started shooting the old MA 2 1/2 (MA2 riser, MA3 limbs) -bow from early '90's- thinner tips than new ones and I think the old narrower ones shoot much nicer than wider ones.  Been monkeying with long bows for several years...Yep Widow was quite loud. Saw mention of heterodyning method... looked that up here on TG.  Funny, after 30+ years of doing this I always just eyeballed string silencers about 1/2 way between fadeout and end of limb.  Measured off 1/4 and 1/3....looks weird, but WOW!  Huge difference.  Thanks for the info.... middle aged dog learned a new trick!

R

[Jim Wright]

It continues to surprise me that whenever there is a topic about black widow bows being loud there are always so many replies that they simply need to be tuned along with endless combinations of silencers, tape, formulas for silencer spacing etc.. You would think that the bow would come with the right combination of string and silencers to begin with, many do.

[pdk25]

I find them to be loud, but pretty typical for a recurve.

[Bowhunter4life]

Well, the way you phrase it you are assuming everyone agrees that they are loud...  I don't find them any more loud then any other high performance recurve, and none of the critters I've shot with them have complained about the noise made at the shot...

[hybridbow hunter]

After few posts we know now how silent BW Recurve bows are. Few more post and we will be convinced how lightening fast they are. 

[Sean B]

I don't know, maybe I'm deaf but I've been shooting them for 25 years, have owned quite a few and killed a lot of deer with them. I've never had an issue with them being loud. I had a video of me shooting my KB and it was whisper quiet.

[Friend]

Have owned two different recurve Widow models.

Both were very fine bows and both were quiet.

[BowDiddle]

Out of the box, yes they are.
But, they can be made to shoot very quiet, and you can do so without having to shoot an excessively heavy arrow.

[pavan]

I used little yarn balls on mine, it made very quiet, I don't think yarn balls affect cast very much, but if that is all it takes, I would not call that a loud bow.   Side note, I got to look at a whole rack of new black widow one piece bows of various models.  There was not flaw, not a wrinkle or course edge in any of them, from bow to bow the consistency of workmanship was perfection.