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Post by Draven on Sept 19, 2021 17:43:22 GMT -6
I did a sound test with one of my longbow and recurve, shooting above my cell at 20 yards - hitting a goat target at 30 yards. I used wood arrows and 5" feathers - the way they came in - for longbow and 2.7" trad vanes on the carbons I used for recurve. The findings:
- longbow sound after release was nothing to bother, but the feathers zipping through the air is easy to identify as "something is coming"
- recurve sound after release was noisier than the longbow, but the vanes zipping through the air were almost non existent.
This was an old discussion I had with Rick regarding "what is making an animal to jump the string" - and I think is the arrow noise in the air and much less the bow sound at release.
Pass the same
PS Both arrows are traveling with similar speed - in the mid 160s fps. Longbow shooting a 9.2 gpp and the recurve a 11.4 gpp arrow
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Post by Rick Barbee on Sept 19, 2021 17:48:56 GMT -6
I very much believe the animals are reacting to the arrow coming at them, and not to the bow noise.
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Post by Draven on Sept 19, 2021 17:55:59 GMT -6
I tend to agree, the bow noise is just a noise at distance that can trigger a "what was that" reaction. It may not count at 14 yards, but above 20 I think it will.
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Post by Rick Barbee on Sept 19, 2021 18:15:28 GMT -6
I tend to agree, the bow noise is just a noise at distance that can trigger a "what was that" reaction. It may not count at 14 yards, but above 20 I think it will. A buddy of mine & I did another test some years ago. It involved a couple of pieces of 2X4, that we would clack together (loudly / much louder than any bow noise) before shooting at an animal. The results were the same: The quietest in flight arrows got less reaction from the animals, and few ever even paid any attention to the 2X4 clacking.
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Post by Cameron Root on Sept 20, 2021 11:16:09 GMT -6
Very interestink
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Post by Cameron Root on Sept 20, 2021 11:19:53 GMT -6
Other than wood arrows I think I am done with feathers. Trad Vanes have my attention at the moment.
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