Post by Rick Barbee on Oct 16, 2021 8:20:11 GMT -6
I thought I was going to be doing something else today, so I didn't go hunting this morning. Plans got cancelled, so I'm setting here pondering things.
Thought I would share this:
Quite a number of years ago, a friend of mine, and I did some probing into how animals react to both bow noise, and how they react to arrows "coming at them" noise. This test also involved the banging of 2X4 boards together.
The probing/testing was specifically conducted on free range, and heavily pressure/wired Texas whitetail deer.
Without going into any great detail: In "every instance", the reactions of the animals were greater (much greater) to the arrows, than to the bows, or the board banging noises, and the reactions to the arrows reduced as we took the steps to quiet the flight of the arrows.
No, you can't beat the speed of sound, but you can greatly reduce an animals reaction time to that sound, especially if your arrows are quiet, and (within reasonable adjustments of course) as fast as you can get them.
Do it how you want, but listed in order of importance (for me):
(1) I get my in flight arrows as quiet as I can get them, which is pretty darn quiet.
(2) I get my arrows flying as fast as I can get them while staying in the 9 - 10 gpp window.
(3) I get my bow as quiet as I can get it, which is pretty darn quiet.
The primary reason I use plastic vanes for my fletching has nothing to do with the weather. I can shoot wet feathers just fine. It's all about the in flight arrow quietness, and the vanes are quieter in flight (by far) than the feathers are.
Stealth, and speed all rolled into one very lethal package.
Thought I would share this:
Quite a number of years ago, a friend of mine, and I did some probing into how animals react to both bow noise, and how they react to arrows "coming at them" noise. This test also involved the banging of 2X4 boards together.
The probing/testing was specifically conducted on free range, and heavily pressure/wired Texas whitetail deer.
Without going into any great detail: In "every instance", the reactions of the animals were greater (much greater) to the arrows, than to the bows, or the board banging noises, and the reactions to the arrows reduced as we took the steps to quiet the flight of the arrows.
No, you can't beat the speed of sound, but you can greatly reduce an animals reaction time to that sound, especially if your arrows are quiet, and (within reasonable adjustments of course) as fast as you can get them.
Do it how you want, but listed in order of importance (for me):
(1) I get my in flight arrows as quiet as I can get them, which is pretty darn quiet.
(2) I get my arrows flying as fast as I can get them while staying in the 9 - 10 gpp window.
(3) I get my bow as quiet as I can get it, which is pretty darn quiet.
The primary reason I use plastic vanes for my fletching has nothing to do with the weather. I can shoot wet feathers just fine. It's all about the in flight arrow quietness, and the vanes are quieter in flight (by far) than the feathers are.
Stealth, and speed all rolled into one very lethal package.
