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What is the quietest bow ever made?

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#1 ·
Hello, just wondering what was the quietest bow ever made? Any testing data to back it up? I just got a vector 32 and was shooting and man it's quiet. I had a vector turbo and it was nowhere near as quiet. What are some ways to make it ever more silent?
 
#6 ·
2009 Bowtech admiral
 
#10 ·
I also shoot a vector 32. It's pretty quiet. I shoot an arrow around 424 grains, monkey tail string silencers, factory alpha shox limb dampaners and a bowjax string suppressor piece(one of the best silencing items under $20 IMO). Having a quiet rest helps a little as well, even if it is just a slight difference it all adds up
 
#11 ·
The absolute quietest bow I have ever heard was a PSE EVO. I have no clue how this guy had it set up or tuned but it literally did not make a noise when it fired...it was incredible. He was shooting the Ted Nugent GoldTip arrows.
 
#12 ·
Bowtech general

Hands down the quietest deadest thing I ever shot
 
#14 ·
I've had a lot of bows, tuning is huge in taming them down. But recently, I picked up a bargain priced Bear Effect. I added Sims Quads in the limbs, a single sims in the string and a sims cable dampener in each. Surprisingly, this bow is the quietest I think I've ever experienced. No vibration, great shooting and unbelievably silent. I still shake my head when I shoot it.
 
#15 ·
The 2005 Mathews Outback ...............one of many reasons why this bow is a keeper.

What makes it one of the quietest ever..........OnePin micro tune , 426 gr fmj , Mathews Harmonic Stabilizer , ST string stop, Monkey Tails , custom B2 string and cable and a Fuse stabilizer.
 
#23 ·
There are many quiet bows out there , but one of them just blows my mind.yeah it's super quiet but what shocking is it super freaking fast.after talking to the bow guys at a new bow shop that opened up here last year and them telling me 290fps is fast ,I decided to mess with them a take the hunlee up there .after blowing through there chrono close to 360fps I expected them say wow that's fast , but no .all they said and few other people standing around is how amazing quiet it was .i had to point at there chrono and say check it out and then they said wow No way!!!!! I had to shoot it over and over again and then they pulled one of there new bows off the shelf to verify there chrono was not jacked up.im not saying it's the quietest bow ever but it's close and I hunt with it over 350fps.thanks again to breathn for building me this over achieving Franken bow
 
#25 ·
Without doubt the quietest bow I've ever shot was a BowTech Admiral. It was right off the rack at a shop, no tuning, no nothing.

On the 2014 bows.........well I haven't shot a lot of them but from what few I have shot the quietest one was an E35. It was set up for a guy so I don't know if that bow was tuned or not.

I shot an E35 off the rack at a shop and it was not as quiet and the one that was set up.