So......I get to thinking..........about how I want my bow to shoot.
So I did get some 125's today and I did screw them in and shoot. The scope had still not been adjusted for the new arrow. The arrows fell roughly the same as they did with 100 grain field tips.
I adjusted the scope to work at 30 yards.
Then I backed off to 40 yards to see what effect the heavier tips would have on my scope setting. They all hit low, a couple of inches. Then I took off the 125's and screwed on the 100's again and shot at 40. The arrows landed in the target, which means that for broadhead weight....I'm using 100 grain heads.
But I keep comming back to an old issue. Surely there has to be a way to reduce vibration in our bows. Noise may never go away, and I don't think it is that important anyways, but now vibration dampening, that's a whole other story. I believe it is worth at least a try at it.
I give you my attempt.
Don't laugh out load- all at once. It works for me baby. The nipple on the NGSS is new, designed for another STS system. It is slightly tougher, less soft, than the original. The blue devil is a BowJax Stabilizer dampener, cost $ 8 a pair, several colors available. I simply spit on them and slid it onto the nipple and then onto the NGSS post.
The red devils are simply slid down onto the GroundPounder quiver mount riser thingies. That is how vertical bows reduce vibration, they add stabilizers. Just invision the two risers as two stabilizers.
Arrows clear, scope view is clear, weight unknown. Bow shoots differently now. Hard to describe, but the vibrations feel like they are getting dampened. Room to add another bowjax on the risers, but not sure if it would really add much. Easier to watch the arrow fly as viewed through the scope.
Also found some rubber stickum type thingies at the hardware store, the section that has sliders for the bottoms of chairs. Used them to buffer where the NGSS attaches to the bows riser, where the horsehoe shaped quiver mount attaches to the two riser thingies, and under the plastic sleeve that holds the quiver itself.
Shot bow with arrows in quiver.....smooth and nice. The sound is more deadened, but still quite discernable. I can now hear the arrow retainer thingie clanking on the rail after the shot. Gonna fix that, too.
These things were targeted at the one area where all the vibrations are generated, the riser itself. Alot happens there all at once, and it is a very small piece of metal as it is. I tried to deaden it, instead of the limbs or the string.
Pictures show where I now have installed my Boo string.
Next.....see how that affects the amount of vibration I feel as I shoot, and what happens to the arrows. Accuracy is fabulous already, I am now looking for sick. The new arrows are killing my bag target. They defintely are for hunting and killing things. Love them.
I would suggest that anyone reading this dribble pay close attention to my signature line. But I believe an Ibex would be awesome.
Don't blame me if you waste $16 buying some dampeners and you don't like them. Probably be chasing an entirely new rabbit in a few months anyways.
But the bow is different from what it was when it first arrived. I have accessorized it, and dolled it up, and maybe even defiled it too, but it is a machine, and I am very grateful to call her mine.
Aint' she pretty ...my own little serial killer.
BTW- be easy with me, I'm new at this stuff. I also want to contribute.
Just an over informed newbie with a misinformation spreading disorder- and a Vortex
Them strings sure are pretty, don't surprise me though, Boo' s strings are Top Notch!! You can put one on, and put the other on display in a nice wall rack. 