When silencers/suppresors/moderators were registered 1st at the patent office they were listed as "silencers"so even though they do not silence, that is the correct name for them.
Unfortunately the time taken in recovery from the surgery lead to the arthritis in my neck getting much worse from lack of doing what I was doing before the surgery (inactivity lead to fusing of joints in my neck), so that surgery ultimately resulted in the end of my archery career, but indirectly.
Try a lighter bow.
When I found I could no longer draw my 90 lb compound bow, and even my 45 lb solid fiber glass bow was a problem, a lady friend gave me the bow she had used as a prop when she was an exotic dancer ( an Artemis themed bit), a 35 lb Bear Bearcat. I was a bit surprised that the lighter bow gave higher velocity than my 45 lb Black Fox, better accuracy as well.
Native American hunters often used bows of 25 lb draw for game up to Deer sized. They preferred perfect shot placement to over kill.
For truly large game like buffalo they used sinew backed bows of much greater draw weight.
And in Europe what we now call "Mufflers" for automobiles were also known as "Silencers".
I've fired silenced .22 pistols that allowed no sound of the shot to be heard at all, the only sound being the firing pin striking the rim and the action cycling.
These used a thick end wipe. After the shot there was a sizzling hiss of escaping gases.
Mufflers and silencers were both invented by thre same guy, Hiram Maxim.
Not THAT Hiram Maxim(Hiram Stevens Maxim, machine gun inventor), but his son, Hiram Percy Maxim, and was patented in 1909 in tandem with the automobile version, which actually didn't work out so well because it worked too good, retaining too much heat and starting fires and stuff....
Cool brochure below....
Try a lighter bow.
When I found I could no longer draw my 90 lb compound bow, and even my 45 lb solid fiber glass bow was a problem, a lady friend gave me the bow she had used as a prop when she was an exotic dancer ( an Artemis themed bit), a 35 lb Bear Bearcat. I was a bit surprised that the lighter bow gave higher velocity than my 45 lb Black Fox, better accuracy as well.
Native American hunters often used bows of 25 lb draw for game up to Deer sized. They preferred perfect shot placement to over kill.
For truly large game like buffalo they used sinew backed bows of much greater draw weight.
Be still my heart! Love seeing that pre-World War I Colt. That's a truly scarce contract gun. Sure is in pleasing condition. So easy on the eyes to look at that one. Love the early style roll markings with serifs.
Picked up a 1916 example of a British contract Colt Government Model chambered for .455 fairly recently. It's uncommonly seen, but not as scarce as the Argentine contract .45s. My 1916 isn't as nice as your 1915 example either.
Today Santa brought me a new Colt 1911. This gun was made in 1915 and shipped to Argentina as part of a 1000 gun contract for the government, where it was adopted as the "Modelo 1916." This one is exciting for me because it ticks off two boxes for my collection, an Argentine contract gun and a pre-war commerical model.
Congrats
Santa did very good
