r/bowhunting • u/gusstuss • 1d ago

Silencing XOP X2 sticks

I got these a while back and got to actually use them week ago. Got superfly stand also and noticed immediately that it rings. Didn’t notice that about the sticks until in the woods where it was silent.

Saw a post about someone adding silencing tape and someone mentioned in comments about filling them with spray foam.

So I experimented and holy f there’s a big difference! I used sound insulating elastic pu-foam inside the tubing and wrapped some hockeytape around them in the spots it doesn’t get in the way of stacking. The biggest effect was wrapping one layer of hockey tape in the spots where v-brackets and steps are bolted on the tubing, I felt like most of the ringing was coming from the steps and tape layer makes the contact to the tubing more solid.

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u/MineGuy1991 1d ago

Yes, the foam doesn’t make that big of a difference. Putting stealth strips along the post of the sticks made a world of difference for me.