Bolt retainer

[childrs]

I added an anti dry fire mount to my Exocet. The bolt retainer extends quite a bit farther on the barrel now. Is there a shorter bolt retainer available or do I cut the original off and bend to match it to the same spot it was before?

[Dash]

It's works fine where it is further down.
Is there any reason you want to shorten it?

[childrs]

The longer bolt retention bar has a loud twang when shot. It is plenty accurate, just noisier.

[lvt01]

Just use a piece of shrink tube on it. Takes a lot of the twang out of it.

[Dash]

Shrink wrap helps, but I have a modified cable jax (bowjax) pulled over mine. The 2 lower rubber fingers are cut off so not to interfere with the arrow. That bowjaxtype jelly rubber is a great sound deadener. What distance is there between your arrow tensioner and rail without an arrow inserted?
One of my bows arrived here without a gap and was noisy as hell, so I just bent the retainer back carefully to the same as the other bows (about 2-3mm from rail), then checked the tension. It must be tight enough that the arrow must not fall out when the bows pointed downwards.

[Rufus]

I cut mine shorter but beware it is really hard to drill a new hole in it