Abstract: Accessories for firearms. They are designed to reduce the recoil felt by the shooter when a firearm is discharged. The accessories meet this goal by modifying the decay pattern of vibrations set up in the stock when the firearm is discharged. Kick may be further reduced by elastic compression and also by pneumatic compression of air in sealed pockets formed in and by accessory components.

Abstract: Devices for modifying the decay pattern of shock and vibrations set up in a bow when an arrow is released to thereby reduce bow jump and the level of sound. Those devices are fabricated in part from an elastomeric material which flexes and stretches to attenuate vibrations reaching the component. An element of the distortoring elastomeric component so touches the bow as to further dampen the vibrations with a consequent reduction in sound and bow jump.

Abstract: Devices for modifying the pattern of vibrations set up in a bow when an arrow is released. These devices have an integral head and stem and are fabricated from an elastomeric material. Versions suitable for attachment to bow with solid and split limbs are disclosed as are models designed for attachment to a bow stabilizer.

Abstract: String silencers for reducing the sound made when an arrow is released from a bow. These silencers are made from a material which allows the silencer to freely flex when the arrow is released and the bow string begins to vibrate. Silencers usable with conventional bow strings and with split bow strings are disclosed. Disclosed silencers for conventional bow strings have uniform and necked down configurations, and a representative, disclosed silencer for split bow strings has a center segment and integral arms at opposite ends of the center segment. With the silencer at rest, these arms extend in opposite directions from, and at equal angles to, the center segment.

Abstract: Small, effective, lightweight, vibration damping devices for implements which are subject to impact. These devices have a head and a stem and are fabricated from a soft elastomeric material. The stem is capable of oscillating over a 360.degree. span in directions generally normal to the longitudinal axis of the device. The peripheral part of the head can oscillate around its circumference in directions generally paralleling that axis.