Don't you hate that sound?

[MaceG]

...tick...

[65x55 swedis]

ya and the the quick pain that follows is just as bad

[George Tsoukalas]

I do. But I've heard it a lot. Jawge

[radius]

i've found that if yo uhear that sound with the very first pull on a bow-in-progress when you get the string back on it...it is often just the timber hitch tightening up on the nock

[Pappy]

Ya Radius,sometimes but most times Not. I hate to here it and usually when you do it ant good.
   Pappy

[GregB]

I don't usually hear a "tick", instead it's more like a hand grenade going off in your hands!

[BearG]

I don't usually hear a "tick", instead it's more like a hand grenade going off in your hands!

Thats your M.O. Greag

[Josh]

...gave me chills just thinking about that sound...   -josh

[coyote pup]

Few sounds spark so many different emotions at simultaneously...Fear, anger, disappointment, sadness.

[markinengland]

Make a simple bamboo bow shot with the rind on the belly. You get the TICK every time you shoot it and it is so exciting! I am sure that one day the bow will go bang but it is almost worth shooting it to see everyone taking a step away!

A twig held behind a wooden-bow archer and gently broken when they are at full draw is always a laugh!

Sometimes the TICK is a first warning and a favourite bow can be saved with some glue and binding and then it is a good noise to have heard just in time. I am sure that some bows I have made and happily shot for ages have had as much string binding the limbs as in the string!

A bow ain't broke until you have to pick up the pieces.

Mark ticking gently in England

[billy]

I've never heard the "tick".  Instead an explosive concussion radiates outward from my location as my arrow leaves the bow and breaks the sound barrier at Mach 12,000.  The shock wave sucks my eardrums out of my head and wraps them around my face with such force that it's like taking a punch from a boxer, and I get a bloody nose.   The shockwave from my arrow levels everything within 300 yards....trees, buildings, even reinforced concrete structures suffer significant damage.  So A "tick" is really tough to hear under those conditions.      And I swear I'm telling you the truth...

[Barrage]

lol, Billy .  I can't stop laughing...  What goes through that brain of yours lol!! 

[Justin Snyder]

I don't usually hear a "tick", instead it's more like a hand grenade going off in your hands!

Me too Greg, but its a lot less stress than a tick. A tick is like the fuse burning down on a stick of dynamite but no explosion. You have to get one of your friends to check it for you because you are too scared too.

[woodstick]

i thought that tick was good ha ha.

[Bushbow]

Biily that was good one , Here is how you work around the dreaded "tick", you say to yourself, "that is just the wood settling in, or The string made that noise, or what tick, I  did not hear a tick...

I had a hickory pyramid board bow with a glued on handle, ticked every time you yanked it back. I was going to scrap it. My brother took it, he still shooting it 6 years later, ticks every time.