Noisy gates — do you care?

[Turkish]

My entrance has double gates with a chain and a combo lock. It’s impossible for me to be silent with the chain, even if I remove it and lay it on the ground. When I’m hunting, I feel like everything for 2 miles can hear the chain clinking.

What are the quieter options?

 

[bwoods11]

Rubber coating ? I know what you are saying. If I’m hunting for a 3-5 day stretch, I just leave the gate open… since I’m only a mile away .

 

[BuckSutherland]

Are you in a high pressure area that needs the gate locked most of the time? Could you just bungee it together for 8-10 days without a problem?


Otherwise maybe go into your closet and pick out some cheap unwanted clothing and wrap it around the chain and then throw some duct tape on it to hold it for a few weeks while you hunt. A few old pairs of zubas and some tape might be a cheap fix to deaden the sound a bit for a few weeks.

 

[Howboutthemdawgs]

Lol
I have one like that. Big giant chain. I cringe but deal with it cause I’m not hunting close enough to where I believe it will matter. But I did buy three of these for my most used gates

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[Turkey Creek]

Heavy gauge bicycle cable lock. Harder to cut cable in most instances anyhow. Many of them are covered in a plastic sleeve as well.

 

[Bill]

They hear that gate creek and clang all the time in the wind. Don’t over think it, it bothers you way more then any deer more than 50 yards from it.

 

[goatman]

Python lock.

 

[4wanderingeyes]

Run a cable through a rubber heater hose. But like Bill said, deer dont care. I hunt on my land that I work and live on, I am always outside doing stuff, the deer dont care. Deer hear noises outside all day and night, they may try to look and locate a noise, but if they cant see movement, or scent with it, they dont waste much time with noise in my experience.