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.

 

[Tangler]

How close is this to the road? I have a gate but it is near the road and I imagine there is road noise etc. Also 1.5 miles away from hunting area so I never worried.

 

[Tangler]

How far from where you are hunting?

 

[Turkish]

How far from where you are hunting?

How close is this to the road? I have a gate but it is near the road and I imagine there is road noise etc. Also 1.5 miles away from hunting area so I never worried.

No road noise whatsoever. Sometimes I hunt within 150 yards or so of the gate.

 

[bigboreblr]

You guys must be well off.......

Bicycle tire tube. Fire hose. Could switch to bicycle cable lock instead of chain.

ON those gates, when you assemble them rub some crayon on the hinge pins. Could slip in a piece of mechanical pencil lead while someone else swngs the gate. Crayon works great on the sling pins on rifle sling mounts too.

 

[SwampCat]

Most of you guys would freak when I put you in my very best spot, 30 yards off the edge of a busy US Highway

 

[Tangler]

No road noise whatsoever. Sometimes I hunt within 150 yards or so of the gate.

Agree, you need a solution. Different situation than my gate.

 

[bigboreblr]

Most of you guys would freak when I put you in my very best spot, 30 yards off the edge of a busy US Highway

Had a treestand on public land like that. Found it by walking the road finding broken headlights.

Told a friend to bowhunt there. Hit a deer with the bow, but it got hit by a car crossing the road. Last time anyone sat there to my knowledge.

 

[Catscratch]

No road noise whatsoever. Sometimes I hunt within 150 yards or so of the gate.

Do you drive through the gate, or just park there and walk in? If you aren't driving through, just climb through the fence and leave the gate alone. Otherwise do something already suggested above. I'd probably want to do away with the chain and switch to a cable lock for a bicycle.

 

[BenA]

Put a bike innertube over it.

 

[RGrizzzz]

Nylon coated wire cable? Most home centers sell it by the foot. Use it in place of the chain when the sound matters. Swap back to chain the rear of the year??

 

[Turkish]

Most of you guys would freak when I put you in my very best spot, 30 yards off the edge of a busy US Highway

I’ll play sudoku on the porch. I sold my last place because of the road noise.

Do you drive through the gate, or just park there and walk in? If you aren't driving through, just climb through the fence and leave the gate alone. Otherwise do something already suggested above. I'd probably want to do away with the chain and switch to a cable lock for a bicycle.

I usually drive in. My gate is at the end of a 500’ easement. If I’m mad at the neighbor, I’ll park at the gate. If not, I’ll drive in to my campsite.

Y’all have helped. I need to just go to a cable or a smaller chain that’ll fit thru a hose or nylon sleeve, I think.

 

[SwampCat]

I’ll play sudoku on the porch. I sold my last place because of the road noise.


I usually drive in. My gate is at the end of a 500’ easement. If I’m mad at the neighbor, I’ll park at the gate. If not, I’ll drive in to my campsite.

Y’all have helped. I need to just go to a cable or a smaller chain that’ll fit thru a hose or nylon sleeve, I think.

I own two pieces of property. Where I live is a little over 300 acres and you can get a mile away from even a seldom used gravel road. I also own 62 acres that borders a busy US highway. I killed my biggest buck, by far, with my back touching the bottom of the highway fill. The deer a mile from a gravel road act no more or less alert than the deer 50 yards from the US Highway. What is interesting to me, is where I hunt by the US Highway, the deer do not look towards the highway nearly as much as they do back into the woods. It is like they dont expect danger from the highway. No doubt about it, the highway makes for a noisy hunt