Continuing some hardcore details for you serious bowhunters, we're going to be discussing drop-away rests. Drop away rests have become very popular in the past few years. The advantages to shooting a drop away rest are as follows:
Shooting a drop away enables you to have total fletching clearance. With the popularity of small diameter carbon shafts increasing, it is becoming harder to get fletching clearance. With a drop away you are still able to put a lot of helical and/or off-set when fletching your arrows. This, in turn, gives the arrow more spin and steers a broadhead more effectively, thus increasing accuracy. They also provide total capture of the arrow at rest making it very hard to knock off while drawing or sitting in the stand (helps a lot with buck fever).
So, what kind of rest are you shooting?
Yours in archery,
Travis
Shooting a drop away enables you to have total fletching clearance. With the popularity of small diameter carbon shafts increasing, it is becoming harder to get fletching clearance. With a drop away you are still able to put a lot of helical and/or off-set when fletching your arrows. This, in turn, gives the arrow more spin and steers a broadhead more effectively, thus increasing accuracy. They also provide total capture of the arrow at rest making it very hard to knock off while drawing or sitting in the stand (helps a lot with buck fever).
So, what kind of rest are you shooting?
Yours in archery,
Travis
Q.A.D. on my hunting bow and a HTM on my target bow
Hey T-Bone,
Great tip... I have a Whisker Biscuit rest on my bow and it seems to work great. Talk to ya later.
God Bless & Good Huntin'
Kristle Oberlander
P.S. I am getting ready to go turkey hunting this weekend. I hope kill my first bird.
I have been playing around with drop away rest. I like the concept of total fletching clearance. It is funny to remember back in the days were you had to "deal" with fletching interference. We sure have come a long way.
It is a new area for me. I wish I knew of the amount of time the arrow needs to be in contact with the rest until it drops away. Too early of a drop and you could be all over the place, to late and you are back to fletching interference. It does seem to be different from bow to bow. I am thinking it would have to be different with nock travel. Fun to play with. They make me wish I had a high speed camera. That way I would know for sure.
Todd - Indiana
T-Bone,
I bought a QAD ultra rest LD pro series and its the first drop away ive shot. I have to say that i would buy another one when i have too. I love the design and how well it shoots.
Todd- NC
Rip Cord
limb driver + bowtech 101st = heartbreaker
I recently switched to the Vaportrail Limb Driver arrow rest on my PSE X Force SS. I liked the idea of no string attached to my cables. This rest has worked great so far this year. I've been to a few 3D shoots making shots out to 60 yards no problem.
I use a whisker bisket, and i like it a lot.
I have tried a few different drop aways, last year I put on the Q.A.D ultra hd rest and I love it I dont think I will ever use anything else.(well at least untill they come out with a ultra HD II) I love the way it is set up to capture your arrow. pretty simple design and works great. I shoot an off set blazer vain on a maxima 350 shaft, with a 100 grain spitfire xp, mathews drenalin, set at 73 lbs with winners choice cables & strings, 304 fps and around 70 ft-lbs kinetic energy.
I love this bow huntin talk!
Scott Withers-MI
Shooting a Muzzy drop away on my Matthews Switchback hunting bow. Love it! We shoot a lot of 3D tournaments and we've got some friends that shoot standard rests or Whisker Bisquits. Watching an arrow fly off the Muzzy vs. the other rests is amazing. You get to see an arrow fly true off one of these bad boys!
Drop away rest, the only way to go.
Set up by some guy named Travis.
Hope you are doing well. - Dilbeck