PA hunter

muzzy could be ulgy but I love it !
would' nt use anything else It' s like A new chevy takes a while to get use to the look BUT once you drive 1 WOW

Howler

If you' re worried about it freezing up, they offer a spray to prevent that. I love mine and can' t imagine ever changing back to prongs!

Krotalus

Do you need to start out with a super fast bow to get good performace from the WB? Will it rob more speed from a slower bow?

rml127

I refletched my arrows with some heavy boehning (sp?) vanes and they have ripped of or wrinkled at all. I use a good amount of right helical and there isn' t a mark on them. I absolutely love this rest and can' t wait until Wednesday to hunt with it. By far the best piece of bowhunting gear I' ve ever bought.

AKDoug

The freezing thing is over rated. I now have freezing temps while I' m shooting. I misted my rest with some water the other day and all it took was a poke with my finger to clear it out. I soaked it down good and allowed it to freeze and shot an arrow. Guess what, it blew all the ice out and only missed the dot at 20 yards by one inch shooting a BH. I' d be WAY more worried about water getting into a dropaway and freezing. The worst thing to build up ice on is your arrow.

Hell, all the other places ice can build up effect the shot just as much as the WB freezing up.

Every dig at the WB has been proven to be unfounded crap spread by Carolina Archery' s competitors...sound familiar

sosowingshooter

I don' t know of a single person that has taken one off, once they have used it. I liked mine during the Summer when I put it on. Now that I am several weeks into my season I like it more all the time.

steelstud

I am new to bow hunting and bought a used bow with a reglar rest that came with the bow. I really had a hard time keeping the arrow on the rest. So I figured I would try to use a Whisker B. and it was love at frist try I have had no probs since... As for the alumnum shafts being loud. It is quieter than my other rest is just as quiet as carbons shot through it.

All is good in my humble opinion.

Reacher

I am very new to bowhunting and am just about to order my first rig. I have been using a buddies bow for the last month or so and am really enjoying the sport. I have had a couple of people tell me how much they like the WB, but the pro at my local shop says it' s crap. Too bad there aren' t any around to try out. I would hate to spend the money on one and then not like it.

c903

Since this post was started by a person that is seeking information to make a decision, here is the other side of the story.

1. You do not need your shaft to be encased in a rest to prevent the shaft from falling off your rest. The question that needs to be asked is: is your arrow being forced off your rest by an incorrect draw or a result of torque on the bow and/or string? If so, a " Whacking Basket" will not correct the problem, the " WB" will only HIDE the problem.

2. The fact that assuring that vane/feather is not contacting anything when released, is and always has been a primary consideration for proper tuning. How do you get around the fact that when shooting through a " WB," contact will occur on ALL the vane/fletch? I know that the users of the " WB" say you prevent the problem by cutting out bristles to allow exits for the vanes/feathers. I say, ' Show me." How can you cut an exit for a shaft that may start rotating before it is clear of the bristles?

3. Rest tension must be considered and often can be the only tune aspect that is affecting your arrow flight and grouping. How do you adjust tension on paint bristles, especially as they lose temper and begin to bend and develop memory? How do you know when the reliability of the bristles have peaked? When you take a shot at that big buck?

4. Regardless of how many users say they love the rest …..and it is an individual call…. and that the " Basket" is easy to set up and tune, how do you then explain that the troubleshooting and tune threads on the " Basket" are almost perpetual and outnumber the troubleshooting threads on a standard rest many times over? I have noticed that the common recommended replacement of the bristles seems to be around 100 shots. I guess it depends on shaft type and vane or feather as to how fast the bristles wear. How many shots do you take during your practice period? Now you have to replace the bristles and start all over again? []

If keeping your arrow on your rest is the single true advantage of a " WB," I would go the route of a good arrow holder -and there are good arrow holders, and use a reliable rest that can be easily tuned, and forego the (seemingly) complexity of the " Basket."

It is your call.

Howler

Well, your arrow may come off do to having your bow laying in your lap while on stand or could get bumped off of a prong rest by an external source, such as a branch. Many people have had these problems along with problems coming off while shaking in thier boots while drawing. The WB takes away all of those problems. Also, contact on all vanes of equal amount does not seem to cause any tuning problems, I have not cut out bristles on mine to prevent contact, and no problem tuning. With skinning carbons and acc arrows, getting no contact on a prong rest is not an easy task. Do the bristles lose temper and begin to bend and develop memory? Mine sure hasn' t. I' ve been shooting the same rest for two years now, and I shoot a lot, weekly 3-D and in my back yard. Trouble shooting threads, I haven' t seen any? Guess you' ll have to point them out. And after ya do that, I' ll point out the threads where someone had thier arrow fall off when trying to draw on a deer, or the arrow was already off the rest before they drew, but didn' t notice it until at full draw. Who has suggested to replace the bristles at 100 shots. That' s ridiculous, like I said, 2 years and several hundred shots and mine is still as good as new. Use an easy tuneable rest, like what, a drop away? Yeah, just another moving part to malfuntion and make noise. NOT! And on edit, it' s obvious that c903 still hasn' t tried a Whisker Biscuit, and until someone can show on paper that it is what it is, it will always be that way!