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I currently shoot the stat hunter rest and am thinking about going to a fallaway type rest. I was wondering if the fall away will give you anymore fps? The fall aways are quite expensive and was curious. I know they give you total vane clearence but are they that much better? thanks

Antler Eater

I shot the Star Hunter for more than a few hunting seasons. When I went to a drop away the first one I used was a Muzzy Zero Effect for a couple of years and the last couple of years a Trophy Taker. In comparing those two (ZE and TT) I don't think there was any noticeable difference in performance. Personnal preference will dictate which fall away a person chooses.

As far as speed goes if I remember right when I made the switch it was more or less a wash. The max may have been 2 fps which I consider almost negligible.

My feeling is that these two drop aways both contain the arrow better than the Star Hunter did, especially when trying to make a shot in an intense situation, for example, shooting a bull elk that is causing the ground around you to shake with his antics and bugling. It also allows me the freedom to shoot either feathers or vanes with a good degree of hellical with no problems in arrow flight. For me personally this is a big plus.

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Thanks. Very good points that i really hadn't thought of.

BGfisher

I have used a Star Hunter or SuperStar for about 10 years now on most of my bows. A couple years ago I got the chance to set up a MZE on my Pearson. It worked like a charm.

This past year I set up and tried 8 or 9 of the more common ones. They all worked OK, but then came hunting season. The ole Star Hunter went back on--for obvious reasons. KISS. Mount it, set it up, tune, and go shooting. No cords or anything to come loose or move.

Most of the ones with a cord tied to the "down" cable just didn't light a fire in me. For one thing I still had fletching contact with the cord on many of them. This might be splitting hairs, but what's the point of a drop away, but to get rid of contact. So I finally found one that I like (besides the MZE). GKF Infiniti with the cord connected to a cable slide from Vital Bow Gear's Ultimate. So I'll use this for 3D. And I gained about 4fps from the Star Hunter. Not that I'm worried about it. The bow shoots over 300fps at 53lbs and 27.5" draw as it is.

fatsbucknut

BGfisher,
I'm not trying to bust your balls, i was just wondering how you get your bow to shoot so fast with such low poundage and shorter draw length? Thanks

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thanks again for the replies

BGfisher

Fats, it's a Martin SlayR with Nitrous cams with HL modules. The arrows are Vapor 23 Speeds, 27" long, 2" feathers, 75gr CXL points.
The bow has nothing on the string but a tied-in nockset and a Specialty Peep with Verifier lens. The string is a Prostring made from BCY 8125, 18 strands, which is the recommended strand count. The rest is a GKF Infiniti tied off to a Vital Bow Gear cable slide (from Ultimate Fall Away rest).

When the bow was set up as a pretty normal hunting rig it was doing in the low 280's.

What else you want to know?