Which rest is better conventional or drop-away
07-02-2004, 06:31 AM
#21
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: .. NH USA
Posts: 970
RE: Which rest is better conventional or drop-away
Art, I think the rug will work best, but only if you drop your bow arm sharply at release and make it act like a drop-away!! [8D]
Drop-aways are just another fad IMHO. They tried them many years ago, and are coming around on them again. They're more critical to get "set" as far as correct drop position, and generally have more things that can get snagged by branches, or freeze up, or break. I do sell them in the shop if specifically asked for but do not recommend them to my customers. More and more Pros are also going back to simple blade launchers and other rests after playing once again with the drop aways for the past couple of years---even Trophy Taker now offers a spring-steel rest, and alot of the Pros are now using that in competition.
For hunting, I am sold on the WB B2 because it is so simple it's stupid, and I in fact just put one on my own bow for this season... Any idiot can set this up and hit a deer with it! And of course it is hard to beat the old standbys like the Bodoodle and GKF rests, especially now that we have quikspin and other vanes that eliminate fletching contact on most conventional designs. There is now no advantage to them, and I predict these dropaway/fallaway/trapdoor designs will become extinct in a few years, (much like the conventional solocam will be IMHO) as more and more people "come around" from the hype.
JMHO. Good shooting, Pinwheel 12
Drop-aways are just another fad IMHO. They tried them many years ago, and are coming around on them again. They're more critical to get "set" as far as correct drop position, and generally have more things that can get snagged by branches, or freeze up, or break. I do sell them in the shop if specifically asked for but do not recommend them to my customers. More and more Pros are also going back to simple blade launchers and other rests after playing once again with the drop aways for the past couple of years---even Trophy Taker now offers a spring-steel rest, and alot of the Pros are now using that in competition.
For hunting, I am sold on the WB B2 because it is so simple it's stupid, and I in fact just put one on my own bow for this season... Any idiot can set this up and hit a deer with it! And of course it is hard to beat the old standbys like the Bodoodle and GKF rests, especially now that we have quikspin and other vanes that eliminate fletching contact on most conventional designs. There is now no advantage to them, and I predict these dropaway/fallaway/trapdoor designs will become extinct in a few years, (much like the conventional solocam will be IMHO) as more and more people "come around" from the hype.
JMHO. Good shooting, Pinwheel 12
07-02-2004, 06:37 AM
#22
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Central PA
Posts: 2,299
RE: Which rest is better conventional or drop-away
I like the drop aways for one simple reason. Most of them have better containment features than their fixed counterparts. Because the bulk of the rest is dropping out of the way, you can get more around the arrow to hold it in place. This is not to say that there aren't fixed rest that hold the arrow quite well, but I've found that most of the time, drop aways do a better job of this.
07-02-2004, 07:35 AM
#23
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: creemore Ontario Canada
Posts: 5,525
RE: Which rest is better conventional or drop-away
I've been using a drop away for the last 4 season's and will not be returning to the conventional again .I wasn't too sure about the drop away but they've stolen my heart now.
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