It was a chilly morning and by 9am when I had not seen anything at all, I decided to venture down and go check out a little different area to hunt that afternoon. Saturday came and I went out in the woods. Well, after a little lubrication and a test to make sure everything was copasetic again, I was all set. The next week, I was out shooting before my Saturday outing into the woods and found that my rest was sticking and causing all sorts of problems. Opening day went fine, but I also did not get a shot at a deer. I will admit that until this point, other than harder setup, it was working nicely. I finally got it right, and I took it out for opening day of archery season. Even when I thought I had the timing right, the cord started to stretch out after about 30 – 40 arrows and had to be re-adjusted. Well, this all sounds good, but I was being nice in saying that it took a while to get the timing right. When you release the string, the rest drops away and the arrow is on its way with nothing to alter its course. This is controlled by a small cord that attaches to your bus cable, as you draw your bow, the cord pulls the rest up until your arrow is in position to shoot. Well, to start, it took a while to get the timing of the drop correct. I set my brand new bow up in late July and had my exciting new drop away rest that promised to affect accuracy less, allow you to get maximum arrow speed, and give you the most consistency. I started out using a new drop away rest (which I cannot remember the model of right now) and I used it for about 2 months. So, I thought I would give you my perspective on both styles of rests, and tell you a little about what I have used.įirst, we will start with the drop away rests because that is the first thing I used after getting a new bow and leaving my old TM Hunter rest on the old bow. ![]() During the last 10 years, while hostage rests have been very popular, drop away rests have also made a huge run at being one of the top selling type rests. Since those days, we had the onset of the Whisker Biscuit and now what seems like hundreds of other Hostage rests. The other alternative was to buy some of the very first hostage rests, but I found them to be very expensive back in those days. Back then, you had to make a hostage rest by combining parts and pieces from other fixed rests. I remember when I started hunting in the mid/late 1990’s that the TM Hunter Rest was the big thing because it was spring loaded. Over the last 10 years or so, archery rests have come a long way.
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