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After about 30 min of shooting today with HunterDrew, I've lost one of the side brushes off of my Nap quicktune 360 and new brushes are $10.00 a pop (2 brushes total). I have only shot the bow about 40 times and the previous owner said he shot it about 10 times. I have been looking 2 other rest, the Octane hostage rest with the 3 brushes and the Whisker Biscuit. I hear the Octane Hostage have problems burning through bottom brushes as well and at $12.00 a pop for new set of brushes. The Whisker Biscuit, from what I hear last much long but mess up fletchings. I'm new to this and dont know which one to go for. It's not like they let you shoot both to see what you like, so i turn to the guys(women as well)that know more than me. Send me some input fellows and enlighten me. Thanks
 
my dad has used the whisker biscuit since 2007. he has never had problems with it messing up the fletches. he uses 2" blazer fletches. i'm going to put a whisker biscuit on my next bow too. hope this helps.
 
I think the whisker biscuit is all a beginner needs. I had one and it worked great. It did start tearing my 2' blazers after many many shots. I have changed to a drop away and I cant get it tuned right. The biscuit is simple and easy.
 
If you want a rest that you can tinker with all the time.Then get a drop a way.

If you want a rest that you can set up and forget about.Then get a Wisker Biscuit.I shoot 4in feathers and dont have any problems at all with the WB.
 
I used a Whisker Biscuit for years. I never had a problem with it messing up a vane on an arrow when it was properly fletched and the rest was properly setup. I use ripcords now. IMO, you get the best of both worlds, full containment and no fletching contact.
 
in my experience with long plastic vanes ( not blazer) after several shots thru a whisker biscuit it will start to make the vanes wavy never had an issue with blazer vanes though. still have 2 bows that have a whisker biscuit on them & both shoot great
 
Thanks for all the info that you guys have given me. Looks like i'm going to go with a Whisker Biscuit. Good for hunting and practice shooting.
 
vonhogslayer said:
get a limbdriver simple to tune and always works!!
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Unless the cord gets cut or breaks. Then whatcha gonna do?

Drop away rests = neat concept. Odd thing is that as I have started to get back into 3D archery again, I notice one interesting thing: most all the top shooters aren't shooting drop away rests.

I've noticed a lot of them are shooting the old standby lizard tongue style launcher rests. I went away from a QAD HDX and AAE Pro Drop to a 20 yr old Golden Key 3D Rover with lizard tongue launcher and shooting lights out.
 
I will say this about rests�a biscuit is fine, but there are several drop aways that are simple to time and will allow the shooter more accurate shots. I switched from the biscuit to the Ripcord years ago, and my only regret is that I didn't do it sooner. My groups dramatically tightened up and it has the same full containment capabilities that the biscuit does. Timing is not an issue�it is about as simple to time it as it could possibly be. Yes, a cord could break but you would see evidence of that long before it happens. What about the ice that forms in the bristles of the biscuit when its cold and the constant contact of the arrow to the bow during the shot sequence? I'm not saying it because I have one, but I would give the Ripcord a very, very serious look.
 
I will check them out. i dont know enough about them. I think i'm going to get on youtube and see all the video reviews they have. Thanks for the input.
 
I've been using the l.d for 4 years and never had the cord break of course I maintain my equipment... but you would have to do something dramitic to break the cord idk just about as much chance as cutting a string! then wat u gonna do
 
Never have cut a string or cable in 26 years of shooting a bow. But have went through a few frayed/broke cords on the drop aways. Had a Trophy Taker Smackdown that did it twice in under a month. It is similar concept as the LimbDriver except it attaches to the bottom limb instead of the top. Any time you have a cord running to the limbs, the limb sandwich where the cord goes into it at will basically start sawing the cord as the rest puts tension on and takes tension off the draw cord.

AAE got around that problem via using a cable instead of a cord on their ProDrop rest. I liked that much better than a rope. Cables don't saw into very easy and you'd have to intentionally try and cut it to get it to break. Just my opinion...but I think the ProDrop is probably the best one on the market as of now. The only down side to it and most other drop aways....when you draw the bow and have to let back down, the launcher does not stay up, so you have to have something on the bow shelf to grab the arrow or keep it from making noise.

There are only a few that I know of that will stay up...most of them are QAD rests...particularly the HDX model. It comes with a football clamp attachment or you can serve it in your cable. If you shoot bigger diameter arrows though, they wont work out of it....the containment bar will be in your way with fat arrows, and your fletching will hit it. You really have to watch it with regular diameter carbon shafts (.244 - .246 ID) with high profile vanes...such as the Blazers or VaneTec HPs...because they will do the same thing. Some guys are taking the containment bars totally off of them and thus eliminating the contact problem but also taking away the Full Containment ability of the rest. But they also have a drop away rest that they can let back down from full draw and not have it drop your arrow on the bow shelf.
 
the down side of the pro drop [I had one ] is the launcher breaks...to each its own, .thankfully there is alot of options out there to choose from as far as the l.d. sawing I've not seen it .You set it up correctly and I'm not sure how that could happin,Ive ran it on solid and split limbs ,also you can tie it to the limb or run it to the axle I did it on my gx6 and it worked flawlessly,but like others say what works for me doesn't always work for you.not tryin to be a smart a**,I also have shot bows for a long time and love to tinker and tune, heck between me and my neighbor we have been through at least 15 different new bows in the last year and a half and have tried the w.b. ,quad,limb driver,aae pro drop, rip cord,and i've just liked the l.d. the most for tuneability and it just works for me!I dont overbow myself so on slow let down I have no Issues,I use a arrow holder on my shelf. J.T.
 
Im one of the odd ones tried a drop away didnt like it went back to the WB. It did make full size vanes wavy but never had a problem with blazers,
 

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