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reloadxx said:
i have shot both ripcord and now the HDX both did great but i like that you can let down and the lauch arm stays up. been caught too many times letting down and the arrow comes down on the riser.
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That a very nice feature of the QAD. The cams of the Monster don't make "letting down" smoothly an easy task. With the other drop away rests I've shot the arrow always falls off the shelf.
 
i dont really agree on dead quiet and no rest is fail proof, the wrong pump or knock on it and it can move or break.

the misconception on the fall aways is they are "complicated" or require monitoring. Once set up properly (which is easy to do in about 2 mins) they are no different then a biscuit minus the fact you get more speed and better accuracy out of them.

trust me i shot a biscuit for YEARS before moving to a ripcord and i cant believe i didnt do it sooner.
 
I originally put the new revolution rest on a Helim. The revolution was OK, but upgraded to the QAD HX and my groups tightened significantly. I,m sold on the QAD.
 
I ran into my first problem with the HDX. That's not good since I've not even had it a month yet and probably got less than 300 shots on it.

Everything has been good til Friday evening I went out to shoot a bit and on my first shot I heard a loud noise and my arrow hit about 2 feet low. I looked at my bow and noticed the felt stuff on the launcher was ripped a bit...meaning my arrow had hit it and that it hadn't dropped down fast enough. Upon further investigation...I figured out the cable slide had slipped up the cable and wasn't fully rotating the launcher it into the full draw position....thus it wasn't dropping fast enough on the shot. This was fine Thursday. I've not moved anything since...that thing has just worked its way loose or something.

I don't like that at all; if I decide to keep the drop away on there I will have to do away with the slide and just serve it into the cable. Glad that happened in the yard instead of in the treestand or I would have been throwing an arrow rest across the woods.
 
Crow Terminator said:
I ran into my first problem with the HDX. That's not good since I've not even had it a month yet and probably got less than 300 shots on it.

Everything has been good til Friday evening I went out to shoot a bit and on my first shot I heard a loud noise and my arrow hit about 2 feet low. I looked at my bow and noticed the felt stuff on the launcher was ripped a bit...meaning my arrow had hit it and that it hadn't dropped down fast enough. Upon further investigation...I figured out the cable slide had slipped up the cable and wasn't fully rotating the launcher it into the full draw position....thus it wasn't dropping fast enough on the shot. This was fine Thursday. I've not moved anything since...that thing has just worked its way loose or something.

I don't like that at all; if I decide to keep the drop away on there I will have to do away with the slide and just serve it into the cable. Glad that happened in the yard instead of in the treestand or I would have been throwing an arrow rest across the woods.

Honestly this doesn't mean there is anything wrong with the rest. It means it wasn't installed properly.
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How do you figure that there Mr genius? Everything has been fine with it up til now. You can only tighten things so much. Especially plastic clamps. I'm going to do away with the clamp and just serve it in and see what happens. The only way it can fail then is if the cables stretch majorily. Neat concept but Im still not in the crowd that thinks they are the greatest thing.
 
Crow Terminator said:
How do you figure that there Mr genius? Everything has been fine with it up til now. You can only tighten things so much. Especially plastic clamps. I'm going to do away with the clamp and just serve it in and see what happens. The only way it can fail then is if the cables stretch majorily. Neat concept but Im still not in the crowd that thinks they are the greatest thing.
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Those clamps are not that great. No need to get defensive but it's best to tie or serve the cord. There is nothing "wrong" with the rest.
 
Didn't say there was anything wrong with it. Just giving a problem I ran into with it; would have potentially happened with any cable clamped rest. I'm just not sold on the concept of drop aways yet. Something about them makes me want to try and like them...but the more I try to like them, the more I run into potential problems and resort back to K.I.S.S.

On a side note; I came home from church a few minutes ago and started to work on the bow. The cable slide hadn't slipped any at all as originally thought. I still had to move the slide down about an 1/8 - 1/4 inch and tightened it up. I went out to shoot and noticed something was wrong right off the bat...poundage was off.

Back inside I went; took the tape to it. My bow was out of spec A-A and was a few pounds off in draw weight as well. Somehow...someway...my cables have stretched. Not sure if its the weather or what. I've not had a broken in set of string/cables to do that to me in quite a while. I've heard the Elite factory string/cables were junk...this might be part of that. I had to put 2 twists in to get it back in spec. Then of course, had to retime the rest from where I had just moved it. So it would have happened with ANY cable driven drop away...not just the HDX. Any of them that use the downward cable to activate it would have resulted in contact when they stretched.
 
WE never put the cable clamp on the bows the Qad comes with just serve it in and you wont have to worry about it. I know people are shooting the qad with the omen and its geting down fast enough. I have had the rest for two years and havent had a problem on my hunting bow.
 
I like mine but had trouble at first. My bow shop served it in and then timing got off they said that rope stretched some made adjusement and reserved back in been fine since.... However I am not sure there aren't better ones out there.
 

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