Biscuit performance robbing ?

[SPIKER]

I have the Ripcord, and the Trophy Ridge Dropzone. The Dropzone is an awesome target rest, but doesn't contain the arrow, making it difficult to hunt with..(those little rubber arrow holders never work for me, I always get clearance issues with them).

The Ripcord is an AWESOME rest for both hunting, and target.

My next rest is the Quad....I've seen, and shot enough of them to make some observations about them. The main advantage over the Ripcord, is that the rest does not let down when you do. And that's pretty much it. In my opinion, the Ripcord is able to be thumb activated much easier, because it's on the launcher. The Quad's thumb wheel is on the other side of the riser, making it difficult to activate with the bow hand. I'll take the let down advantage over the thumb wheel.

Also, adjust-ability with most rests comes in different price levels, the lower costing version always seems to have less adjustment, usually with the horizontal, while the most expensive usually even have micro tuning, which in my opinion is the most accurate.

I also have a WB, and a Hostage rest on two other bows, so I think that I have been able to compare different rests firsthand, and am talking from my own experience....these are just my opinions though...

[BT]

nodog said:

Some of the problems with drop aways are noise, lack of adjustability, and hitting the cord that rasies it. One rest I had, the cord at times would get hung up on part of the rest and not lift at all.

Contact issues are a problem and if your prone to creep on the shot that has a negitive effect to. I don't care for tying them into the buss cable and always use a slide that is made for drops, driving the cost of a drop up:)

I hear you loud and clear....my thoughts too.

The Montana black gold trap door has none of these draw backs

[jamaltwy]

I've shot a bunch of drop away's and the WB, for the average hunter he is not shooting past 30 yards so he doesn't notice speed loss, most problems when they bring them into the shop is too tight or too loose for their arrows.... if they are shooting 3d also i try to talk them into dropaways...
My personal favorite drops are dropzone and limbdriver just got turned on to limbdriver this idea works great!! As for as noise this is why i choose these 2 !! just use moleskin or limbsaver rest stop problem solved!!

[nodog]

admin said:

nodog said:

Some of the problems with drop aways are noise, lack of adjustability, and hitting the cord that rasies it. One rest I had, the cord at times would get hung up on part of the rest and not lift at all.

Contact issues are a problem and if your prone to creep on the shot that has a negitive effect to. I don't care for tying them into the buss cable and always use a slide that is made for drops, driving the cost of a drop up:)

I hear you loud and clear....my thoughts too.

The Montana black gold trap door has none of these draw backs

That's good to know. What if any draw backs are there? Sometimes i wonder if a hunter had much to do with the product. We have to be quiet and deadly on the quick side. Might be a lot to ask but to offer something that isn't is confusing to me.

I bought a limb saver drop for the daughter, it works is about all I can say and will take a calm hunter to use it. The Darton it's on deseves a lot of credit. I wouldn't buy another for anyone keeping score. I thought it would be super quiet and smooth.

[BT]

The only draw back I saw to the black gold was the launcher arm.
It is secured with two screws and if those screws loosen , there is alot of slop in that arm which will translate into the arrow.
That being said....keep it tight and you'll be fine.

One other thing....it's a plastic arm so you may want to replace it every 2 years.
They are a great company and sent mine free of charge

[voodoofire1]

Hmmm, Yesterday I swapped the Monster over for my daughter to shoot and left the biscuit on it, it should serve her well in her learning..... so I've taken an old TM hunter and converted it over to drop away.... first time I ever did that, and it works great!, better than I could have imagined.... anyone else ever do this?..............Steve

[ccwilder3]

Yep. If you have one of the really old ones, it came with enough springs and such to make a great drop away. You can also turn the prongs around till they are in a "Y" shape, bend them together so the arrow won't fall through and they hold the arrow even better.

[nodog]

admin said:

The only draw back I saw to the black gold was the launcher arm.
It is secured with two screws and if those screws loosen , there is alot of slop in that arm which will translate into the arrow.
That being said....keep it tight and you'll be fine.

One other thing....it's a plastic arm so you may want to replace it every 2 years.
They are a great company and sent mine free of charge

One of the things a guy pointed out to me was the placement of the cord on most rest. He'd tried 9 in one year. Can you post a pick of the setup? How does it take care of the noise and vibration at the drop?