rests improving accuracy?

Now granted,this is an extreme case but notice how the arrow is falling when the rest falls too early. When there are nock travel issues,this is part of the problem with a rest that falls too early.

http://youtu.be/tzEAp32rntQ

 

limb driver which is a spring steel launcher arm in contact with arrow.

http://youtu.be/IKrwVQJebaY.

 

Agreed. Timing is everything on the drop away. They can be a headache and require more attention to detail.

 

I find it funny that the rest rocket is basically the same thing I made years ago to help my Trophy Taker stay up longer without putting extra pull on my cables. I basically just used rubber tubing.

 

It's my personal opinion that most bow hunting "innovations" have been thought up at one point or another by an archer and just never patented or marketed for various reasons.

I imagine your a lot like me, I always look for ways to improve everything, even if I feel there the best, lol.

 

Here are some very good examples of spring steel rest doing what they do best with what are obviously light spined arrows.

http://youtu.be/ikGpIqlO5VQ

 

I made a tree hanger much like what the real tree hangers look like today probably 15 years ago out of a tree step and a pivoting mechanism I made. Prototype broke and is still hanging in the tree. LOL but I love the real tree hangers and use them every hunt.

 

It's incredible how much movement goes on after a shot that can never be conceived with the naked eye.

 

I'm still on the fence with the hangers. They are fantastic, but I usually have better luck hanging my stand facing a smaller tree and screwing a step into that, or using an available branch. But here in the west trees tend to be bushier.

 

I have an idea for a tree stand that will change our comfort level on crooked trees dramatically but Im too lazy to build it. LOL


When you build stuff everyday for a living,sometimes staying over to work on these projects just seems like more work than fun sometimes.Especially when you have kids to chase around ball fields and such.

 

Yes it is

 

Excuse my ignorance, but what do you do for a living? And my ideas usually start out as the most exciting thing I have ever dreamt, then quickly fade into just another idea. I think I enjoy the thought process of how it should work vs actually making it work, lol.

 

I like the hangers cause I can put the bow directly in front of me and break up my outline while making it easier to access the bow.

 

Machinist/tool maker and former mold maker with an associates engineering degree in tool design but I have always preferred working on the floor so I never made an effort to get into the designing end of things.

 

I am envious.. all of those machines. I can solidly say that if I had the means I could build some serious archery equipment.

 

I have often wondered how some can shoot archery without the ability to modify equipment to suit their needs. IMO,this is one of the biggest advantages archers today have over us old timers.They have options to fit every possible need where in the past if I needed a shorter release,which I did,I had to make it shorter.Now they just go buy a shorter one.

 

Like I said earlier I modify a lot of my equipment, as much as I can without lathes, mills, etc... But I agree, with the technology out there today there is just too many archers who are just "getting by" on mediocre equipment.

 

Exactly what I was saying just worded better.

 

I have shot WB's that would shoot as well as My Apache. The 2 biggest reasons I use a drop away is fletching contact and noise. I don't use one for accuracy. I would much rather have my bow tuned well and have as close to perfect form as I can than rely on a rest to cover up my flaws.

 

Well since everyone else is more worried about proving themself right I will give you the best answer I can. Use what ever rest gives you the most confidence.
Just remember a biscuit wears out and can change ur arrows flight.

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