You need some initial guidance of the arrow in order for it to stabilize faster and be more accurate. Spot shooters will tell you that a spring steal rest does this very well. The prongs of a spring steel rest flex with the shaft as it moves across the rest, ensuring it is guided with as little pressure or influence from the rest itself. Most drop away rests are too ridged in terms of the prongs holding the arrow. There isn't enough movement in the rest to allow the arrow to push the prongs down as it flexes across it. This results in the arrow bouncing off the prongs as it moves across the rest. The recommended way to properly tune a drop away is to lessen the tension on the spring of the launcher arm until it just holds the arrow up, maybe a touch more. The Limbdriver on the other hand uses a spring steel launcher in combination with the drop away. It's very forgiving, accurate and easy to setup. I believe a rest will make or break your accuracy. It's the ONLY thing on your bow that contacts the arrow. Now, I must say that we're talking about hunting accuracy, not target or machine accuracy here. Most any high quality rest, standard or drop away, will be more that adequate for hunting setups and most can be fine tuned to get the most out of them.
Agree 100% One of the reasons I hate tuning a WB is that it isn't spring loaded and doesn't allow for the naturall flex of the arrow. I like a spot hog whammy because it is spring loaded and is up for a long time but some have timing issues with them. But a QAD does everything I need it to do on a hunting rig. Sent from my DROIDX using Tapatalk
Another couple of rests that IMO aren't what they need to be are the QADS and Ripcords. They're very ridged and have no way of adjusting spring tension either. Not saying they're a bad rest, as many use them with a lot of success for hunting. But if you're talking about extreme and forgiving accuracy, there are certainly better options to those two.
