Update - drove an hour to a different shop which is both a Mathews dealer and a Hamskea dealer. I'm now the new owner of a Hamskea Trinity and they are sending the QAD off for replacement. They took lots of time to get me dialed and and coach me on some bad habits I had developed. Very happy with the outcome and from now on I will be driving an hour past 3 other shops to get to them. They definitely earned my business.
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I bought a Vertix a couple years ago with a QAD dropaway rest. When I first started shooting the bow (after years and years of shooting a Bowtech) I was getting fletching ripped off arrows. Bowshop convinced me it was my form and I was torquing the bow. I had been shooting for years and normally shot with an open bow hand, so the torquing didn't ring true to me, but I still let them convince me it was me.
After shooting bare shafts today I am not so convinced. I noticed about 50% of the shots I fired today, the rest was still up after the shot. That led me to think it really was the rest all along. Except on the fletched arrow shots its never up, presumably because as the fletchings hit it (and get ripped off) it has enough force to knock the hung rest back down.
Does this sound plausible to anyone else? Anyone had any similar issues with a QAD? I'm thinking of just switching up for a biscuit at this point.
I somewhat new to bow smithing, but have learned A CRAP ton about QADs. Not a hater. I ran one on a bow that I beat up all last year and it was flawless. That said, in setting one up on my recent bow (Bowtech Revolt) it was a nightmare. So yes, I think in part it is probably your shop (they don't know how to properly set one up) and in part is was the set up. Here are somethings I have learned:
1. There is a little shim in the box with your rest. Some bows LITERALLY REQUIRE it. If you don't use it, the rest will hang period.
2. Even with the shim, in place I have found ways that I can rotate it or set it up and it still hangs.
3. Recently with no change to my cord (it was marked) the rest quit falling. I had to pull a little slack out to make it work again. Could be cord or cable stretch. But whatever it was it was microscopic.
4. Have had scenarios where with it being pulled (put it on a bow press) to the right threshold, it was still not releasing. I had to over draw it to work.
I think quality has gone down in these. I am considering moving to a limb release, probably the Ripcord. I am trying to get my bows to being no press needed and totally field serviceable.