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Arrow rest issues (QAD)

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.
 
PEEJAY said:
My bow tech hates QAD. he brings out a big bucket of broken ones everytime someone tries to by one. I have one on my old bow and havent had any problems and would think if 80% of bows use QAD rests of course you would have more broken QAD's laying around haha. Needless to say, i have a hamske on my SR6 and i like it. He is a big supporter of limb driven rests. more reliable i guess...
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Hamskea or Vaportrail
 
I used QAD rests for years. They need to be properly timed in a draw board to come up to the full draw marks on the rest 1” before full draw.

With that said…

I had a vertix with one of the integrated QAD rests. It’s a piece of crap! I had it replaced three times.

Good call going with the Trinity. I won’t own another QAD rest.
 
MA_PAdeerslayer said:
I had same problem with QAD. It was a timing issue a few guys here helped me fix it! Great group. Glad your fixed up!
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Yeah, mine wasn't a timing issue, it just randomly wasn't dropping about 50% of the time. I discovered that when shooting bare shafts and it stayed up.
 
bowhuntr09 said:
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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Yep... to me, driving seems worth it for how much time we stand in a tree mostly staring at nothing (at least i do haha). I drive 2.5 hrs now because i like the techs at that shop. The hamskea i have works great. make sure you keep it out of humidity tho, the hardware on mine has some surface rust on it now. So does my hogg-it sight. not much i can do about the humidity in my house. i basically live in a rock cave with a dirt floor.
 
bowhuntr09 said:
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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bowhuntr09 said:
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.
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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.
 
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