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Limb driven or cable driven rest?

heretic said:
I've used WBs for a few years. I've shot had multiple QAD HDXs on multiple bows without issues. I even have a trophy ridge floating around here somewhere that has yet to fail me.

I'm currently going into my 3rd season shooting a Hamskea and it's lights out a night and day difference.

Initially I was concerned about the lack of containment after years of being used to the QAD containment. However the concern was unwarranted. I can't think back to an incident ever were containment was an issue while drawing back (or letting down) on game, regardless of orientation/position in the tree.

My issue with the WB is it doesn't play well with skinny heavy arrows.

My issues with cable driven rests are many but the biggest one is your timing changes if your strings stretch or your draw length changes. Probably a non issue for most folks, but enough of a problem to me to stir malcontent
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I do remember reports of arrows getting wedged between the cage and launcher on earlier Hamskea rests but I think they’ve resolved that altogether, so not really a problem.

I still don’t like the sloppy containment. I walk around and often have my bow upside down, right side up, whatever. On the hanger, on my lap, over my bridge, under my bridge. It’s just too much play for me.

If my bow lived on the hanger, it probably wouldn’t bug me.

I do think they’re great rests otherwise. Glad they’ve gotten away from that springy connector that attached to the limb.
 
Plebe said:
I still don’t like the sloppy containment. I walk around and often have my bow upside down, right side up, whatever. On the hanger, on my lap, over my bridge, under my bridge. It’s just too much play for me.

If my bow lived on the hanger, it probably wouldn’t bug me.
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Yeah, stick with what works for you. Half of the season my bow lives on a hanger, the other half it's in my hand chasing elk out west. So far I haven't had issues however I also don't hike around the mountains with an arrow nocked.
 
After using my kids PSE with a whisker biscuit, I bought a cheap (real cheap) bow for myself….I fell in love with the bow late in life! That cheap bow came with an even cheaper fall away rest. Didn’t take long to decide I liked the fall away versus the WB. i have an Apache rest now on the PSE, cable driven with the clamp. No, I’m not shooting competition, but if I were, I’d use what I got. I haven’t shot thousands of arrows, but hundred and hundreds and never had a fail. I do also like a hard helical twist on my fletchings since I suck….lol
I think regardless how you go, a fall away will win over a WB
 
Drop-away rests and expandable broadheads really became popular during the height of the single cam bow popularity. Even though companies liked Mathews were producing good quality draw length specific single cams, there were a lot of other companies who tried to design their single cam bows with a lot of draw length adjustments and draw weight adjustments. This created a lot of tuning problems. When you design a cam with 5 inches of draw length, the closer to the middle of the adjustment, the better it will tune and shoot. But the closer you get to the shorter end of the draw length adjustment or the closer you get to the longer end of the draw length adjustment, the harder it is to tune and shoot.

To help with these "tuning" problems, it became a popular practice to shoot these single cam bows with an overly stiff arrow to contain the nock travel. Then, drop-away rest became popular overnight as it helped to control the effects of bad nock travel. Then the expandable broadheads also became popular as a way to get broadhead consistency and repeatability.

With the vast majority of today's bow design mainly being of a two cam (binary) design, the old problems of the past are not an issue anymore but there is still some lingering issues that is overlooked. The single cam bows designs ushered in the "high let-off" era and it is grown in popularity. It is common for today's bows to have 85% to 95% let-off. This can make tuning a lot more difficult and drop-away rests are still being used to address these issues.

If you like today's short axle to axle bows with low brace height and high let-off, you will most likely end up with a drop-away rest to ensure good arrow flight and consistency. The QAD cable driven rest the most popular drop away being used today.
 
Anybody here remember the Muzzy Zero Effect drop away? It was cable slide driven I think… it was probably the first fall away rest.


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Limb driven all day. Simple and easy to fix if you have a problem In the field. I have both and am moving everything over to limb driven one by one.
 
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