Archery Accessories
What works,... Works!!
Don't feed into the hype of more expensive accessories make you a better archer,
and get over the "keeping up with the Jones's".
Don't look at what everyone else has and think what you have is inferior. If that was the case and no one else bought "the inferior product"' they wouldn't exist.
These products do have their place and work fairly well. It just comes down to, do you want a Ferrari to get you from A-B or will a Honda do the job just fine.
Archery accessories… What can we say about archery accessories other than there is a lot of them. There are so many different types of rests, quivers, stabilizers, you name it, they make it and they all say it's the best. As for hunters, some cuss and swear about what they have saying theirs is the "best" and the others swear by what they have saying it's the "best".
If you are looking for a rest, they come in all shapes and sizes. Some in full containment some in partial, some just barley touching the arrow. In my personal opinion, if you're new to archery I think you should begin with a good old whisker biscuit..... (yes that is it's real name). You do get the people that are prejudice against them and then say all kinds of bad things about them. But, whisker biscuits actually do a great job of what they're designed to do. The one thing I would recommend about whisker biscuits, is not using flu flu fletching’s. Or you can… you’ll see what happens. Also make sure you use blazer vanes or something equivalent. When you use the longer thinner vanes they will start to stretch and get wavy, this doesn’t help the arrow flight too much…
Some of the other drawbacks to them which I don’t speak from experience, mostly hear say. When you hunt in the extreme cold, and if snow builds up on the hairs it can impede your arrow greatly.
But if you are a noobie, I do recommend using them until you can get your form correct. Just set an arrow in it and you don’t have to worry about it. Drop rests are a whole other world of rests to get into. You can pretty much group most rests into a few different categories. The main two I deal with are the limb driven or cable driven. Limb driven rests raise the arrow into position upon draw, (usually by a spring mechanism) then yanked down by the limbs upon release. Cable driven are pushed up into ready position by you before draw, and then set to fall by the bow cable’s but they don’t all work that way, some do push the arrow into position when you draw. (i.e. Ripcord)
The argument between the two is the cable driven rest will bounce upon release and the limbs wont allow this. But any more cable driven have internal locks that won’t allow this anymore. I can see how this may have been a problem in the past but again..... not anymore.
I personally prefer cable driven even though they may affect the arrow travel slightly by putting tension on the cable. But… if your bow is sighted in with that rest, it really won’t matter.
A reason I don’t care too much for limb driven rest, for hunting, is the fact when you let down your rest arm will lower. Or course when that happens your arrow can bounce around in its containment holder and actually make noise for a deer to hear.
As I have stated in so many other posts you really need to find the rest that fits you. Which is why there is a market for so many different types. One person may like one and not the other, and vice versa. So as you go through the rests, research each rest and find which one seems to be the best fit for you. They can get very expensive and I don’t like the idea of spending money for something you don’t use.
So…like I said before if you're looking for a starting point you cannot beat the good O'l whisker biscuit.
And to think all that just for the rests, now you have to consider what type of sight you want. 5 pin, 7 pin, single pin, adjustable, scopes, etc…
All I can say.... if you are a noobie, get help from an honest archery shop, Or ask an experienced archer or two and don’t get the top of the line, at least at first anyway…