drop aways

ko,
 I have used it all on my old TM Hunter type, 2 prong rests and found that they all wear out about the same. I have tried the shrink tube, felt type slip ons with tubing inside and also teflon. They all wear out really quick. It may not be a big diff, but the wear DOES affect where the arrow hits your target. I'll stay with the drop-aways from now on.

Gary Scheel
NAHC LM,RMEF LM,NRA Member, Lonestar Bowhunter, TexasHogHunter Pro Staff Member

On the dropaway arrow rest that I shoot the felt comes supplied with the prongs.  The felt material is fairly durable and the rest is silent; you do not hear the arrow slide over the rest whatsoever.
 
Take care and Good Hunting!
 
Best Afield,
 
Steve

ko,
 The material on my G-5 drop away is a polymer mat. No felt used at all and as Steve said, you can not hear the arrow slide across it as you draw.

Gary Scheel
NAHC LM,RMEF LM,NRA Member, Lonestar Bowhunter, TexasHogHunter Pro Staff Member

Ahh, I forgot about the teflon stuff. I've shot dropaways for a few years now and will stick with them. I used to shoot with a golden key two prong rest, had to change the shrink tubing every year, accuracy was definately affected. I use the whisper flight by Alpine now. Love it, quit draw, no deflection. Not sure what it's made of but it very well might be a polymer. It does have a felt pad that sticks on the riser shelf to silence the rest as it drops. Works pretty good. None of the animals I've taken have complained yet  Thanks for the technology update guys.

Kraig Osborne
Hunter since birth, NAHCLM, USN

I know this may be a dumb ? but does anyone shot with an overdraw?

I got one that was on my other bow and was thinking of using it. The only problem
that I found is that my arrows were only 24" and that took alot ke energy out of
my arrows.

Good or bad? kinda leaning away from it but thought I would run it by you guys.

Thanks

sorry for getting off subject and thanks for all the great input on my ?

Hunt Hard, Hunt Safe and enjoy what you got in life
Paul Snyder
LM NAHC,NRA,SCI,DU

duck:
 
The dropaway rest that I currently use is mounted on the bow on the backside of the shelf toward my wrist so it actually acts as its own overdraw system.  With the speed that modern day bows produce on their own these days overdraws are pretty much a thing of the past.  However, I do like the fact that my arrows are much shorter as a result of using my current arrow rest. 
 
Back in the day when I shot round wheel bows instinctively with a finger tab my arrows were L-O-N-G.  Now I don't have to be overly concerned about proper spine selection with my current set-up, since my arrows are no longer telephone pole length.  LOL! 
 
Take care and Good Hunting!
 
Best Afield,
 
Steve

duck:
 
I shoot my Hoty Vectrix XL at 78 pounds and I generate over 86 foot pounds psi of KE even with shorter arrows.  You can generate some awesome KE by shooting your bow at a heavier weight, but just make sure you don't "over-bow" yourself by trying to shoot too much weight. 
 
I am used to shooting heavy weight bows due to my early instinctive shooting style.  To take a lot of the guess work out of arrow trajectory I would shoot my round wheel bows at heavy as I could accurately shoot them, thus my arrows would not drop very much out to around 30 to 35 yards.  So, shooting heavy bows is natural to me.
 
You can also add weights to you arrows so that they generate more KE.  This will slow the arrows down some, but if you find a good balance between draw weight and arrow weight you can generate some impressive KE. 
 
Take care and Good Hunting!
 
Best Afield,
 
Steve    

ko,,
 When I had my old "wheel" bow (PSE POLAR EXPRESS), I shot with an overdraw. My arrows,(2115 Lites) were 25.5in long. I lost so much KE that I could barelt get a passthrough. I never got one on hogs and only got to the offside hide on my elk. There just was not enough thump in my short arrows. Speed was there but no KE. That all changed with the development of the carbons. I went back to longer arrows ], kept the speed and got the passthroughs then. It is of pers preference, but knowing what  I know now, I would never go back to the so-called overdraws. And also, as Steve stated, the new drop-aways mount behind the riser, so it is almost like an overdraw.

Gary Scheel
NAHC LM,RMEF LM,NRA Member, Lonestar Bowhunter, TexasHogHunter Pro Staff Member

Yeah I remember all of my hunting buddies cussing at their overdraws when it came to tuning them in. I never went with one. Had no reason at the time. I was shooting instinctive back then and just wasn't interested. I've been shooting pretty much the same arrow length since the mid 90's. Went from aluminum logs to carbons about 5 years ago. I've never had a problem with penetration, bears, mulies, whitetails, or elk. Like Steve said with the technology out there an actual overdraw is pretty much obsolete. Hope we helped with your question Duck.

Kraig Osborne
Hunter since birth, NAHCLM, USN