Packing a loaded gun around all the time is dangerous allso.But if you know how to use the gun it is a difrant story.Gess I just know how to use my bow.been doing for many years never have stuck my self or any thing I did not want to.
Guns have safety devices. Sharp broadheads don't. You need to amend that last comment to say you've never stuck yourself YET. I hope you never do, but... Well, I just hope you don't wind up being nominated as a Darwin Award candidate.
You make it sound like you never make a mistake with the old stick and string.I would bet my life aginst you on that one.I am very sure you have made misstakes many many more times than you care to addmit.
One doesn't spend nearly half a century huntingwithout makingmistakes. Of course I've made mistakes. Some real doozies at that. But walking around with an arrow on my string is not one of them. I'll put an arrow on my string for the last 5-10 yards of a stalk, but that's it.
Even with you having an arrow nocked, I guarantee you I can remove an arrow from my quiver, nock it and getan accurateshot off before you can even hook up your release, get the bow drawnand settle the sight on your target.You want to get off a quick shot? You're using the wrong equipment.
You can only lean a stick bow one direction.I am sure you know this.I am allso sure you have never would have liked to lean it any difrant.
You don't cant your bow at all! Not with sights you don't. Canting a bow with sights to the2 o'clock or 10 o'clock positionwill make you miss by several feet at 20 yards. And there's not much way you're gonna shoot instinctive with that disc of fibers out there blocking your view. Let's keep at least a modest grip on reality here.[8D]
One of them shot for hoyt for 3 years than an arrow fell off his rest.Gess what he will never soot for hoyt agin.Now he is in no way good enough.He got allmost 200 stiches.
Sorry to hear about that. However, it's an excellent example of what can happen due tocutting your arrows so short that you're drawing the broadhead into the sight window at full draw. When they're that short, the broadhead can do a gotcha. Overdraws are even worse. If he'd been using arrows long enough to keep the broadhead in front of the riser, he'd have come off unscathed.
Then there is the non-control of using mechanical releases. With a fingers release, you've got the arrow's nock between your fingers, so you've got a way to keep the arrow under control. With a release, there is nothing. The arrow is left to it's own devices during the draw and release. Rather than using that as an excuse to use a WB, I think it's an excellent reason to toss the release and buy a tab.
A well practiced fingers shooter can shoot just as accurately in the woods as a release shooter, and execute the shot a good bit quicker. When you nock the arrow, your fingers are already on the string. No fumbling around with a dangling release trying to get it in position to hook it up. Saves at least 10 seconds right there. Again, if you want to get off a quick shot, a release is the wrong equipment.
I've also noticed that light arrows are much worse about falling off rests than moderately heavy ones. Someone who is overbowed and shakes like a bowl of Jello when they draw can make a lightarrow jump off a rest, but that's a reason to cut down the draw weight rather than use a WB. I've seen a strong gust of wind nock a carbon arrow off a rest, but that's a reason to use heavier arrows, not go buy a WB.
Straightarrow, I'm not saying the WB is complete crap and I don't mean to infer it. I said what I meant earlier when I said it's popularity is all out of proportion to it's benefits. I feel the same way about dropaway rests. At least the WB is simple and uncomplicated, something the dropaway restsdecidedly are NOT, as our friend above has already noted. I like simple and uncomplicated.
On the other hand, even though you say you haven't been plagued by the problems associated with the WB, I've seen a great many who are. I got to see one fella blow up his brand new bow when the bristles in that biskit clamped down on his vanes. It was a low brace bow, so low that his vanes were sticking halfway through the disc at brace. He pulled the nock right out of the end of his arrow when he drew and, as twenty people simultaneously hollered "LET DOWN", he released. Wasn't pretty.[:-]
We haven't even discussed wear yet, where the arrows wear that nice little round hole into an egg shape. Which means the bow's zero and tune are constantly changing as the rest wears.
ELKINMTCWB jumped my case for talking about the WB without having used one. I've seen enough of the things around our club's range and local 3D shoots at other clubs that I decided long ago that I likely wouldn't use one. Observation is a scientifically approved method of gathering data, ya know.
Side note... I was wondering how long it would take to get you WB boys fired up. Had to do a lot of baiting to get it done. [8D]