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Old 10-18-2005 | 07:06 AM
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Arthur P
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Default RE: Regret the Whisker Bisquit

...perfectly spinned arrow is shot, there is nearly no percieved bend/osciallation in the arrow.
'Nearly' no bend/oscillation isn't quite the same as NO bend/oscillation.

An arrow flexing through a Whisker Biscuit is no different than an arrow flexing along a prong rest or a flipper or your knuckle for that matter. The rest is designed to allow that to happen just as a prong rest is.
There is no way a full containment rest cannot interfere with an arrow's paradox. Absolutely no way. An arrow shot off a prong rest has unlimited freedom to flex upward. On a fipper, it has unlimited freedom to flexupward and outboard. On a dropaway, it hasunlimited freedom in alldirections.With a wb, it's freedom is only as much as the hole sizeand stiffness of the bristlesallows.

Even then, arrow flex is not taking several factors into account thatcan have an effect on how cleanly an arrow goes through the bisquit. Level nock travel, which we all know is practically non-existant despite what the advertising says; limbs recovering at different rates/times due toinadequate tiller adjustment, very common even on what many call 'perfectly tuned' bows; rotational torque, vertical torque, lateral torque caused by the shooter's grip and/or dropping the bow arm- even torque inherent in the bow's design - allcanforce the arrow into a launch attitude that is not square with the bisquit;nock fit on the string.. too loose or too tight, both will cause the arrow to oscillate either from the slop factor of being too loose or following the string oscillation because it's too tight to come off the string properly; string loop vs direct hookup to the string, is the release coming directly from behind and inline withthe arrow or from below it?

All of which can be cured, or compensated for, except the level nock travel. If the bow ain't got it, it ain't got it. And most of 'em ain't got it.

There. that should be enough fuel for you guys to make it to 200 posts.[8D]
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