Rigging QAD Rest to the 2006 BowTechs
I had a productive weekend so far. Some of you were asking about rigging the Quality Archery Design (QAD) drop away rest to the cable slide, so that is exactly what I tested today among other things.
To save you all some time, here is what I learned:
First off, my cable slide has a hole on the bottom side, if yours doesn’t you should consider getting one that does. This hole allows you to easily slide the launcher arm cord/cable right through it. I found that with launcher arm laying flat on bow shelf (forks forward) and holding cord taunt, you should have a knot tied in 5/16 to 3/8 of an inch past cable slide hole (side closest to the shooter). This is the sweet spot for this rest. If you favor the shorter end of draw length then start with the 5/16 inch length. If you have a longer draw length, start with the 3/8 inch length. For those of you who don’t or can’t measure that distance, just get a 5/16 or 3/8 inch wrench out of your tool box and use it as a guide. Put one inboard side of wrench wall to back side of cable slide hole and the other inboard side of wrench wall should be right over the location of knot.
In regards to performance I placed lipstick all over the launcher arm and shot over 100 arrows today with light colored fletching. Only 1 time did I get very light amount of lipstick transferred over to fletching and that was with knot contacting back side of cable slide hole (meaning no 5/16 or 3/8 inch gap as stated above). All other shots demonstrated no fletching contact whatsoever.
This is now my preferred way to rig the QAD rest. It has worked great today and has several advantages such as a very short cord that is less likely to catch on brush while ground stalking. Furthermore, every time you want to twist your cables for fine tuning bow, it doesn’t wrap launcher arm cable around down buss cable; which causes the tuner to have to retune the QAD rest.