Arrows make noise when they are dragged across ANY rest......or shelf or whatever. The bristles of a WB are not gonna be any louder then a prong rest or your riser and prongs of a drop away. I've shot all of them and listened to countless other guys shoot them as well. My contention lies with your assertion that the noise on draw from a WB is a problem. It surely is not IMO and in fact is less then you will get from the majority of rests available.........especially in the WB price range. I have yet to see a single deer react to the sound of my bow being drawn. If you want to hang your hat on ONE single isolated case that you THINK a deer heard you vs the countless thousands of cases where no one else seems to have that problem then by all means feel free to do so.
I will disagree with you, My Ultra rest, and some high quailty felt and my Carbon Express arrows with buff tuff are just silent. Zero Effect which I have on my hoyt is silent also. I havesome buddies who have put some felt on there WB andgot themsilent.
All depends on thepressure the deer have in the deer inyour area. I just laughed when I watch the "Hunting Shows"they pull back bow and you can hear the arrow noise as they pull back. Deer inNorthen MI runto the next county at odd noise. Now in on my farmI can get away with more noise, the deer are now as educated as they are in Northen MI.
Atlas in NY on public land has some pretty coached deer(I assume). His setup is very quiet. My buddy in Iowa can get away with a bit more noise then me on my farm. He has shot some pigs in Iowa, 202 '' and a 190 ''. He came up here to hunt with me, had a nice buck come in. He reached for his bow, deer look right up at him, then took off. He has never had a deer pick him off before. Deer in Iowa are not as educated as here in MI. Iowa 350,000 Hunters gun and bow. MI 350,000 bowhunters, 760,000 Gun hunters. NY is right up there with MI. I am not going to make ablanket statment about any rest for a hunter. It all depends on serval factors, which are all different for each of us. Some are the same, but we all have are personal prefernces.
My issue with the WB is plain and simple, I hate the way it looks. That is the only reasonI do not use it. If i hunted northen MI I would have to put some felt on it to get a little quiter. It is a great rest, just not for me.
I have installed WB on my dad's(only hunts our farm)bow, and it is my belief WB is the BEST rest foryouth hunters.