I may be using the whisker biscuit this year as well for my hunting rest. I like the muzzy zero effect NG, but honestly it is more money and I don't see myself getting anything out of it that a biscuit won't offer me for less money and with less moving parts. I don't care who you are, they are accurate enough for anyones hunting duties unless you are shooting at animals further than 50 yards, and the only reason I would use something else for target purposes is because of the slight amount of forgiveness I feel a spring steel blade offers over it. Using blazers through the whisker biscuit prevent fletching damage or wrinkling as well. I don't think any dropaway offers anything over a whisker biscuit other than coolness factor. When it comes to form and function, IMHO they will produce the same results, with more moving parts and more price on the dropaway. I recommend a biscuit on all hunting specific bows I sell as well, trust me I would love to sell everyone a higher dollar drop away and we do keep them in stock for guys that prefer them but when they ask me, I tell them for a hunting specific bow the biscuit works well.



This target was shot at the shop I work at (at our old location) by Jim Despart using a whisker biscuit. This target here would qualify a shooter to shoot in the finals at the vegas world championships every single year, and would probably be amongst the highest X counts as well. Jim did actually bring and shoot a biscuit equipped bow to Vegas on at least one occasion as well. Does this show you what this rest is capable of? People with average form, and average shooting scores would see no difference IMHO between any fallaway rest and a properly setup whisker biscuit.

Now on to what arrow rest is ultimately the most accurate and forgiving? I would agree also that a spring steel type rest is the most forgiving when used with a blade of the proper thickness. All of mycompetition bows have spring steel blades on them. I have a TT spring steel one hole rest on my Apex that I shoot indoors for 3 and 5 spot, as well as for 90 meter FITA competition. I have a GKF TKO Target with a fixed spring steel blade for my 3D bow. I shoot these because I feel that a spring steel type fixed blade of proper thickness at the proper blade angle absorbs a lot of the arrows oscillations upon release and dampens a lot of the energy that is suddenly transferred to an arrow upon release. They are so forgiving that Dave Cousins (probably the most dominant competitive archer ever) will actually tell you that fletching contact should not be a major concern and in seminars will actually put an arrow on a rest cock vane down to make direct contact with a spring steel rest to show you that this only affects point of impact at 90 meters by around 6-7". 99.99999999 percent of archers don't have the shot execution or limited range of movementto see a difference of 6-7" of group change at 90 meters.

So...............this year I will probably be using a biscuit for hunting, and I will continue to use spring steel type rests for competition. If you look on the bows of the majority of indoor spots shooters, field shooters, and FITA shooters where consistency is most critical you will see fixed position full contact spring steel type rests. You do see a lot more fall aways in the 3D crowd, however I don't see any benefit to a fallaway over a spring steel for competitive archery.