ORIGINAL: hardcorehunter

http://www.huntingnet.com/forum/tm.aspx?m=1612429 HCH

The only bad thing I found with this rest is it is a little loud upon falling after releasing the string. It's not too hard to fix though.

I'm not givng it five stars simply because it is slightly loud, but you can easily silence it.

Only complaint I can find is that it is somewhat loud on both the draw and release, but easily fixed with moleskin.

Great rest but dont use on bows that shoot over 300fps

The only complaint is the noise of the fork hitting the riser shelf when the rest falls away. A little moleskin padding took most of the noise away. With todays fast shooting bows and carbon arrows the little bit of noise should not be that much of a problem.

I had a lot of fletching contact with this rest and could not shoot consistent groups. My local Pro shop couldn't help me either saying my brace height was too short for this bow. I am shooting a PSE Nitro. I know my brace height is a little short but isn't that why we go to a drop away to improve accuracy. I've since changed to a NAP quick tune 4000 and the problem has dissapeared. The rest ( Shakey Hunter ) is a great rest and needs a little refinement. The noise of it falling on the riser is another problem and there is noise when you draw and the wide finger lifts your shaft up off the riser. My hunting partner noticed this the first time I drew my bow in camp.

Anything that has moving parts must focus on simplicity to gain any measure of reliability and this rest is solid. Only once in a tournament has this rest let me down, but I should have thoroughly checked my bow before the shoot. The negatives have already been stated, but I would agree…there is some noise when the fork drops to the riser, and if you plan to quiet everything down for hunting a little neoprene or felt type padding does the trick just fine. I also put a little neoprene on the fork so it made no noise as it lifted my arrow.

I installed the Shakey Hunter about 3 months ago, and at first was very impressed with the increased accuracy over the old prong style rest I'd been shooting for years. Recently though, I started seeing a decline in accuracy. With 6 arrows @ 20 yards, I would have 2 distinct groups, one about an inch high and 2 inches to the left of the other. I eventually found that there was about 1/64" of play where the "Y" met the horizontal bar. I tried tightening everything, but was unable to get rid of the wobble.

This rest is unbelievable. Probably the best hunting rest ther e is! The only problems were the noise. It was a little noisy at first, but nothing a little mole skin or adhesive felt couldnt fix.

i bought the trophy taker shakey hunter for my tribute. got it set up and timed and it waqs paper tuned in 10 minutes. i did have a little problems with it though. when shooting a higher profile vane like blazers. i did have some contact but all you have to do is adujst your cock vane a little, and it is fixed. all in all this is a great rest. it is durable and silent.( except for the rest falling, but that is fixed with some mole hair).