I've put the original through it's paces a while back. It's not a bad rest but I thought it paled compared to the whisker Biscuit. There are some problems with it that I think are "deal breakers" for me.

First, if the arrow is bumped (and it doesn't take much) it will fall through the bristles and bang against the housing. You will have to pull it back out and reset it. You're going to need to put on some mole skin (supplied) and I prefer my bows to be "mole skin free zones".

Second, if you shoot anythingmore than a 4deg. offset with your vanes or feathers they will hit the bristles. When I had mine I tried to get the vanes to clear and I couldn't. I was shooting some old helical vanes and when I rotated the nock so that the leading edge would clear, the trailering edge made contact. When I rotated so that the trailing edge of the vanes didn't hit, the leading edge would.

I noticed that my groups were considerably worse when the trailing edge made contact. When I rotated the arrow so that the leading edge hit, my groups were better but still not as good as whenI shot 4deg off set vanes through it.This is not like the W/B where the fletch contact is even going through the soft biscuit bristles. The Hostage has stiffer bristles like the black bottom bristles that you DON'T want your vane to go through on the W/B. They are also taperedsomewhat (look close at the "V" shape) and I think the tips of the "V" were catching the fletch and I believe knockingthe arrowoff course even if itwas ever so slightly.

The last thing I didn't care for was the construction. It's made of a polymer plastic that just doesn't seen to sturdy. I don't know if the new pro model is made from alum. or not but I hope it is.

Guys, this is by no means a new design, this rest has been out for some time.It used to be called theCatawba rest buteveryone seemed to think it was some kind of cheap W/B knockoff and nobody gave it the time of day......tilll BowTech bought out the company.

Don't get me wrong, it's not a bad rest, it shotpretty good with 4deg vanes but Iended up giving it away(see below) on one of BigJ's late night give aways for the reasons listed above.