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Old 09-04-2016 | 05:18 PM
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Originally Posted by Nomercy448
I wouldn't shoot any sustained contact rest, like the Whisker Biscuit. Too much opportunity for imperfect follow through to mess up the shot. And of course, some of the tuning in a Whisker Biscuit is totally backwards. I want my bow to stop touching my arrow as soon as possible.
I've found if you can get loss of contact at between 1/4 to halfway through the release stroke you will have enough stabilization from a well tuned bow. Of course that is with the use of a release and not fingers. Fingers release presents a whole other sort of crazy action going on in an arrow. But your bow needs to be tuned perfectly such as center shot, noch travel accounted and compensated for with rest height, tiller, if dual cam then timing, making sure you have no cam lean as some heavy strung bows are susceptible to, just all kinds of things with a compound that many have no clue to look for. It's a simplistic format with a complicated machine for delivery.

I think part of the reason for the success of the WB, other than pure marketing genius, is it's simplicity. But when you look deeper into the design and have actual knowledge of the mechanics of archery you will see the severe faults in that design. I was looking for slow motion video of the actual release with a WB and only found one or 2. I'm sure there are more out there but I just didn't go looking that hard. One of the vids I found was with a guy showing the violent reaction of the fletchings going through the WB and was trying to tell the viewers that it actually has no impact on arrow flight!! Really? No impact? So archers for over 2 thousand years have tried to assure no fletching contact have been doing that for no reason??

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