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12-06-2003 | 06:21 PM

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Len in Maryland

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RE: Do whisker biscuts ice up

C'mon, Doug...I am smarter than that.

I, as well as many others, understand how hard the WB is on fletchings. Add to that the chance of partial icing and you may have some real problems. While most rests allow the arrow to 'rest' on them, the WB requires that the arrow and its fletching 'pass' through. Couple that with the 'extrusion' process of launching your arrow that can produce erroneous tuning to the unknowing, and you've got a compound problem.

Any standard rest that may have a tendency to ice up can usually be detected easily or made to operate by a slight push. Concerning the WB, if you can't see it, you can't fix it.

I noticed that in Arrowman's last 10 posts, 6 of them were complimentary to the WB. Makes you wonder!

As far as icing up, it only takes a little moisture to freeze between the hundreds of fibers making up the biscuit. The arrow will, in all probability, find its way through the biscuit if icing occurs. What, however, will be the resultant affect on the flight of the arrow????? Most who will ever experience this will find something else to blame.

While this problem will never occur to 99% of the archers using the WB, who wants to be in that 1% category? The 'No Snow' is produced by CAP and THEY advertise it as a 'BISCUIT & Feather Water Repellent'. If it weren't made for the BISCUIT, why would they so state that????????? Or, why wouldn't they just market it as a product for feathers???? Finally, what could have prompted them to enter into a market (water repellancy) if the problem didn't ever present itself??

C'mon, Doug....you're smarter than that.

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