Len, my test was as much tongue in cheek as it was useful. Hey, it's the best I can do while at work. I'd be glad to test as many rests as people were willing to send me. I could shoot an arrow out of a Hooter Shooter with a cold bow and rest without ice, then shoot them again after they and the arrows in the quiver sat in a continuous mist of water at 31F for an hour and see what happens. I guarantee every rest on the market would fail, so would every bow. However, give a guy a couple minutes to wipe the ice of his string and cables, ice off an arrow and whatever way he wants to clean the rest. Then shoot it again through the Hooter. I have a feeling that a bunch of the non-sealed drop aways and two prongs will have issues still. The WB, with one poke of the finger, is ready to go again.

I'll mention again that I have, out in the field and in my back yard range, substained at least a dozen times, enough ice on my equipment to render it inaccurate. Yet the WB has remained pliable and in working conditions. This was one of my criteria as I practiced for my November caribou hunt. I shot for nearly for a month solid in crappy weather outdoors in October with zero WB failures.

Your assertion that the WB is like shooting off the shelf with Trad equipment holds no water. The interference with a fletch on a trad bow is with one fletch only. The WB interferes with all the fletches simultaniously, thereby negating any contact issues other than a minute loss of speed.

You use CAP's constant improvement of the WB as some sort of addition of weakness? I call it great costumer service. They have not strayed from the original idea a bit. How many fricken rests do NAP and GKF make? A bunch, but you'll never see me denying that any of them work well in CERTAIN applications.

I'd love to see the setups that are ripping off fletches from a curiousity standpoint. It's weird to me that dozens of guys I talk to have zero issues with vanes in WB's. I'm still shooting the factory vanes on my GT graphites that came with them. I have at least a hundred shots on each of the dozen and the only damage is from other arrows. There has to be a common denominator that shows which bows and arrow combinations that don't work with the WB. There may very well be bows out there that really don't like the WB. Maybe because of poor nock travel, maybe because of other factor. Just like a two prong, you cannot jamb too much of a helical fletch through them.

Jim Despart shoots one with his Sceptor III for his hunting bow. Do you think a guy of that calibre would shoot junk?

I defend them because I like them. I think they are a great rest for ground hunters and people who push there equipment to the limit in brushy country. I have no affiliation with CAP other than the caribou photo I sent them after my successful caribou hunt. Hopefully they'll get a couble bear and moose photos from me next year.

I certainly hope you get some time off to hunt with all those bows to work on. It would be a shame if you didn't. Have a Happy Holiday Season.