RE: alright give me the low down on drop away rest
Save your money and minimize risk of malfunction. For hunting purposes, a "drop-away" is absolutely unnecessary. Considering that other "standard" rests having a lesser chance of failure, and have been and are still performing well and flawlessly, I would like to hear facts that justify using a "drop away" outside of personal bias.
Pro-arguments based on fletch contact, arrow holding, and speed, do not count. Fletch contact on a properly adjusted "standard" rest is nowhere near the problem as some espouse. For those that seem to have a problem keeping their arrow on their rest; simple, cheap, and well performing arrow holders have been on the market for eons. Any increase in speed is too minute to be important for the average yardage most deer are shot and the length of average time that an arrow is in flight.