ORIGINAL: Bigpapascout
Sir are you trying to imply that I dont know how to properly install a wisker biscuit?[>:]
Not at all.
I have just not seen the wear and tear that others claim the WB is responsible for on well tuned bows.
I have seen some wavey vanes and without exception inspection of the WB showed contact somewhere on the rim of the disc..........Now if that person were to vocally blame the WB at a shop counter I can see how urban legends like that grow...........even if the WB had nothing to do with it.
Blaming equipment is the easiest thing to do in archery or any other sport out there. Someone will always being willing to sell you the next best thing on the market whether it is a golf club, bowling ball, bow, rest, arrow, broadhead, gun or knife.
It's fun to buy new stuff and pretend the old stuff was the cause of all your problems.
No one wants to admit THEY are the cause of poor shooting.
I think the bisquit takes a lot of blame that should instead be directed at poor tuning/setup which no rest can overcome.
I may add that I try to recomend another rest other than the wb because of the fletchings being so easily damaged by it
but most of these guys like the idea of full containment and dont care too much if the vanes get blistered up.
the customer gets what he wants in my shop and if he wants a rest that gets 100% fletch contact that is their perogative
I was introduced to the WB in a different manner.........after some issues with a NAP Drop Away on my Patriot (imagine that.......a drop away that didn't work [
]) my shop owner told me he wanted me to try the WB. I had heard a ton of negative stuff on this board and from others so I wasn't too eager to try it and he could tell. He said he would install it and let me shoot on the range as long as I wanted and if I didn't like it he would take it back and find me a different rest.
He never got it back. I can't figure out for the life of me why every hunter wouldn't use this rest. It is silent on the draw, arrow can never fall off, and stacks groups out as far as I care to shoot. I have shot prong, drop away and now the WB and I would never switch back.
The big negatives people list I see as non factors or simply not true.
Speed loss..........My patriot chrono speed loss was 2 fps. You lose more then that with cat whiskers, string loops, leaches, peeps, nocks etc........but no one complains about any of them and 99.9% of hunters here have all or most of them on their strings right now.
Vane damage...........never seen anything other then some waves and ripples and those were on poorly tuned bows/rests. Besides, with the new B2 bisquit this is no longer an issue one way or the other.
Accuracy???.........please!!! I highly doubt that many people out there are using one if they can't hit the broad side of a barn with it. I have shot 3 different kinds of rests and the WB is just as accurate as any of them. The WB is only as accurate as the guy who is aiming it
It works for me................I would encourage anyone looking for a good hunting rest to at least try one and judge for yourself. I'm glad I did.