For me the drop away is the superior rest.
I don't have to worry about my arrow falling off of the prongs as the arms now cradle the arrow. I don't have to worry about fletching contact even if I nock the arrow backwards. I can now shoot a helical fletched arrow where as before all I could use was a slight offset. I don't have to be constantly replacing the hush tubes on the prongs due to wear.
........which he said was proven??
You know that statement really urks the heck out of me. Exactly what does that mean any way. Something has been around a long time??? Whoopty doo. His "proven" stationary pronged rest at one time was the latest and greatest thing to the sport of archery and like all latest and greatest things it evolves and there is always someone out there criticizing it because it isn't "proven".[:@][:'(]
Dang, if we all stuck to what has been "proven" he wouldn't be shooting his 2004 bowtech, Hoyt with the cam & .5, his mathews or what ever. Cause in the big scheme of bow hunting compounds are in their infancy and there is a new "
UNproven" bow out every year by just about every manufacturer.
The next time he tells you he doesn't like something because it isn't "proven" ask him where's his horse and buggy.