Here's why I do, and I don't think I've ever seen this advantage pointed out in any magazine or forum, but it's the main reason I like dropaways over conventional rests:

Dropaways are absolutely silent on the draw (or can be easily made to be)and they stay that way with no wear. With a conventional rest, I could never be as quiet on the draw as I would like to be. I hunt a lot in Dec. in northern Minn., and when it gets very cold and still, sound really carries, and if your arrow makes noise being drawn, you're busted. Whatever I put on the forks eventually would always begin to wear and start to be a little "scratchy" sounding, including fork tamers, fleece, moleskin, whatever, I tried a lot of stuff. I shoot a lot and it would always begin to wear, and change my tune slightly as it went. I don't have that problem with my TT shakey hunter. One little piece of teflon sticky backed tape on the fork, and it shows no wear after thousands of shots, and it's very quiet.

That's the main reason I like them, and secondly, I like them because arrow capture and retention is excellent.

Let's hear your reasons.

Rod