Whisker Biscuit arrow rest
 

what do you all think about them? Good and bad

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the good the bad and the ugly

the good whisker biscuit

the bad golden fey futera rest

the ugly muzzy zero affect


go deep hunt hard.;)

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It' s the best hunting rest but im sure someone will disagree I will never purchase another rest for hunting its quiet and arrow wont fall off so you dont have to worry about that while drawing the only draw back is it takes about 50 shot' s to break it in until then the vanes on arrows get A little wrinkled nothing that A hair dryer wont cure but I shoot feathers and havent had any problems with them im not going to lie I love my whisker biscuit!!

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I have to say I love mine... I think it is the best hunting rest on the market today. I have not had one minutes problem out of mine and is quiet as well..jmo

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0 Problems with mine. I' m shooting it in 3D for the next year and prove some people wrong :D

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I used the rest for hunting one season and replaced it with a bodoodle. I shoot aluminum arrows and it was too loud when I drew back. I' ve got a buddy who shoots carbons and it is extremely quiet. If I ever decide to shoot carbon arrows I' ll put it back on.

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Love mine! Quiet and smooth. No mechanics to fail on you in the feild either!

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I' ve been thinking about one too - is there any arrow speed loss because the fletchings have to pass through the whiskers? There must be some, but I' m wondering how much.

Thanks!

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I love my biscuit.
And i just had the new drop tune put on and i like it even better....

Grizzly,
Yes there is a little loss of arrow speed but it' s very minimal....1-2fps
check your speed now....put one on check it again and you will see what i' m talking bout...not much affect... i' m shooting 253fps @68 pnds.. plenty good enough...
p.s my bro-n-law shoots a mathews @70pnds uses the biscuit and only shoots 1fps faster than me....i know there are other things to consider...draw length...arrows....but we use the same arrows golden tips xt5575 and our draw is only different by 1inch.....i have a calculated kenetic energy of 60pnds....thus a pass through on a whitetail only requires 40pnds kenetic energy....elk 50pnds...

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Can freeze up on you. season goes to dec. 15 in NH. Pro shop here sell some but I use the Same as the shop owner. a caviler badger, Shoots great. spring and parts all enclosed unlike the doodle. think it was around $70

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muzzy could be ulgy but I love it !
would' nt use anything else It' s like A new chevy takes a while to get use to the look BUT once you drive 1 WOW:D

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If you' re worried about it freezing up, they offer a spray to prevent that. I love mine and can' t imagine ever changing back to prongs!

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Do you need to start out with a super fast bow to get good performace from the WB? Will it rob more speed from a slower bow?

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I refletched my arrows with some heavy boehning (sp?) vanes and they have ripped of or wrinkled at all. I use a good amount of right helical and there isn' t a mark on them. I absolutely love this rest and can' t wait until Wednesday to hunt with it. By far the best piece of bowhunting gear I' ve ever bought.

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The freezing thing is over rated. I now have freezing temps while I' m shooting. I misted my rest with some water the other day and all it took was a poke with my finger to clear it out. I soaked it down good and allowed it to freeze and shot an arrow. Guess what, it blew all the ice out and only missed the dot at 20 yards by one inch shooting a BH. I' d be WAY more worried about water getting into a dropaway and freezing. The worst thing to build up ice on is your arrow.

Hell, all the other places ice can build up effect the shot just as much as the WB freezing up.

Every dig at the WB has been proven to be unfounded crap spread by Carolina Archery' s competitors...sound familiar;)

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I don' t know of a single person that has taken one off, once they have used it. I liked mine during the Summer when I put it on. Now that I am several weeks into my season I like it more all the time.

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I am new to bow hunting and bought a used bow with a reglar rest that came with the bow. I really had a hard time keeping the arrow on the rest. So I figured I would try to use a Whisker B. and it was love at frist try I have had no probs since... As for the alumnum shafts being loud. It is quieter than my other rest is just as quiet as carbons shot through it.

All is good in my humble opinion.:D

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I am very new to bowhunting and am just about to order my first rig. I have been using a buddies bow for the last month or so and am really enjoying the sport. I have had a couple of people tell me how much they like the WB, but the pro at my local shop says it' s crap. Too bad there aren' t any around to try out. I would hate to spend the money on one and then not like it.

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Since this post was started by a person that is seeking information to make a decision, here is the other side of the story.

1. You do not need your shaft to be encased in a rest to prevent the shaft from falling off your rest. The question that needs to be asked is: is your arrow being forced off your rest by an incorrect draw or a result of torque on the bow and/or string? If so, a " Whacking Basket" will not correct the problem, the " WB" will only HIDE the problem.

2. The fact that assuring that vane/feather is not contacting anything when released, is and always has been a primary consideration for proper tuning. How do you get around the fact that when shooting through a " WB," contact will occur on ALL the vane/fletch? I know that the users of the " WB" say you prevent the problem by cutting out bristles to allow exits for the vanes/feathers. I say, ' Show me." How can you cut an exit for a shaft that may start rotating before it is clear of the bristles?

3. Rest tension must be considered and often can be the only tune aspect that is affecting your arrow flight and grouping. How do you adjust tension on paint bristles, especially as they lose temper and begin to bend and develop memory? How do you know when the reliability of the bristles have peaked? When you take a shot at that big buck?

4. Regardless of how many users say they love the rest …..and it is an individual call…. and that the " Basket" is easy to set up and tune, how do you then explain that the troubleshooting and tune threads on the " Basket" are almost perpetual and outnumber the troubleshooting threads on a standard rest many times over? I have noticed that the common recommended replacement of the bristles seems to be around 100 shots. I guess it depends on shaft type and vane or feather as to how fast the bristles wear. How many shots do you take during your practice period? Now you have to replace the bristles and start all over again? [:o]

If keeping your arrow on your rest is the single true advantage of a " WB," I would go the route of a good arrow holder -and there are good arrow holders, and use a reliable rest that can be easily tuned, and forego the (seemingly) complexity of the " Basket."

It is your call.

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Well, your arrow may come off do to having your bow laying in your lap while on stand or could get bumped off of a prong rest by an external source, such as a branch. Many people have had these problems along with problems coming off while shaking in thier boots while drawing. The WB takes away all of those problems. Also, contact on all vanes of equal amount does not seem to cause any tuning problems, I have not cut out bristles on mine to prevent contact, and no problem tuning. With skinning carbons and acc arrows, getting no contact on a prong rest is not an easy task. Do the bristles lose temper and begin to bend and develop memory? Mine sure hasn' t. I' ve been shooting the same rest for two years now, and I shoot a lot, weekly 3-D and in my back yard. Trouble shooting threads, I haven' t seen any? Guess you' ll have to point them out. And after ya do that, I' ll point out the threads where someone had thier arrow fall off when trying to draw on a deer, or the arrow was already off the rest before they drew, but didn' t notice it until at full draw. Who has suggested to replace the bristles at 100 shots. That' s ridiculous, like I said, 2 years and several hundred shots and mine is still as good as new. Use an easy tuneable rest, like what, a drop away? Yeah, just another moving part to malfuntion and make noise. NOT! And on edit, it' s obvious that c903 still hasn' t tried a Whisker Biscuit, and until someone can show on paper that it is what it is, it will always be that way!

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Howler:

It appears that there were so many threads on the " WB," that HuntingNet had to dump the cache just to recover some some space. :)

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I have shot approx. 500 arrows through my whisker biscuit since I bought it. I have no fletching wear, no noise when drawing, no more noise when shooting, better accuracy, the arrow cannot fall off when hunting, no tuning problems and no wear to the biscuit. Any hunter who spends time really bowhunting has had an arrow fall off the rest either when stalking or drawing on a deer, this eliminates that completely. I still can' t understand someone finding fault with whisker biscuits until they try them and become a believer.

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That may be, BUT, how many of the threads had anything to do with WB problems? c903, you really should break down and try one for yourself;)

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I broke down and put one on my Mathews , was affraid it would slow down the arrow and tear up the fletching. Only lost about 3fps and haven' t really had any problems with the vanes. It shoots great, holds the arrow on , no hitting the riser and no need to pad the riser shelf. I like it after all .

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i killed my first bowkill with a whisker biscuit. awesome rest won' t fall off stays put no whare on the rest and i have shot over 200 times so far with it.

go deep hunt hard.;)

as a hunter you got to know when to strike fast.

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Nobody else seems to care to argue this point, but the muzzy zero effect actually has ZERO EFFECT on the arrow after launch. No speed loss, no fletching wear, and no fishtailing. If you know how to set it up 1 time its flawless afterward. No sound and no arrows falling off, unless you intentionally turn your bow upside down.

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I love my Whisker Biscuit. Never going to have an arrow fall off up in my stand with it. I wish I would have thought of it first.

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I plan to get one of those myself. When i went rabbit hunting and saw a rabbit jump out, my arrow kept falling off the rest so i' ll am definetly getting one of those asap. :D