I have been considering changing to a drop away rest. What advatage have you noticed using a drop away as compared to a fixed rest.

I think one of the biggest benefits is no fletching contact. Nada....never. I have taken to reducing my fletching offset a bit to ensure that I have some margin for the vanes to pass through the prongs...yes I still have a prong rest, and am in the same boat as you. Ultimately this means my arrows don' t correct their flight as quickly when I do something stupid like torque the bow.

Some other points include rest tension (for those shooting prong style rests). No adjustments in that respect.

From the hunting aspect. At least with a rest like the GKF Mirage, is that you don' t have to worry about ensuring the arrow is on the launcher before the shot. Just draw and shoot.

This is the list...at least the major points I have found for switchnig over to a drop away.

Redline covered all the aspects that I used for changing.

#1 was fletching contact!!

And as he said with the mirage is correct, and I have that particular rest on my bow and it works great!

no fletching contact, it makes a big difference. well worth it [:-][:-][:-]

Fletching clearance is the biggy. Second would be that it helps to eliminate hand torque induced problems. After going to the Muzzy I noticed right away that it did away with that occasional arrow that might be a little left or right because of handtorgue, especially from odd shooting positions you often encounter in bowhunting. If you' re using something like a Muzzy you don' t have to worry about the arrow EVER falling off the rest in a tree. If you go to a loop you won' t have arrows falling off on letdown.

Fletching Clearance is the #1 reason. With the drop away reat there is no way that the rest can mess with the flight of the arrow. When the reat drops away the arrow has a clean path from your bow to the target without the rest bumping the arrow off course

In other words, if a shooter does not have a degree of fletch-contact or torque problems that affect his or her arrow flight and accuracy, the shooter has no need for a drop-away rest?

Fletching clearance is an important feature to be sure. Bit there are some added benefits: greater accuracy is one tremnendous result ot fletching clearance but there is another. I shoot Thunderhead 100' s and the tuning was much easier and my broadheads and field points hit the same.

More heli, more accurate b.hds. The downside. Drop aways are more spine sensitive. I think thats the main reason why some people put them on and have problems. If you dont increase your heli and are underspined your gonna have problems and possibly worse groups and flight than what you had.

I always found my dropaway setups are much more tolerant of spine. I have been able to go both stiffer and weaker with a dropaway. More so on the stiff side. I can get away with a much stiffer arrow than I could with a prong rest.

JMO