New bow

[HICKMAN]

So last year, I bought a bow with a package.

This year I'm getting a plain Hoyt SuperHawk and I'm looking for suggestions for sights and rests.

I was considering a Ripcord for a rest.

Any suggestions?

 

[met eng gun nut]

spend the money and get a drop away rest. It saves your fletchings as well as helps with shooting mistakes in your form. and get a sight with a good amount of fiber optic cable. in a pinch you can easily fix your sight if say your darling wife carries your bow past a briar patch and all the fiber optic properties are lost due to broken tubes. quick and easy fix

 

[Mrmonte]

I use a Whisker Biscuit and am happy with it. The biscuit is silent and keeps my arrow where it should be when im in the woods. However, its not perfect. My fletchings do get waves in them. Not sure how else to describe it?

 

[Indybeer]

get yourself a drop away rest... easy to install and set up...hold the arrow secure

 

[42769vette]

imo the whisker biscuit cant be beat. i do alot of stalking and still hunting and i can walk with the arrow knocked and have never had the arrow come off the rest. also im sure everyone has drawn there bow and the arrow moves off the rest and been standing there at full draw and trying to take your finger and get the arrow back on the rest. the whisker biscuit eleminates this problem aswell

 

[Indybeer]

imo the whisker biscuit cant be beat. i do alot of stalking and still hunting and i can walk with the arrow knocked and have never had the arrow come off the rest. also im sure everyone has drawn there bow and the arrow moves off the rest and been standing there at full draw and trying to take your finger and get the arrow back on the rest. the whisker biscuit eleminates this problem aswell

Drop away does the same thing. It holds your arrow in place till you release it. The act of the release is what causes the arm to drop.

Even pulling to full draw and relaxing will not cause release to drop.

 

[longbarrel]

Whisker Bisquit. It is the only way to go in my opinion. They are quiet and there are no moving parts. I also shoot feathers. You can't believe it I know, but how many birds have you seen fly with plastic feathers?? It makes sense doesn't it? Also, feathers will lay down through a bisquit where vanes will not. Bisquit with 3" feathers going on my 4th year and not one problem. My bow has enough moving parts to worry about. D0n't want to throw a rest in with the worries. As far as sights I would go with round and fiber pins. Those are the only two suggestions I have for the sights.

 

[Gooch]

I vote for any kind of drop away, just don't go chceapo on it. Whisker biscuits work well too it's just that I have shot a Carolina Archery drop away for the past 2 years and seem to get a little truer flight. I swithces from a biscuit to the drop away.

 

[Remington1100]

I like the drop away rests, because they are simple, you arrow has free flight, and they don't mess up your fletchings like a whisker biscuit does.

 

[HICKMAN]

I've had a whisker biscuit before, probably go with the RipCord drop-away and maybe a G-5 sight.

 

[turkeykiller]

I've had a whisker biscuit before, probably go with the RipCord drop-away and maybe a G-5 sight.

That is my set up and I love it

 

[orangefennell]

I prefer the drop-away as well just get a nicer feel with the release

 

[esrice]

I know nothing about bows, but "whisker biscuit" is an awesome name for anything!