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Speaker 1: Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations podcast, your guide

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Speaker 1: to the fundamentals of better deer hunting, and now your host,

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Speaker 1: Tony Peterson. Hey everyone, welcome to the wire to Hunt

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Speaker 1: Foundations podcast, which is brought to you by First Light.

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Speaker 1: Today's episode is all about choosing bow accessories, or more specifically, rests, quivers,

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Speaker 1: and stabilizers. Today's topic could be a real snooze fest, folks,

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Speaker 1: so I'm gonna try to keep it as lively as possible.

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Speaker 1: Last week I talked about sites and peep sites, which

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Speaker 1: demands some thought if you want to shoot as well

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Speaker 1: as possible in the woods, and I know you do.

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Speaker 1: Today I'm sort of picking up the scraps to talk

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Speaker 1: about arrow rests, quivers, and stabilizers. These accessories might not

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Speaker 1: seem all that important, and honestly they aren't, except I

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Speaker 1: don't know, sometimes they are. Sometimes the choices we make

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Speaker 1: around these accessories can cost us dear. This is most

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Speaker 1: relevant when we talk about rests, which is what I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna start with. Let's say you started bow hunting. I

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Speaker 1: don't know, in the last decade, you probably only really

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Speaker 1: know about two kinds of rest options drop away style

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Speaker 1: or fall away style, I guess, and a whisker biscuit

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Speaker 1: type of shoot through style. You probably really haven't seen

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Speaker 1: a whole lot of plunge ar rests or any of

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Speaker 1: the other variations of tight to the riser accuracy robbing

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Speaker 1: rest that we had a few decades ago. That's a

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Speaker 1: good thing, actually, unless you're interested in traditional archery, but

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Speaker 1: that's fodder for a different episode. To rest you're likely

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Speaker 1: to see mounted on modern compounds really only fit into

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Speaker 1: the two categories I mentioned. Now, if you start to

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Speaker 1: break those categories down, you realize there are quite a

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Speaker 1: few different variations of each, particularly when it comes to

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Speaker 1: drop away or fall away rests, and these are my

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Speaker 1: favorite for many reasons. But first off, the reason that

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Speaker 1: this style has come to dominate the market in recent

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Speaker 1: years and has won me over is because they are

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Speaker 1: the most accurate, commercially available models out there. The design

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Speaker 1: of a fall away is one that it promotes the

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Speaker 1: least amount of overall contact with your arrow while also

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Speaker 1: guiding the arrow for as long as possible through the

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Speaker 1: shot cycle. See I told you this could be a

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Speaker 1: snooze fest. These rests function mostly through a dropper that

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Speaker 1: is attached to a cable on your bow or maybe

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Speaker 1: your limbs, and when you draw it either raises the

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Speaker 1: rest and sets it in place for the shot or

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Speaker 1: engages the rest that you've already locked into place, so

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Speaker 1: it's ready to go. Now. If your arrest is timed correctly,

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Speaker 1: you'll just take aim, shoot, and while it happens much

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Speaker 1: too fast to see that rest, the part that holds

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Speaker 1: the arrow is going to guide the arrow for much

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Speaker 1: of its length while the string pushes it toward the

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Speaker 1: target or the deer. As your veins get dangerously close

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Speaker 1: to contacting the rest, it drops out of the path

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Speaker 1: and sends your arrow down range without any negative influence. Simple, right, Well,

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Speaker 1: if you don't have it timed correctly, then you might

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Speaker 1: see some wonky arrow flight. You don't want your veins

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Speaker 1: contacting anything, and if they are, you're losing out on accuracy.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to get into too much detail here

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Speaker 1: because I can already envision listeners heads clunking against their

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Speaker 1: work desks, or I don't know the steering wheel of

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Speaker 1: their trucks they spontaneously go to sleep. But I'll say this,

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Speaker 1: try to at least understand what your rest needs to

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Speaker 1: do in order to function properly. A basic understanding of

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Speaker 1: that is important. If you see any tail whips or

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Speaker 1: spiraling during your shot, likely culprit is your rest. Now.

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Speaker 1: It might have something to do with the center shot

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Speaker 1: issue or the timing of your rest, or it might

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Speaker 1: have something to do with your arrow choice. But the

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Speaker 1: rest is a good place to start, and regardless, it's

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Speaker 1: bad news if you have any wonkiness in aero flight,

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Speaker 1: because you know you're sacrificing some accuracy and penetration. Now,

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Speaker 1: all cautionary warnings aside. I love drop away rest and

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Speaker 1: scratch that. I love a full contain at rest that

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Speaker 1: falls away, which means when I'm hunting, my arrow can't

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Speaker 1: go anywhere, even if I fall out of my tree

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Speaker 1: or I decide, like Mark Kenyon occasionally does, to skip

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Speaker 1: or do cartwheels on the way to my stand. This

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Speaker 1: my arrow is always ready to go, and I don't

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Speaker 1: even though I impulsively, compulsively do the launcher arms or

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Speaker 1: the prongy looking thing that holds your arrow that should

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Speaker 1: downward bus cable, but to the limb itself. Now, I've

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Speaker 1: have no reason to not believe them. And I've used

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Speaker 1: these rests and they were fantastic. But there's one thing

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Speaker 1: I didn't like. I didn't like them when I took

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Speaker 1: my white tail bow on a mule deer antelope hunt,

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Speaker 1: because in a situation where I'm guaranteed to crawl around

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Speaker 1: on brush and just creates the potential for an infield issue.

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Speaker 1: I don't like that. Now, keep in mind that never

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Speaker 1: actually happened to me, but it is possible. It's also

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Speaker 1: possible if you hunt out a stands and blinds exclusively,

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Speaker 1: that that might not ever be a concern of yours.

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Speaker 1: With whatever style you choose, keep in mind that over

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Speaker 1: time things can change. If the cables of your bow

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Speaker 1: stretch a little over the years, the timing of your

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Speaker 1: rest could change, and that's bad. The springs and internal

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Speaker 1: workings of arrest can wear out as well, which is

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Speaker 1: something I had to happened to me a few years ago.

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Speaker 1: It really wasn't all that noticeable in my backyard when

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Speaker 1: in the season when it got really cold. These drop

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Speaker 1: away follow eight style rests. They have moving parts, and

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Speaker 1: we all know moving parts can fail. Those moving parts

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Speaker 1: can also cause noise, which is something to think about.

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Speaker 1: Your rest Slamming into your bowshelf when you shoot will

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Speaker 1: make some noise if that's how you have it set up.

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Speaker 1: A little mole skin or a rubber pad will help

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Speaker 1: you there, but also make sure that you're not getting

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Speaker 1: any bounce back with your launcher arm. If you are,

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Speaker 1: it'll interfere with your veins and cause yep, you guessed

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Speaker 1: it a bit of wonkiness in your arrow flight. Now

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Speaker 1: I'm focusing mostly on what can go wrong. Modern rests

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Speaker 1: are amazing and will mostly fun action amazingly well, provided

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Speaker 1: Over the years, I really think as far as helping

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Speaker 1: shoot through style, which is usually called a whisker biscuit.

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Speaker 1: has become ubiquitous for the category, kind of like band aid. Now.

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Speaker 1: I don't like this style, but that's just me. I

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Speaker 1: particularly for white tail hunters. Not only are these rests

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Speaker 1: super easy to tune, they're genuinely very quiet and extremely

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Speaker 1: unlikely to fail. They're also usually pretty cheap, so it's

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Speaker 1: not to love. Well. You're guaranteed to have vain contact

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Speaker 1: It's probably not really much of an issue. You can

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Speaker 1: with some potential for less than perfect aeroflight and also

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Speaker 1: the continual degradation of vain integrity if you shoot enough. Now,

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Speaker 1: you're just a minimalist at heart, A biscuit style rest

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Speaker 1: I bought my daughters their first compound bowl last Christmas,

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Speaker 1: and you can bet your ass it has a whisker

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Speaker 1: that rest style is an excellent option for them. Now.

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Speaker 1: If you're going rest shopping. Understand that price is roughly

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Speaker 1: correlated to quality. Those whisker biscuit style rests are cheap ish,

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Speaker 1: and that's great, But if you're looking at drop away

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Speaker 1: There will be a sacrifice there in materials and build

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Speaker 1: Now you might think, well, shoot, how am I supposed

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Speaker 1: accessories I need in my boat? Now this is gonna

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Speaker 1: be wildly unpopular, but you could save money by not

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Speaker 1: buying something like I don't know a stabilizer. If you

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Speaker 1: on my hunting bows. And here's why. A stabilizer, in

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Speaker 1: its truest form, it's designed to help you stabilize the bow.

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Speaker 1: Consistency from shot to shot is what makes great archers.

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Speaker 1: archery contests, you can see how seriously pro shooters take

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Speaker 1: their stabilizers. They'll have front mounted stabilizers of very specific

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Speaker 1: occasionally also see a Western bow hunter with smaller versions

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Speaker 1: of each, but most whitetail hunters have a short light

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Speaker 1: stabilizer that looks nothing like the PROS version. It also

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Speaker 1: enough or not heavy enough. Both Our hunting versions of

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Speaker 1: stabilizers are almost entirely meant to damp and shot vibration.

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Speaker 1: This is worth it for some folks because who doesn't

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Speaker 1: want to whisper quiet bow? If you hunt kg white tails,

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Speaker 1: shot noises a factor. A foeign stabilizer that weighs six

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Speaker 1: it could definitely soak up some of the vibration during

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Speaker 1: your shot and keep the sound down. That's a benefit,

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Speaker 1: and it's not nothing. But as far as accuracy, I

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Speaker 1: don't know, man And if you don't believe that it's

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Speaker 1: pretty easy to test out shoot some groups with a

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Speaker 1: normal white tail shooting ranges. Maybe you'll see a difference

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Speaker 1: In fact, if it's windy, you might actually see a

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Speaker 1: little bit better groups without the stabilizer at twenty or

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Speaker 1: to you by First Light. I'm your host, Tony Peterson.

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