Problem with MBG "Trap Door" arrow rest
Marc Goldberg
Legacy. While it operated just as advertised, I can hear an audible
"clunk" with each shot. Is anyone else having this problem?
It is probably not that loud, but seems much louder than the Mathews
shoot-through rest I had on before. It seems dumb to spend all that
money on a Legacy and then put a "noisy" rest on it. I would
appreciate hearing if anyone has a suggestion or a comment on my
problem.
Marc
Chris Moore
3d027b90....@news.pa.comcast.giganews.com, "Marc Goldberg"
<mdgol...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I put a Montana Black Gold "Trap Door" arrow rest on my new Mathews
> Legacy. While it operated just as advertised, I can hear an audible
> "clunk" with each shot. Is anyone else having this problem?
Hi, Marc
If you caught a thread that was discussed last week sometime, we started
down this discussion. I, too, placed a Trap Door on my Legacy and wanted to
try it out. I have been using a Bodoodle Conquest 2, but being the sucker
that I am for new gadgets, I just had to try it out. As I mentioned to Brad
in another post, I found that the only problem I had with the rest was the
little "thunk" that concluded each shot as the rest falls into its
horizontal position. Last week I took the rest off the Legacy and tried it
on my Q2XL that I use for 3-D shoots. I spent about 25 shots at the
practice/warm-up line and the rest tuned beautifully. My Q2XL is incredibly
quiet, so it was the perfect set-up to test the noise level. After about
70 shots overall, I concluded the following:
1. The rest performed flawlessly. Even on what I consider two incredibly
smooth bows, the rest dropped away as promised. Likewise, I tried to make
it fall "accidentally" by bumping it against tree limbs, etc. Not once did
the rest fall when I needed it to stay stationary. I shot PSE Competition
Pro carbon shafts with 4" vanes offset approx. 1.5 degrees for the test and
never had clearance problems. Arrows grouped marvelously.
2. The noise of the rest reaching its resting point on the fall was very
noticeable. More on the Q2XL than the Legacy (but still the Legacy as well)
I could easily hear the annoying sound of the rest on each shot. In all
fairness, the magnitude of the sound was in comparison to *my* bow. I was
shooting with two friends, one of whom shoots a bow noticeably louder than
mine even though he uses a standard rest. I doubt very seriously that I
would have heard the sound over his moderately loud bow.
3. Regardless of the diameter of your arrows, the two-prong launcher is made
of fairly thick stainless steel and doesn't appear to be adjustable
(speaking of the distance between the two launcher arms; there is a vertical
adjustment on the launcher arm itself). I was shooting fairly narrow
carbons, so this never became an issue. If I were shooting thicker
aluminums or line-cutting carbons, it might be easier for the arrows to fall
off during the draw process or while holding at odd angles.
4. Maybe it's just my being accustomed to the design of the bodoodle, but I
like having a shelf on my rest that can help catch an arrow that falls off
the rest. By placing a strip of adhesive fleece on the shelf, arrows that
fall off make very little noise- an important factor to me while hunting.
The Trap Door does not have a shelf, so unless it is attached to a secondary
overdraw, the only shelf will be the bows own.
5. I don't think I would use the rest in a hunting situation, though I will
most likely continue to use it for target/3-D shooting. One thing I noticed
(although I am sure that with practice I would make it through the 4 stages
of competency: Unconsciously Unaware, Consciously Unaware, Consciously Aware
and Unconsciously Aware...) was that several times I began to draw back
without manually setting the rest to its shooting position. It is very
apparent at full draw that something isn't right, so there was never any
harm done. In a hunting setting, though, such a need to let up, set the
rest, and re-draw could easily cost a shot. When nerves are wrapped
tightly, as they can be when staring at a live target, I want to eliminate
every possible problem before I hit the field. A rest that needs to be
manually set would just be one more "issue" to me.
Likewise, in a hunting scenario, I want to do everything I can to ensure a
humane, quick kill. A noisy rest (or any other piece of equipment for that
matter) could easily lead to a "jumped string" and thus a missed (or even
worse a "poor") shot. Again, that's an issue that I can easily avoid by
using a standard rest.
An additional reason to not use it for hunting purposes might the lack of an
arrow shelf that quietly catches an arrow that falls or bounces off the
rest.
In conclusion, I would have no hesitation in suggesting this as a great
target rest, but I don't think I would recommend it for hunting purposes
yet. I am going to continue to try to find ways to quiet the rest, and if I
am successful I will post the results.
I guess I could have just said "Yes," Marc ;-) But hopefully this offers a
little more info to those thinking of investing in the rest.
Chris
Janese Johnson
We go to lots of 3-d's and shoot lots of arrows. He put a drop away rest
on and it makes the same clicking or clunkin noise you refer too. So I
eliminated his problem by putting a piece of old limb saver on the riser
under the rest and no more noise. Try it or live with the noise. Drop
aways suck in my opinion to many moving parts. Hunt Safe and Shoot
Straight, Rick
Chris Moore
> Drop
> aways suck in my opinion to many moving parts. Hunt Safe and Shoot
> Straight, Rick
>
The nice thing about the Trap Door is that it does not have some of the
moving parts associated with those rests that utilize rubber tubing to bring
up the launcher and release it. The inertia design eliminates that. I am
sure that there are moving parts not visible from the outside, but at least
MBG offers an unconditional lifetime warranty on the mechanisms that drive
the inertia design.
Chris
BTW- if you could cut something like a Limbsaver to stick up just high
enough that the rest hits it before bottoming out, it might just help to
eliminate some of the noise. I may just try it. Nice idea.