Ripcord arrow rest-review
OK, I bought one about 2 years ago.
Up until this early summer it was flawless. Shooting feathers I heard it sound a bit funny, and fogged the dude next to me (he shooting at same bale) with remnant feather stuff.
My rest failed to drop.
The problem? I was using the supplied "football" clamp on my cables. I never had a problem in maybe 500 shots on my Hoyt, but then it failed all at once, after 100 shots on my Mathews.
I discarded the clamp and served the rope into my cable. Problem solved.
I noticed in the next 100 shots that occasionally the rest would be noisy at the shot ( I always shoot from precocked position, never draw and have it flip up).
Took the rest apart, no real wear patterns, slop or obvious machining issues. I lubed it and put it back together. Shot a 3D course and did well, was quiet most of the time, but not always.
Called Ripcord and they said "send it back". The nice folks said they'd either fix it or send me a new one ASAP. Great customer service.
But the rest isn't complicated.......what's the deal? I took it apart and cut out the rubber dampener that was glued in, and superglued in a softer durometer chunk of rubber.
Noise has been significantly reduced and is consistent.
Not perfectly quiet, but way better.
Suspect the rubber went bad (hardened or compressed/deformed).
I get great flight with this rest, using a string loop. Good enough to shoot sparrows and starlings in my buds yard with G5 Strikers out to 50 yards (and why I didn't want to send the rest in for repair).
So for a good rest, backed by solid customer support (if needed) one might want to look at the Ripcord.
FWIW I ground off a third of the stock carrier's forks as I didn't need that much length.
It's been quiet on the draw, but some folks fuzz theirs up for insurance.
The rubber going bad? Eh, we used to see that all the time at work, pretty common. Could have been a bad batch of material, some issue with my storage, or just accelerated aging for who knows what...................it was an easy fix on my end.
The company was willing to fix it if I couldn't, for free. So I just wanted to pass along their willingness to stand behind their product.
Up until this early summer it was flawless. Shooting feathers I heard it sound a bit funny, and fogged the dude next to me (he shooting at same bale) with remnant feather stuff.
My rest failed to drop.
The problem? I was using the supplied "football" clamp on my cables. I never had a problem in maybe 500 shots on my Hoyt, but then it failed all at once, after 100 shots on my Mathews.
I discarded the clamp and served the rope into my cable. Problem solved.
I noticed in the next 100 shots that occasionally the rest would be noisy at the shot ( I always shoot from precocked position, never draw and have it flip up).
Took the rest apart, no real wear patterns, slop or obvious machining issues. I lubed it and put it back together. Shot a 3D course and did well, was quiet most of the time, but not always.
Called Ripcord and they said "send it back". The nice folks said they'd either fix it or send me a new one ASAP. Great customer service.
But the rest isn't complicated.......what's the deal? I took it apart and cut out the rubber dampener that was glued in, and superglued in a softer durometer chunk of rubber.
Noise has been significantly reduced and is consistent.
Not perfectly quiet, but way better.
Suspect the rubber went bad (hardened or compressed/deformed).
I get great flight with this rest, using a string loop. Good enough to shoot sparrows and starlings in my buds yard with G5 Strikers out to 50 yards (and why I didn't want to send the rest in for repair).
So for a good rest, backed by solid customer support (if needed) one might want to look at the Ripcord.
FWIW I ground off a third of the stock carrier's forks as I didn't need that much length.
It's been quiet on the draw, but some folks fuzz theirs up for insurance.
The rubber going bad? Eh, we used to see that all the time at work, pretty common. Could have been a bad batch of material, some issue with my storage, or just accelerated aging for who knows what...................it was an easy fix on my end.
The company was willing to fix it if I couldn't, for free. So I just wanted to pass along their willingness to stand behind their product.
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