QAD Ultrarest Hunter Drop Away Rest

I can't say enough good things about this drop away arrow rest. It is my first drop away rest and I am impressed. For the price, you cannot beat the quality, workmanship, and ease of use. I took this down to my local pro shop and had it professionally installed (which I highly recommend, although it can definitely be installed by the end-user using the provided DVD) for $5.00 on my 2011 model Quest Hammer. Some reviews I have read complained of the felt-type material that is used on the rest itself...it has not worn out on me, but it seems like it won't take too much time before that MAY happen, in which case I'll head down to the hardware store or Walmart and purchase a little higher quality felt to replace it with. It is still an excellent value and I am thoroughly satisfied. Also, I've never had a problem with my fletching making contact with the rest before it drops away and I've put at least 100 arrows through it. My draw weight is around 64 lbs and my draw length is 29.5 inches. Great, great product. You will not regret this purchase.

I recently purchased my first bow and have been shooting at the range daily for the past couple weeks. A person I met at the range highly suggested that I replace the brush type arrow rest that came on my bow with a drop away type. The particular one he was using costs around $150.00. After spending a great deal on my new bow purchase, arrows, case, etc., I really did not care to put out another $150 on a rest. I did a lot of searching and reading of reviews, and I came across this rest. For $45.00 I thought I would give it a try.First, mounting and adjusting is fairly simple. Although the included CD gives instruction for the wrong model rest, following the written instructions carefully, its not to tough. Because of my particular bow setup, and comments I read regarding fletching clearance and drop away speed, I decided to use the taller TL1 launcher that is included in the package. I immediately noticed that my top fletching would not clear the containment bar. For now, I am shooting without the containment bar and am looking for alternatives for something with better clearance. But without the bar, this thing works nice! In a very short time I noticed a very significant difference in arrow grouping.

About a decade ago, I installed one of these on my old Black Bear compound to replace the old rest that was on it. I love it it works great, has held up very well.I finally stepped into the 21st century and bought a Bear Marshal recently, I removed the Truglo drop away rest that was on it and installed this new ultra hunter. I'm not surprised or impressed simply because I knew exactly what I was getting, which is a very high quality, very functional, drop away arrow rest. One of my favorite things about qad design is that it captures the arrow so you can keep an arrow nocked indefinitely without having it come off your rest (unlike the Truglo or other drop away rests) only difference between the one I just bought here and the one I bought 10 years ago at Bass Pro, is that the one I bought at Brass Pro 10 years ago was $10 more expensive, at about $65, and the silencing felt was a slightly higher quality. When / if I get a new bow, regardless of what rest is on it when I purchase it, I will be replacing it with this same type of rest.( the reason I didn't take the old rest off of my black bear and put on this one is because I still shoot my black bear because it's fun to sometimes live in the past, even if it means shooting an inferior weapon LOL)

I have been using the same arrest on another bow for approximately 10 years without issues. It is great. But, I have two complaints: 1- The instructions are glued to the back of the shrink wrap packaging. It is extremely difficult to remove all the parts without destroying the instructions, also there is no easy way to keep the instructions because they are not flat, they are glued to the back of the string wrap. The instructions should have been provided on a separate card. There is a separate card that is more or less an advertisement for the product but does not include complete instructions. 2- The hole for the small screw that retains the plastic arrow retainer was not tapped. I had to find a 1032 tap to make this work. No big deal but totally unnecessary. Other than these two items I would definitely give this product a 10.

Easy to install and works flawlessly

I bought the ultra cheap Dragon by Sanlida. Most of the bow is good but the arrow rest was awful and half of the arrows were bad. Replaced the rest with this drop away and bought different arrows which greatly improved the accuracy and consistency.

I have several QAD's and they all have worked great with no issues. I recently bought their low end model this one for my girlfriends bow because I wasn't sure how much she was going to get into archery. This rest is garbage and they shouldn't sell it or put their name on it. It has bounce back, meaning when it drops it will bounce back up and hit your fetching. Spend more and get the HDX model, zero issues, great rest, no bounce back.

This is the third one of these I have bought. One for each on my compound bows. I have not installed the latest one yet, however the first two have worked perfectly for several years. No need to spent four times the money, this one is reliable, accurate and affordable.