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Wired To Hunt Podcast

Ep. 534: Foundations - Building a Better Bow, Part 2

Wired To Hunt Podcast

MeatEater

Sports, Wilderness

4.84.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 May 2022

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

On today’s show, Tony discusses bow rests, quivers, and stabilizers and why whitetail hunters should really consider what bow accessories they choose. 

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0:00.0

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0:05.6

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0:11.8

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0:17.2

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0:23.5

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0:53.6

Welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations podcast. Your guide to the fundamentals of better

1:08.3

dear hunting. And now your host, Tony Peterson.

1:14.3

Hey everyone, welcome to the Wired to Hunt Foundations podcast, which is brought to you by

1:18.4

First Light. Today's episode is all about choosing bow accessories or more specifically,

1:24.2

rests, quivers and stabilizers.

1:36.4

Today's topic could be a real snooze fest folks. So I'm going to try to keep it as lively as

1:41.6

possible. Last week I talked about sights and peep sights, which demand some thought if you want

1:48.6

to shoot as well as possible in the woods. And I know you do. Today I'm sort of picking up the

1:54.0

scraps to talk about arrow rests, quivers and stabilizers. These accessories might not seem

2:00.0

all that important and honestly they aren't except I don't know sometimes they are.

2:05.2

Sometimes the choices we make around these accessories can cost us to be. This is most relevant

2:10.4

when we talk about rests, which is what I'm going to start with.

2:24.2

Let's say you started bow hunting, I don't know in the last decade. You probably only really know

2:30.0

about two kinds of rest options. Drop away style or follow away style I guess. And a whisker biscuit

2:37.0

type of shoot through style. You probably haven't seen a whole lot of plunger rest or any of the

2:42.5

other variations of tight to the riser accuracy robbing rest that we had a few decades ago.

2:48.4

That's a good thing actually. Unless you're interested in traditional archery, but that's

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