Limb driven is my choice. I would go with the Hamskea.

 

QAD is about top of the line for drop away. I have a NAP Apache tied in and have never had a problem with its function.

 

Welcome to AT from northern Illinois. I have been using QAD drop-a-way for around 20 years and have never had one fail.

 

I use all of those and currently have both Hamseka and QAD rests on some of my bows. There isn’t really a wrong choice here between the Hamskea and the QAD in my opinion. It’s about what you prefer. I feel both are just as easily adjusted in the field. I leave a short tail of the timing cord coming out of my QAD so if I need to I loosen the screw and then pull the tail a little to shorten the cord or pull the other direction to loosen. The QAD has nice micro adjust features which are convenient and the full containment is also a positive.

I lately prefer the limb driven rests and primarily use an epsilon with micro adjust as well. For me I like not needing to retime my rest when I make some occasional cable adjustments or draw length adjustments. And I always use a prusik knot on my rest cord so that I can easily raise the launcher when I’m tweaking stuff and then easily tighten it back down. Don’t love the clamps that come with them.

But overall I think the QAD MX has a bit more features I.e micro adjust over the Primer and it is a sleek low profile rest that will serve you well. If it was between those two I’d probably go QAD but if I had any consistency issues I’d yank it quick and go to the primer. Good luck.

 

My rest is a TR Propel limb driven and I'd be hard pressed to make the change back to cable driven.

 

As a thought they all work well, a Cable driven is not as forgiving as a limb driven rest. The Cables stretch, your tie off point moves, and then your rest acts all weird.

Limb driven is where its at, my and others opinion of course. But you have the QAD Already, so why not just run with it for now?

 

KEEP THE QAD

 

A limb driven rest is not the shizz. It is good but so are the cable driven. I have been shooting the cable driven since 2006 and not a single failure. I have used Ripcord (2006 version) and QAD Integrate. Both have been excellent. I did recently replace the OG Ripcord with a CBE Defy on my Switchback and it works but the QAD on my LiftX is better. I will also add that I thought the QAD Hunter rest was horrible.

 

QAD for me. I’ve been shooting qad drop aways since 2007 and ive never had one fail.

I mainly hunt elk, so I’m never sitting in a stand. Busting up and down mountains through the thickest bs you’ve ever seen, I want the full containment.

 

Thanks for the input everyone. I really appreciate everyone's take on this. I was worried about the cable driven because my local bow shop has had multiple failures with ripcords recently they've had to take back which is how I ended up with the Hamskea. I'm less worried about the QAD now. Since it's already on the bow and dialed in I'll stick with it for now and see how I like it. Whoever buys my old bow is going to luck out on a brand new hamskea that's only a week old haha.