Most are going to say Hamskea or Vapor Trail. They might be the quality and functionality, however, in my experience, they are by far not the quietest. I would say QAD or Trophy Taker for the quietest.

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Whisper, I mean, Whisker Buscuit comes to mind. Never shot one but have seen them in action. Why's a quiet rest important to you? When you mean quiet you mean the action of is rising and falling? Most drop away rests today are really quiet, imo. A little felt on the launcher and the arrow should silently come to full draw along with a proven rest. Hamskea and QAD come to mind.

 

I have a biscuit on my daily shooter / backup bow, and I can assure it is NOT a quiet rest. That said, people are very successful at hunting with them, so I’m not sure how big of a deal this really is, but I’m also not willing to test that theory.


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I've never put a meter on mine.

I shot QAD HDX for years.
Recently switched to Trinity and it seems quieter to me.
Yes QAD was timed correctly.

 

I also shoot QAD HDX

 

WB

 

Any rest is going to be quieter than your bow firing.... If you are worried about the draw, moleskin on most rests will do the trick. Obviously won't work on a bisquit type, but has worked for years on my QAD...

 

exactly what i was thinking, bow is louder than the rest, release, etc.

 

One that has no moving parts so it's a Whisker Biscuit. I have used HHA, QAD and vaportrail and never thought any of them as loud

 

@deadquiet come on, where's that picture of your old rest with the camo felt on it??

 

I have a US made Trophy Taker Smackdown Pro from 2015 that I will put against ANY as the quietest way to hold an arrow.

 

Yep I have Trophy Taker Smackdown Pros on all my bows. They are simple and very quiet.

 

I prefer QADs but I think PAKraig is correct that the TT Smackdown Pro is very quiet, more quiet than a QAD.

 

I don't worry about the noise of a rest working. I am a VT guy for sure.

But if I were to really want to save that little bit of noise I bet a wisker biskit the least noisy rest.

 

I’m a Hamskea guy myself and have had great luck with it. I will parrot what the other guys have said though and say that the noise of a rest it absolutely inconsequential to the shot on an animal. Your arrow flying through the air is way louder then your rest or even your bow to a deer. I’d pick out which mechanism you like “limb driven, cable driven, or static” then find a brand and price range your comfortable in.

 

Another subject to not worry about........Worked for a archery shop and I got to try several brands and makes of arrow rests and never heard a loud one..........

Drop rests, if the launcher is smacking the shelf the rest isn't set up correctly............

 

Apa twister rest is quiet.

 

Whisker biscuit is quite, depending on the arrow. G5 expert 2 and pro are probably the quietest rests that I've used

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Have shot qad and Hamskea and couldn’t tell ya a difference. Never shot a whisker biscuit but I would bet that.

 

A whisker biscuit with straight fletching isn't terrible, but add a heavy helical and you are moving a lot more bristles than with the straight fletch. More bristles moving makes more noise, but I honestly don't consider the WB to be a very quiet rest, but that is only my opinion.

Of the others on the market, the Vapor Trail Gen 7 rests have always been what I considered decently quiet, but they all make some amount of noise, some being sharper then others, some being more dull or thunkish.

Which is the most quiet? That's hard to say for me.

 

VT Gen7x is my go-to. Easy to set up, reliable and quiet.

 

If quiet is what you seek the whisker biscuit is by a wide margin the quietest.... You just have to be able to out shoot ALL your buddies so then they can't make fun of you! I have yet to hear a rest that is louder than any bow I've ever shot ... so never payed too much attention to it.

 

I would think the vaportrail Gen7 or Gi8 would be quieter than any of the other drop aways. Hamskea has a metal on metal contact point when the arrow rest comes down that makes noise. Ive had a couple QAD HDX rests some a quiet some arent and that seems to depend on how worn the braking system is in the unit. The vaportrail has a rubber body that the flipper arm presses up against when shot and my guess is thats the quietest of the 3 most common drop aways

 

Vapor trail is quieter than hamskea and QAD. The HHA Virtus is about the same as vapor trail.


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Rip a fletched arrow through a whisker biscuit at 300 fps and then tell me it doesnt make noise. It's all trivial in the big picture.

 

Agree, seems no rest is louder than release of the bow.

I do have the hamskea primer and like it, but my center shot has my vanes riiiight up against the cage. I wish that cage opening was larger on the primer

 

I have a hha on one of my back up rigs and that thing doesn’t make a sound. If I didn’t prefer the simplicity of a limb driven rest it would be on my hunting bow

 

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