Hamskea or not to hamskea...that is the question

[DeepMauka]

Title says it all...is it with it? Feedback from Hamskea owners appreciated. Was pondering graduating from my tried and true whisker bisket to a limbdriver pro v, then stumbled upon Hamskea. Where y'all have your cable attached? Seems like this rest has so many options and configurations a simple man like me (always had whisker biskets) can get easily confused with all the configurations and such. Full containment, not to contain fully and free ba...er arrow. Help!!

 

[tstowater]

Top limb with full containment. Works really well. Well designed piece of well built equipment.

 

[Craig Van Arsdale]

Great rest ! I run the full containment attached to the bottom limb. It is on the chunky side though.

 

[quarbles]

i'm not a hamskea owner, but such as you i am a biscuit shooter that is looking into drop aways. i asked if the hamskea was worth the price difference on this and another forum; nobody had anything bad to say about the rest's reliability. i was also looking at the smackdown, but unfortunately every once in a while you hear something bad such as cord slipping, elevation moving, ect. i liked the biscuit for its reliability and don't want to forfeit or compromise anything in a drop away. i'm just looking for no contact to my arrow. i only like to buy once, so plan on the hamskea because to me a lot comes down to confidence that one's weaponry won't balk when you need it. that piece of mind is worth the added price.
as for configuration, i plan on bottom limb. i don't like the idea of tension/stress on my cable and top limb might get cluttered with my quiver....... the rest comes with a limb attachment for the rest's cable that is suposed to mitigate vibration aswell as cable stretch, and i like the idea. i plan full containment because i like to be able to ninja it up with one on the string.
i've emailed the company and they were fast and thourough to reply and put my mind at ease with several issues regarding reliability, such as cold weather operation.
to me it seems like a solid product that is built to last and deliver....

 

[blackduck889]

I have shot tt smack down pro, pro v, biscuit. Recently went to hamskea because I have only read great things. My TT was getting sloppy and wanted a tougher rest with big screws and alot of adjustment. Hamskea does it all. I dont know if its any more accurate than the other 3 but I tend to tinker alot and move stuff to always try and increase my accuracy. It is more durable and beefy. Time will tell but I think I wont be switching again. It is hard to beat a biscuit but at 50 plus yards the drop aways do outperform for me anyway.

 

[DeepMauka]

Yeah, if I was a tree stand hunter only, I'd still be getting a bisket, but spot and stalk with 50 yard shots not being uncommon been contemplating the drop aways

 

[justin davis]

Even if I hunted out of a tree stand all the time I would still recommend getting a Hamskea over a biscuit.

The Hamskea is very well built. Just a very well built rest and in my opinion will
Make you shoot more accurately.

 

[jmez]

What bow are you putting it on? I had clearance issues with it on a Bowtech and depending on your tune you may have trouble getting it to not interfere with the dampner on a Bowtech Flexguard. Have it on a Element now and no clearance issues.

I run my cable top limb and that works fine. It is a beefy rest and I have to be a little creative in how I attach my tightspot quiver to that it doesn't contact the rest body.

It is also a little on the loud side, all limb driven rests are IMO. They will send you a nylon set screw that stops the arm and this does help with noise. After about 2 months of shooting I noticed my containment arm pointing straight down at the ground with the bow at rest. The nylon screw sheared off inside the rest. I contacted Hamskea and this was not an isolated incident. I just run the stainless screw now, they sent me another nylon screw but it would just happen again. When it happens you have to disassemble the rest and get the piece of broken screw out as if it got lodged in the right place the rest would not function. I wouldn't recommend the nylon stop screw, not durable enough to take repeated pounding stopping the arm.

 

[justin davis]

My hamskea versa rests I have set up are very quiet! These rests are very high quality. Best rest out there

 

[Bowhuntr64]

They are fantastic rests; super tough and versatile. However, for my hunting purposes, they were not really a good fit--they are quite heavy, I could not slide my Tightspot close to the riser because one arrow would hit the rest, and the containment ring does not contain the arrow as well as a QAD HDX. My shop told me that the QAD would not tune well on my Spyder 30; they were wrong. I sold the Hamskea and am shooting lights on with my QAD.