Octane Hostage Arrow Rests
A Full-Containment Capture Arrow Rest
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Octane Hostage XL Arrow Rest
The new Hostage XL arrow rest from Octane takes the idea of the full-containment, capture-style of arrow rest to a new level with improved arrow holding power, soft-but-tough bristles, increased vane clearance, and easy installation, setup and tuning.
Arrow rests for both bowhunting and target archery have developed in leaps and bounds in the past few years. While a short decade ago, the prong-style of rest was state-of-the-art and complicated and difficult-to-install drop-away rests were the new kids on the block, today we have a large selection of dead-simple rests that practically tune themselves and are both rugged and reliable. The Octane Hostage XL is one of the newest arrow rests on the market and is promising to become one of the most popular as serious bowhunters and 3D shooters continue the search for the perfect combination of simplicity, accuracy and dependability.
The Hostage XL features three very soft deeply notched brushes that gently cradle the arrow during the entire draw-release-shot cycle. The brushes are positioned so that there in no accuracy-destroying fletch contact even with high-profile short fletching such as the Blazers and Fusion vanes. Because he bristles of the brushes are soft and flexible, one size works equally well with thick 22XX aluminium and thin ST-types of carbon arrows. There are no moving parts to wear out and the brushes are designed to last for thousands of shots. When they do finally need replacement it is a quick and easy job with the replacement brushes listed below.
The Octane Hostage XL is in stock and ready to ship. Fits both right- and left-hand bows.
Octane Hostage XL Arrow Rest
This new full-containment capture-style arrow rest is as simple as it is effective. One of our top sellers.
Brushes for Octane Hostage XL Arrow Rest
Replacing the brushes on your Octane XL will restore your rest to as-new condition and takes about five minutes.
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Shooting Fingers with a Containment Arrow Rest
One of the great things about the new crop of full-containment (also caller capture) arrow rests, such as the Octane listed on this page, the Whisker Biscuit, and the NAP 360 (to name just a few), is that they can be tuned to shoot just as well with fingers as with a release aid. It is true that these rests were designed with the release shooter in mind and the vast majority of full-containment rests are used with releases, but finger shooters are using them with great success also.
The only real difference between tuning your bow for a release aid and tuning for shooting with fingers is that with finger shooting you must compensate for finger roll (the rolling of the string over your fingertips as the string is released) which doesn't happen with a release aid. finger roll is a highly individualistic thing and can very from a lot to hardly any depending on your form and the smoothness of your release. Consequently it will require a bit of practice to get it right.
Right-handed shooters should start with the arrow slightly to the left of centre shot. The standard is to have the string lined up with the right side of the arrow while sighting down the arrow with the bow at rest (not drawn) and the string centered on the riser. If you are using a sight, the pins should also be centered on the string. This will give most of us a good starting point from which small adjustments will soon have us dead on. Of course, for this to work, you must have your arrows spined correctly, which can be determined by bare-shaft testing.