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QAD vs ripcord #2200081
08/20/17 05:08 AM
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Wetumpka, AL
ColeT Offline OP
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Which one should I get?

Re: QAD vs ripcord [Re: ColeT] #2200109
08/20/17 06:16 AM
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QAD

Re: QAD vs ripcord [Re: ColeT] #2200128
08/20/17 07:16 AM
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Fosters, Alabama, USA
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QAD


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Re: QAD vs ripcord [Re: ColeT] #2200150
08/20/17 07:48 AM
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Ourtown, AL
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QAD HDX

OR

Vaportrail LimbDriver ProV


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Re: QAD vs ripcord [Re: BCLC] #2200151
08/20/17 07:51 AM
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Originally Posted By: BCLC
QAD HDX


This is what I have. Made the switch over a few years ago. Zero problems and simple to set up.


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Re: QAD vs ripcord [Re: ColeT] #2200156
08/20/17 07:54 AM
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Wetumpka, AL
ColeT Offline OP
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About to ditch my NAP apache and get a QAD I guess

Re: QAD vs ripcord [Re: ColeT] #2200181
08/20/17 08:52 AM
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Vance, Al
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I've had great luck with both. The Ripcord Code Red had less plastic parts than the QAD. Not that I ever had anything break on QAD. The advantage of the QAD was that it would stay up on letdown where as the code red would not. My understanding is that the new Rip Cords (not sure the model) now have the let down feature also.

Having said all that I switched to a Hamskea hunter hybrid pro for this year. It can be activated by either limb or the downward cable. So far it has been great.

Last edited by clarkdeer; 08/20/17 08:53 AM.


Re: QAD vs ripcord [Re: clarkdeer] #2200198
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I have both, QAD HDX and the Ripcord Ace and I prefer the ripcord. I prefer the build of the launcher arm. I also prefer the location of the thumb cock

Last edited by kodiak06; 08/20/17 09:49 AM.
Re: QAD vs ripcord [Re: ColeT] #2200271
08/20/17 10:30 AM
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HHA Virtus, like it alot more than QAD

Re: QAD vs ripcord [Re: ColeT] #2200413
08/20/17 01:43 PM
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I have a ripcord red but they are right it will drop
If you let down


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Re: QAD vs ripcord [Re: Jmxinc] #2200479
08/20/17 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted By: Jmxinc
I have a ripcord red but they are right it will drop
If you let down


That's why I went with the ace... I had read that on a review

Re: QAD vs ripcord [Re: ColeT] #2200626
08/20/17 04:22 PM
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Ranburne, AL
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I've had a QAD on my last three bows. Can't go wrong with one of those in my opinion.

Re: QAD vs ripcord [Re: ColeT] #2200673
08/20/17 04:46 PM
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Fosters, Alabama, USA
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I've been using QAD's for over 10 years now and never had a single issue.


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Re: QAD vs ripcord [Re: ColeT] #2200770
08/20/17 07:18 PM
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Gee's Bend/At The Hog Pen
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QAD


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Everyone. All of them...

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Re: QAD vs ripcord [Re: ColeT] #2200795
08/21/17 12:52 AM
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QAD but I'm sure the Ripcord would work just fine, they sale a pile of em

Re: QAD vs ripcord [Re: ColeT] #2200849
08/21/17 02:17 AM
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I am one of the few people that have had a failure with QAD. Probably 3 years ago mine failed to drop. It was like something partly bound it up. I could mess with it and it would fall, but even then it was slow. Called QAD, sent it back and a week or so later I received another one. That one lasted 8 shots. Exactly 8 shots later it froze. I ordered a code red that day. QAD was sent me a replacement a couple weeks later and I sold it.

The first QAD to fail was several years old and any moving part eventually fails, I can live with that. I am not sure if the second was a refurbished unit or a brand new one. Either way that ended it for me.

Re: QAD vs ripcord [Re: hosscat] #2201159
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Originally Posted By: hosscat
I am one of the few people that have had a failure with QAD. Probably 3 years ago mine failed to drop. It was like something partly bound it up. I could mess with it and it would fall, but even then it was slow. Called QAD, sent it back and a week or so later I received another one. That one lasted 8 shots. Exactly 8 shots later it froze. I ordered a code red that day. QAD was sent me a replacement a couple weeks later and I sold it.

The first QAD to fail was several years old and any moving part eventually fails, I can live with that. I am not sure if the second was a refurbished unit or a brand new one. Either way that ended it for me.


What are the chances you could have had it tied in incorrectly?

Re: QAD vs ripcord [Re: ColeT] #2201295
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Not sure how you could install a drop away rest in such a way that it would lock up?

Re: QAD vs ripcord [Re: ColeT] #2201314
08/21/17 09:18 AM
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Going to Bennett's archery this afternoon to get a QAD

Re: QAD vs ripcord [Re: ColeT] #2201346
08/21/17 09:43 AM
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Had the same ripcord on my old Q2 for 10+ years, no issues.


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