Getting the Most from a Whisker Biscuit

Whisker Biscuit rests are notorious for chewing up flimsy plastic vanes. There are a few things you can do to fix this problem. First, you can use a stiffer vane. I have tried Norway’s Duravanes and Bohning’s Blazers. Both are stiff and rugged vanes that will hold up well to the bristles of the Biscuit.

Second, you can use short fletching. Again, this comes back to a fletching such as the Blazer. Short fletchings aren’t as likely to be damaged as they pass through the rest as longer fletchings.

Third, you can use straight fletching. This is not my recommendation, but it will reduce damage to the fletching. The only fletching I would consider using straight is the QuikSpin from New Archery Products. These have little tabs built into the trailing edge of the vane that will cause the arrow to spin even if it applied straight, without any helical.

You can also apply a helical offset to short, stiff fletchings such as the Blazer without too much damage to the vanes.

These are the only options I would consider with the Whisker Biscuit. For sure, I would avoid any option that doesn’t cause the arrow to spin to stabilize it in flight. You need that arrow spinning, so don’t be tempted to use a straight fletch with anything but QuikSpin vanes.

  • Kelley Burg

    To increase the life of your vanes, apply a product like Armor All to the vanes once before the hunting season. This has greatly increased how many times I can shoot a standard arrow vane before they begin to deform. I recommend you do this a good amount of time before you plan on hunting to eliminate any odor from the protective product. I second what they say above about straight QuikSpin vanes, I feel they create sufficient spin for shooting out to pretty good distances.

    • mark

      my blazer vanes show wear towards the outer edges — what do you think the cause would be

      • Robert B.

        Blazers are too tall (3/4") regular vanes are (1/2") and the bristles are too tight near the frame for them to squeeze through.

  • Alvin Holland

    I use a whisker biscuit with Gold Tip carbon arrows with blazer veins. I have the cock feather turned vertical with the bow being vertical. Is this Correct?

  • Kelley Burg

    For the reason that the bottom darker bristles are stiffer, the cock feather should be in the up position in order to prevent damage to the flecth.

  • Eric

    What does the dark area of the WB represent?

  • Kenny

    I use Blazer vanes with my WB.I also cut the whiskers out of my biscut on three sides. The vanes pass through the WB without touching any whiskers at all.Total vane clearence plus total arrow capture-best of both worlds.

  • Howard

    As a confirmed whisker Biscuit user, and for those who haven't tried this, I went from using arrows that were .295 diam. to those that are .225 without changing the size of the whisker biscuit hole and those little diam. arrow work just perfect in that big hole. They seem to just rattle around when I draw, but they work good. I shoot fingers.