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Shooting Industry, June, 2000 by Carolee Boyles

"The Outdoor Edge brand is our hunting knives," Bloch said. "With Edge Tech, we're getting into some of the modern design tactical folding knives. We're using designs from custom knife makers and making them on a production basis."

At the Bohning Co., Dale Voice was showing "The Badger," a four-arrow quiver designed for mechanical broad-heads. It comes with two sets of retainers, one for aluminum arrows and one for carbon. It's also available in a six-arrow model called "The Guardian."

In arrow components, Bohning has several new fluorescent colors of nocks. The company also has a new insert adhesive, Powerbond, that eliminates the need for heating shafts to seat inserts. It's effective on carbon, aluminum and wood shafts.

Michelle Crummer at Muzzy Products Corp. said the company has several new broadheads, including a 75-grain three-blade and a 100-grain four-blade Team Fitzgerald broadhead. They also have a new arrow rest they're calling the Zero-Effect Arrowrest.

"When I first saw this last fall, I thought it was the strangest-looking contraption I'd seen," Crummer said. "I didn't like it. But I told one of the guys to put it on his bow and shoot it. He did and said it was awesome." Then she tried it and agreed.

"It's a cable-driven, drop-away rest," she said. "There are only two adjustments, left and right and up and down. When you nock your arrow and draw back, the movement of the cable pulls the arrow rest up into the right position. When you release, within 2 inches of travel, the rest is out of the way and no longer touching the arrow. So there's no interference with the arrow. All your arrow rest tuning problems are completely eliminated. It's totally different and it absolutely works."