hey everybody this is pj reilly from lancaster archery got a product video
for you today we wanted to tell you about a brand new rest out from hamski
this is the hamski epsilon great new rest from hamski where they took all the things
that we love about hamski rests and they made them more compact we're seeing with a
lot of the new bow releases this year that bow manufacturers are really emphasizing
slimming down that profile the face on profile of these bows hamski wanted to do that with their
epsilon rest and just to give you an example uh right up front so you can see the differences
here i have the hamski trinity which i mean this is still a great solid rest nothing wrong with it
but you can see how much slimmer the epsilon is compared to the trinity so we'll talk about we'll
show you how that comes into play here in a minute but the epsilon does have the three ball bearings
just like the trinity did inside there that support this rest so this thing is super solid in
there we've got a new blade design here this is a coated piece of metal so the outside of it it does
have a coating on it but there is metal underneath it and it's just again a slimmer profile to fit
within this uh the arrow containment system here as well as some of the risers of the bows hamski
found that people were having to trim off one side of the blade because they were having clearance
issues now this one you're not going to have any clearance issues with this
now this rest hamski is marketing it you can see right on the side here we're going to see core cor
what that stands for is center shot optimized rest and so this rest when it comes in the package
it is set up to allow you to get that 13 16 center shot so what that is is when you measure
from the face of the riser to the center of the arrow 13 16 is pretty much the standard
that's going to be about your perfect center shot you may have to adjust it a little bit when you
shoot through paper to figure out what's perfect but with a hunting arrow now we're talking about
um it's 13 16 is going to give you the best starting point and um
so when you mount this rest on there you're going to be set up for that 13 16. now
we have some new connection systems with the epsilon and this here is the universal mount
so this is going to be the rest that you can put on any bow you're going to mount it to the burger
hole and any bow will be able to accept this rest and so what hamske did here for your connection
is you can see these posts here sticking out of the rest there and then on the arm
you're going to see three holes so these holes you're going to put those posts in
the holes these holes account for three different thicknesses of risers so uh the i have the pse evo
evil here that's one of the thicker risers so for me to be able to get that 13 16 i had to mount it
accounting to leave as much space as possible so i had to put it all the way on the outside rest
the outside position here of the arm so you can see that gave me a lot of left adjustment there
with this rest it moved everything to the rest because the riser is so thick if you had a thinner
riser you know you could then move this rest into the two other positions and like i said those
they are set up so that no matter what your riser thickness is you should be able to get that 13
16 center shot moving along something these rests have here let's talk about adjustments so
hamski has always had micro adjust but now they have micro click so if i were for windage and
elevation so this is my windage adjustment right here this is my elevation there so
if i want to change you know move this rest left or right i'm going to loosen this screw right here
and then i have my adjustment knob i'm going to turn and you can see it's click
i'm getting each one of those clicks i'm going to turn it fast just so you can see it move got
your laser etched markings there so you can see where the rest is going but that that micro click
is really nice so you can get that rest dialed in once you get it where you want it then of course
you're just going to lock it down and now it's not going to move anywhere nice and secure in place
same thing for elevation however you're going to have to loosen these two screws on the side
that's going to allow you to make your elevation changes now some other features underneath here
i have these two screws that i use to adjust the angle of the blade this back one here this
allows you to adjust how far down the rest sits so right now i have it in the highest position
but if i go in here and i change this you'll see that i'm able to push it down farther
there it is i'm maintaining my finger pressure on the rest and you can see
i'm able to move it down on the front this screw here changes the up position of the rest
uh some other features so one of the things that hamski said
they heard from people who used their rest was you know this is in a hunting configuration right
now you've got a full containment so if your arrow's in there your arrow's not coming off
but let's say somebody wanted to use this you know for 3d or something they didn't want to deal
with one or both parts of the arrow containment system well hamski noticed that some archers were
just taking these and cutting them off well now you just destroyed the rest uh you know not for
your purpose but if you ever wanted to give it to somebody whatever you just wrecked it
so what they did here was they now have one screw here if you loosen that you can take the top off
underneath on the back side if you remove this one you can take the bottom off so you can take one or
both of the containment arms off if you don't want them on there and speaking of the containment arms
if you've had hamski you know hunter hybrids or the hybrid trinity they had this containment
system here was more squared on the bottom well some archers that was hitting their hands
so hamski made this cut in here this angle so now it's a different profile it's not going to hit
your hand so there used to be a spring right here that hamski used to use they kind of were shifting
away from that with the rebound dampener this is a rubber damper this functions like the spring
except that spring a lot of times people had issues it would just bend and then you really
had problems so with the rebound dampener you still get that spring action and now your cord
just goes straight through the uh the lever that pulls down you know to get your rest it's going
to be like this in the resting position and then of course as you draw it comes up and then when
the limbs flex back it's going to pull it back down so this is really nice to not have to mess
with that spring anymore of course you have the cable clamp here this is a nice clamping system
just loosen that get your tension where you want it and then tie it down and then that
thing is locked into place i like that now so this rest the epsilon you're going to be able to
format this for several different bows so right now i have it as a limb driven rest
where i'm going to run it down to my bottom lip if i were to flip this lever around 180 degrees
then it would be for mounting to my top limb i can also change around the spring in here and
have this work as a typical cable driven rest and that is where as i draw back the down cable is
going to pull on the arm and that's going to bring the rest up when you shoot the rest is going to
uh fall back down or if you let down it's going to the rest is just going to let down so it works
off of the drawing and releasing of the string so it will work as we mentioned top limb bottom limb
limb driven rest or as a cable driven rest you are going to have on the front you're going to have an
arrow rest right here in the package you will get a rubber arrow rest as well that you can mount on
the shelf so it'll be held in two places but this one's nice right here so that is your drawing your
arrows sitting in something and then of course when you draw the it's gonna ride up into with
the rest so something else hamski did uh if you had uh some of these rests in the past when you
were making adjustments to your lever here this center piece was round and so it could slide back
and forth if you didn't have the locking screw down tight enough but now if you look in there
this is actually octagon shaped so that's going to prevent that slipping once you get the screw
into place this the lever is not going to move it can't rotate around there until you loosen that so
that octagon in there just keeps everything nice and secure as i mentioned this is the universal
connection system here so this is going to work on any bow regardless of whether it has a dovetail
this will work on any bow and you can see here we've got a slot where you attach to
the burger hole so this will allow for some torque tuning now so on the matthews bow hamski came out
with a special matthews connection because the burger hole is so close to the end of the riser
and basically what it does is it just comes and goes right over top of the integrate dovetail so
the epsilon does have a dovetail in it that interfaces with this back connection plate however
that dovetail does not match the dovetail that's on any of the integrate rests
whether it's the matthews the pse or the hoyt any of them the dovetail on the epsilon will not
fit in the dovetail that's on the bow so we just wanted to let you know about that
for the matthews mount you know it just comes and goes over top of the dovetail mount so something
else with the matthews bows you know they have their new angled center guard cable arm and so you
can see with the epsilon there this does work with that cable arm they got a cut right there in the
containment system so that it goes right over top of that cable arm no problems there the epsilon
will work around any of the cable arms you know botech has their flexing cable arm that they have
this will work around that prime has the flexus ar any of those cable arm systems that epsilon
will work with the third connection system that hamski does offer with the epsilon series we don't
have it here but i will tell you about it hamski is working with some bow manufacturers and what
they're doing is on the back of the riser right where like the dovetail is on these integrate
rest bows they're having some manufacturers drill threaded holes right there and so you can mount a
plate directly there to get this rest mounted to the back of the riser and you won't need the screw
that goes into the burger hole at all you'll just screw it right directly to the riser face there
if you have one of those bows hamski will have a mounting option for those bows so like we've
been saying about the slender profile of this rest matthews for one came out with their low profile
quivers and which really pulls that quiver tight into the riser of the bow so you can see that this
matthew's mounted rest it's not going to interfere with that at all you'll still be able to get that
low profile quiver on there and the rest is not going to impede that same thing over here with
this pse you can see this one has the standard mount this is the universal mount that can go
on any bow even this still is low profile so if you're using with this pse if you're using a tight
spot quiver you can still get that quiver tight into that riser because this rest is so skinny
you're not going to have any problems with those quivers and keeping that low profile all right so
that is the hamski epsilon rest great new narrow rest from hamski once again just to give you a
comparison to that trinity which is super popular rest just so you can see the difference how much
thinner this epsilon is compared to the trinity so this is going to be a real low profile rest
especially for bow hunters out there who want to really slim things down the epsilon is going to
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