Quest Advanced Technology

[Bruce Brakel]

They have broken up with Gateway so they should have their own thread. 

We bought and sold a couple dozen Ultra Light Raging Inferno Nike Plastic DTs.  I'm curious what you think of them.  For low power players, like my wife, these seem to be the real McCoy.  On the football field today I was getting good D but not better than the Rogue.  Not worse either.  Right around 380.  Except, left handed, I was getting excellent results.  Left handed I'm a low power kind of guy, but my good lefty throw went 321.  Lefty I'm rarely topping 300, and then usually only by accident. 

I'm looking forward to throwing one in reasonably calm conditions side by side with my other long drivers. 

[pickax]

I was annoyed at myself today when I took the ultra light out to test it, there are a couple of bubbles in the flight plate that I wish I had noticed when picking it out Sunday. Anyway, I threw it alongside my new Rogue, and FLX Surge. The Surge and Rogue were trading places for distance, but the Ultra Light Raging Inferno Nike Plastic DT was defintiely getting out about 60 feet more. I am not a consistent thrower and the Surge and Rogue had low flights, while the Raging Inferno had a lot more height. I think I need to work with it more to get used to the lightness of it, but initial tests were excellent.

[mf100forever]

They have broken up with Gateway so they should have their own thread. 

Are you sure?

[Bruce Brakel]

Am I ever sure of anything?  It is what KVN said.  They ground Gateway's name off their disc molds. 

[Working Stiff]

They ground Gateway's name off their disc molds. 

They should.  I don't know what kind of miscommunication they had about what Quest was releasing, but what the GDS players said about the Quest releases was awful.  I don't know what GDS was thinking, that they could bad-mouth thier partner and everything would be okey-dokey?

[Bruce Brakel]

Probably it was the other way around.  Probably they began bad-mouthing Quest when Dave let them know they were breaking up and they should start bad-mouthing Quest. 

[pearso66]

Probably it was the other way around.  Probably they began bad-mouthing Quest when Dave let them know they were breaking up and they should start bad-mouthing Quest. 

Gateway players are still playing with Quest discs, and at this point, Quest is still making custom discs for Gateway (Diablo DT), and Dave at Gateway is still selling Quest discs.  Any bad mouthing from their players, was done on their own accord.

[Jon Brakel]

Plastic politics aside, I can't wait to get out there and test throw Becky's and Maddisen's new Quest discs.

[stpitner]

Quest has some really great stuff out there right now.  I've been throwing the Inferno as it has turned into a really good distance turnover disc for me.  For me (not the case for everyone I know) it is a longer Roadrunner.

The Ultra-light Raging Inferno DT is unbelievably cool.  I won mine as a CTP from leagues and I can't believe how resistant that thing is to turning over unless I purposefully do so.

I haven't tried it out yet, but I see some interest in the Crossfire as a pretty good putter, and they have a new disc coming out in the relatively near future called the Laser.  That disc looks to be very cool as well.

That's cool that you're carrying that line now Bruce.  I carry Quest as well now and will have them with me at the tournament this Saturday in Highland Park.  You should see some of the dyed work on the discs as well!  It's much better than what you would see on an I-Dye or Fly-Dye from Innova or Discraft.

-Scott

[Bruce Brakel]

KVN does the dye work, apparently.  I don't know where he would have learned to dye discs.   

I was throwing a 166 Laser yesterday.  It flies nice and straight.  It does not have the D of the UL RI DT [it is not right to give a disc six names!] but it is easier to control. 

I don't know how much of their line I will carry, but the Raging Inferno DTs and Crossfires have something that is not just a gimmick. 

[pearso66]

The Lazer that Quest is currently in the process of getting approved is more of a control/fairway driver than a long distance driver.  Soon Quest hopes to have a full line of Lazer discs, varying in distance (100 M, 200 M,  50 M etc.) similar to a set of Irons from ball golf.

[Chainmeister]

KVN gave me a 170g Raging Inferno a short while ago.  I had not had a chance to throw it.  Being the prototypical low power thrower I was interested to see what it could do for me.  I took it with me to Lippold today and threw it as a second drive on a number of holes and threw it for a while on the soccer field.  It consistently got at least as much and often  more distance than anything else I threw. I got a much longer high speed turn with the Raging Inferno.  I pulled them a bit to the left (I'm a lefty) but did not burn it.  I think this will stay in my bag for a little while. 

I threw the ultra light thing that KVN had given to Damon and even with my puss arm and throwing it with a hyzer release I still turned it over.  I didn't care for that one. 

[stpitner]

was it the ultra light inferno or the ultra light raging inferno dt?  It's really tough to get the UL raging inferno dt to turn over unless your arm angle is really high on it.  I could see the ultra light inferno turning pretty easy since the heavy inferno can be turned without a lot of effort.

[Bruce Brakel]

I let a woman try Diana's UL RI DT this evening at Baycourt.  She was used to having to turn over some heavy overstable disc out of her boyfiend's bag and she turned over the ultra light.  On her second try she backed off the oversteering and got a longer throw.  I wish I had had some to sell!  

If you have been throwing drivers that are too overstable for your power, you may have developed some bad form habits.  Brett, with his power, threw one about 400 feet.  He throws with excellent form, but he doesn't throw 400 feet.  

[discmonkey]

Bruce, it's nice to see you only carrying only the good discs that Quest makes.  They really do have 4-6 really strong offerings and about a bazillion plastic paperweights.  By only offering discs that add value, you are really helping out the players that are leary of trying a new company in the first place.  You are also doing Quest a huge solid by only putting out discs that will get them a good rep and staying away from the discs that could easily slot them as a novelty company.

Having Quest as local is cool too.  People really seemed to dig having a factory rep (KVN) there to demo the discs and let them try them out.  He was doing a great job of sending people to the merch table to purchase. 

[CEValkyrie]

I gave my dad a 135 UltraLight Raging Inferno DT yesterday. We went out to Washington Park. It's a wide open course similar to Fairfield. He had been using 150 Leopard & Valks for his primary driver. He was easily throwing the Inferno 30 to 50 feet farther than his other drivers. He birdied hole #2 with it. I don't think i'll be getting that disc back .

[discmonkey]

I liked the D of the ultralight RIDT I have, but not the controllability.  So I ordered a 150 Orion LF.  Got the D I expected from the weight, but behaves almost identical to the 168 I throw everyday (much more accurate).  I'm wondering what other discs would fly well at much lighter weights.

Unrelated:  I walked into Walgreens on Aptakisic in Buffalo Grove and almost tripped over a Quest display.  Seems like everywhere I go, I see their discs.  If you want an Ultralight, they had a bunch there and there's a bunch at the Marathon by Fairfield.

[E-Roc]

The Newest Addition to the Quest line of golf discs is the:

"Rock-It"

It is a very stable mid-range/approach disc for that nice up shot, to set up for par.  You can even go for the deuce and putt with it.

Very nice disc.

I will be giving one away at Grip It and Rip It in Roselle on Saturday.

[E-Roc]

Here is the link for a picture of the Rock-It:


http://www.questat.com/NEW.html

[stpitner]

heh, I can't say I'm a huge fan of the hot stamp - makes me think of "guitar hero meets disc golf", but the disc looks promising.  I saw in another picture that it has the Dimples too.  Will have to try this one out too and see what happens