best quick draws

so lets hear it. what is everyone's favorite quick draw to use?

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Petzl sprits or Petzl ange with the large carabiner on the rope end. Also all petzl lockers seem to far better than any others on the market in my opinion.

Wild Country Heliums.

I think those newer BDs with the nifty finger shelf on the spine look great. But I've never used them, or touched one. :p

Really though, most of us have probably mostly used the ones we own and haven't owned that many sets (esp from the current offerings). Maybe you can buy them all and let us know!

I climb on Heliums and the Petzl anges - for sport climbing they both have made me happy and I haven't died. The anges bolt side biner is a mini, so if the bolt is just out of reach, it has less reach. Just sayn'...

Petzl Spirits

Mammut trad slings with two helium wire biners. Love the heliums btw: nice and wide gate opening and super light, non catch too! I don't remember when I climbed pure a sport route last. I switched to those when I got my rack, never went back. I used to have PETZL dogbones...with rubber thingies on them...

Whatever I can get my desperate, filthy thieving mitts on at Easter Rock.

+1 Petzl Spirit! I wouldn't buy anything else nor would I steal a bunch of draws off a route that I knew someone left only due to dangerous lightning conditions. I was with James that evening and the next morning and let's just say the culprit is lucky they weren't my draws. We sent our project the next day anyway and had a hell of a 4th of July!

Purely sport climbing +1 for the BD livewires, trad routes I use BD hoodwires

anything me or my partner have on us at the time ...

the brand is irrelevant for whadduh we climb ... ive never climbed harder because of a particular draw brand or model

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I really like the BD livewires. I even bought some.

i think the new petzl spirit draws suck. wayyyy too stiff. i have several sets of draws, and my favorite is probably bent and straight gate dynatrons with a regular length standard petzl (old) bone.

I really like the Petzl Ange w/ the small biner on the wall side and large biner on the rope side. Super easy to clip and clean. I disagree that they're too stiff, too. The dogbone is definitely stiff but there's a large loop on the wall side that lets the whole thing move around while maintaining the proper rope side biner orientation.

I also had some WC Nitro QDs. I love the biners but the dogbones suck IMHO. The rubber grommet broke on all of them within two years of light use. I replaced the bone with the new Petzl one (same as the Ange) and am pretty stoked with that setup, too.

The DMM alpha sport QuickDraw is awesome. clipping them is like butta

Grivel Alpha ... duh!

BD quicksilvers, smoothest action Ive ever felt.

slim wrote:i think the new petzl spirit draws suck. wayyyy too stiff.

Little Ange and big Ange with the new white Petzl dogbones. Don't really care for the skinny new FINESSE slings.