chuffalump
Well-known member
In my quest to buy nice (but not too expensive), transferable things for my bow I thought I'd get a bolt on rest. It replaces the cheap stick on SF jobbie that came with the riser, not that I've ever had any trouble with it.
Anyway, even at its maximum height it was nowhere near high enough for my 2016s. So, bend the arm, deliberately too far so that I can lower it via adjustment to suit. Now it looks about right. May have to chop off the little hook section at the very end but best give it a try first.
However, after running an arrow down it by hand it looks like the short section leading from the pivot to the bend before the long section of the bar could catch my fletchings. Thus tipping the nock end of the arrow up. Its angle isn't enough for the hen fletch to gradually contact the bar and move it out of the way as a flipper rest is designed to do. Instead it looks possible that the arrow nock end will ramp upwards on the edge of the vane.
So, what do you guys who have similar rests think? Am I over thinking this? I could do some more surgery on the bar to change its profile but is it necessary? Maybe I should just wait for the weekend, shoot it and see what happens. Worst case, I can fit my spare stick on rest and chuck twenty quid in the bin.
Anyway, even at its maximum height it was nowhere near high enough for my 2016s. So, bend the arm, deliberately too far so that I can lower it via adjustment to suit. Now it looks about right. May have to chop off the little hook section at the very end but best give it a try first.
However, after running an arrow down it by hand it looks like the short section leading from the pivot to the bend before the long section of the bar could catch my fletchings. Thus tipping the nock end of the arrow up. Its angle isn't enough for the hen fletch to gradually contact the bar and move it out of the way as a flipper rest is designed to do. Instead it looks possible that the arrow nock end will ramp upwards on the edge of the vane.
So, what do you guys who have similar rests think? Am I over thinking this? I could do some more surgery on the bar to change its profile but is it necessary? Maybe I should just wait for the weekend, shoot it and see what happens. Worst case, I can fit my spare stick on rest and chuck twenty quid in the bin.