Now I dont know if there is any truth o this but this is somthing I noticed. Since deer season I have had 3 different rests on my bow; leather, seal skin, and now one or those cheep bear hair rests (it is not made of bear hair, but thats what they call it). The leather rest shot vary well, but was getting wore out, so I put the seal skin rest on. At first it shoot as good as the leather rest, but after a few trips into the woods and getting all wet it seemed to dry out. The hair started to stand up and it seemed that the leather part got thinner and hard. My arrows started flying alittle crazy and tailing to the left. I adgusted my brace height and nock height but nothing worked. Last week I put on the bear rest and every thing went back to normal.
I told that so I could say this, I thought a thinner rest would perform alot better then a thicker just because they afect the arrow less, but now I thinka rest has to have alittle cushioning to it and if it is alittle thicker I dont think it matters.
Dose this sound ridicules, or dose it hold some truth?
I've always glued a small piece (match stick sized) of leather across the top of arrow shelf. This insures the arrow is only actually contacting a small point on the rest. I lay self-adhesive velcro, the fuzzy side, on top of that. The cushioning does help. When the fuzz wears down, my arrow flight starts going bad. I just replace the strip.
I've always seemed to shoot better with a nice, cushyrug rest too. Maybe the cushioning helps ward off some of the nasty effects of my ocassional bad release.[&:]That's my theory, anyway.
That said, all my bows are wearing leather at the moment. I've got lots of leather and rug rests cost money... And I'm a pennypinching tightwad. [8D]
I think I just may go back to leather after this rest is toast.
Wing I have only done that once, somthing wasn't right with the set up,I shoot and the rest went with the arrow. Will have to try it again with contact cement.
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