Not enough to throw my shots off, but enough to mess up my vanes. I'll run you through what's happening with pictures so you'll know exactely what I'm talking about.

So a couple nights ago I refletch all my arrows because I noticed that they were looking a little worn. I guess you could say they were looking really "broken in" so to speak. I decided to shoot today since it wasn't breezy like it has been for the last couple of days.


Those are my vanes before I got home today.

Now for some reason, when Martin made the Jaguar bow, they made the slot that you screw your rest into differen't than most other companies that I've noticed. Rather than having a hole or two to screw the rest into, you have a slot. I purchased a QuickTune 2000 Drop Away when I bought my bow. The bolt that came with the rest was too short for me to be able to screw the rest into the slot. I was forced to purchase a completely differen't bolt that for some reason won't hold the rest in position like it should, keeping the arrow from contacting it after the shot.


Here you can see the slot I'm talking about along with the aftermarket bolt I had to buy in order to fit the rest on the bow.

On nearly every arrow I shot today, I noticed that each left a small amount of rubber from the vane that was contacting on the rest, leaving me to beleive that there is a significant amount of contact. If it were minimal, it wouldn't leave any markings, right?


Here you'll notice the white markings I'm talking about on the left hand side of the rest.

For some reason this isn't affecting my shots as much as you would think, I can still hit where I'm aiming, and I can group my arrows very well. For some, this might not seem like a problem, but to a perfectionist it's a nightmare. It's causing a wave like appearance to my vanes and it's leaving little indentations along one side of the vane making contact. I really don't have the money to be able to refletch my arrows after every time I shoot, and I sure don't have enough to buy a new rest.


Wave like appearance.


Indents on the side of the vane making contact.

So, has anyone ever experienced a problem like this? I was told by one person that any bow shooting speeds over 240 fps with the QT2000 will make contact, but I find this hard to beleive. Why would NAP put a product like that out on the market? If you've experienced this before, what did you do to fix the problem? Any help is greatly appreciated.