ORIGINAL: atlasman
Way outta my league.............wish I could help but I wouldn't know where to start.........especially with you shooting fingers.
If your bottom vanes are slamming into the rest's outer ring then I would say your nocking point is too high or your rest is too low. I would check your nocked arrow position and see if it is level (90 degrees) to your string.
I'm sure your problem is much more complex then that and the cable contact I really have no clue on.
Wish I could help more.
Hopefully one of the gurus around here will give you some advice.
Good Luck and congrats on your 3rd Elk. Sounds like you shoot pretty darn well as it is!!
Thanks for you help. For some reason I wasn't subscribed to the thread and didn't receive the response notification e-mail. But I have a correction to make to what I said, I am shooting the WB QS Deluxe, which is designed differently then the non-QS model. I took some pictures of what I was talking about and have come to some conclusions on my own. However, I lost the damn usb cable to download the pics from my camera, so I will just use a picture of the specific rest and my words for now. Here is the picture of the rest: (notice the holder/bracket on the bottom with the two allen screws, it may not look like it but it actually reduces the size of the biscuit in that 3/4'' area...)
What is happening is that the vanes will clear the outer ring without any contact. And the result is that two of the three vanes remain perfect. However, the vane that faces down toward that metal biscuit brace/bracket comes into contact with it. This is mainly because the brace/bracket reduces the circular bristle area. Then as one can imagine, I have damage to that one vane. You can actually see the marks from the vane on this brace/bracket where the vane is hitting. From this you would conclude that my arrow must not be level, however it is. Or at least the bow shop used a level to setup my rest and nock point, I watched them. I have a feeling this problem originates from finger torque, a result of shooting with fingers.
Anyways, I figured that there must be a solution, without switching to a release.
So I thought of a few things that may fix the problem. First, I tried shooting feathers, figuring that they would lay down when they come in contact with the bracket/brace. This didn't work. Feathers are much wider then a vane and do not pass through the biscuit smoothly. Again, this is from my experience, but they grouped very badly. Not to mention they were damaged just as badly on that one side. Then I came to the realization that they make vanes with a shorter hight. So I figured that if I shot a shorter vane, meaning height, not length, I would possibly clear the lower bracket/brace. But I haven't had a chance to give this theory a try. What do you think, will it work? Also, I plan on swiching from the standard duravanes that Carbon Express uses to the Bohnnings. Any other suggestions would be much appreciated.