BigKid, I've been thinking about your wood riser bow and this problem. Most folks were still shooting fingers when it was made and most everyone was using a flipper/plunger type setup. Wood risers, in particular, were cut pretty thick thru the sight window to give them added strength, and were cut very close to centershot instead being cut past center like metal riser bows. So you simply do not have the right amount of clearance for shooting cock vane down.

I would suggest a new rest, particularly the GKF Star Hunter. Not at all expensive (pretty darned cheap actually, as rests go nowadays) and it's an excellent all round rest for fingers OR release. There are still a lot of other types of rests on the market that orient cock feather out, so you might shop around some. Anyway, put one of those on, orient your fletchings cock vane out and your contact problems will be gone.

Also... Some bows of that time period were designed without cable guards. I know for sure Browning had some like that, not sure about Bear. If rotating the nocks to cock vane out doesn't fix the cable contact, you are going to have to get one of those aftermarket bolt-on cable guards.

Edited by - Arthur P on 09/10/2002 13:28:21