I’m thinking about putting a bear wheather rest on my Zipper Recurve. How high above the rest , and where should I place it on the side plate. Pictures would be great if anybody has some. Thanks Don

Place it low, I’ll send a pic later

I put a magnetic flipper style on my Silvertip as low as I could get it.

Low as possible. In fact shave the bottom of rest to get it closer to shelf. Something I have done since I saw one of the wensels show how he did it on Masters of the Barebow video. Also you want it placed in line with the deepest part of the grip throat. Yes, I like them, makes tuning easier. Gets me shooting instead of puttzing around tuning.

Good for shooting vanes too, which are great in really wet places like AK.

If you shoot vanes, use an arrow to determine the clearance needed while deciding your rest height.

Take your smartphone and have somebody shoot slo-mo video from the side and over your shoulder to see where and how your arrow really passes over the riser and what it's doing. No need to guess when you can slow it down and see it.

The arrow contact point should be over the deepest part of the grip. As others have said as low as possible, so as not to alter the tiller or balance of the bow any more than necessary, if it was made to shoot off the shelf.>>>----> Ken

I put me need as low as it will go with the prong above the deepest part of the grip. Great flight with both feathers and vanes

I really like the Bear feather rest 3 Rivers has them n Big Jims

Weather Rest - But with about a 1/8 of an inch cut off bottom to the rest and flipper arm. It keeps the rest closer to the bottom to the shelf and makes the flipper arm a little more flexible. Got this idea from Barry and Gene Wensel. Works great.

Here an idea of how to trim the bottom and shave off the bump out. You all want to mount it with the thinest adhesive possible to keep it as close to the side if the shelf as possible.

It is pretty simple, sit the bottom of the rest on the shelf and it will work fine. Actually, it will work fine wherever you put it but I sit mine on the shelf. There's is no magic formula, just personal choice...and it will work fine with a canted bow.

Wow great info . Really appreciate the in put. As some as I get my Hindu do list done. Out to the barn to put on my bear wheather rest. I just love this sight great bunch of people. Always very helpful. Thanks and have a very blessed day

Neither 3Rivers or Big Jim’s list the feather rest

I don't know what your looking at Nrhternerbe105 they have them for 16.95

https://www.ebay.com/itm/wild-turkey-feather-arrow-rest-for-recurve-longbow-left-or-right/163486711741?hash=item2610913fbd:g:J6cAAOSw-FZXkigu&frcectupt=true

New store in town.

feather or weather? I like the Hoyt better and there is no confusion. Making your own is even better,George will tell you how. 8^) >>>----> Ken

That place won't stay in business very long! Too much overhead considering thier paltry income! ...unless it's compound rests! ;)

Well rest assured they should have them in stock!

I have tried the Bear rest and other hunter style plastic flipper rests. They work OK with a heavy arrow but a magnetic flipper rest gives a cleaner arrow launch. The plastic Hoyt super rest also works well.

I do like the performance but I don't like the look of the magnetic or white super rests on a traditional wooden bow. I went back to the style of rest that came with my first bow from the 1960s. It is a "brush" rest still available from 3Rivers. A brush rest will give a clean shot, looks "trad", is inexpensive and will last forever. It won't break or snag when walking in the woods.

Just the other day I was looking at the rubber on my tennis shoes and thinking how well it grips as I walk. Then I thought I think I'll make an arrow rest out of rubber!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I never did it, but if you shot a weather rest and the flipper that David McLendon suggests I'll bet you'd see a loss of energy.

Bowmania

Oh my, we sure don't want any rest that doesn't correlate well aesthetically to the bow. A 'trad'fashion faux pas for sure nowadays. As for snagging or falling off, etc., I never had one do that in the 52+ years that I've been using them.

Bowmania, if the arrow is tuned correctly, it will only contact the rest briefly so the loss/gain is irrelevant. Nothing drags more than a carpet.

My dad had the same Bear rest on his bow for 10 years.

Good rest Craig. Here's mine and I've been shooting it hard for over 5 years. It's a TRAP feather rest. I know you can't shoot these in IBO but I could give a rat's patukus about that.

Agree with bowmania I don't think the rubber rest is at all smooth but was soundly out voted the last time I suggested that. I do like brush,feather,and Teflon/plastic rests. All are easy to make. If kept reasonable small look just fine on any bow. I do shoot longbows off the shelf but a rest improves the accuracy on all others for me.Your mileage may vary. >>>>-----> Ken

If you want a bow that tunes readily, make sure the rest/side plate positions the arrow so that when you sight down the center of the bow from the string the tip of the arrow is just to the left of the string line. Way to many forget this and can't figure out why tuning is such an issue.

I seriously doubt you'd see a loss of energy from the rest that I use, you can blow on it and move it, the magnet is weak and just strong enough to return the arm to battery. Based on the slow motion video that I have shot, the arrow doesn't ride the rest all the way out but clears it pretty quickly. We could drag out the toys and measure and find out, but it's just not on my mind that much, but I think I will go put that 'tip together and shoot it today.

It's magnetic and spring flipper rests for me...

But I know I'm not a real trad shooter:)

[[[ "If you shoot vanes, use an arrow to determine the clearance needed while deciding your rest height.' ]]]

^^^THIS^^^

Rest needs to be high enough to give the lower vane complete clearance of the shelf.

While not as critical, it works well that way with feathers also.

Total fletching clearance at pass is a good thing.

Rick

I shoot cock feather/vane inside and the lower hen feather/vane passes over the shelf edge without any contact.

I have shot a springy rest for quite a while now, don't think I'll ever shoot anything else.

David, I I shoot cock vane in as well, and yes it makes a difference just as you describe.

I still go ahead & raise it a little, and the reason is to be a little forgiving to me when I have an errant loose, or other breakdown in form, that might make the arrow shoot off the bow a little different.

On risers with no holes I just go up enough to suit me. If my riser has a berger button hole I just go all the way up to it, and be done with it.

I do the same for shooting off the shelf, when modifying the height of my shelf at the pivot point.

Rick

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