Hi,
First post here as my son and I have not been shooting for too long, really enjoying it though.
As the title suggests though I have a question about arrow rests. We both got our own kit about a month ago and both bows were fitted with the hoyt super rest. All has been good so far but on Friday evening my son could not shoot correctly at all, the arrows were violently waving left and right in flight. Several club members have said our rests need to be upgraded and that this is the cause. Further investigation showed that the arrows could indeed wobble left and right a little on the rest to the point they were not in contact with the button. We changed the rest as I had a spare of the same sort and things improved but were still not right. However the button had been tweaked by that point.
When I got home I checked his bow setup and the button now looked to be too far in after the adjustment carried out during Fridays issues, meaning the shaft of the arrow shows to the left of the string rather than the right (we both shoot left handed). When I adjusted the button to correctly align the arrow shaft I did notice that it's so far away from the riser that the arrow rests right on the part of the rest where the plastic gets very thin. This could explain why the rest wore out so quickly.
I'm now uncertain as to what to do, my lad is 9 and does not use a clicker, so I'm concerned a magnetic rest will just cause other problems like arrows constantly falling off, however it looks like the hoyt super rest needs to be stood away from the riser more than the supplied sticky pad allows. I could use 2 pads I guess.
The bow is a hoyt excel with sf limbs. All looks to be true so I don't think the setup is causing the spacing issue but I could be wrong.
All advice greatly appreciated
Thanks
Ed
First post here as my son and I have not been shooting for too long, really enjoying it though.
As the title suggests though I have a question about arrow rests. We both got our own kit about a month ago and both bows were fitted with the hoyt super rest. All has been good so far but on Friday evening my son could not shoot correctly at all, the arrows were violently waving left and right in flight. Several club members have said our rests need to be upgraded and that this is the cause. Further investigation showed that the arrows could indeed wobble left and right a little on the rest to the point they were not in contact with the button. We changed the rest as I had a spare of the same sort and things improved but were still not right. However the button had been tweaked by that point.
When I got home I checked his bow setup and the button now looked to be too far in after the adjustment carried out during Fridays issues, meaning the shaft of the arrow shows to the left of the string rather than the right (we both shoot left handed). When I adjusted the button to correctly align the arrow shaft I did notice that it's so far away from the riser that the arrow rests right on the part of the rest where the plastic gets very thin. This could explain why the rest wore out so quickly.
I'm now uncertain as to what to do, my lad is 9 and does not use a clicker, so I'm concerned a magnetic rest will just cause other problems like arrows constantly falling off, however it looks like the hoyt super rest needs to be stood away from the riser more than the supplied sticky pad allows. I could use 2 pads I guess.
The bow is a hoyt excel with sf limbs. All looks to be true so I don't think the setup is causing the spacing issue but I could be wrong.
All advice greatly appreciated
Thanks
Ed