How To Set Up A Arrow Rest

The rest nosotros are going to install is the drop away style residue. Drop away fashion rests eliminate fletching interference, rest tension settings and other factors which can impede reaching maximum efficiency with your bow. If installed correctly on a well tuned bow, the drop abroad residuum is the best choice. If y'all are not installing a drop away style rest, you tin still use some key principles on this folio to ensure a successful setup.

Steps for installing an arrow rest

1. Examine your arrow rest'southward parts

Remove the parts of the rest from the packaging and report the supplied instructions.

two. Attach your pointer rest to the bow's riser

Adhere the residuum squarely to the riser past installing the berger hole screw and any additional set screws.

3. Set the arrow remainder'south up position

With an arrow on the bowstring, manually pull the string to bring the balance to the up position. Make any adjustments necessary to have the eye of the pointer directly horizontal to the eye of the berger hole.

Inspect the down position and make sure at that place is no contact betwixt the arrow holding arm and the arrow shelf. If there is, yous will take to move the rest towards the bowstring to eliminate this contact. If there is not enough adjustment and you tin can not achieve a solution to this problem you should install something to cushion the affect. Too, you may enhance the residue upwardly to an one/8 inch off the center of the berger hole if that does the fox.

4. Set you lot arrow balance'south center shot adjustment

The center shot is the arrow remainder'southward left to right location. This should exist set at a altitude, recommended from the bow's manufacturer, off the inside face of the riser.

5. Tie in the arrow rest's drop abroad cord

Snugly, but not tightly, tie in your drop away's string to your downward cable with a "setting knot" in an area which will not interfere with the upward cablevision.

6. Set your tie in point on the down cable

Draw your bow back to engage the drop away rest. When the rest is in the upward position during the depict you lot can continue to total depict if the cord was tied in snugly and not tightly. The cable will be able to pass through the knot and at total draw will establish the proper "tie in" location. When returning from full draw the knot, if snug, should agree in this desired location.

7. Cease tying in the drop away cord

You tin can now tighten the setting knot. Beneath the "setting knot" yous tin can now necktie in your finishing knot to the cord. Make certain this is done below the setting knot. Tie this in tightly and finish the knot with techniques in the "knot tying 101" link.

8. Use the finishing touches

Trim any excess cord below the knots and while keeping the flame off the cable, melt the frayed cease with a lighter. You can now draw the bow back slowly to ensure that the rest raises properly, only not prematurely, at full draw and that the knots are holding well.

Go on with paper tuning for final adjustments.