How many shoot with a flipper style rest or just shoot off the shelf? I shoot a recurve with a rest but was just curious if answer one shoots off the shelf?
I think there was a poll on this not too long ago...
For my 'curve it's an elevated rest!
I've used both...an elevated rest when I was shooting my GameMaster recurve and warfed black bear and off the shelf for everything else. Once you get used to it, either method works. I see no real difference.
definitely of the shelf for me
All of my recurves are shot off the shelf.
Shoot all my bows off the shelf
Shelf for me
Off the shelf for me, but did get a bow once that I shot three under and it was tillered so high I had to jack the nock way up to get proper flight. Stuck a flipper rest on it and wala all level. Some bows need them.
Shelf :campfire:
Shelf!
Shelf for me.
Elevated rest for nearly 35 years. Get a cleaner arrow flight. Some bows do not have enough radius in the shelf and create to much drag. I still keep the rest as low as possible to the shelf.
Shelf.
Both.
Just tried an elevated flipper rest on a couple of recurves and like what I'm seeing so far.
I never have been able to get really good arrow flight off the shelf. Someone here recommended the Bear weather rest. I tried one and haven't looked back. All my recurves have one.
My Bruin and Big River longbow off the shelf the rest I use a elevated rest....
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Glenn
I've shot Pro Hoyt style flipper rests since the 60's. Tried off the shelf a couple times didn't like it.
Off the shelf on all my bows.
Flipper rest for me. I can't tune a bow with out one for some reason.
Off the shelf. My bow has a highly radiused shelf for minimal contact.
fat bear rug and cut away close to the riser for a feather trough!
I shoot all bows with an elevated rest. Even if the shelf of a bow is highly radiused to reduce contact it doesn't address that shooting off the shelf gives us almost no clearance. The forgiveness a rest offers makes it more valuable to hunters than field archers in my opinion. For less than $5 for a stick on rest every archer should at least try one.
Rests here for about 40 years.
Tooth Brush rest for me.
I shoot off the shelf. But a flipper rest or a Bear Weatherest would be nice for hunting in foul weather with plastic vanes.
Getting ready to try a rest again. How often do elevated rests need to be replaced?
Getting ready to try a rest again. How long doe elevated rests need to be replaced?
Flipper rest on my recurves, shelf for the longbows. Works for me.
I shoot everything from off the shelf rugs to sealskin Morrison to flippers. I bought a Root Gamemaster that came with a flipper and left it on and it shot great. I sold the bow and the new owner continues to shoot it like that. I also like feather rests (TRAP)too.
Shelf!
I shoot all my recurves off the Shelf
Tooth brush rest for me.
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Off the shelf for me too.
Off the self on my straight limbed longbows, and toothbrush rest on the others!
Off the shelf on most, but I do have a "rain bow" that I put together with an elevated rest, 4-fletch helical plastic vanes, all plastic "accessories" on the bow such as string silencers and it shoots fantastic.