Pit a bear weather rest on my bow. My arrows are now all left 4-5 inches @ 20" and the little tab deal above the flipper has been almost shaved down after a few hundred arrows?
Any idea whats going on? Trying to tune/get my nock point set etc. Mainly just getting used to the sight picture shooting this way as my new bow thats on the way will be shot the same way.
Can't say for sure as there is likely a few things going on here. Obviously the arrow is hitting the rest on the way through. Raise your nock height until you are definitely too high by a little (5/8" for split and 7/8" for three under) and bare shaft. Once you get the arrow tuned for spine, you can tune your nock height.
If shooting three fingers under, you should have a nock point above and below arrow. Arrow nocks too tight will also cloud results.
The key is not where the arrow is hitting, but why it is hitting there. This can be caused by a shaft that is too stiff, or an arrow bouncing off of the bow and going left....my guess is the latter as you shouldn't wear out a rest like that.
BigJim
If the weather rest is thicker than the side plate you had previously, then your arrows may be too stiff now. Try some arrows that are spined a step or two down and see how it goes.
Or, like Rick Welch preaches, the rest might be thicker and it has moved your groups left, just as a thinner rest would move them the other way. He uses this method to make arrows hit where you look, so maybe you will have to change arrows with that rest to achieve that. Like Hermon said, moving center shot out requires a weaker arrow, usually, so you might have in effect stiffened the arrows too much and now they aren't flexing around the rest enough and producing excess wear on it. Try a really heavy point and see if they hit center again; that will tell you if you need weaker arrows pretty quickly, or whether you have some other contact issue going on.
Im drawing 28.5 (finally was able to get measured) 54# 28 so close to 55-56?
I have the Axis trad test kit. All have 75 grain inserts. I have a few different field point kits, but will try the 500's. I have to imagine they would be way tok weak but we'll see
Maybe not, depending on how much the rest changes your center-shot. I've read other people complaining about wear on this rest, though, and many of them say it wears to a point and then stops, and actually shoots better then.
I wonder if when my new bow comes if I should just start by trimming off that piece on the shelf before even shooting?
Maybe go with a different rest altogether. Hoyt flipper rest?
Others seem to like that rest; I haven't tried one. Some of the people who have complained about the Bear rest said the Hoyt doesn't have the same wear problems for them.