When I shot recurves I swore by the Hoyt hunter/bear weather rest. They are fantastic. I got bit by the traditional bug and wanted to shoot off the shelf and could not get it to work, I shoot longbows only now but if I pick up another recurve a weather rest will be the first thing going on. I love them

Glad to hear of the good results.      

i recently switched to a longbow and while never having tried a rest before, after some advice from a couple of guys who know, I'm going to give a whirl after I get the go ahead from my MD. (rotator surgery)

I love the Hoyt hunter rest. It's my favorite as well out of all the stick ons!

Love the shelf Pete....although i shot like crap yesterday.

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Does it ever make noise when you draw an arrow across it in cold weather conditions?

Not with the Hoyt Pro Hunter. It's a quiet rubber/plastic compound. Some of the cheaper nockoffs are louder. I'll pay the extra $.51 (yes 51 cents!) or so for the hoyt. The bear weatherrest is also good and costs a couple bucks more.

For less than $5 for any of these options, I will never be without! Most of them are less than $3!

Does anyone know why arrow flight improves with an elevated rest, technically speaking?

Must have sparked an interest in this product. 3 Rivers is out of these rests.    

Take care , Randy

3 of the 4 Women's medal finalists in the 2012 Olympics were using the $2.50 Hoyt Super Rest

QuoteOriginally posted by rlc1959:
Must have sparked an interest in this product. 3 Rivers is out of these rests.      

Take care , Randy

We have some, not on the site, e-mail if you need help.

I shoot the Weatherests on all of my recurves, I also get better flight and groups.  I shoot 3 under and using the rest on factory bows or any bow not tillered for 3 under helps move your draw fingers closer to the split position the bow is tillered for too.

I have been using one for years and also cut it to lower it.

I don't understand the purpose of lowering it. Seems like feathers would hit shelf..defeating part of the "elevated" rest function.

Have you guys seen the tooth brush set up? you modify it and do the same thing. seems pretty neat!

I'm wondering the same thing Hoyt.  It may be though that archer's paradox puts the fletching away from the shelf anyway as the arrow passes over?

QuoteOriginally posted by Bowwild:
I'm wondering the same thing Hoyt.  It may be though that archer's paradox puts the fletching away from the shelf anyway as the arrow passes over?

It doesn't matter for feathers so much.  With vanes I found I needed to have the rest set high enough for the vanes to clear the shelf, archers paradox or not.  I must not have enough archers paradox...

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QuoteOriginally posted by NormanDale33:
I have wondered about this in the past. My question is how does it  affect a bows tiller to adjust the arrow placement that much further up the string? It seems that the tiller would need to change to take it to account the change in where the string is being drawn...does anybody notice a change in the arrow flight?

It is a half inch.  Nobody here is good enough to notice a difference with all that stuff...the only change you will see in arrow flight is that it is as good or better! [/b]

You haven't seen me shoot    I figured it must not make a difference if it seems to improve flight. Thanks for the response Steve-O.

Do people using the elevated rest shoot instinctive, or sue some gap style? I'm asking since the closer the arrow is to your hand the better for instinctive shooting, work better for me that way.

Instinctive (whatever that means). I don't think about any difference between it and off the shelf. I don't notice anything different in the sight picture.

I'm saying instinctive as G Fred Asbel see's it, not using the arrow in your aiming. Just wondering.
I didn't think that a lot of trad shooter where using them, elevated rest that is.
Cheers