whats your choice for a shelf rest?

[Bud B.]

Calf hair for shelf. Thin leather for riser.

[waknstak IL]

peel and stick velcro for me. durable,weather resistant,don't have to buy glue for it and inexpensive.

[Orion]

Leather, seal skin, velcro.  Lots of other stuff works as well.

[bad arrow]

Leather grip wrap. I massacred the material with my scissors trying to wrap my longbow grip, made it look so easy on the video. I'm set on shelf material now.....Phil

[Lefty]

Velcro here as well.

[Xavier]

Today i tried a 3river calf hair type rest. It is smooth... But very thin compared to older Bear style hair rests. I may try Velcro to get the arrow raised a bit in the rest.
I noticed the feather type rests elevate the arrow some as well - is there less fletching contact with slightly raised rests? I would guess so. But then why would anyone shoot right off the shelf, like with only leather for example?

[Over&Under]

Originally posted by Burnsie:
The fuzzy side of heavy duty velcro.

X2. Very tough,easy to use, and quiet.

[highplains55]

leather for me, ya know those sweedish ekornos
leather chairs they sell at furniture stores,i go in there and they give you free samples of the
best and varied leather, been using those for years,just right size for rest and window!

[coaster500]

Right now .... let's see, Hmmmm It's Beaver tail and Beaver tail and Beaver tail and oh yea I almost forgot Beaver tail  

[Bowtie]

I've always had good results with a calf hair rest/side plate.  Lasts a very long time for me with aluminum arrows.

[anchorman]

I personally use smooth leather lasts forever and is quiet and slick...

[Xavier]

So after thinking about this a bit more...
does it make sense that newer custom bows with a heavily radiused (sp?) shelf can get away with thin (ie leather) arrow rest.
whereas older bows with a very flat shelf needs some 'rise' (ie thicker rug style or arrow rest) to avoid friction/contact from fletchings?

i just noticed some 'red' marks from my fletching on the outer edge of shelf on a Browning Wasp with a flat shelf - just started shooting it and put a very thin calf hair rest on it.
just trying to figure out the nuances between different shelf - flat vs. radiused and the materials used for the rest.

[Mudd]

There's two out there that I want to try.

I've sent a pm to Straitera asking if he'd post a picture of it.

The other is a feather rest made by one of our own(Trap).
I hope Trap is still making and selling these. I know at one time he was an associate sponsor here.

God bless,Mudd

[michigan bill]

you guys who still have some seal skin are lucky indeed.  i bought an otter pelt and now i have a ready supply of string silencers and rests.  they told me once i went otter i wouldn't go back and i think they were right.

bill

[Zradix]

Bear hair here.
Don't like the velcro because it will grab any slight nick in your fletching.

I'm surprised the bearhair was loud for you.
There are some other places selling "bearhair like" products that are NOT the same.

I find the bear hair to be the quietest rest out there. Quite a bit quieter than velcro..and velcro is pretty darn quiet.

[Mudd]

If I can decipher the instructions and find the right kind of feathers I fully intend to try this one on a Hill.



God bless,Mudd

PS: Thank you Straitera

[chanumpa]

Seal skin is #uno,but now nearly impossible to get.I am trying some river otter that looks like it has great potential,we will see how it lasts.The velcro is hard to beat as well,and when you see some of the top bowyers in the nation sending their new bows out with it ,thats good enough for me.

[Burnsie]

Bear Hair is OK, but the last two times I tried it the adhesive dried out after several months and the edges started to peel up.

[BobCo 1965]

Personally, on most of my recurves, I like a Bear rubber Flipper style.

[Bishop]

Beaver tail side plate and rug rest on the shelf.