Rest question

[col3]

I just picked up my new bow and im wondering if when i put my rest on (whisker buscuit) if my arrow should be straight when knocked and sitting in the rest, or if it matters if its on a downward angle, and can the biscuit be on an angle, or is it better if it sits straight, if any one cna help thanks

[Diamond Archer 01]

I don't know a lot about whisker biscuits but I assume that your arrow should sit straight when sitting on the rest.

[col3]

thats what i figured, but if there is a place to ask its here lol

[BBR12]

Yeah you want your arrow to be level. You will probably want to put and extra dab of glue on the front of your fletches. I shot a bisquit for a year and had trouble with it pulling flethings off. I went back to my old rest this year.

[col3]

yeah ive been shooting onr for a while now, but my old bow came with it already on so i never had to deal with putting a new one on, but i switched fletching this year and havent had a problem with fletching coming off at all

[Muleyman]

U should see 2 little holes on your riser right where your rest go's. They are called the buger points. You want to be able to see about an 1/8 of an inch of it. So in other words your arrow should be an 1/8 of an inch below those. Look at your bow from the side with an arrow in and is soon as u can seee an 1/8 of an inch of those holes u got it perfect.

[col3]

thanks for the info, got 'er on there now, just gotta sight'er in, thanks again

[GWSmith]

The hole drilled and (most times) tapped into the side of the riser into which the arrows rest attaches....Most call this hole a berger button. Those two small holes above the larger single hole are the sight mounting holes.

Edited February 27, 2010 by GWSmith

[col3]

Ok so after seeing that little diagram i figured id post a pic to see if what i did looks right, because if i do it like that the arrow is on a downward angle from the nocking point, you can see right above the white writing on the arrow a little bit of the hole the rest is mounted into, is this right or does it need to be moved more?

heres how the arrow sits,

Edited February 27, 2010 by col3

[MichiganHunter]

The arrow should be stright when fully drawn back but I think it might be a small degree down at let down.

[col3]

ahh it all makes sense now, it is straight when at full draw, finally, it took a while but i got it on right now, thanks everyone for all the help

[chris]

all great advice I shot whisker bisquit rest for a while it will tear your arrows up

[dbHunterNY]

Every bow has a different cam design and shoots different. I've shot a whisker biscuit now for 3 years and I've NEVER had it tear a vane off. I don't know what you've got, but I shoot a single cam bow. I can tell you my bow right now is shooting perfect bullet holes through paper: It's tuned. The holes next to the arrow shelf still apply, but my biscuit maybe tipped a hair foward. You might as well call it straight up though. at rest my arrow is tipped downward slightly, not perpendicular with the string as you might think it should be. This is due to nock travel; not all bows have nocks that travel along a flat horizontal axis. That's what input I can give, but that's my bow. Thought I'd post this, because it seems to contradict some info you've been given. Hope this helps too.

[bow hunter steve]

i use a hostage rest but, i get contact so, im looking into a dropaway rest, which im gona get at some point, so then i wont have any contact

[Straight Shooter]

I've got WB on both of my hunting bows and have both of them squared to the bow, then the arrow squared to it. I shoot blazer vanes and have had no problems with vanes tearing, arrows tearing up or anything of that nature. These rest are very accurate out to 45 yards to were I am sighted into. If your getting any type of vane wear or arrow, then your bow isn't tuned or arrow rest isn't square.