They attach to the bow one of two ways. Either it's a glue-on, in which case you can take a knife and carefully trim the old one off, or it has plastic threads that go through the riser. If you can, hold the bow like you're going to shoot it, line the string up with your pins and take a picture and post it. I'm curious if this bow was made for a flipper rest or if it's something that someone just put on there.
My parents bought the bow for me brand new for Christmas one year. It say's the new rest has self adhesive backing. I read a review of this bow on the bass pro shops website and there was one review that mentioned the same problem I'm having.
The 4 arrows with field points I currently own have vanes that are Green and orange and the shaft is bright orange, They are easton Scout arrows and are Fiberglass.
Also, I will be hunting from a Ground blind if that makes any difference. I spoke to a representative at Lancaster archery online a few days a go and he suggested a Gold tip ultralight Entrada in the 600 shaft size for my actual hunting arrow
That explains a lot. When you're shooting a bow that uses a flipper rest or shooting a bow like a longbow or a recurve you almost have to be shooting feather fletched arrows. On these bows, the arrow maintains contact pretty much all the way through the shot. When your "vanes" hit your flipper rest they don't collapse like feathers and the result is that when they make contact they'll "kick" tail end of the arrow out or up or both, resulting in totally unpredictable arrow flight. A lot of deer have fallen to bows that use these rests, but you've got to use the right fletchings. If you get your arrows fletched with feathers, get a release and have the shop put a string loop on the string I think you'll be amazed at the difference. Since your rest is a glue on it would probably be a good idea to replace that also. Just make sure you get it back in the exact spot the old one was glued to.
Not if you're shooting off of that rest. The reason I was asking you to take a picture from the back of the bow is so that we could see the "cut out" in the riser to see if your bow is designed to take a different type of rest. The problem with putting any other type of rest on a bow that was designed for a flipper rest is where the "center shot" on the bow falls. If your bow was designed to use that rest, then it was designed for the arrow to sit very close to the riser. Even if you did manage to put a different type of rest on the bow the "center shot", or where the arrow needs to be in order to shoot properly, would still be so close to the bow that vanes would contact the riser.
I went to ****s today to have that rest replaced and I left the bow there with new rest to be put on by their Archery tech speacialist and should have it back in 2-3 days. I am having the speacialist put a string loop ( I think thats what its called, I know it's a loop) on the bow as well. I could not find feathered arrows though, all they had were ones with Vanes. Any thing else I should do?
