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Someone gonna pull my trad card

gcr0003

gcr0003

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if I switch back to a bear weather rest or equivalent?

I’ve shot weather rests on my past bows and something about them feels like a cleaner shot. I might try one out on my current bow and see if the love is still there. I haven’t had any trouble with off the shelf shooting per se. Like I said, it just doesn’t feel as smooth to me. At least I’ll still be shooting a wood riser right?
 
gcr0003 said:
if I switch back to a bear weather rest or equivalent?

I’ve shot weather rests on my past bows and something about them feels like a cleaner shot. I might try one out on my current bow and see if the love is still there. I haven’t had any trouble with off the shelf shooting per se. Like I said, it just doesn’t feel as smooth to me. At least I’ll still be shooting a wood riser right?
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Well, we won't pull your trad card...YET. But we will punch it once. 3 punches and you will have to surrender it.
JK...I'm just happy there isn't 5 pounds of machined hardware on the bow!
 
gcr0003 said:
I draw the line at springy rests. You won’t catch me using one. Next thing you will do is tell me to tie-die hydro dip my bow neon pink and green and hunt from the ground.
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lmao. I’m actually down with the ground part of that rant!

Use the Hoyt super rest then.
 
I really like the looks of a bow set up to shoot off the shelf but I’ve had a few that just shot better off a rest. My preference is a Hoyt Super Rest. I do paint them brown or black depending on the bow though. It seems wrong to put a white one on a wood bow.
 
GCTerpfan said:
I really like the looks of a bow set up to shoot off the shelf but I’ve had a few that just shot better off a rest. My preference is a Hoyt Super Rest. I do paint them brown or black depending on the bow though. It seems wrong to put a white one on a wood bow.
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Yea the super rests are solid performers
 
Go for it, if you look at the recurves from Herters from the 60-70’s many/most of them were designed to use an elevated brush rest.
 
TradBowGuy said:
Remember-don't get hung up on the "Traditional" label. It means what it means...to YOU. Everyone has their own opinion on what "Traditional Archery" is, and we all know what opinions are like... ;)
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Hey now, if you want to identify as trad, go ahead. But don’t expect me to call you a trad when you’re shooting off an aluminum riser with a springy rest and Olympic style recurve sight and a stabilizer like @Razorbak66 :tearsofjoy:
 
Joking aside. I’ve only shot a super/bear rest on my recurves. The bow I’m considering it on is my Bearpaw Slick Stick. Any thoughts on this rest for a modern reflex/deflex longbow that is pretty short?
 
gcr0003 said:
Hey now, if you want to identify as trad, go ahead. But don’t expect me to call you a trad when you’re shooting off an aluminum riser with a springy rest and Olympic style recurve sight and a stabilizer like @Razorbak66 :tearsofjoy:
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Well, all but one of the bows in my "herd" are made of wood. The "outcast" is my Dad's Marz 66" recurve that he had made by Mr Marz back in the day, which has an aluminum riser with maple inserts in the grip. None of them have rests, sights, stabilizers, clickers, etc.- just the bow, a string, & quiver. Where the arrow goes is up to me! ;)

You like weather rests, so go with that, IMO.
 
I became aware of a term "single string bow" years ago, that might put a lot of minds at ease.
That would cover every year from the beginning, to today, regardless of the stuff you hang on your bow.
 
Ya’ll crucify me when you see my 21” Satori is all set up with a sight, d loop, plunger and superflyte rest and shooting a release with it won’t ya?!?!? Won’t ya!?!? it’s coming folks!! It might even have a stabilizer:triumph:
 
woodsdog2 said:
Ya’ll crucify me when you see my 21” Satori is all set up with a sight, d loop, plunger and superflyte rest and shooting a release with it won’t ya?!?!? Won’t ya!?!? it’s coming folks!! It might even have a stabilizer:triumph:
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Stabilizer is fine. But a release??? :)
 
gcr0003 said:
Joking aside. I’ve only shot a super/bear rest on my recurves. The bow I’m considering it on is my Bearpaw Slick Stick. Any thoughts on this rest for a modern reflex/deflex longbow that is pretty short?
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It will work, but those bows have a nice radiused shelf on them for shooting off the shelf. Have you tried a wooden match stick under the rest material?
 
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