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Someone gonna pull my trad card

HuumanCreed said:
So something I learned recently at a recent trad event is that you don't want to pad the whole area in one piece of velcro. I did the velcro thing too and just used one piece folded into an angle and rest it on the bow. You want to leave an gap at the corner of square point. This would allow for the fletching to have space to clear and is actually create a more consistent flight. It will also help the durability of your fletching. If you think about it, it make sense. An arrow is round, so its never going to make contact with the corner and with the padding/rest/strike plate, its going to move the arrow away from the bow even more. This is why most bow have different rest and strike plate. I find that its very true, my arrow fly a lot straighter especially when I shoot 3 fletching with cock feather facing out.

Shatterproof Archery give a really good explanation on how to setup a rest.

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For me the rest is to protect the bow from wear not the fetching. I been shooting the same fletching on these arrows off the shelf for a good year now and they’re still doing fine. I’m trying to avoid the shaft or fletching from wearing on the riser. From the previous pads I had there was a clear wear line from the arrow shaft so I’m not convinced that the arrow doesn’t ride on the shelf for a certain distance before bending out of the way, otherwise how would it be wearing the pads. I did use separate pieces for the horizontal and vertical but I purposely cut them to the contour of the bow so they would fit snug in the corner. Thanks for the thoughts, if it works for you that’s great. Traditional archery has way too much variability to have hard and fast rules on this type of stuff. All in all the Velcro shoots wonderful so far. If it continues to hold up I’ll be very pleased.
 
Less is best you can do what BW does for their rests on their bows you can rig up Velcro with cut outs. I’ve done that with thin Velcro and leather on many bows over the years
 
Razorbak66 said:
Less is best you can do what BW does for their rests on their bows you can rig up Velcro with cut outs. I’ve done that with thin Velcro and leather on many bows over the years
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What or who is BW
 
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