Selling my Compounds and having a recurve built.. Trying to learn, and read up here..

So, do most shoot off a felt covered shelf, or off a little rest??

Thanks, and hi...
   
toot

Shelf for me.  Some like a rest though because you can use vanes and they are water proof. I personally like feathers and shooting of the shelf. You can also "water proof" your feathers if you like.

My 2 cents,
Charlie

So if I'm gonna shoot vanes, I would want a rest??

Thanks

I prefer shooting off the shelf for hunting and slightly prefer using a cushion plunger and elevated rest for target competition if I had a choice.

If I had to pick one...I would pick shooting off the shelf...because I'm primarily a bowhunter and a trick shot...and I can get most bows to shoot just as well off the shelf as I can with an elevated rest.

Ray  

QuoteOriginally posted by toot:
So if I'm gonna shoot vanes, I would want a rest??

Thanks

Preferably...Yes...but if you watch slow motion video of the archer's paradox...you can actually position the cock feather into the shelf at 3 o'clock and it should clear the riser.

Ray  

O.K.  Guess I'll experiment.. I'm just picturing the shaft screaming down the shelf, hitting the fletching, and kicking up/down/somewhere..
Toot

toot, I don't have a clue on the percentages of the community, but an over whelming number of the guys I've hunted with over the years shoot off the shelf.....like over 95%.

Proper brace hieght, nock point, proper arrows etc will keep your fletching from riser contact and your won't have any kick issues.

If you do want to shoot plastic vanes, an elevated rest will likely be best....from what I've 'heard'.  I really don't know cause I've never fooled with vanes or a rest.

Best of luck to ya either way.

I shoot off the shelf,just seems more traditional to me.And shooting longbows with an elevated rest just doesn't look or seem right to me.

Well, it sounds like there is absolutely nothing wrong with firing these babies right off the shelf..

Finally got the money from my Oneida sell. Gonna send a guy the money and have him start putting the recurve together..

It's gonna resemble this green/black one here on page 3.  The limbs will be a little different though..
http://www.archerytalk.com/vb/showthread.php?t=628251&page=3

The guy lives in Arizona.. His stuff his called, "Zona Bows."
I am wayyyyy jazzed about this.

Thanks for the responces, and save me a seat. I'm gonna crowd in on you guys now..

Toot

I use a rest on my recurve.  I think it is called a flipper style rest. My bow has a hole predrilled into it for a rest so I put one on it when I started shooting my recurve.  I like mine.

I've switched to feather rest from Trap on my older model recurves. Shoot off the shelf on my longbows and my new to me Kodiak II double shelf and my Ghost.

I shoot a NAP 750 rest on my titans and shoot vanes.  I dont see myself changing its easy to tune, and quite.

I shoot off the shelf but my brother swears by the Hoyt pro rest, if you can find one...PR

I borrowed a bow for my first lesson and that had a rest.  I then bought a Martin X200 and decided to try shooting it off the shelf and found i much prefer shooting it that way - it's far less fiddly in the hands and more importantly there's nothing to break.  

I think shooting off the shelf looks cool as well, so maybe there's a just a tiny hint of an ego trip thing in my thoughts.     :D

Whichever way you decide to go - shelf or rest, mention it to your bowyer.  He might tiller the bow slightly differently, or he might say the bow will work fine either way.  But I've had bows that don't work fine either way.

I now shoot all of my recurves off of a rest.  I just feel the rest is a little more forgiving.

I continue to shoot my longbows off of the shelf.

I shoot off of the shelf and use feather fletching!

Boy......  

Thanks, people...

Toot

Shelf -- the Bear hair rest -- feathers on all of my arrows. I like to keep it simple.

Rest only.

Steve