I had a post up earlier and mentioned reworking the grip on a 70's Browning explorer 2. I was also thinking about lowering the shelf by about 3/8" to 1/2" to put the arrow closer to my hand. I have seen this done on other bows mostly older Bears. How much do you think this will affect this bows tiller? I do know that every one that I have seen have come with an elevated rest from the factory,and I am shooting this one off the self already. Thanks Joe.

Don't lower the shelf, just radius it. Leave the contact as is. If you cut the shelf lower to your hand you will create another issue.....cold weather hunting with a heavy glove or mitten you find yourself shooting off the glove.

I shoot with elevated rests on all my bows. Depending on the size of the sight window I move the rests (higher or lower) so I get the same look in the sight window on all of them. They vary from 1/4" off the shelf to as high as 1 1/4"+ above it and if I have a tiller problem I can't tell it. They all shoot good. So 3/8 to 1/2" shouldn't be a problem.

now me personaly I lower the shelf on all of my bows.I always have because I like the way my bows shoot with a lower shelf (its really to each his own type thing) my green stripe gainsville riser shoots great and its about 1/4" above my knuckle.I have never ever had lowering the shelf a little cause any problems with tillering on older model bows.They were mass produced and were tillered within a given amount (give or take 1/4" eather way)........bd