My friend Lynn made me an arrow rest that looks very similar to this one and placed it on my bow.  The arrow shaft rests on top of it and helps to keep the fletchings (feathers on the back of the arrow) from hitting the bow.

Last night I went to the archery range to post up my third weeks league score.  I was pumped to get a good score with my new found knowledge (taught in the last two lessons).  I have not had the practice I need, but none the less I can practice and still post up my score.  All of this “getting good at archery” takes thousands of arrows being shot.  So, the other day I was told the arrows I am so proud to own and shoot are the wrong size for my bow.  Not that they aren’t good arrows, they are just not flexible enough for the bow weight I’m shooting right now.  Maybe in a year or so when my bow weight it up around 45 pounds or so.

Well, Chris wanted me to try some arrows she had at home and met me at the range with them last night.  Really nice looking arrows in a 600 spine weight.  Just what I’ve been told I need to be shooting out of my bow.  I was quite excited to try her arrows and was ready to shoot all of hers (11 of them) and then my 5 and see the difference.  When the lane captain called for the archers to go to the line, I was ready.  I nocked up one of her arrows, set myself, drew back and anchored and followed through with one of my best shots….The arrow came off the bow twisting and turning all the way to the arrow bunk…I missed the target, but safely planted her arrow in the bunk…undamaged.

However, when I went to place number two arrow on the rest, the rest was gone!  I looked down range on the floor and there that little bugger laid.  This is not good and my night was over before it had even began.

Chris let me use some glue they had there for securing just this sort of thing back onto the bow, but it would have needed an hour or so to dry in order to be secure enough to shoot off it.  So even after a half hour of trying to get it to secure to the bow, I knew I was defeated and packed up my stuff and came home.

I have since secured it with a double sticky backed picture hanging material and it seems to be holding very well.  In fact, this sticky backed stuff was quite un-forgiving as where I placed the feather arrow rest on it, there it was and there was no un-doing what I had done.  I had to trim off the excess picture hanging stuff around the arrow rest.  And I was very careful in placing that on the bow.  All is well now and I will add some of this double sticky stuff to my growing bow shooting bag.  The bag for which I have not gotten from DI as yet.

I have also changed my order for arrows from Lancaster and asked them to make them 600 spine weight arrows for the four that they still owe me.  We will see how that goes.

Bears Butt

February 20, 2015