Strike plate materials

[karrow]

martin rug rest is super soft. mole skin, leather, calf hair, Velcro, corn pads like for your feet. I use a lot of the felt pads for the bottoms of chair legs. they have a sticky side and come in different thicknesses.

[redshedbowhunter]

I recently found some low-profile Velcro at Home Depot.

[Gil]

[Gil]

I now use seal skin rest and strike plate.  The first ones i used was given by Dannybows when i was still in the Philippines. Now that i live in Edmonton, Jack Kempf gives me some when i need it.

[Jon Stewart]

How do you guys apply the seal skin. Not what glue to use but how does it look on the bow after it is applied. The direction the hair goes I guess is what I am asking.

Does seal skin last very long?

[DanielB89]

thank you for all the replies fellas.  I am definitely going to have to get me some double sided tape.

[BigJim]

The problem with the fuzzy Velcro is the thickness. Since most guys already use arrows that are too stiff, chances are this will make things worse...and then it will wear in.

I like calf hair, but what I have gone to is a very thin moose hide that has a ultra suede finish on one side. Yes, I sell it, but only because it works so well. It has two sided adhesive on the slick side. Put it on the shelf and side plate as one or just use it on the side plate. It is very thin and incredibly quiet....so you say "but BigJIm, I want to be able to tune". Well yeah, I say, cut a rubber band. Get one that is about a 1/4" wide and very thin. Cut it in about 3/4" lengths and put 3 or 4 in your pocket.
Start shooting. Then put one of the rubber  band pieces at the fulcrum of your site window and shoot some taking note of changes. Then stack a second piece on top of the first and so on until you find out what works the best.
Eazy peazy and you can't hardly wear it out.
BigJIm

[Mark R]

I agree with Bisch's first sentence, Beaver Hair for me too.

[Mike Mecredy]

The best thing I've found yet is super pad, I get it from 3 rivers, very thin, quiet and durable.

[flyguysc]

Thanks for the laugh Bisch. Now that's funny but so true.  http://tradgang.com/noncgi/icons/icon14.gif

[catman1]

Sealskin for me and slick $ tuff.

[MnFn]

Sealskin (which is kind of hard to find - unless uou have an old sealskin coat) and Barge cement.

I use this sparingly as a last resort, otherwise leather of various thicknesses and of course, Velcro.

I also got the sealskin from  a mber here who had an old sealskin coat.

[Bobaru]

2x with Terry on velcro spooking deer.  I learned the hard way....

[Sirius Black]

I was using Velcro, but I recently bought a used longbow that had a calf hair rest/side plate on it, and I think that I like it even better. Very quiet, and after hundreds of shots, still looks like new.

[twigflicker]

3x's with Terry... some of my carbons sound like an orchestra firing up when it gets cold... which is too bad... I like the stuff and the industrial stuff wears really well...
Jonathan

[damascusdave]

The nice thing about sealskin is that it comes with relatively long hair on it...I just take my electric hair clippers and make the hair whatever length I want...I am sure you can wear it out but there will have been a lot of arrows over it before that happens...I tune my arrows to the bow a slightly different way...I just keep trying bows until I find one that will shoot that arrow

DDave

[LBR]

Thanks.  I don't have any AD's, my carbons are Trophy Ridge. Vkilled a doe opening day this season with one at maybe 5 - 8 yds, but it wasn't a dead quiet evening.  I'll sure check to see if I get any noise now.