NAP centerrest

[ckanous]

What is the differance between the 2 rests NAP offers? Looks like 1 has ametal arm and the other is just the plastic is this right. I have a springy rest now and was gonna try something differant.

[bornagainbowhunter]

When I shot a wheelie bow, I shot barebow and fingers with at centershot rest.  I like the metal ones with tht replaceable rest perch.  The metal stud stays in your bow when the rest is worn and the plastic outer piece just gets thrown away and a new one added.  Saves alot of time, you don't have to re-tune your bow when you wear your rest out.

[RC]

I too loved the flipper rest when I shot a compound. A friend of mine uses one on a Gamemaster and loves it. I`ve seen him shoot vanes that flew like darts with broadheads.RC

[JSimon]

I'm considering buying one of these rests and I was trying to decide which one to buy as well. I'm leaning toward the coated metal flipper for no particular reason. I guess the wire flipper arm has a bit smaller profile and may make shooting plastic vanes that much easier. I'm assuming you can interchange the plastic and metal flippers on the same post if you want to switch. Is that true?

I'm shooting a Quinn Stallion that is cut 5/16" past center and I'm finding I need to bump out my strike plate a lot if I want to shoot fairly heavy point weight at my long draw. I'm currently using a stick-on Bear Weatherest and it isn't very easy to move the rest in and out during tuning. I ended up with quite a stack of adhesive foam behind my rest.

Something like the Centerrest would make the tuning process much simpler for me. I figure once I find out where my strike plate needs to be for my arrows, I can always measure how far it is away from the riser and adjust my stick-on rest accordingly.

[George D. Stout]

One of the reasons I dislike bows cut way past center is that you have to bring the rest back out again 8^(((.

Earl Hoyt made a nice apparatus that had a berger button body, with a steel plate that screwed into the other end where the rest goes.
You could easily adjust it in and out, and use whatever stick on rest you preferred.  It locked to the body with a small set screw that lay flat on the plate.

I still use stick-on rests on my recurves....for 42 years now.

[SlowBowinMO]

There are two and they're easy to get confused, the Centerest and Centerest Flipper, the flipper model is a better arrangement IMO.

[bornagainbowhunter]

I had trouble (when shooting wheels) with the metal flipper grabbing fletchings.  Might have been my setup, but I liked the plastic one much better.
I guess it is kind'a like Ford vs. Chevy right?
To each his own...

[Kevin Winkler]

New Archery Products makes the Centerest Flipper which is this model.
 http://www.newarchery.com/products/2-21/arrow-rests/centerest-flipper.html


The Centerest is this one.
 http://www.newarchery.com/products/2-20/arrow-rests/centerest.html

I have used and installed them on peoples bows for years. I have been using the Centerest flipper model on one of my longbows this past year. And yes, the rests are replaceable and are mounted to a square shank on the end of the threaded part. They are interchangeable and the flipper model has a spring loaded flipper that is almost bullet proof.
Great rests and very tunable.

[elknutz]

I was a fan of the CR flipper years ago.  It worked very well.  Still have a couple in my tool kit I think.

[CoilSpring]

If you can find one (NAP no longer makes them) there was 3rd called the Centerest Plunger. It was the teflon coated wire model with a built-in plunger that also allowed the wire rest to rotate downward - VERY FORGIVING REST with helical 5" vanes on old compound.  It used a similar, replaceable, wire rest head, but didn't have the plastic "side-finger" as the plunger, since it was built-in to the hollow threaded bolt.

[ckanous]

Another question is, now that I shoot with a rest I shoot my other bows way left, is there a wood bow cut to center like my Dorado, I'm assuming that is the reason? I shoot my other bows off the shelf and if I shoot with a stick on rest will that bring them back or make it worse? Hate to shoot my Dorado great and my other bows way off.

[Cootling]

I recall the Hoyt version, too, George. The CenterRest is the same idea perfected.

I shot all 3 styles (CenterRest, CenterRest Flipper, CenterRest Plunger) for many years on compounds and still have a bunch laying around.  The simple plastic one (CenterRest) will outshoot any of us, is cheapest, and is virtually bulletproof.