Most accurate arrow rest alignment in one simple trick.

Update: Since using this technique, I've also improved my form. By making sure the forward sight is perfectly inline with the "at-draw" plane, "at rest" plane and arrow rest, you can see how much influence your putting on your string or bow at full draw. How many times have you adjusted everything on you bow to be fairly accurate but your front sight alignment is to the left or to the right of the arrow - the string and rest alignment? Put your arrow in the rest and look down the arrow and align it with the string. Where is you front sight? Is it left or right of this plane? If so, you ARE influencing your string with your form and thus will never be as accurate as you can. After a year with this set up and practice and everything in perfect plane... my fletchless paper tuning is perfect and accuracy is best I've ever had. Everything is in plane and I've relearned how to have "zero" string influence. But this is only done if you perfectly align all the planes and work to not have to adjust your front sight left or right. Thanks for watching everyone, I'll make a video on this soon. It's exciting and will help many.

How to align an arrow rest without error in one simple step with a piece of thread and some tape. An outside the box approach to aligning a bow rest that will be far more accurate for your initial setup. Hoyt RS3 Carbon arrow rest setup adjustment.

[mikemellon]

This is pretty awesome. Never seen anything like this and watched a lot of videos on bow setups. Good video

[horkley]

I had issues with tail wagging for a couple of years now and have been into archery shops, had my bow paper tuned, and nothing fully corrected the issue until I did this. Now my arrows fly straight, I have tight grouping again at every distance, and (after sighting in) my sights and arrow align better both before and after drawing back than they ever have. Thank you so much for sharing! My arrow was a little less off than yours in the video, but the difference it made was incredible!

[richrock]

Yes, This is a great place to START to find center-shot then paper tune but, after paper tuning, in my opinion, nothing beats bare shaft tuning.

[louisbailey]

Works great
Just did it on my Mission MXR, and after setting center shot, I drew my bow and looked thru my peep.
I aligned my sight pins with the taped on string. That makes your sight and rest in alignment.
Worked perfectly!!

[CristiNeagu]

Him: "I'm a scientist."
Me: "Yeah, right."
Him: "I made up this alignment system."
Me: "Still don't believe you're a scientist."
Him: "These cams are 3.5mm out of center."
Me: "An American using metric? 100% a scientist. I'm convinced."

[Lokhart]

They did this in the 90’s, it’s a decent starting point but that’s about all it is. Paper tune, walk back tune, and bareshaft is a must for ultimate accuracy.

[ryanreynolds]

In a perfect world, that’s a great idea. Problem is most people don’t have properly spined arrows. Start with centershot alignment, don’t always end with it.

[jthepickle]

Been 20 years since I tuned a new bow...it all comes back to me now!

[keithshelton]

Great tip. There is a laser tool that mounts on riser in sight holes. You shoot laser to string at nocking point, then swivel it down the arrow shaft to see if the shaft is in same plane as nock. Your method is the same principle. Thx for the tip.

[dcstolteadventures]

Excellent demonstration. Good start before paper tuning.

[donovanstockton]

That's brilliant and all the more better as DIY guys can do it at home. Thanks for sharing bossman.

[ronhagopian]

THANK YOU FOR PUTTING THE INFO OUT THERE! it makes perfect sense to me! There will always be naysayers but I appreciate your wisdom and your kindness to share!

[fernandoramos]

That is an awesome way to having a more accurate reference alignment before fine tuning. I tip my hat to you, I'm in the construction trade, I used my green self leveling vertical laser to do the same idea. I got from center of cam to center of cam. I understand, can't always trust when they say that it's ready to go. Thanks for making the video, it helped.

[hut]

Mike Mike Mike Mike! I LOVE this idea! My bow got knocked out of alignment the other day and I'm going to use your method to check it out! Cheers Brother!

[miggyq]

Awesome tip! Just getting into archery and this will come in handy

[jwild]

Yep good place to start and merely just a starting point. Guys have been putting 2 Allen wrenches inside each limb bolt and attaching small bungee cords for ages. The width of the limb bolts spreads the cord enough to run the arrow through the middle without all that measuring and taping. With that said few and far between are bows that tune best with an arrow going dead down the center.

[stefandoering]

Big thank you Mike ! I just tuned my arrow rest (was 5mm off) Finding the plane was always I struggled with. Very simple and smart! Well explained, awesome video! And: my groups seams tighter :) Of course after tuning the rest - adjusting the sight :)

[jmbauer]

Cool idea for left right. Kinda like bore sighting a rifle. Probably still should bare shaft tune due to outside factors. But this will save a lot of time.

[fntm]

Amazing tip! You can also use a laser level to check the whole 'plane' alignement from the front and back (including sight needle) or even instead of the string hack (straight tape all the way also might be easier than taping a string which might need to go over bolts etc, ...)

[stangbanger]

Well done. Appreciate it. I'll be doing this tonight