Plunger/arrow rest for GM?

[Holmes]

Greetings,

I would like to get recommendations for a plunger and arrow rest to be used on this GM I just received today.

I've heard plungers can be finicky and I've never used one. I'll be shooting aluminum with feathers, probably 1916s with this bow.

Thank you.

-Holmes

[Cato]

You will get several good suggestions I'm sure. The NAP Centerest Flipper is a great choice. I hunted with one last year. Cueball has one on his GameMaster. They are basically a flipper type rest that will fit on a bow that is cut well beyond center.

As for a plunger, I have only been fooling with them for a little over a year myself, so I'll defer to others on the best choice.

Have fun. Cueball LOVES his GameMaster. I'm sure you will too.

[Pinelander]

Robert has a K&K in his TradMall store that looks to be a nice, basic plunger... and short too. I'm anxiously awaiting the one I ordered recently, as I'm going to use it with hunting bow and should provide good clearance for a side-mount quiver. Also have a Cavalier short plunger (longer than the K&K I suspect) and works great. Most of them come with 3 different springs with different tensions and 2 different sized plunger heads. The plungers with micro-adjustments not requiring wrenches are a bit pricy though.

Arrow rest... guess it depends on what you're gonna do with the bow. Most all of them work great and don't break the bank. Try a few and see what ya like the best. I'm using Hoyt Super rests w/plunger and they work just fine. My old BW target bow has an old, decrepid-looking wire flipper type rest and works great... when and if it ever breaks, it will give me an excuse to try something else.

[Stick'em]

Second vote for the NAP flipper. Very quiet and accurate. :2cents:

[the other DWS]

I'm kind of partial to the NAP Plunger rest. it's a onepiece deal that combines the best of a flipper and the plunger in one unit. It comes with 3 springs and is very adjustable. I hav'em on several different bows and have asked my local shop to get a couple more ASAP

[Papabull]

The NAP flipper is a good rest but the W&W is about the same price in the Tradmall store and I've got to admit I replaced my flippers with them a long time before I thought about putting them in the store. The A.R.E from Lancaster is another very nice choice but also a lot more expensive.

The K&K and W&W from the Tradmall store are excellent and the A.R.E., Spigarest and T-100 (Lancaster Archery) are also rests I've been well satisfied with.

The K&K plunger compares favorably to the low end Cavalier and Shibuya (Lancaster). Higher end is the Spigarelli plunger that is all finger adjustable, then the high end Cavalier plunger followed by what is generally considered the top of the line in plungers, the Beiter plunger at around $100.00

Any of these from the 17.00 K&K on up to the 100.00 Beiter would serve you well. The cheap all-brass plungers from several manuacturers do work, but I'd spend a little more than that and get one that's better - they're not very smooth and they would definitely be my very last choice.

[Cato]

I don't think anybody out here knows any more than PB about this area. If the tradmall has them, that's a great place to start.

It won't be the last one you buy, no matter what you buy, so just jump in there and start the learning process. But careful, its real contageous.

Cato

[Holmes]

Thanks for the comments.

Decided to go with the K&K and W&W from PB's store - needed one of those cool t-shirts anyway!

I can certainly identify with the contagion factor. I've been in this sport but 10 weeks and I have a newly equipped tool box and a well stocked parts organiser. Fletch my own, and now for friends, too - lazy buggars!

And... I own 4 bows.

You all share a bit of responsibility for this archery pandemic of mine :highfive:

-Holmes

[Desert Archer]

...contagion factor...archery pandemic...

Folks, we have been joined by someone who not only read the dictionary but wrote a book report on it!

Just kidding, Holmes. Glad to have you with us.

Dave

[James Wrenn]

As long as yall are talking about plungers. :) I have an old plastic deal that has no spring.It is just a button.I like it because it is short and does not stick out the side of the riser so far.I know it is not as good as the springy deal but works good enough for me.Do you know where I can get something simular for my new to be warfer?I have not seen one like it on any of the websites I looked at.

[Pinelander]

Short? You mean doesn't stick out much on back side of sight window?
Brass threaded thingy?

[the other DWS]

There is also a solid onepiece nylon plastic rest, kind of like a weather rest but on a threaded post or rod. they come as factory issue on a lot of budget compounds. the shops pitch'em and put on regular launchers--they usually have a bunch in their junk bin. I've used them on some of my bows adjust for proper center shot put a stopnut on the outside and cut off the excess. a real KISS rest.

[James Wrenn]

That may have been what this was.It came on a compound I bought to get a riser off of.It is just a treaded black rod with a lock nut and knurled knob.The end was just tapered down to go against the arrow.It is solid with no hole for spring or plunger.Maybe it is something the owner made out of something else.I just like the way it only sticks out the back of the riser about a half inch.I have a cartel plunger but don't use it because it sticks out so far.

[Pinelander]

I received my K&K plunger from Robert recently, along with a dacron string for my old target bow and some other little goodies. String fits real nice PB, thanks. :)

Anyways, the K&K is what I was looking for... as it sticks out away from the riser approx. 1", compared to the Cavalier short plunger which is 1-1/2". Comes with 2 different plungers (1-plastic, 1-metal), 3 different springs, and 2 hex wrenches.