Back when buying my Nika N3's I asked them to throw in one of their $USD100 cast mag alloy 17' ET-1 risers. I liked the limb pad angle, the look overall OK, and double stabi bushings, so thought it might be fun to play with. Trouble is it's cut way past center and has a shelf big enough for my morning coffee and a little book collection alongside. Tried and it's awful for shelf shooting.
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I'm not a fan of elevated rests for a bunch of unimportant reasons. I thought about getting a fancy Accutune but I'm presently at the other end of the planet. Getting it shipped to me would cost more than the Accutune itself. So I decided to make my own low-fi version.
I bought some 5/16-24 bolts from a local motorcycle shop (only local place that stocks Imperial stuff where I am) and some nuts for them. One to epoxy onto the back of the adjustable strike plate, the other as a locking nut. I then cut some copper clad PCB board I had in my electronics workshop into the desired shape and size, and filed it down for my strike plate. Finally I epoxied a thin nut onto it such that a bit of epoxy is inside the nut, half way up the threading. This is so that the bolt doesn't go all the way to the side plate, and also gives it something to press into. The 2-part epoxy mix was 40% or so hardener, to make sure the bond is not too brittle.
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Once set, I ran my bolt through the locking nut and then through the plunger bushing and fixed the strike plate to it. Put some velcro onto it, and some furniture pad for the shelf thick enough to give clearance for fletching and shaft from the shelf proper.
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Shelf's on quite a slope, some tweaking there perhaps, but all in all it shoots very well indeed. It is strongly affixed and does not move, held fast by the locking nut. A longer bolt would give more adjustable range, but I only needed a couple of millimeters of play so went with a shorty.
I put on some cheap un-decaled 44lb Junxing long C/F limbs that I got for next to nothing (look mysteriously like some W&W Wiawis limbs at the range) and it's belting out the bareshafts dead on, nocks looking right back at me at 20m. About 54lb OTF. Fast and pretty quiet for a $USD200 ILF rig.
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Anyway, perhaps this fun and quick little mod is of helpful to some folk wanting to upgrade a throw-around fun riser with an adjustable side plate for a couple $.
I'm not a fan of elevated rests for a bunch of unimportant reasons. I thought about getting a fancy Accutune but I'm presently at the other end of the planet. Getting it shipped to me would cost more than the Accutune itself. So I decided to make my own low-fi version.
I bought some 5/16-24 bolts from a local motorcycle shop (only local place that stocks Imperial stuff where I am) and some nuts for them. One to epoxy onto the back of the adjustable strike plate, the other as a locking nut. I then cut some copper clad PCB board I had in my electronics workshop into the desired shape and size, and filed it down for my strike plate. Finally I epoxied a thin nut onto it such that a bit of epoxy is inside the nut, half way up the threading. This is so that the bolt doesn't go all the way to the side plate, and also gives it something to press into. The 2-part epoxy mix was 40% or so hardener, to make sure the bond is not too brittle.
Once set, I ran my bolt through the locking nut and then through the plunger bushing and fixed the strike plate to it. Put some velcro onto it, and some furniture pad for the shelf thick enough to give clearance for fletching and shaft from the shelf proper.
Shelf's on quite a slope, some tweaking there perhaps, but all in all it shoots very well indeed. It is strongly affixed and does not move, held fast by the locking nut. A longer bolt would give more adjustable range, but I only needed a couple of millimeters of play so went with a shorty.
I put on some cheap un-decaled 44lb Junxing long C/F limbs that I got for next to nothing (look mysteriously like some W&W Wiawis limbs at the range) and it's belting out the bareshafts dead on, nocks looking right back at me at 20m. About 54lb OTF. Fast and pretty quiet for a $USD200 ILF rig.
Anyway, perhaps this fun and quick little mod is of helpful to some folk wanting to upgrade a throw-around fun riser with an adjustable side plate for a couple $.
