ZNIPER ARROW REST BAREBOW TUNING [Tutorial]

In this episode I do a show and tell and tutorial of the Zniper arrow rest for barebow archery.
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The James Norwood Guide to Zniper:

For the Zniper users:

Here goes, if it helps you, great, if not, you have my sincerest apologies and I wish you the best in your own tuning method. But, this has worked for me and I have mine dialed in now and have not had to touch it once since. 🙂

If you break it down in this order, it should be friendly for you to get right:

Step 0.5: Do not start this unless you already possess fully tuned arrows for your bow and you intend to shoot those!

1. Obvious - you bolted it on the riser, right? Okies, if not I’ll pretend I don’t see you doing that first now.

2. Pick the arrow you plan to shoot, and the point weight you plan to shoot and then nock that arrow. These arrows should already be properly tuned to your bow before now. Weight matters a lot here, and so does arrow length because that adds leverage against the rest. Different arrow configurations put different load on the rest magnets!

3. Does the rest falsely drop if you bump the bow, or on draw?
If yes: Tighten the magnet stiffness 1/4 turns at a time until that ceases to be the case. Don’t go crazy and overdo the stiffness.

3A. Check your shaft centering against the plunger after any magnet adjustment and recenter it by adjusting the rest wire as required. Do this any time you change magnet stiffness.

4. Grab some bareshafts for your chosen arrows.
Do some walk back tuning and adjust your nock height up/down until your bareshafts are tuned properly out to 18m, or whatever your tune distance needs to be.

NOTE: If you are thinking of trying to find your arrow tune AND the Zniper tune at the same time...you are crazy, give up now.

5. If you notice any times during tuning where the rest is not dropping when you release, then loosen the stiffness on the magnet ever so slightly, and keep shooting some arrows until that stops, then go back to step 4.

6. Make any final plunger stiffness adjustments to get your fletched arrows hitting center. At this point, you should now have the Zniper behaving with no false drops on draw cycle, no drop fails on release, and your bareshafts should be nicely grouping with your fletched arrows at tune distance.

Some side notes:
You might be able to try lowering your nock height by 1/8” - 1/4” if you get the issue with the rest not dropping on release (This from Mr. Demmer)
But I recommend rechecking your bareshaft tune at all times. For me, moving my nock point down at all ruined my bareshaft flight, but it was fine for John, so you decide on that one.

If you have a negative tiller on your bow, this might also cause the rest not dropping on release issue. I didn’t have this problem but one person I talked to did and he said removing negative tiller helped his tune. Makes sense to me that it certainly would help.

REALLY IMPORTANT: Adjusting the magnet stiffness at all has the side effect of moving your rest wire up/down. You will then need to readjust the shaft centering against the plunger and go back to step 4 above! If you change magnet setting, do not forget to recheck your rest wire height!

Good luck my fellow Znipers! I hope this is of some help! 🙂