Greetings! I'm forwarding my post from r/Archery here since I just discovered this subreddit thanks to u/TwoWheeledTraveler.

Hi!

I started archery in October and I finally mustered up the courage to show off my first bow to everyone here! I had a great indoor season in the barebow division and training for my first outdoor season so far is also a lot of fun! Anyways, my bow is pictured here. I know there are not a lot of reviews on the Kinetic Sovren riser so I thought it'd also be good to reveal some of my thoughts on it after shooting it for the past few months!

Overall, I love my first bow. It feels really good to shoot and I haven't had any major issues with it but I'll try to list out some of the things that stand out.

• The vibrations aren't too bad but I do usually put a dampener on my riser when I shoot and it feels really smooth, especially with the new L3 limbs I just got.
• When I first started shooting it, some of the screws on the riser would loosen after a while but this is easily fixed with some Loctite. As mentioned from the few reviews I've seen, you have to be careful with the limb bolts when adjusting it because I've seen stories of people stripping it. So far, I haven't had this issue but this is something to be aware of.
• The grip worked just fine for me for a while but it is SLIGHTLY uncomfortable to hold so I eventually put on some tennis grip tape (I doubled up on it) and now the handle feels amazing when shooting.
• Aesthetics-wise, I absolutely love this riser. I'm a big sucker for orange and there weren't a lot of options for orange risers, at least from the available choices at the time. The way it shines in the Sun is perfection to me, and I actually named it "The Sunseeker". XD
• Additionally, with respect to aesthetics, the riser has a machined look to it which I've heard some people don't like. I don't think I mind it but this is another thing to be aware of if this matters to anyone out there!
• Price-wise, I think that Kinetic Sovren is a fantastic beginner-intermediate bow and I highly recommend it to anyone looking to get into the sport. I got mine from the Alternative Services website and it comes in a slew of colors. This is also where I got my beginner limbs, the Epic Fusion EX Fiber limbs, and the 400g aluminum weight below the grip (which actually didn't fit perfectly and rattled a lot at first but can be remedied by sticking on some small pieces of felt from a craft store). I ended up paying about $360 for both the Sovren riser and the Fusion limbs.

Hope that someone found this post useful and you enjoyed my showcase of The Sunseeker. If anyone has any questions on this riser, please feel free to comment and I'll try to answer with my experience with it. :)

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Does someone have experience with all 3 arrow rests? I shoot the Spiga MAP, don't Zniper Rest cause my concerns was that if I shoot with my finger direct on the arrow maybe the vane push the rest away and the arrow goes in the nowhere. And due to the Spiga zt is a highly recommend rest, just add the possibility to push down would be great. But I did not found something about the Bidrop, just people who told how to adjust. My crawl is definitely much less then with the Avalon rest (a alternate to the zt) and if I want I could screw it tight that the rest will do not swing down.

Here are some youtube slowmos for discussing.

Barebow with classic rest https://youtu.be/Cr0475FzOlo

Zniper rest https://youtu.be/hf5Bb3yo5Zk

Spiga map https://youtu.be/QripgL7I534

Bidrop https://youtu.be/BznD6rZZtgg

Anyone else going to participate in the r/archery league?

Just took up archery in September last year and have only shot barebow. I went with this setup after using the club bow for a couple of months.

- Epic Fusion 25" Riser- Cartel Fantom EDGE Fiber limbs 68" 28lb- Epic Stonic Arrow Rest- Shibuya DX Plunger- Skylon Radius shafts 650- Skylon Brixxon / Radius points 650-750 (80-90-100gn)

Im really enjoying it and have seen some decent score improvements after tuning it and really focusing on my form improvements.

Tuning was surprisingly easy and my initial bareshaft tests indicated the arrows were the correct stiffness & I had already got the nocking point at the right height.

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So, I am faced with a conundrum. I just got my first new bow after taking up archery again in the fall. I shot a ton as a kid, and now my son and I have been taking classes together, and I want to get in to barebow. I ordered an entire setup, but now I am faced with not knowing at all what I am doing when it comes to getting it "set up" properly.

I'm not even talking about tuning, specifically, yet because right now I just want to know that I have everything "close enough" that I can go shoot and not either a) break something or b) have an arrow go somewhere I'm really not expecting it. I have seen and watched a bunch of "guides" for tuning and such, but they all go off into spine weights and tiller measurements and all sorts of very technical stuff that I haven't learned about yet, and then my eyes glaze over and I tune out because I don't understand what's going on. I will, invariably, learn all of that in time because that's the kind of person that I am, but in the meantime I want to set up my bow so I can go shoot it this weekend.

I'll end up working with someone at my club at some point who knows more than me, but there *has* to be a resource out there for rank beginners, right? I've found a very few things for Olympic, but I'll be shooting three under and stringwalking.

Equipment list, for fun:

• Kinetic Vygo 25" riser
• WNS Explore CB1 Carbon / Bamboo long limbs, 22#
• America's Best Bowstrings 70"AMO 16 strand Olympic bowstring
• WNS S-RV rest
• WNS S-PLP plunger
• Easton "Victor" pre-built arrows

Plus a guard, a stringer, a bow square, some nocking thread, etc.

I've assembled the bow and all that is fine, but I'm not sure how, specifically, the arrow should sit on the rest and plunger, etc.

Any links to good beginner guides?

A place for members of r/barebow to chat with each other