Abstract: The archery bow assembly includes an archery bow having a riser with arrow window, arrow rest and handle, a pair of limbs and a bowstring. The assembly also includes a novel arrow holder which prevents an arrow from inadvertently rolling off the rest but which automatically releases the arrow as the arrow is drawn during shooting of the bow. The holder includes a flexible resilient elongated line of rubber or the like having a high frictional resistance with the surface of the arrow, connectors at one or both opposite ends of the line, an anchor bolt or the like anchoring one end of the line through its connector to the riser, preferably at the rear end thereof, and a smooth surfaced slide pin or the like interconnected to and projecting rearwardly from the riser and slideably receiving the connector at the opposite end of the line, after the line is passed over the arrow when the latter is on the rest. Preferably, the pin is carried by a crossbar.

Abstract: Improved archery equipment comprises an archery bow with an improved reversible arrow rest. The equipment may also include an arrow supported on the rest for shooting from the bow. The rest is disposed in the arrow-receiving space or window of the bow, and comprises a base portion secured to the bow handle and at least one resilient, vertically depressible, elongated, free-standing, upwardly projecting arm rising above the base support and secured to it adjacent its lower end. The arm extends generally along the forward-rearward axis of the bow, a portion of the arm providing a fork, tines of which are adapted to support opposite sides of an arrow below the midline thereof when the arrow is disposed for shooting from the bow. In one embodiment a pair of spaced arms are utilized in the rest and the fork has an open center, thus permitting an arrow vane to pass freely therethrough without touching the fork.