Abstract: An arrow rest assembly for attachment to an archer's bow having a support plate. Mounted near one end of the support plate is a bowed flat spring. A magnetic rest pin is pivotally mounted to the plate for movement between an operative rest position wherein a tail section of the pin is magnetically attracted against a permanent magnet mounted to the plate and a retracted, inoperative position wherein the tail section is displaced a short distance from the magnet.

Abstract: An arrow rest has an L-shaped bracket for mounting the arrow rest to a bow. A ferromagnetic wire rest member is pivotalably attached to the bracket and is biased into the operative rest position. A permanent magnet permits the rest pin to be deflected from the operative position by the fletches of an arrow passing across the rest pin.