Patent ID: 7047959

Claim:
In an arrow rest assembly comprising a magnetic ring mounted with respect to an archery bow, the magnetic ring including an inner surface defining an arrow shaft passage and an outer surface, the magnetic ring producing a first magnetic field about the arrow shaft passage; and a second magnet mountable at a tip portion of an archery arrow, the archery arrow movable through the arrow shaft passage between a loading position and a drawn position, the second magnet producing a second magnetic field, and in the drawn position the first magnetic field interacting with the second magnetic field to suspend a portion of the arrow shaft within the arrow shaft passage, the improvement comprising: the magnetic ring forming an opening between the inner surface and the outer surface for receiving a shaft of the archery arrow, the arrow shaft positionable within the arrow shaft passage, a magnetic dampening element, the magnetic dampening element including at least one conductive disk positioned with respect to the arrow shaft and generally perpendicular to the first magnetic field, the at least one conductive disk generating a magnetic field interacting with the first magnetic field.