to the bracket 18 by a suitable fastening means 41 such as a screw and wing nut thus by loosening the fastening means the cradle arm 40 may easily pivotally adjusted in relation to the support arm 16 and the bracket 18 to accommodate bows of varying curvature and in coaction with the adjustable bracket 18 dispose any given bow in a predetermined attitude or rest position with respect to the vertical as the archer may desire a pair of shaft members 42 are respectively operatively secured to the cradle arm 40 on opposite sides of and extending substantially parallel to the pivot axis of the cradle arm as defined by the fastening means 41 each of the shaft members 42 has threaded end portions extending laterally to each side of the plane of pivotal adjustment of the cradle arm 40 about its pivot axis the numeral 44 generally indicates bow retaining members which are preferably made of an integral organic or polymeric material or other noise suppressing material and comprise an axially extending hub portion 46 and an enlarged shoulder portion projecting radially therefrom the retaining members 44 each have an internal threaded bore for axial threadable adjustable mounting on the threaded end portions of the respective shaft members 42 for independent selective adjustment of the lateral distance therebetween on each of the shaft members 42 to accommodate bows of varying widths as will be noted particularly in phantom line in fig2 and 5 the respective bow retaining members 44 are laterally adjusted on their respective shaft members 42 so that the bow will be supported directly on the hub portions 46 while being retained laterally by.