of the counterweight in the direction of arrow flight causes the counterweight to continue to move forward from the cable release position when the bow limbs return to normal position to the position indicated by 80b forward of bow limb 12a this pivots the arm 74 upwardly pulling the cable 18 upwardly as seen in fig2 when the actuating cable 18 is pulled upwardly the lever 30 and the arrow rest 34 pivots from an upright position downwardly in the direction of the arrow flight to a lowered position as shown at 51 the pulling of the actuating cable 18 causes rotation of the lever hub and one aperture for the ball detent is moved away from the ball detent and the other aperture onto the detent for temporarily holding the shaft 22 the apertures are positioned so that the ball detent temporarily holds the arrow rest up or down as shown in fig1 the cocking arm 48 is used to set the detent mechanism in the position for the arrow rest the arrow rest may be adjusted for windage in the direction of arrow 86 fig1 by threading the cylindrical member 36 toward and away from the bow the thumbwheel 38 is threadedly mounted on member 32 an arrow 42 is placed on the arrow rest the string and arrow are drawn back and released causing the trigger mechanism to pull actuating cable 18 to rotate the pivotable shaft 22 pivoting the arrow rest into the lowered position as shown in 51 the counterweight trigger is in its at rest position with the cable slack for nocking an arrow on the bow string the arrow rest is rotated to the up position.