[joetapley]

The Hoyt rest is OK but they seem to have a fairly short lifetime (particularly with archery beginners). So be prepared to replace it with a flipper type rest. ARE is probably the best but there are cheaper alternatives from W&W etc.

With a badly set up button the arrows are going to go all over the place which is not helpful when your using the arrow hits to assess how your technique is improving. So I'd start with a basic button setup (55% spring compression and centreshot half to one diameter outside plane of bow) fix on a button tuning method (lots around though of variable quality) and improve the button tuning as you improve on the technique side. Only takes around 15 minutes to get a reasonable button tune so it's not that much of a pain.