I’m one of those guys who refuse to shoot past 40 yards at a deer. So I never felt the need for having more than one pin. I zero in at 25, and raise or lower the pin accordingly as needed. If the animal is at 10 yards, I aim lower. If the animal is at 35 yards, I aim higher. I’ve done that successfully for over 40 years. Many disagree…But the way I see it… If you have to raise that pin any further than the top of an animal’s back, then you’re OUT OF BOW RANGE.
Been shooting a single non movable fixed pin impact archery sight for 15yrs now, I sight it in about 1-2” low at 33yds I aim for lower 1/3 of deer vitals from 0-35yds from tree stand , 35-50yds I adjust accordingly from knowing where to put the pin on animal! Missed more deer with 3-5 pin set ups before I made the swap! My bow chronos 287fps with hunting setup! This setup with a whisker biscuit is fool proof deadnuts! It doesn’t seem feesable in your mind but trust me, SINGLE Non movable fixed vertical pin! Try it out!
I like my trophy ridge react trio. It has 3-pins. When set at the top you can set it up 20, 30, 40. But you get adjust the sight out to 120 yards if your bow is quick enough. Basically 2 fixed and 1 adjustable pin.
Or at your hunting spot pre-measure the distances of clear shooting lanes and if the deer is making its way towards one set the sight and you'll know where it's at.
I was gonna say, wouldn't you just compensate with the single pin if the target moves. Glad I'm not the only one that caught that. Just aim higher like with a firearm.
The fact anyone hunts with a single pin is mind boggling to me! Funny too that a good single pin has all manner of added weight (with knobs and dials, etc.) as well. Doesn't make sense to me. Whatever makes you shoot ethically is good with me though.
Thank you so much. I'm a newborn in archery and I was so confused on what I should get. I feel like single pin adjusting is good for me to learn archery with.
With the single pin you don’t have to adjust all the time. Almost all single pin shooters set their pin at 30 and hold a little low for 20 and pin on the spine for 40. When you get past 40 is when you should adjust.
@@reddawng43x91 Trophy ridge has some nice cheap sights. Personally I would recommend their react h5 or v5, only difference is v5 are vertical pins. If you don't find the need for 5 pins, they also offer 4 pin models, and with their system of sighting in, I just need to sight in my 20 yard pin, and I have a knob that sets the rest of them for me, it works real nice and is what I use for hunting.
When my sight light is on at dusk or dawn in low light, it makes being able to see the actual target almost impossible. I stopped using my sight light because it was one setting and so bright I couldn't see past it to the target. Maybe I'll try one of the fiber optic that brings maybe a little less light in.
I’m a single pin guy and most of the places I hunt are so thick that a 25 yd shot would be rare. I stay disciplined to hunt very thick areas that almost any shot is 23 yds or closer.
Question> You started mentioning the length of the arm. For a single pin slider sight, (I own one) with a short arm, don't you get less yardage, say around 40 yards vs a long arm giving you more of an teeter totter effect, thus more yardage for your sighting?
An in a 5 pin set up u don’t want one pin to out shine the others in low light one pin will blur the other pins that ar3 close green brighter then yellow ,red
You get several sight tapes with your sight. You will put a plain white strip on as you sight in. Sight in at 20 and 50 yards, making your marks for each distance on the plain strip. Then match those marks against the sight tapes that came with the sight, and look for one where the 20 and 50 match up with your marks.
Well, hunting distance certainly is a personal choice. You should only shoot as far as you are comfortable. But a compound bow is capable of being lethal out to 60 yards and beyond. We have bowhunters regularly killing game at 60, 70 and 80 yards. It's not for everyone. That takes a lot of practice and a lot of time making sure your rig is tuned. But a caribou or elk at 60 yards.....that's a very makeable shot for seasoned bowhunters.
Traditionally speaking treestand hunting for deer you generally don’t shoot 60 yards. However hunting out west or more open areas may lead to taking farther shots. I always practice out to sixty but generally shoot between 20 and 40 at whitetail deer. It depends on your rig and your comfort level if you are going to take 60+ yard shots. Cam who hunts for Under Armour Ridge Reaper practices 100+ yards with his Hoyt. Don’t think that 60+ yards impossible with today’s modern bows. IMO if your maximum practice range is 60 yards then keep your hunting shots around 50 or less. If you practice out to 100 and you setup produces enough KE and momentum at longer distances keep you hunting shots to 80 yards or less. I’ve been kicking around the idea of going to a single pin sight, but still not overly convinced for hunting situations that unfold quickly.
If you live in the East probably there aren't that many shots at 60 yards, although if you are hunting over soy beans there are many shots at that distance. In the West there are many shots at 60-80 yards because of the terrain. Not everyone is in the East with 2o-30 yards treestand shots.
Elk are shot regularly at 60 with bows even mullies... I personally don’t like taking whitetail at anything over 35-40 and that is pushing it, my intentions when bow hunting are to be as up close and personal when I harvest my quarry but for practice I often shoot out to 50-60 when I get a while hair might let one fly at a 100 but like I said that’s just my two cents one caveat I was planning for 2018 to get out to AZ to see a friend and do some otc javaleina and mule deer hunting and if I had one at 60 I would let and arrow fly because out west sometimes that’s the nature of hunting with a bow but I shoot as much as I can. I notice a lot of ppl quit shooting during hunting season ppl that’s when you need to be on your A game... good luck to everyone this season
