I shoot one pin. This means for me, that I can shoot from 1 yd to 25 yds without any real change in my aiming. After 25yds I will have to aim a bit high for 30 yds. My question is: How many fps on average does it take for your arrow to travel flat out to 25 yds before you have to add another pin??
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Well I'm guessing you can probably shoot closer to 10-25 yards with 1 pin. You ever trieda 3 yard shot with that single pin?
I have shot a 1 pin but it was movable. I can tell ya from expirience that a good high vital hold with a 25 yard pin causes a complete miss under a bucks belly at 34 yards.
Yeh, a little high at 3 yds!!! I shoot 309 fps and I can just about shoot flat to 30 yds if everything is equal, but I won't take a 30 yd shot on a deer.
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It really just comes down to what is an acceptable margin of error for you. No arrow at any speed with shoot flat. They are constantly dropping. What I do know for sure is that my bow shooting a 382 grain arrow at 274 fps is fast enough that I am comfortable with one pin to 30 yards. It is about 2" high at 10 and 2" low at 30. That is ok to me, but I know some guys shooting over 300 fps that have 20 and 30 yard pins. You have to figure how perfect you want your shots to be and go from there.
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I prefer almost exclusively anymore a single pin, but I use the rear adjustable sights from HHA. I am not hesitant to take a 40+ yard shot and I wanna know my sight is dead on
I had a single pin like 15yrs ago and if I remember right I set it at 23yrds kept me good from 15-28yrds and that was a slow bow compaired to todays compounds but if your around 270-285fps you should be good you just have to practice and see how high you have to hold for 30-35yrd shots or farther....you have to get a mental pic in your mind when shooting past the 25yrds on where the pin should be aimed at on the target,thats why multi pins are nice,if you have a 25yrd shot you put POI between 20-30 pins,this is just a basic example......
If you dont shoot past 30yrds single pins are at the best ok....
You're arrow is not flying "flat".....it starts going up, then comes down.It begins below your line of sight, travels above your line of sight, and then back below. There really isn't a whole lot of difference in that trajectory from say 280 to 310 fps. (in fact, that margin is probably larger)
I love a single pin for hunting. I shoot 306 fps and sight my pin in at 25 yards and leave it. At 20 yards I am 1 inch high, and at 30 I am 1 inch low. That's a dead deer. If he's beyond 30 I will adjust my pin.
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Ok, VA here is my question. !st let me say I am not trying to insulte you any by asking these question. First off what are the advantages for shooting a single pin. Because I shot at 60 yards regularly and I have caped my self to shoot no further than 45 yards at actual game. My bow is not as fast as yours. But I have a multi pin sight. To this day I have only take 2 deer one at 7yds one at 40 yards and shot one at 30 yards a few years ago, with a bow that was slow and loud she toke a step toward me. You shot a lighting fast bow thats got to be less noisy that that old thing I was shooting.
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