The longer I've been bow hunting, the more I think I am learning. In turn I find that I am, at times, even more confused. Question: I added a new sight and found that all my pins are still piled up high. The outer ring is a bit larger diameter and I cannot see the entire ring in my peep sight. With all the pins up high (close to the top of the sight ring) I am not able to center the pin within the peep. I don't want to move the nock or my arrow rest because the bow seems pretty much tuned in. Is there something I am overlooking in the way of making changes. I am trying to get the pins closer in the center so that they are more center of my peep. Can someone lend me some help?--MBH282
The longer I've been bow hunting, the more I think I am learning. In turn I find that I am, at times, even more confused. Question: I added a new sight and found that all my pins are still piled up high. The outer ring is a bit larger diameter and I cannot see the entire ring in my peep sight. With all the pins up high (close to the top of the sight ring) I am not able to center the pin within the peep. I don't want to move the nock or my arrow rest because the bow seems pretty much tuned in. Is there something I am overlooking in the way of making changes. I am trying to get the pins closer in the center so that they are more center of my peep. Can someone lend me some help?--MBH282
First of all you don't ever want to move your nock or your arrow rest. Second of all, we need to know what kind of sight you bought. Surely, your sight has an adjustment to move up, then move pins down.
Thanks Rev for such a quick response. I went a little cheap and installed a Tru Glo / Glo Brite Extreme 3-pin. The diameter of the sight itself is a bit larger than the cheap one that came factory on my bow. (2006 Martin Orion) The new sight has full adjusment but the sight ring is already partially obscured by the riser and I did not know if that would be an option to move it, further obscuring the rest of the ring that would be visible. I guess I am confused weather or not being able to fit the sight ring inside of the peep is as necessary as centering the pins within the sight pin. (I am probably making this more complicated than it should be.) The answer to your question would be that yes you have the ability to move this sight horizontally and vertically. I think, after reading several posts, that I may need to switch to the 1/4" Tru Peep as opposed to the rubber tubing type that came with the bow. Thanks again for your help. I need it!!
I guess I am confused weather or not being able to fit the sight ring inside of the peep is as necessary as centering the pins within the sight pin.
In my opinion, centering the sight ring within the peep is totally unnecessary and only divides your attention from where you really want it... on the target and the pin you are using. This IS a minority opinion, however, developed from years of shooting the bowhunter freestyle classes in NFAA, during the days when pin guards were not allowed on competition sights.
I don't use peeps, but have experimented with them in the past. Personally, I think you either have to have a very small peep aperture, so the pins are easily centered, or the peep aperture needs to be large enough to outline the sight. This is easily accomplished by drilling the peep aperture to the proper size. Be careful if you decide to do this. Slightly larger and the sight circle becomes much bigger.
I greatly appreciate all the assistance from everyone that replied. It has helped alot. I was able to adjust the sight up and move my pins down, freeing up the sight picture for my peep sight. Luckily I asked for help before making the mistake of moving my nock and or my arrow rest as the bow is tuned and that would have made a bigger problem than what I already had. Thanks again to "The Rev", "Arthur P" and "Straightarrow" for taking the time in lending me your expertise and help. - MBH282
Well it sounds like these guys have already taken care of ya. Now all that's needed is you adding that larger 1/4" peep and you'll end up with a very consistent shooting system. Frame that sight housing, it allows me to shoot my best under hunting condition.
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Thanks for your reply and the photo. For some reason, my sight housing does not come out that far from the brace. It is still partially obscured on the right side and I am not able to get the entire sight ring inside of my peep. Of course the sight I am using does not allow the pins to move closer in so that I can move the sight ring out. It's still shooting very well even though I cant get the entire ring inside of the peep, so I guess I'll make do. I have been debating on changing the peep to the 1/4". I may wait until after the season to try it. As in the past, making changes closer to hunting, I find that the Gremlins attack and I spend alot of crunch time trying to get everything back in order.
Thanks again for the reply. - MBH282
With todays bows and the way they shot an arrow so good, many people only use 1 or 2 sights. The speed of the arrows is so fast now that the impact point at say 15 or 20 yds is very small witht the same sight. I personally only have two sights. One is set at 20 yds and the other at 35 yds. If the deer is 25 to 15 yds I use the 20 yd pin and if its 40 to 30 yds I use the 35 yd pin. It takes a little practice and knowing your distances but it takes a lot of thinking out of it when that buck steps out.
Sight Pin Set-Up
