ORIGINAL: Bols
What are you guys doing with these sights to have the fiber break so easily? I am sitting here playing guitar on my old 3 pin and can't manage to break them.
I plan in the future replacing the fiber with Fitz, but it isn't because of a breakage concern, rather I know they are a bit better quality fiber.
Hiking through alder tangles, chest high berry thickets and 5' deep grass. The way the Cobra pins are designed just begs for a stick to get up in between the pin and fiber and snap it off. I've got both .019 and .029 5 pin Sidewinders and I've never come back in from a day of hunting with either one without at least one pin broken. I've even managed to break pins in my modified Lethal Weapon with Fitz Fibers but not nearly as often.
The Fitz fibers are less brittle (more flexible) and brighter per inch of fiber than the stock fibers on most sights. They're a big improvement over the Cobra fibers.