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06-21-2007 | 10:28 PM

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Len in Maryland

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RE: Center the Pin Guard in the Peep?

Arthur P:

Shame on you for trying to seduce some youngsters with your antiquated tactics. Right as they may appear, they are somewhat obsolete in today's technology and falls in the realm of 'putting butter on a burn'.

Centering circles may be human nature, but discipline and proper anchor pointsused in a multi-pin sighting with a round pin guard will definitely yield better shooting and enhance hunting in low light tremendously.

If you take a look atcrossbow scopes and some of the newer long-range rifle scopes with multiple lines/dots/pins, you may understand the technology better. In these scopes it would be ridiculous to 'cant' or manipulate the scope to put the longest pin in the center. By doing so would turn the round objective and eye into ovals. What is accomplished by proper usage/understandingis maintaining the same anchor points and focal positions and just raising the weapon until the correct pin is on the proper target position.

This method of using a round pin guard and corresponding peepis invaluablefor added hunting opportunities. By increasing the pin guard size and subsequently increasing the peep size, more light is available through the peep and longer time in the woods is the benefit.

Consider the peep as the eye of the scope and the pin guard as the objective. This forms a tube much like a scope.Correct and repeatable anchor points are very necessary for this system to workeffectively. much as you have to maintain proper positioning of your face on the stock of a rifle/shotgun/blackpowder.

While you can be somewhat effective doing ityour 'old fashioned' way, the effectiveness of what I've tried to explain will make you a much better shooter/hunter if instructed/set-up properly. If you find ways to still disagree, you should call all the manufacturers and advise them that all those colored rings that have to be painstakingly put on all those pin guards is a waste of time and money. You'll have to excuse/ignore the laughter over the phone.

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