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06-22-2007 | 06:42 AM

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Len in Maryland

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RE: Center the Pin Guard in the Peep?

Arthur P:

With all due respect to your trophies and capabilities with 'antique' equipment, I'm talking about 98% of the archery market - hunting! Back in the day, and take this from aCOF, I could hit things very well using a set of 6 or 8 pins in a squarecage and a peep that was just large enough to see each pin. I had a 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, 40 and 45 yard pins at first. Then I slowly moved up to 60 yards and I thought I was on top of the world. Man those bows and arrows were slow.

There were two problems with this set-up. First, I had to constantly alter my anchor to get each pin centered in the peep. Second, the first time I tried to shoot in low light I couldn't see through the peep. As I opened up the peep for more light, my accuracy suffered relative to the size of the peep. You know darned well what I'm talking about.

I used to shoot recurves almost60 years ago and still like to shoot them to this day. They're fun! But, I wouldn't care to try to take deer-sizedgame with them beyond 20 yards with my limited time to practice with them. I don't care if it's low light and close yardage, I'd still take my personal equipment with my 7/32" diameter peep and 2" sight ring any day in a hunting scenario.

Leave it up to you to compare 'apples to oranges' and to try to equate tournament technique to hunting. If you keepconfusing these youngsters with misconfunctionalated (that's a new word) facts, we'll excommunicate you from the COF Club.

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