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Old 03-10-2008 | 06:13 PM
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Default RE: problem with seeing pin at prime time

The trick to low light shooting is having the largest peep sight you can find (generally a 1/4" Tru peep or G5) AND a sight aperture that will match the diameter of the peep as you view it at full draw.
You can still expect great accuracy potential with a large peep sight as long as you match it with the proper sized sight housing.

Also if you want to shoot multiple pins you don't want ALL the pins being bright. That's probably the biggest mistake hunters make. They see 5 bright wrapped pins sitting on the store shelf and think "WOW that looks great!"
Who cares if you can see your 40 yard pin as clearly as your 20 yard pin at last light? You won't be using it.
I have always found that decent mid level brigtness with finer pins is what you want for your longer ones.......you want them to wink out when it gets dark. I prefer green for my top pin, yellow for the 2nd and red for the 3rd. They will dim out in that order leaving the top brightest pin by itself when I need it.

You want your top pin (the one you will realistically be using at last light anyway) to be brighter than the rest (but not OVERLY bright) and the real trick is to make sure you center that pin in the middle of your pin guard!!
DO NOT sight your pin sight in with the 20yd (or top pin) toward the top of your sight housing. CENTER IT.

At last light, you will then have a big peep, a big sight aperture to see through, one brighter pin all by itself and it will be in the middle of the sight picture making alignment even easier.

The same rules of sight pins and brightness apply even if you don't want to use a peep sight. There are "No Peep" alternatives that DEFINITELY give you a better field of view than any peep sight can, but thta takes good repeatable form under all sorts of angles and conditions and practice to make sure you trust it at the moment of truth.
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