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Old 02-13-2004 | 09:16 PM
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Buckfevr
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Default Predator IV Pendulum

I started to set up the Predator IV pendulum. The first thing is that the sight sticks way out in front of the bow. There was no way I would hunt with it like that so I took a look at it and talked to the owner of Predator. I asked him if I could mount it directly to the riser without the sight mount, he wasn't sure about clearance and whether I'd have enough room for adjustments, but I've got it setup that way and I did the initial setup in my house and I've got plenty of room to pull it off. So that's good. I would not have used it with the sight mount as is. I suppose I could have drilled a couple of holes in the sight mount and used it, but this seems to be working out real well. This sight is definitely a pain to setup. Especially without the sight mount because that is where elevation is usually set. Instead I'm setting both windage and elevation on the sight. One thing for sure you don't want to waste your time setting elevation until windage is set on this sight, because the windage adjustment is sure to throw off the elevation. Once windage is set it is easy to maintain while adjusting elevation. While I think that all pendulums are a pain this one in particular is even more so because it has the additional speed adjustment and a short range adjustment. But I can already see that it's going to be a real good deal. The round sight guard glows in the dark and lines up with the peep which will increase accuracy and the fiber optic is very bright. The speed adjustment will let me get out to 35+ yards or so with my setup so that is good. It also has a short range stop so that I can dial in on shots as close as say 5-6 yards away. And the other perhaps best feature on this sight is that it is absolutely silent.

I guess I would recommend this sight, but with the caveat that the sight mount would probably need to be drilled to bring the sight closer to the riser, unless you're hunting big timber where clearance problems aren't an issue.
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