That cash just burns holes in my pocket and with a friend getting into the sport I had the perfect excuse to hand down my old sight (Black gold) and get myself a new one. After all the great reviews I had seen, all the marketing, and briefly spying one through my pro-shops case I decided to shell out the bucks for a Trophy Ridge Flatliner 3 pin Camo Sight. Besides they look so cooool. <img src=icon_smile_cool.gif border=0 align=middle>

My first impression was that this is a great innovative design. The sight looked well made, the pins are bright, and it is easily adjusted. Well, this good first impression soon took a downfall, when the longest pin was offset from the others. I gently tried to push it back in line and it snapped in half <img src=icon_smile_angry.gif border=0 align=middle>. O.K. I said to myself, 5 years with my MBG and never a problem, 10 mins with this new sight and 1 broken pin.

So I put it on my bow, reposition the no-peep and proceed to sight it in. I get it dialed in and proceed to shoot and my arrows are hitting lower and lower and lower with each shot. The sight is sliding up the dove tail. I reposition it, and crank it down. 10 shots later they start hitting low again. Now I get the wing nut as tight as I can, I mean I leaned into it. I retrieve my arrows, draw the bow, aim and the fiber optics fall off the other pin. The very, very fragile little cups that hold the fiber optics on snapped.

Now at this point I know I am not keeping this thing, so out of curiosity I take a few more shots to see if the dovetail will hold. Nope <img src=icon_smile_angry.gif border=0 align=middle>, as tight as it will go and the sight is still moving.

This sight didn’t stay together for more than 100 shots, and even if it did those pins are so thin and fragile I would never trust them in the woods.

I do not know what was up with that dove tail <img src=icon_smile_question.gif border=0 align=middle> , they can’t all be like that. My MBG never moved in over 5 yrs.

The red pin is useless, to me anyway, during low light it is impossible to see. This may be a personal preference thing, but I feel the pins are too small for hunting. They also gave off a large halo that made them seem much bigger and fuzzy. They are only very slightly brighter than my MBG pins.

Another thing, the bottom of the sight is so bulky I can see many people having arrow clearance problems.

I do not know were all the hype came from, marketing at its best I guess. If the pins were much tougher and a little bigger and the darn thing would stay in one place for more than 10 shots I would have been happier with it.

Needless to say my buddy doesn’t get the MBG <img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>