Learn to shoot around your peep site
 

I learned this about 5-6 years ago when I couldn't release on the biggest white tail I had ever seen. He had two drop tines. I had to let the bow down. He spooked. I have never seen him since. The next day I logged onto some web site and asked the qestion what to do if it is still legal shooting hours and you come to full draw but can't see through the peep. Besides all the sarcastic remarks I remembered one that said to lear (before the hunt) to shoot around the peep so that if this problem arises you will be prepared. I have a flat spot on the left side of my peep. I align the corect pin to the edge and center of the flat spot. This will not hit the same spot as looking through the peep. For me, this is accurate up to 30 yards. At 30 yards, I hit 8 inches left of the intended target. I just adjust for this before the shot. Ishoot 8 inches right. I have used this tactic twice while bow hunting. The first time I forgot to adjust. Luckily for me the deer was facing to my left and it passed harmlessly in front of him. The second one hit the mark and provided a 116 7/8 inch P&Y for the wall. At the time it was my biggest. I practice this by placing a very small piece of electrical tape in the peep hole. When you begin, put two targets side by side and shoot for the middle. This should ensure the arrow hits one of the targets.

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why not drop the peep then and never have to worry about it ?

RE: Learn to shoot around your peep site
 

I just learned to shoot with both eyes open. Basically you gain the effects of shooting around the peep while still shooting through it.

If you shoot with just one eye open, try this. Next time you shoot, draw, anchor and aim as you normally would. Then open your second eye before shooting. Repeat this over and over and it will become second nature and helps a lot in lower light conditions.

Good luck.

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i though it was 125 for p&y
but thats something fore me to keep in mind

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It is 125 to get in P&Y. I had it scorred by a P&Y judge and that is what he called it to designate it being taken with a bow and not a rifle. I am not sure if B&C scores the same or not.

RE: Learn to shoot around your peep site
 

I took the peep off of my string about a month ago for this very reason. It only took 2 days of evening shooting to shoot as good with just a kisser button. Now that I have been shooting with the kisser for a month, I am shooting MORE accurate than with the peep.

I'll never go back.

RE: Learn to shoot around your peep site
 

why dont ya get rid of the peep, and then the sites.

RE: Learn to shoot around your peep site
 

adams - the vast majority of the population is cross dominant - shooting with both eyes open and trying to use/not use the peep would create sighting nightmares

I know, I've been there !

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I fall into this category. I've tried to shoot with both eyes open and 3 shots will be dead on, two will be 4 inches to one side. There is no consistency as to when the other eye will decide to take over and I can't tell while aiming so I have to close one eye.

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Thanks for the tip. I will give this a whirl. This would seem to fall along the same line of tips as for when someone's string loop breaks and they are forced to shoot under the loop.....or when someone looses their releases or just plain forgets it and needs to shoot the bow with fingers.

Way to think ahead.

RE: Learn to shoot around your peep site
 

Thanks for the info.
But that is just another reason I use the No-Peep;)

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Let me add ............ when I shot compounds I think being cross dominant actually HELPED my shooting.

Why ?

it forces you to concentrate. Like HuntingBry said, lapse your concentration and your dominant eye takes over and you look on the outside of the peep instead of through it (for me anyway) and the arrows go from 2" groups to 10" flyers in a hurry !!

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I've got to disagree. Yes, it can cause nightmares but it dosen't have to. I shoot right handed and am left eye donimant. I had to train myself to shoot the way I do. It is almost as if I have consciously changed my dominant eye when I have my bow in my hand. Do I sometimes get crossed up? Yes, but all it takes to get focused back with my right eye looking through my peep is a blink of my left eye. By blinking I can "gain control" of what I'm seeing, which is my pin inside the peep hole and the "entire picture" through my left eye. I can't guarentee it'll work for everyone but I see no reason why it can't.

A lot of the reason I became a bow hunter (before I got hooked) is I am a lowsy shot with a gun. My left eye dominant caused me to miss more then mature animal. Inexperience may have also played into it but with the amount of misses I racked up in my early years I'm all but certain it was a cross dominant issue.

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My thoughts exactly. Here's a post I replied to about this very subject some time ago. Scroll down a bit... a pic or two will be found there to help visualize a method I've found to work perfectly, even in fading light situations.

http://forum.hunting.net/asppg/tm.asp?m=717166&mpage=1&key=%F2%AF%AF%96

Not always so. I am left eye dominant, yet shoot archery equipment right handed. I also shoot with both eyes open. It can be done, and without the need to estimate windage variations. Ishoot a rifle or handgun left handed, without issue, using only my dominant left eye to aquire the mark.As with any other aspect inexcelling at archery, concentration is key. Shooting well without a peeprevolves around maintaining the proper sight picture combined withsolid shooting form, regardless of what eye you use. :)

Edited 'cause I boogered up the link... hopefully it will work now. [8D]