RE: peep sight vs. hind sight??
 

To be exact.....that's EXACTLy the analogy Rob used.

Well....the problem with this statement is......unless you know how the other half lives.....you'll never know if there's a better way to skin the cat. I've done it both ways, now......and I'll just say the advice these guys are giving has made me a better archer.

RE: peep sight vs. hind sight??
 

Icedern: Unless you do it correctly. The best sight picture and aiming method in the world with a peep is to have a round front site guard, like a Spot Hogg say. You have a ring of highly reflective tape around the back side of it. You ream your peep out to the size that allows you to align the reflective tape in a concentric circle with they peep ring. Taped sight guard should just fit inside the peep at full draw. That way you have a 360 degree alignment. Your site pins are centered in the sight guard. You sight by centering it all, peep, sight ring and pin gang. The large peep hole lets in all the light and you're dead centered up everytime at any range. It gets no better. Where people go amuck is when they try to center each individual pin at the various ranges in the peep. It takes a couple days to get used to it but you'll find your groups instantly tighten at all ranges.
For example. The black ring is your peep opening, the green ring is the tape on the sight bracket and your pins. That picture should never change. Simply settle the appropriate pin on the desired impact point.

RE: peep sight vs. hind sight??
 

You JUST described the difference in night and day to the world, David. I was doing EXACTLY what you were describing by attempting to center each sight pin inside my small peep. I didn't know any better.

When I switched sights....and went with the larger peep.....it just so happened it gave me the DESIRED outcome you also describe. it was HIGHLY enlightening. I no longer have to center each sight pin. It's awesome. Imagine shooting for over a year.......having never shot a bow before.......and then STUMBLING onto this. Yeah....I was pumped.

RE: peep sight vs. hind sight??
 

Hey, I shot the wrong way for 30 years. I was a self taught archer and never had anyone teach me anything. In one of my many visits to Len's shop in the past 5 yearshe watched me shooting. He changed my grip, my draw length a bunch and then got me onto this shooting. I'm a slow learner I guess. Len has taken an instructors course from one of the worlds best at PSE a bunch of years ago. Len is also one of the best shooter I ever saw while switching hands, left, right, right handed or left handed bow it doesn't matter. Anyway, I always had thought I had to have the smallest peep in the world to be accurate. And like you say, it's night and day.

RE: peep sight vs. hind sight??
 

David, thanks for that info. I myself was doing exactly what you decribed in centering the pin. Thats why I thought it didn't make that big of a deal. Now, when I get home i'm going to have to check that out :)