RE: Bending at the waist? Contorted?
 

Texas......

Slide your peep up 1" and see if your peep isn't an anchor REFERENCE.

;)

If an archer could utilize the same anchor point EVERY TIME....he'd have absolutely NO use for a peep.

RE: Bending at the waist? Contorted?
 

I disagree,The said archerwould usethe peepto see through the string to get a clear field of view....You made my point very valid with that statement;)

RE: Bending at the waist? Contorted?
 

Answered my own question???? Where?....lol

How do archers who don't utilize a peep shoot consistantly? I'd like to get germ's take on this....along with the Matt's and Rob. Sliver? TFOX? Others???

RE: Bending at the waist? Contorted?
 

Yeah, I revised that statement!!!

I never said an archer couldn't shoot consistantly w/o a peep, I know plenty that do and do it well....I am just making the point that a peep is not a consistant anchor reference...It just opens the field of view for an archer that chooses to shoot center shot...

RE: Bending at the waist? Contorted?
 

Of course it is.

RE: Bending at the waist? Contorted?
 

Nope!!!! If I slide my peep up the string will be in my field of view, that being said I could move my sight a hair to the right or left (which ever way)and get around my string and still maintain all my anchor references and shoot just as good as I could before!!!!

RE: Bending at the waist? Contorted?
 

If it isn't a point of anchor reference.....why is it WHERE it is on your bowstring? Let's take "why" it's there out of the equation.

Thanks!

RE: Bending at the waist? Contorted?
 

The peep is WHERE it is to allow an archer to see his or her pins through the string. It is where it is b/c that is how your eye lines up in reference to your sight pins once you are already anchored...

Before they had peeps, I shot around my string using the same references that I do today.

The reason a peep is not a good anchor point is b/c they are too big and allow too much room for error, if you were to use a really small peep (which a lot of archers do in the competition side of it) then it would become a better anchor reference but then you would not be able to see your game except in perfect lighting situations....

RE: Bending at the waist? Contorted?
 

Thank you;)

RE: Bending at the waist? Contorted?
 

You should draw back to a solid consistant anchor point. THEN you should put your peep at the proper height to allow you to see through your string.

The peep is WHERE it is, because your eye is a certain height above your anchor point.

If you only lower your bow arm and tilt your head down, the entire geometry of the sight system changes. You need to move your head and bow arm around the same pivot point. Bending at the waist provides the best practicalcommon pivot point for your head and bow arm. If you don't bend at the waist, youlower your bow arm around a different pivot than your lower your head, and when you do that, all the angles change if you were to draw the sight lines out on a sheet of paper.