Why ask the question if you are going to argue with everyone that responds (and obviously knows more than you do)? I am honestly suprised that there are so many people here that are willing to continue to try and "help" you when you are obviously too smart to be helped and really just started this thread to get a debate started. Because it's obvious you had no intention of listening to anyone in the first place. I continued to read after the first few posts out of a morbid sense of curiosity but had to quit in the middle because of the mind numbing ignorance of your side of the debate, and the direction that you continued to take it..... JMO Just shoot however you want and quit boring the rest of us to death if you don't really wnat any help to begin with.[:'(]

Silent..

I'm not arguing with anyone. We're having a discussion. Point. Counterpoint.

If you don't like the thread.......keep out. Simple enough

Your points of contact with your face...hand to jawline, nose to string are ANCHOR POINTS.

Your peep sight is an ANCHOR REFERENCE and SIGHTING TOOL.
It can help to verify that your anchor is correct and that your sights are aligned. It is not considered an ANCHOR POINT because it does not ANCHOR or contact any point of your body and IMO also because it can be variable due to movement up or down within the string.

All anchor points are referencesbut all references are not anchor points. An anchor point must be something that cannot change under any circumstances, your hand to your face and where your string touches your nose for example. If you touch your earlobe, or back of your neck or whatever. Your string doesn't change and your hands , face neck and body don't change...........the things you ATTACH to the string CAN change. you don't rely on them as your anchor, you REFERENCE them to verify your anchor.

I do not consider a kisser button as an ANCHOR POINT even though it contacts your face because it can also MOVE, it is also an anchor referencesimply helping to verifythat your anchor is correct and your sight is aligned.

I hunted last year without a peep sight or kisser button......... just because I could.

I feel like a dentist.

GMMAT do you have something against bending at the waist? jk

I follow what you are saying and can tell you I have practiced from almost every conceivable angle in my stand many of which were impossible to maintain "perfect"form duringand in those instances I simply anchored lined up my peep and sight ring(like usual)and rarely if ever did I notice more than an inch change in my POI (about 22 yards). And while I am surethat could growat longer distances the main point of the practice was to be prepared (inside 25 yards) for any shot I could take in a stand even if the situation was less than ideal. You coulddiscuss the theories all day long, do what works for you.

What difference does this thread make anyway, your longbow doesn't have a peep or pins anyway.

GMMAT,

I try to make it a habit of staying out of all of your threads but since it is a public forum, I just thought I'd let you know what I thought about this one. Simple enough

Sure...but it's much easier to skip over one than to come into it and piss and moan about how you hate the subject matter or the poster.

Kinda like everybody did with your "Had a good weekend" thread. See how easy that was for all of us?

I look at it this way.........you have to bend at the waist. If you're 20-25 feet up a tree, and you have a deer at 7 yards you want to shoot, ain't no way you're gonna lower your arm, without bending your waist, and shoot the deer. Your neck won't bend that far down to keep your eye in line with the halo of the sight you speak of...........or to keep your nose on the string as other guysdo. It's pure mechanics.

I'm a firm believer in benidng at the waist. Hope I didn't come off as saying it isn't important. Not my intention.

I would agree that it is a sighting tool, and that's how it's used.


I SIGHT my peep into my PIN SIGHT. It has never had anything to do with my anchor. If your peep is even slightly out from centering in your sight, who would change their anchor to achieve this. Who goes to a bow shop, or installs a peep in their string, and says " Let's put a peep in there so I can figure out my anchor point" Therefore it is not an anchor reference, it is a sighting tool used to see throught the string (as others have pointed out). Are we going to say a sight is an anchor reference because we center it in the peep? Makes no sense to me.