One pin for hunting?????
 

I saw a post here a few days ago about setting one single pin for 25 yards and bieng good to 30 yards. My results were....10 yards=2" high.....20 yards=1.5" high.....30 yards=2" low. I think this is what I'll go with this year. I also noticed that my groups tightened up with the simplicity of a single pin. Much easier to concentrate on the center of the target without the clutter of the other two pins.



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That is my theory also. It will depend on the speed of your arrow, but my results are very similar to yours. I find that out to 40 yards, I'm no more accurate with mutliple pin sites on a 3D course, and I think I make quicker and better decisions with only one pin under the pressure of shooting at a live animal.

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One pin for me set at 20 yards dead on, at 10 yards I put it 1 inch low, at 30 yards I put it 1 inch high, works well for me.

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I prefer one pin too....I think it is much simpler and makes for a quicker decision when the time comes.

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Yep, one pin for me. As I practice, I get better at knowing where to hold at varying distances. It almost becomes instinctive. I've shot my best scores at 3D with one pin. Now I don't shoot over an 18 yd turkey with the 35 yd pin by mistake anymore.<img src=icon_smile_shock.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_angry.gif border=0 align=middle>

Phil.

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Love one pin!!

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Take the guess work out of it. Helped me many years ago to go to one pin. No quessing you know what that one pin does.

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I use 5 pins. Pretty cluttered, but I know exactly where I'm hitting at 20yrds, 30yrds, 40yrds, 50yrds, and 60yrds.

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i have one pin, but i can move it to any distance i want, anything from 1 yard to 40 yards

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I use 1 pin also... I used to have multiple pins, but since going to one pin my groups have tightened. My pin is set for 25 to 30 yards, which is the distance I feel comfortable shooting at, any farther and I have trouble focusing on the vitals... With enuf pratice I have figured out how to move my pin up and down for diffrent distances....

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I use one pin set at 20 yds. Great for whitetails in my woods.

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I take all of the guess work out of it and use an adjustable sight. It doesn't have the confusion of five pins plus you adjust it to whatever yardage that you are shooting and hold it dead on.

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i use 3 pins....top 15 and under, middle 20, bottom 25 and up

Buck or doe big or small they all taste the same and are a trophy in my book.

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Several years ago, I almost lost a nice buck due to multiple pins. At the last moment I realized I had the wrong pin on him, quickly adjusted, and brought him down.

Since that time I have successfully used just 1 pin. This year, while setting up a new sight system, just for kicks and giggles I decided to put an extra pin in for the close shots.

After a couple of weeks of tuning and shooting, I reached the point of just shooting. I put the pin at the mark and fired....3 times, 3 low misses. Too make a longer story short, I was conditioned to pick up the pin. I did, I picked up the first pin that came into view. It was the 12-yard pin and I was shooting from 25-yards.

No more multiple pins for me. Kentucky windage is faster and safer.

Edited by - c903 on 09/11/2002 12:44:12

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OHHHHH Brother, now I need to try single pin shooting and season opens on the 5th of Oct. I will let you all know.

The Tazman aka Martin Price
Founder and President of
Virginia Disabled Outdoorsmen Club

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I only &quot;use&quot; one pin, but I set two. I'm basically in the same school of 1 pin set at 25, but I do go ahead and set a 2nd at 40 yards.

I like this setup because:

a) I can practice at 40, even though I'll never shoot that far in a hunting situation.

b) It provides a point of reference for the 30-plus yard shots, just to reassure myself of the &quot;hold-over&quot; amount.

c) The 40yd pin accomplishes a) and b), but is set far enough below the 25yd pin that it never clutters the sight picture or risks being confused with the other pin.

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I find myself using only one pin most of the time. I shoot a BowTech Pro 40 so one pin is in the kill zone out to 30.

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1 pin here too!

Josh 24:15

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One pin for me too.My keller is locked in at 20yd.on the ground,and up in a tree,(where I do 90% of my hunting)the keller take's over.

Joe

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got a question guys. about how many fps would your bow have to be shootin in order to shoot 1 pin from say 15yds out to 30yds? I know my darton shoots fast enough at 270 fps, but what about my G/E it shoots 245 fps? would that be fast enough for onr pin out to 30yds?

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bowgobble, I tried shooting one pin last night for the first time, man what a difference!!!! I have a very old Black Bear, Bear bow which even though it has a 65 pound pull is far from being fast. I found that by aiming a little low at 10-15 yards I was hitting right on the money, at twenty I held the pin right on the mark and hit right on the mark, and of course I went high over twenty.

I was amazed at how easy it was to adjust to one pin, I also came on target far quicker because I wasn't double/triple checking which pin I was using. I do not feel shooting a single pin is totally dependent upon how fast your bow is, but more on practicing at different distances and finding how high or low you need to hold to hit where you want. I totally concur that the faster your bow the easier shooting single pin would be.

The Tazman aka Martin Price
Founder and President of
Virginia Disabled Outdoorsmen Club

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<BLOCKQUOTE id=quote<font size=1 face='Verdana, Arial, Helvetica' id=quote>quote:<hr height=1 noshade id=quote>got a question guys. about how many fps would your bow have to be shootin in order to shoot 1 pin from say 15yds out to 30yds? I know my darton shoots fast enough at 270 fps, but what about my G/E it shoots 245 fps? would that be fast enough for onr pin out to 30yds?
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You can shoot one pin at any speed. It just requires a slightly different hold at each distance. You might want to try this. Draw a &quot;T&quot; on your target. Aim for the top of the &quot;T&quot; at the intersection at 5 yards. Note where you hit and then move back 5 yards, do the same here, making sure to actually measure how far above or below the &quot;T&quot; you hit. Do this in 5 yard increments until your as far back as you'll ever shoot. You may want to repeat this a few times or shoot groups to get an average. You will then know how far above or below to hold at the different distances. If you have to hold 6&quot; high at 30 yards, that's pretty easy to estimate accurately enough. The only real experimentation is figuring what exact yardage you prefer to set the one pin at. I like it so, that my slam dunk shots (under the tree) can be taken with the pin held right on, or held only an 1&quot; high.

Tazman you're right, it is easy to adjust to, and decision making with a large buck in front of you becomes much easier.

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I have 3 pins but have my top one set for 20 yds and I find with practice its good up to 30yds. That is about my limit for a shot I don't really even mess with my other pins.

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No one pin setup for me. I used to use it, but didn't like it. Now I use three pins 8,18,and 28.

On my recurve and longbow no pins.