shooting with 3 pins vs. 1 pin
 

i am just setting up my new bow and i was wondering about shooting with one pin as oppose to three. what are the advantages or disadvantages or either. and if so where do you set it

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click, a lot will have to do with the arrow trajectory of your setup. Personally, I use three pins. One at eight, one at 18, and one at 28. I use rather heavy arrows with my setup and get much more of a rainbow effect then a person using light carbons. But, I want to know exactly where my arrow is hitting at 28 yards, not guessing and compensating for it. If you choose to use a one pin setup, no matter what bow you shoot, you will have to do some compensating.

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click I practice with three pins until a month before the season opens, then I go with my 20 yard pin and practice at distances from 10 yards to 40 yards with the single pin, the flatter your bow shoots the less you will have to hold slightly high or low.

The advantage to a single pin is you will never confuse one pin for another when the buck of a life time presents himself to you. Dis-advantage, if you practice enough with a single pin there are none.

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Get the best of both world, an adjustable sight.
I just picked up a Truglo rover, and I' m in love.
I shoot a pretty fast bow and have used 1 pin at 25 yards, it allowed me to shoot out to 30 with minimal compendation, all I really had to do was hold a few inches low if the deer was under 10 yards. My problem was I like to practice out to 50, and like the confidence of tighter groups than holding high with 1 pin gave me.
I never wanted more than 1 pin for hunting, too cluttered and a chance of picking the wrong one. With the adjustable, I can practice all I want, and then lock it in for 25 when I go hunting. If it' s real thick with no long shots, I think I' ll be locking it at 15yds, but 25yds should be Ok for most occasions, If I see a deer at 40 yards, I can just slide the sight to 40yds and aim dead on. Any deer shot at that far has to be ranged anyway, for me, so taking the 2 seconds to adjust the sight shouldn' t be a problem.
Otherwise you can buy a sight with 3 or more pins and take your time and figure out how many you prefer over the spring and summer, don' t make a decision like that based on other' s preferences. You have plenty of time to decide for yourself what fits your setup and style.

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Sorry, Taz, but I' d have to disagree. It really depends on the setup, and personal preference. There are even those out there that won' t use pins on their compound. And feel that relying on a sight at all is a disadvantage. I won' t use a sight on my traditionals, but will with my compound. However, with the heavier arrow set up and slower arrow speeds, I get a pretty good rainbow effect. As you could see, relying on one pin would make estimating shot placement tougher. I' d rather estimate distance to the game and put the pin where it needs to be.

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I do the same thing as Taz but I keep my 30 yard pin on and drop all of the others before season.....I' m 3 inches high at 20 and 4 inches low at 40. No confusion is the best thing about it.....

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I use two pins before season. One at 25 yds and one at 40yds. Then for hunting I use just the 25 yd pin. Using the 40 yard pin before season teaches you how high you would have to hold the 25yd pin to hit at 40. Although I don' t take 40 yd shots at deer. 35 is my limit on a moving target. Anyone can hit a stationary target that will not move!!!!!

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It is my belief that many hunters do not even think about their pins when a large buck is in front of them. They just point and shoot. The more pins, the less likely they' ll pick the right one.

I think it' s best when you don' t have to think too much. If you need to concentrate on your anchor, your grip, your left elbow, the distance to the target, or almost anything else under the pressure of having a big buck within range, you' ll probably find out that you tend to forget it all. I believe it' s best to have as much as possible ingrained so deeply that your decisions become instinctive, and not something you have to think about.

On my bow, I set my one pin at 23 yards. It will shoot a couple inches high at 15 and a couple inches low at 30. If I aim for the center of the kill zone, I' m likely to make a killing shot no matter how screwed up my decision making gets with the deer in front of me. I would never take a shot past 30 yards, so this pin placement works very well.

When I target shoot or shoot 3D, I still use only the one pin. I use these contests to hone my hunting skills and not to win some tournament, therefore my setup remains exactly as it would while hunting with the exception of the fieldtips. I shoot in a league during the winter to keep sharp. I shoot with the same 5 guys each week and we all shoot hunting setups. Everyone of us uses one pin, hunting weight arrows, high draw weights, short bows (we hunt out of tree stands almost exclusively) and hunting releases. This is great practice for developing a repeatable shot without having to think about it.

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If your like me , you' ll have to try both. But the one pin is the way to go, especially in low light situations(when it counts). I really like the one pin adjustable sights !

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If you are going to limit yourself to one pin only why even use a sight at all?

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Why are you going to have a bunch of pins if your only using one 99% of the time in most hunting situations ?

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I dont use a pin at 15 yards or closer, 18 yards I use the top pin
25 the middle 35 the bottom pin. the last deer I harvested I used the bottom pinIf I only had 1 20 yard pin I would not have Been able to take the shot with only one pin.
When I hunt I dont limit my self to only one distance I like to have a viriety of range which I can actually shoot from.

with only one pin you are limited to shooting within the renge your pin is set up for.

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Your right ! It depends on the set up though . Which ours are obviously very different. Mine will shoot 0-35 yrds with a 20 yrd pin out of a tree stand with virtually no drop at all. If my 18-25-35 yardage was very critical I might re-think my position. But I' ll take my 1 pin over none anyday, I' m not good enough to go instinctive. [8D]

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I don' t use sights at all any more. If you would commit yourself to practicing once or twice a week and develop the ability to shoot accurately without relying on those pins, you' d find you have a good many advantages in the woods over someone that uses sights. Especially in low light situations.

I shot my ProTec fingers/barebow at our club' s charity shoot Sunday. Got a 260 out of a 300 possible.

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1 pin, also only have only 1 scope on my gun. Good thing I don' t have to limit my shooting to what my scope is set at.

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I shoot 3 pin v-pin system don' t like 5 pincause for me its too many choices. I shoot 20 , 30, 40 yrds I try not to shoot over 30 and haven' t harvested anything out that far... back yard i shoot out to 50 yrds just before hunting i go down to my pro shop and shoot at pop up 3d' s in the 20 - 30 yrd range to get sims of hunting real life.. this works for me!!!

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LOL jerseyhunter, it sucks when a deer' s at 100yds and my 30-06 is only sighted for 200.
1 pin for hunting, with most bows shooting a decent speed, just about anybody with a decent draw weight and carbon arrows can use 1 pin out to 30 with no trouble.
When I had a bunch of pins I picked the wrong one on a nice buck, back when I shot instinctive, I sent one through a nice set of antlers one time because I failed to concentrate. Haven' t failed to drag a deer home yet that I shot at using 1 pin.
Makes it much easier on myself when I get excited

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I don' t see why some people think it is so difficult to compensate for drop (or " rise" for that matter) with one pin. IF you know an animal is at 30 yards and you know your arrow drops 2" at 30 yards, pick a spot 2" above where you want to hit and aim for that spot.....It' s really no that hard. You' re still picking a spot and aiming for that spot.

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CG, I understand what you are sayng about a 2" drop between 20 and 30 yards with YOUR setup. Heck, the pins would probably be too close together anyway. But not everyone who shoots only has a 2" drop.

Heck, I use three pins and still have to adjust slightly for in between shots.

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For a long time, my pinswere at 15 and 30 with a 3rd one below them for decoration! This year, with my better and faster new bow, I' ll have pins set for 20, 40 and 60 yards. The 60 yard pin will be for practice only.

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Well it looks as though there are several schools of thought on this, everyone should use what they are comfortable with. I shot 4 pins for years and decided last season to try one pin, I was far more accurate and confident than I had been with the four. It took a good bit of practice to know how high or low to hold, but I have to say within a week it became natural at any distance to know how high or low to hold. This was with my old bow (20+ years) which was slow as mollasses, my new bow is fast beyond beleif in comparison as a result there is a lot less adjusting to do at different yardages. As with types of bows, sights are the same, different strokes for different folks.

The real secret to the whole 9 yards is confidence and practice, whether you shoot 1 pin or 20, if you have not practiced enough, or you are not confident you have lost the battle.

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I used to shoot a multi pin sight but after shooting 3-d with a single pin I switched to a single pin. I have a moveable sight on my bow and have 1 mark for 0-25 yards and another for 25-40 yards. Most of my stands are setup to where I can set my sights at one or the other and work out just perfectly. Afetr shooting the one pin setup, the multi pin was just downright confusing, too much to think about. With one pin, just put it in the center of the kill zone and pick a hair.