Truglo Tritium Sight Pin... Don't bother
 

Finally used my gift certificate and received my TFO tritium powered site pin from Cabelas.
Seems well built, fiber optic is green,things were looking good. The ultimate test? I turned off all the lights in my windowless office and shut the door, total darkness. Big disappointment followed. I had expected the fiber to glow prominently. What it did was glow just enough so that if I strained my eyes I could see it. I don't think you'd see it if looking through a string peep. I was sure I had a defective one, so I called Truglo. They said no, that's all it does. At $25 I expected much more. I'll probably keep it, to test it in real world conditions as I wanted a new sight pin anyway, but who knows. If you're interested in this pin, beware what your expectations are...

RE: Truglo Tritium Sight Pin... Don't bother
 

Try it outdoors, I find that pins react better to the suns UV rays, even at night, the ambients of the stars and moon will make it glow more then indoor lighting. You also have to remember you won't be hunting in pitch black, and the low light hours that you will be hunting in will probably create enough dawn or dusk light, that the pin will glow like crazy. Good shooting.
Dylan

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I agree with you #55 recurve. I don't have the new tru-glow pin, but I do know that they need some sort of natural light. I shoot indoors a lot and use the new high efficiency type light that they sell at home depot. It costs around $20, but they will light up the fibre optics where incandescent won't.

RE: Truglo Tritium Sight Pin... Don't bother
 

work great in hunting!!! you can sure see it in low light not disapoint at all with it

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I should clarify, I am not disappointed with the performance of the fiber optic aspect of this pin, but rather I expected more from the tritium enhancement. In natural light, the fiber optic shows up clearly. I was disappointed with how dim the tritium appeared in total darkness, as it's supposed to enhance the fiber in low light. Time will tell how it performs during legal shooting hours next fall...

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Rangeball,
I have personally tested the tritium pin in the same manner you did. Although I did not see a HUGE difference, it was a considerable amount, in my opinion. I held a tritium pin up next to a regular fiber optic pin, and I can even see a difference in the daytime.
Although there was a considerable differnce, I DID NOT think that purchasing this pin would allow me to shoot later/earlier in the darkness. Hence, I did not buy it.
Honestly, the best thing I ever did to increase my shooting time was to change peeps to a slightly larger hole size. I THINK that I currently shoot the Tru Peep in the 1/8" size. It allows me shoot ALMOST up until I can no longer see the deer period. I have found that even if you use a lighted sight pin, you still can't see the target when it gets that late!

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I used a tritium pin last season and actually found that I had more trouble with it when it was really light out,do to the housing around the color I suppose, I Thought it was awesome right at dark, I used it as my 20 yd pin and the other pins on the sight were f/o's, at times I couldn't even see the 2 f/o pins and the tritium was glowing, I do think there's a pretty fine line as to when the price is worth the difference, if it's that dark I probably shouldn't be shooting.

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That pin works better in hunting situations in low light, but that is NOT a true tritium pin. I've used a tritium pin for hunting for over 10 years, and you don't need to be outside, or have natural light, to see it.

In fact, with the pin I use, if you place your bow 20' away, you can see the tritium dot. It is large for a pin, but for a 20 yarder it works great, in low light you only see the fine, smaller, chamber for the tritium gas, making it very precise.

I'm not advocating shooting after hours, but some guys were bragging at a local archery shop a few years ago about night hunting with a tritium pin 4-5 hours after legal shooting light, with a bait pile and snow. They could see if the deer had lots of antler against the snow, and could shoot because of the tritium pin.

I guess if it's good enough for poachers 4 hours after dark, it's good enough for me anytime within legal shooting hours.

Jeff...U.P. of Michigan

RE: Truglo Tritium Sight Pin... Don't bother
 

Jeff,

What brand if pins were these, and where can you get them?

RE: Truglo Tritium Sight Pin... Don't bother
 

Jeff, I'm pretty sure I know the pins you're referring to. I had looked at them prior to the TFO pin release from truglo, but I only use one pin on my hunting rig, and the pin was a little big for my liking. I get what you're saying though... with the Truglo TFO pin, the tritium is used soley to light up the FO, not actually used as the pin.

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I have a Tritium pin on the PSE moveable sight on my Mach 8.
It still glows in total darkness after eight years.


Sag.

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Bob,
I think they sell them through Cabelas, but I beleive they are called a "tritium" pin-I use the big one.

Like Rangeball said, they have a pretty big head, but I've owned 2 in the past 12 years or so, the first one lasted around 5 years, and I'm still on the 2nd one.

I use a 20,30,and 40 yard pin. I would have to admit, they would be kind of large for maybe even 30, let alone 40. At 20 yards they work fine, and when it's later, and the tritium is all you can see, it is a very small dot, that is very accurate. My sight is also one that can move up and down, and my 30 yard small sight pin is used as a roving pin, to set at any distance out to 80 yards, for whatever type of shooting I want to use my hunting bow for-say a cat across the field at 76 yards-I just have to try.

So for me, the big 20 yard pin is not an issue, but as Rangeball said, if it's your only pin, you might like something smaller.

Jeff...U.P. of Michigan.

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This is the Truglo TFO pin I purchased-

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/te...d=&parentType=

I think this is the type NorthJeff is referring to-

http://www.cabelas.com/cabelas/en/te...navAction=jump

The TFO has the tritium contained in the base of the site so that the glow illuminates the fiber optic. The tritium pin is exposed, so you are using the actual tritium glow as a point of sight reference...

Edited by - Rangeball on 02/22/2002 14:29:23

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I won't nock TruGlo but I bought the 4000 sight 2 weeks ago, lucky for me my pro shop took it back. The pin bolts are perpendicular to the pin, when you tighten they rotate and you loose your adjustment. My proshop guy said he had just heard that this sight was getting discontinued so no problem.

RE: Truglo Tritium Sight Pin... Don't bother
 

Jeff, was it something like this?
http://www.toxonics.com/home022.htm

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Rangeball,

That's right, the original is the one I use. I had the finer one, but it wasn't bright enough and didn't last as long either-at least it lost it's glow after a couple of years in my bow parts box.

Bob, that is close, actually looks pretty decent if you have that type of site. What you are looking at is tritium in a case, not a fiber optic illuminated by tritium-big difference in brightness, also pin size though.

Jeff...U.P. of Michigan.