Revised, Got 20 and 100!!!

[Buckfever]

nc asked me the other day: "without moving anything, what range does your top pin (set all the way up) zero at?"

Well today I tried and I could not get 20. While there is plenty of room the pin will not go any higher. I have a hard mount so I had to raise the whole sight a slot. So now I can not get 100 yards, probably somewhere around 90 yards.

The other thing I noticed is that I have a centershot problem. My 20 yard pin is much closer to the riser than the 100 yard pin. And I'm not canting it according to the level and I checked the level and it's true.

Bow is shooting so well I hate to touch it.

[Buckfever]

Well I went and checked in paper and up close was bullets, but when I stepped back, I had a left tear and a slightly high nock point. The left tear is consistent with what the sight was showing me. So I bit the bullet and retuned I now have perfect bullets up close and at 5 yards. Flight is so clean that the paper doesn't move when the arrows punch through.

We'll see if this corrects the flight discrepency I was observing.

[Twanger]

Interesting.
I was shooting out to 85 yards at the bags last night with my 60 yd pin, and getting about 16 inch groups (9 arrows) at 85 yds. I could probably do better if I could actually aim at the target... had to aim about 6-7 feet high with the 60yd pin. While I'd like to have pins "way out there" just for fun, I'd have to go to a different sight with more pins, and it doesn't seem to make alot of sense to me. I doubt I'd shoot at a deer past 60 yds, even if I've already hit it with another arrow. Certainly I'd never shoot at a healthy deer past 40 yds. I get suckered into thinking I can shoot at long range at real animals when I'm pumping out 5" groups at 40 yds, but it the hunting woods things just seem to work out different for me. I'm a 25-yd or less guy on live animals.

[Buckfever]

It is an excellent point, I've only taken a few deer out at 30 yards. Although, I find a 30 yard broadside shot on a relaxed animal about as easy as they come, not much angle to worry about. I do the long range shooting because it helps me burn in good form, helps to improve my confidence and because it's fun. 90% of the setups that I make anything over 20 yards is actually impossible.

Come mid August, all my shoting shifts to shooting from an elevated position and only out to 40 yards. Lots of time spent practising at 3-d animals and getting where to aim down so that it is automatic.

[Buckfever]

Well with the tuning I performaed the other day and the slight nock point adjustment, I was just able to get 20 with the top pin and was slightly high at 100. So I have the pins set at 20 yard increments.

I'll tell you though sighting in does nothing for your confidence. It doesn't matter a lick that you know that the bow isn't sighted in. When you're used to drilling them and most of your shots are not there till you sight in and then you immediately move to the next distance and again you're not drilling them.

Yuk!!!

[Buckfever]

One other thing. The tuning discrepancy is resolved the pins are now straight up and down.