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Re: Best or Fav bow sight?
« Reply #15 on: December 08, 2015, 12:21:26 AM »
Spot Hogg 7 deadly pins. It's what I have and it's awesome. Super sturdy and not to complicated. Sight is close to the bow I didn't like the idea of some of the sights sticking way out but that's just me.
IMO the further the sight is from the bow the smaller aperture you use on your peep, seems to increase accuracy. Less room for error. Aim small miss small.

Ya like I said for me personally I don't like my sight hanging a foot out in front of my bow for hunting, maybe for targets. But I shoot well out to 80 and practice out to 100 for fun so it can't effect it that much.

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Re: Best or Fav bow sight?
« Reply #16 on: December 08, 2015, 12:26:27 AM »
Spot Hogg Fast Eddie is my fave!

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Re: Best or Fav bow sight?
« Reply #17 on: December 08, 2015, 12:54:46 AM »
Lol. I guess my 1100$ kifaru bag is a waste to huh. :chuckle: Im the coolest looking road hunter ever though!

If it was an $80 pack with a $20 flip top for $1,000 then I would say, "YES it is a waste." 

It might also be a waste if you don't get out there and kill yourself an elk here soon!  An $18 Hello Kitty pack will get your Red Bull and Snickers from the house to the 'sploder :chuckle:
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Re: Best or Fav bow sight?
« Reply #18 on: December 08, 2015, 01:06:11 AM »
Lol. I guess my 1100$ kifaru bag is a waste to huh. :chuckle: Im the coolest looking road hunter ever though!

If it was an $80 pack with a $20 flip top for $1,000 then I would say, "YES it is a waste." 

It might also be a waste if you don't get out there and kill yourself an elk here soon!  An $18 Hello Kitty pack will get your Red Bull and Snickers from the house to the 'sploder :chuckle:
I wont be killing any elk in any near future. I don't even know how to hunt elk. Sure as heck aint gonna just walk around in a wooded area hoping to run into one.
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Re: Best or Fav bow sight?
« Reply #19 on: December 08, 2015, 02:10:36 AM »
 :chuckle: :chuckle:

Haven't you ever heard the saying, "I never see failure as failure, but only as the negative feedback I need to change course in the right direction"?

You learn more about elk from walking around in a wooded area than you ever will sitting at a computer.  How do you think I learned how to hunt elk?  No one taught me anything about elk hunting.  I didn't even know anyone who had successfully hunted elk with a bow before I killed my first one.  Heck, I didn't even know a half dozen people who shot a bow back then!

My father sold our chest freezer in the summer of 1980.  I asked him what we were going to do if I shot an elk.  His response to me was, "You shoot an elk and then we will worry about it."  My own mother forbid me to hunt bear with my bow because the guy at the sporting goods store told her I would be killed or crippled if I even tried.  I killed my second deer, a bull elk and a boar with my bow that same year.  Determination, stubbornness, repeated failure, two pairs of boots, 40 tanks of fuel and some stupid luck was all it took.  My father paid twice the price for a new freezer than he got for the one he sold! :tung:

And BTW...That $1,100 Kifaru is one heck of a pack for walking around in wooded areas inhabited by elk ;) ;)
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Re: Best or Fav bow sight?
« Reply #20 on: December 08, 2015, 05:17:22 AM »
I'm a spot hog can myself but you should have a ton of options.

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Re: Best or Fav bow sight?
« Reply #21 on: December 08, 2015, 05:27:05 AM »
I did see an add recently for one that you could swing the multi pins out of the way to use just the single, don't know the brand though.
It was the Trophy Taker Option 6 Ed. Thats thenone we were talking about.

You didn't see the price tag on that sight, did you Loki?  For $350 it should come with a personal assistant to make all those adjustments for you!

That might be why I didn't bother remembering who it was by.   :rolleyes:  That, and I'm happy with my Bargain Cave sight that I have now.   :chuckle: I couldn't even tell you what that one is, and I've been using it for longer than I've had my current bow.  ;)

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Re: Best or Fav bow sight?
« Reply #22 on: December 08, 2015, 09:52:26 AM »
My current bow has an Armortech on it that I really love but when I get the new bow I'll probably be looking at an Accustat. I'd just like to have the ability to dial the sight when shooting past my 5th pin (beyond 60) and the Accustat would give me that ability.

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Re: Best or Fav bow sight?
« Reply #23 on: December 08, 2015, 11:18:13 AM »
:chuckle: :chuckle:

Haven't you ever heard the saying, "I never see failure as failure, but only as the negative feedback I need to change course in the right direction"?

You learn more about elk from walking around in a wooded area than you ever will sitting at a computer.  How do you think I learned how to hunt elk?  No one taught me anything about elk hunting.  I didn't even know anyone who had successfully hunted elk with a bow before I killed my first one.  Heck, I didn't even know a half dozen people who shot a bow back then!

My father sold our chest freezer in the summer of 1980.  I asked him what we were going to do if I shot an elk.  His response to me was, "You shoot an elk and then we will worry about it."  My own mother forbid me to hunt bear with my bow because the guy at the sporting goods store told her I would be killed or crippled if I even tried.  I killed my second deer, a bull elk and a boar with my bow that same year.  Determination, stubbornness, repeated failure, two pairs of boots, 40 tanks of fuel and some stupid luck was all it took.  My father paid twice the price for a new freezer than he got for the one he sold! :tung:

And BTW...That $1,100 Kifaru is one heck of a pack for walking around in wooded areas inhabited by elk ;) ;)
Pfft. That's all I have in response to that. Lol. I don't really enjoy doing things unless I have someone to share the experience with. Solo is fun but its not really my "thing" I like having someone to bounce ideas off of.
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Re: Best or Fav bow sight?
« Reply #24 on: December 09, 2015, 05:23:29 PM »

If it was an $80 pack with a $20 flip top for $1,000 then I would say, "YES it is a waste." 

It might also be a waste if you don't get out there and kill yourself an elk here soon!  An $18 Hello Kitty pack will get your Red Bull and Snickers from the house to the 'sploder :chuckle:

This may be the funniest thing I have seen written on this forum  :chuckle: :chuckle:  And true.

To add to the topic, I have the Spot Hogg Wrapped 7 deadly pin in .010 and I love it. The small pins really helped me tighten up my groups and the wrap keeps the pins lit down to the bitter end of shooting light. Some people dont like the clutter, but I have the order pretty well memorized and don't mind it. That said, my elk was so close I put my first three pins behind the shoulder and then she died  :dunno:

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Re: Best or Fav bow sight?
« Reply #25 on: December 10, 2015, 04:37:49 PM »
I don't even know how to hunt elk. Sure as heck aint gonna just walk around in a wooded area hoping to run into one.

That's pretty much how you do it  :chuckle:

An $18 Hello Kitty pack will get your Red Bull and Snickers from the house to the 'sploder :chuckle:

 :chuckle: :chuckle: I'm sorry to laugh at your expense Smossy but I'm dying over here!
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Re: Best or Fav bow sight?
« Reply #26 on: December 12, 2015, 02:49:02 AM »
For me, I don't have a particular brand or model that I could choose but instead the attributes I'd want it to have. Right now I'm shooting a cheap 5 pin sight and going from that I'd like to go with a 4 or 5 pin sight with a slider option for longer ranges. Having the adjustability would let me get away with less pins in the housing. .19 is fine for the closer range but I'd like my bottom pin or 2 to be .10. One thing I don't like about some sights is the sequential pins being the same color, I prefer each pin to be a different color than the one next to it.

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