Bow Sights

[TheYoungSelfStarter]

Hello HW, I'm new to hunting and this forum(this is my first post). I'm looking at getting the Hoyt CRX 32 or the PSE Drive R and when I get on or the other I want to have a 1 pin or 3 pin slider sight. I'm a young buck so I would prefer not to spend $200 on a bow sight so what is your idea or suggestions as to which sight I should buy and what I should set my pins at?


Thanks for the help.

[Tinmaniac]

HHA Optimizer .010 single pin slider works great for me.Around $120 on ebay.

[Milkman]

My  go with a 3 pin. Set top pin at 20, 2nd pin 30, third pin/floater at 40 but yet able to dial it out to 100 if need be.

[Crunchy]

my two cents are to avoid a one pin slider if you are going to be hunting with that set up.  Countless stories of slider sights screwing up a shot opportunities.  Range bull at 50, adjust slider, draw back but bull moved in closer say 15 to 20 yards.  Now what?  No time to adjust sight again.  Or just the opposite, range something at 25, It moves out 15 or 20 yards? 

[TheYoungSelfStarter]

my two cents are to avoid a one pin slider if you are going to be hunting with that set up.  Countless stories of slider sights screwing up a shot opportunities.  Range bull at 50, adjust slider, draw back but bull moved in closer say 15 to 20 yards.  Now what?  No time to adjust sight again.  Or just the opposite, range something at 25, It moves out 15 or 20 yards?

Wow, that is actually something I didn't think about, definitely not going with a 1 pin slider.
Thanks for all the help

[Crunchy]

Fresh on my mind as I helped a guy this season try to track a bull he wounded because the bull came into 60, he adjusted his slider for 60, then the next thing he knew the bull was in his lap at 20.  He guessed and aimed low, but ended up hitting it way high.  Bull trotted off 20 or so yards and gave him a second shot, but again no time to range or adjust his slider.  Guessed, and hit high again.  Never recovered the bull, and according to him it was a nice 6 by 6

[Wetwoodshunter]

I have a spot Hogg 5pin slider. I set it at 20,30,40,50,60 and never need to change it other than practice.

Mine is the tommy hogg. You can find them used on archery talk for not a lot of $

[RadSav]

The amount of times I have been screwed by a one pin slider in 35 years still doesn't fill a hand full of fingers.  Single pin or three pin...I like them both.  But I do shoot the single much better.

[Tinmaniac]

Whether you use one pin or seven guessing yardage will lead to misses and poorly placed shots.Get a rangefinder and use it.As far as stories go there are also countless stories of guys using the wrong pin in the heat of the moment.In 36 years of hunting with a bow a single pin and a rangefinder is the deadliest combination I have ever used.

[Crunchy]

Whether you use one pin or seven guessing yardage will lead to misses and poorly placed shots.Get a rangefinder and use it.As far as stories go there are also countless stories of guys using the wrong pin in the heat of the moment.In 36 years of hunting with a bow a single pin and a rangefinder is the deadliest combination I have ever used.
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 Of the 10-12 elk I have killed most of which with a bow, only 1 I was able to range first and that was a spot and stalk.  Even the few with a rifle only 1 I ranged first.  Elk are almost always on to you before you  are to them, so ranging, adjusting your slider, then drawing and shooting is just one additional step to a potentially already spooked elk.  If you are set on a slider do a 3 pin and set them at 30, 40, 50.  Anything over 50 you have a better chance of not being spotted and can range and adjust.

[RadSav]

There is such a thing as gap practicing.  Almost all of my elk have been shot with my single pin set at 30.  Mostly because that's where most elk are when I shoot them.  But, I know how low I want to be at 20, know how high I want to be at 40 and know where my bubble zeros out when set at 30.

I would say that half my turkeys are shot initially at 9-11 yards.  I almost always put a second arrow in a turkey that doesn't immediately drop.  By the time I get reloaded that shot is 40-45 yards.  Probably the last 8 second shots that's been the better shot.  No moving the pin.  Practice and pre-ranging gives me all I need to know.

Last year I was set to shoot a deer a couple days before end of season.  Smaller deer at 25 yards, single pin set for 30.  No need to adjust pin.  Just before I touched the trigger I see a bigger deer come out a good ways further down the hill.  Again, that was pre-ranged at 58 yards.  Swung away from deer #1 and settled bubble on #2's back.  Heart shot -10 yard recovery.

All about knowing your equipment and the gaps.  Might take you an additional 5 arrows to set all gaps from a 30 pin.  Not difficult at all.  Add a little roving practice while never adjusting the pin and you'll wonder what all the fuss is about.