Where To Put Those Pesky Pins?

[konrad]

Just relating to the way things have worked for me these past six decades to my sight pins now has me asking:

If I have set my pins at distances ranging from 10 to 60 yards, would the odds be better that my Ghost Buck will appear at a range of…oh say…35 yards?

Would I be better served with pins set at the standard 10 yard intervals only beginning at 15 yards?

The more I ponder this question, the more able I am to convince myself Mr. Bucky Buck will show up at 43 yards, or 37 yards or any number other than a yardage ending in zero.

What do the gurus say?

[carpsniperg2]

it kinda depends on your bow/setup. my xforce i shoot is 83lbs and blazin fast i shoot 1 pin to 40 yards then i have 45/50/55/60 but i am kind funny about things like that i don't like to have to guess what pin is closer. i would say figure out your max distance and then set pins to have as little gap as possible. like say you will only shoot to 50 and have 5 pins. well say the first pin is good to 30 yards i would then do a 35/40/45/50 but thats my

[konrad]

That's kinda my point.
I don't like guessing and that's how it always comes out.
I do fine using the pin. It's the "bracketing" that fouls me up.

[MIKEXRAY]

It does not matter if you set them up for 20,30,40 or 25,35,45 because you still have to know where to aim if he comes in the middle of your pins. Odds are when you range him you will not have the exact pin he is at.  My 20 pin is dead on down to 0, then I have 30-60 yards, I also practice a lot at all ranges in between my pins. It is very important to get this figured out and probably is the biggest cause of hitting high & low on animals. You have to be a little more precise than " 40 yards add a little "  Good luck. Mike

[carpsniperg2]

yep me as well. i got tired of it with my old bow and learned what range i could get away with what pin. i had them set in 10 yard increase and anything 5 or more got the higher pin and i might be a few inches high at most and on a elk it would still get the job done.
IE: 33 yards use the 30/ 45 yards use the 50 etc i hated trying to hold the pins even on a animal/target and bracket them

[Button Nubbs]

If you have an intimate knowledge of your bow and where it will shoot gapping pins shouldn't be much of an issue.
Here is the way I do it for example:

4O-43 yards- hold 4O pin from dead on to a little high
44-46 yards- gap pins for 45 and hold a little high or low depending on the yardage.
47-5O- hold 5O pin a little low to dead on.
It may seem complicated or confusing but that's what works for me.

[Button Nubbs]

Oh and I set my pins at 1O yard increments starting at 2O

[carpsniperg2]

a little low or right or or a little high does nothing for but make me have to think twice i like a pin to be right on and the arrow is away last thing i want to be doing at full draw is thinking well i should hold this pin a little low or is it a little high because he took 2 steps to the left and one away   but to each there own. gap shooting is nothing to me because i shoot so much instictive with my trad bows and bowfishing bows so i am not new to it but i don't like to think when it s time to make the shot count

[Button Nubbs]

Dude sometimes you really make no sense at all. You say you like the pin to be right on and then go on to say that gapping pins is not a problem for you in the same post! Which is it?!  Since you shoot one pin to 4O what do you do when its a 2O yard shot? Hold under?

[carpsniperg2]

you are not understanding i am saying i have no problem gap shooting with my trad bows or bowfishing bows!

"gap shooting is nothing to me because i shoot so much instictive with my trad bows and bowfishing bows"
see not gaping with my pins never did i say in the same post i said with my trad bows which have no pins

i hold my first pin right on all the way to 40 yards period! i hit about a inch high at 20yards if you must know.
and at 40 its about 1.5 low

[carpsniperg2]

o and gap shooting is a traditional term. i think you mean bracketting

[Button Nubbs]

"Gap shooting is nothing to me because I shoot so much instinctive..."
Dude... Are you serious?! Wow!

[carpsniperg2]

"Gap shooting is nothing to me because I shoot so much instinctive..."
Dude... Are you serious?! Wow!

yes if you know anything about traditional shooting or own a traditonal bow you would know a thing or two. i own 14 bows as of this second! 4 of which are recurves and i also shoot another 4 that have no sights. i shoot instinctive with those 8 bows! so yeah i am seriuos i proably shoot about 1000 arrows instinctive each year. how i shot my elk last year as well. so

o and it was

""gap shooting is nothing to me because i shoot so much instictive with my trad bows and bowfishing bows"

you left out part of my words

[Button Nubbs]

Oh sorry, shame on me, gap, bracket whatever! This is a thread about how people set pins not about how "awesome" carpsniperg2 is at every aspect of archery from bowfishing to compounds, and his diarrea fountain of knowledge...

[carpsniperg2]

glad you got that figured out that is the point of this site is to share knowledge. but maybe you could not figure that out. and i would rather be a diarrea of knowledge with the correct info then someone that is talking about somthing they do not know. i don't think we need to talk anymore and let this one go on

how was that for a discussion konrad sorry for the jacking had to set a few things strait