Sight Advice

[deanosborne]

Sight Advice for my Z7 Extreme

Good day all, this weekend I am planning on replacing my 5 Pin Truglo Superslam sight with something a little more versatile, for hunting AND target shooting. When hunting, I never shoot past 50yds but now that I’m shooting target a lot more I would like to have pins for further distances. Basically I am looking at either a 7 fixed pin OR something with fixed pins for hunting AND a floating bottom pin for target. So far I like the Spot Hogg SDP, but would want the rail mount and that gets kinda spendy, I also like the G5 Optik with the 3 fixed and 1 adjustable floating pin, also the Limb Saver Elite; 5 fixed and 1 adjustable floating pin. Anyway I would like to get any input along with pros and cons; on the fixed pin sights vs. fixed with adjustable floating pin.

Thanks, and have a great day!!!

[huntinfool86]

axcel armortech hd. the pins are bright and fully protected its also fully adjustable and tool less, i just got mine and its the best sight ive ever seen, the local shop told me its the last sight i will ever need to buy and now i see why  

[Button Nubbs]

X2 for the armortech. My buddy has one, I saw it and fell in love.

[alwinearcher]

I shoot a movable sight from Black gold, the Ascent.  I shoot it 5 green pins but you can get it with any number or color of pins.

(the dial of death )

[Machias]

axcel armortech hd. the pins are bright and fully protected its also fully adjustable and tool less, i just got mine and its the best sight ive ever seen, the local shop told me its the last sight i will ever need to buy and now i see why  

   Wow they are proud of those.  Nearly $200 for a bow sight.       I remember when I bought a brand new bow, the Martin Lynx, for $116.  It killed 20+ deer and 2 bear.  

Personally I like one or two pins.  With today's bows you really don't need more than one maybe two pins and your dang near dead on out to 40 yards.  Plus you don't get razzled and use the wrong pin.  I like to keep it simple.....

[NWWABOWHNTR]

If you want it to double for target shooting,  be aware that any more than 5 pins and you cannot shoot in the "Bowhunter freestyle class" for WSAA or NFAA.  ALso, if any of your pins are "movable" then you will be in the freestyle class. I personally would use a SPot Hogg Hogg it, and you can stay in BHFS. 

[sakoshooter]

I love my Spot Hogg but if I had to buy another, I'd buy the Spot Hogg SDP. 80 yds is easily doable and even more so if you've got a pin for it.

[huntinfool86]

if you look at that black gold sight you can see where the fibers are exposed in the back, imo its junk, axcel armortech is the only sight i've ever seen where the fibers are 100% protected, and lets be honest theirs a lot of brush around here and broken fibers= your hunt is over. yeah its over 200 bucks, but we all know you get what you pay for!  

[Drifterat]

I have a SDP and it's a fine site. But I'm going to replace it with an Armortech HD.

[alwinearcher]

if you look at that black gold sight you can see where the fibers are exposed in the back, imo its junk, axcel armortech is the only sight i've ever seen where the fibers are 100% protected, and lets be honest theirs a lot of brush around here and broken fibers= your hunt is over. yeah its over 200 bucks, but we all know you get what you pay for!  

Crap, I didnt know i couldnt shoot without fibers in a site
Ive hunted with black golds in some tough country for several years and never had an issue.
The Axcel sights are sweet (I have their target sight on one of my bows) but they dont offer a hunting sight that will do what i want.

[huntinfool86]

the reason i said that is a buddy of mine had a black gold and last elk season a stick went in between the fiber and the metal and ripped the fiber out

[sakoshooter]

What did we do before fiber optics? Gun hunt?
I've killed all my bow killed deer without fiber optics. Wait, I killed them all without a sight. Huh.

[PacificNWhunter]

if you look at that black gold sight you can see where the fibers are exposed in the back, imo its junk, axcel armortech is the only sight i've ever seen where the fibers are 100% protected, and lets be honest theirs a lot of brush around here and broken fibers= your hunt is over. yeah its over 200 bucks, but we all know you get what you pay for!  

Crap, I didnt know i couldnt shoot without fibers in a site
Ive hunted with black golds in some tough country for several years and never had an issue.
The Axcel sights are sweet (I have their target sight on one of my bows) but they dont offer a hunting sight that will do what i want.

I like my blackgold sight alot, but 2 of the 5 fiber optics did break this year during the late season. It was pretty cold and I rubbed it in some branches on my way down a hill and when I got back I noticed they were broken. Otherwise like I mentioned I like it.

[Instinct]

I'm currently using trophy ridge hit man 7. I like it

[halflife65]

I have the SDP and bought it without the Hogg Wrap (it was just coming out when I bought the site.)  If you do end up with a Spot Hogg get the Hogg Wrap.  I hunted the first year with it in Montana and broke out all of the fiber optics and ended up having to waste part of a day to go into town and buy some more (I was pretty new to bow hunting - this was about 5 or 6 years ago - and didn't have everything that I needed in my kit yet, like extra fiber optics.)  Anyway, the guys I hunted with had the Hogg Wraps and nobody broke a fiber optic.  I put one on when I got home and haven't had that problem since.

Good sites are now from $150 to $200+, so be prepared to spend that much.  I don't want to generalize, so I'm sure that there are a few sites that are less expensive than that and are good, but I'm talking about the majority of them.