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Title: Sighting in fast Eddie xl help
Post by: Commando on February 28, 2018, 05:34:01 PM: I got the fast Eddie xl today 5 pin and I’m confused on the set up. So you sight in the twenty put the tape move back to 60 and sight in with the 20 at sixty yards to find the right sight tape? Am I right or doing it wrong?
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Post by: Crunchy on February 28, 2018, 05:51:13 PM
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Post by: Commando on February 28, 2018, 06:01:48 PM: That guys using a single pin, I got the five pin. Is it the same way sighting in a five pin as a single pin?
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Post by: biggfish on February 28, 2018, 06:09:31 PM: You need to sight all your pins first. Then you sight your top pin at 60 using the dial. If you set your pins 20-60, depending on your arrow weight and bow speed you'll be sighted out to about 150 on the bottom pin with the dial maxed out.

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Post by: Commando on February 28, 2018, 06:12:32 PM: Thanks! Will this still make the sixty yard pin be the mover or would that be the twenty yard pin being the mover? I’d like to have the 60 be the mover.
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Post by: Commando on February 28, 2018, 06:45:55 PM: If I wanted the sixty to be the floater, when putting the sight tape on do I move the sight all the way back to zero and put the tape on with the indecator at sixty?
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Post by: northwesthunter84 on February 28, 2018, 07:22:54 PM: Having 60 as your floater, sight in 20-60 like normal. Use a chrono and determine setup speed. You can use a archery program to build you tapes (Archers Advantage for example) or you can use a lable a cut a strip. Place it on the dial and mark your pointer. This is you 60 yard zero. Next you have options, I try to get the widest variation on distance to make the tapes. So I would measure the difference in height to from your 20 or 30 yard pin to your 60. Then adjust your sight so that your sixty yard pin is at that relative height. Shoot your 60 pin at this setting at the 20 or 30 yards you chose. Adjust as nessesary to dial it in. Mark the final spot as the current yardage. Then return to zero of 60 yards and walk your shots out 70 or 80. Mark that spot when satisfied. Now you can compare to the lines to the pre-made tapes. Now you can choose the build it using pre-made ones, draw your own, or splice together the other. Once you choose verify at all your distances no matter which way you go. Finally use packing tape to seal it on the sight, not waterproof but it helps.
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Post by: DVET253 on February 28, 2018, 07:27:23 PM: What I did for my 3-pin (20, 30, 40) fast Eddie xl is to sight in my set pins first. Then attached a piece of sticky label and marked were the purple pointer is, walked back to the next yardage (for me, 50 yds, then shoot and adjust so my bottom pin is my mover. Once dialed, mark the sticky label again for fifty. I repeated the process out to 90 yards ( due to distance) and once I had my 50-90 marks on the label, moved the sight back up to the first mark and locked it down. I then removed the label from the sight and matched 50 to 50, 60 -60 etc from the label with the best fit sight tape from SH. Once cut out, I placed the sight tape on the Eddie so that the purple pointer sits at 40 yds as indicated in the sight tape. So now when I need to shoot using the bottom mover, my pointer matches the yardage on the sight tape and I also maximize the total distance I can shoot before fletching contact on the sight housing.
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Post by: DVET253 on February 28, 2018, 07:37:33 PM: Also, if you want to maximize movable distance of the Eddie, set your bottom pin as close to the bubble level as comfortable and kind of work backwards getting your set distance pins set. This should give you ample room to move for 60+ yard shots before clearance issues arise.
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Post by: biggfish on February 28, 2018, 07:51:24 PM: Just my opinion and preference, but more then three pins on an adjustable sight complicate the works. Your least complicated method to sight in put a blank tape on start at 60 mark it on the tape then sight to 70, 80, etc. marking them off as you go. The few people I knew that got multi pin sliders got frustrated and went back to fixed pin.

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Title: Re: Sighting in fast Eddie xl help
Post by: Commando on February 28, 2018, 08:08:45 PM: Quote from: biggfish on February 28, 2018, 07:51:24 PM
Just my opinion and preference, but more then three pins on an adjustable sight complicate the works. Your least complicated method to sight in put a blank tape on start at 60 mark it on the tape then sight to 70, 80, etc. marking them off as you go. The few people I knew that got multi pin sliders got frustrated and went back to fixed pin.

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It’ll be used mostly as a fixed pin sight. I only got the mover sigjtnto shoot longer ranges occasionally and if I need it it’s there type of thing. I’ll never shoot a animal as of now past forty. But hey who knows maybe after years of practice that’ll change.

DVET253
I think that’s what I’m gonna do. That doesn’t sound to hard and is less confusing. Thanks man!
Title: Re: Sighting in fast Eddie xl help
Post by: DVET253 on February 28, 2018, 08:17:27 PM: Quote from: Commando on February 28, 2018, 08:08:45 PM
Quote from: biggfish on February 28, 2018, 07:51:24 PM
Just my opinion and preference, but more then three pins on an adjustable sight complicate the works. Your least complicated method to sight in put a blank tape on start at 60 mark it on the tape then sight to 70, 80, etc. marking them off as you go. The few people I knew that got multi pin sliders got frustrated and went back to fixed pin.

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It’ll be used mostly as a fixed pin sight. I only got the mover sigjtnto shoot longer ranges occasionally and if I need it it’s there type of thing. I’ll never shoot a animal as of now past forty. But hey who knows maybe after years of practice that’ll change.

DVET253
I think that’s what I’m gonna do. That doesn’t sound to hard and is less confusing. Thanks man!

No problem brother, if you want I can always shoot you some pics or we can talk offline!
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Post by: Calvin Rayborn on March 14, 2018, 04:00:30 PM: That the one with the big dial?
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Post by: Map on October 20, 2019, 11:12:03 AM: Quote from: DVET253 on February 28, 2018, 07:27:23 PM
What I did for my 3-pin (20, 30, 40) fast Eddie xl is to sight in my set pins first. Then attached a piece of sticky label and marked were the purple pointer is, walked back to the next yardage (for me, 50 yds, then shoot and adjust so my bottom pin is my mover. Once dialed, mark the sticky label again for fifty. I repeated the process out to 90 yards ( due to distance) and once I had my 50-90 marks on the label, moved the sight back up to the first mark and locked it down. I then removed the label from the sight and matched 50 to 50, 60 -60 etc from the label with the best fit sight tape from SH. Once cut out, I placed the sight tape on the Eddie so that the purple pointer sits at 40 yds as indicated in the sight tape. So now when I need to shoot using the bottom mover, my pointer matches the yardage on the sight tape and I also maximize the total distance I can shoot before fletching contact on the sight housing.

This is excellent and clear information. Thanks for posting.
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Post by: Fredswer on October 29, 2019, 10:55:18 PM: Quote from: Map on October 20, 2019, 11:12:03 AM
Quote from: DVET253 on February 28, 2018, 07:27:23 PM
What I did for my 3-pin (20, 30, 40) fast Eddie xl is to sight in my set pins first. Then attached a piece of sticky label and marked were the purple pointer is, walked back to the next yardage (for me, 50 yds, then shoot and adjust so my bottom pin is my mover. Once dialed, mark the sticky label again for fifty. I repeated the process out to 90 yards ( due to distance) and once I had my 50-90 marks on the label, moved the sight back up to the first mark and locked it down. I then removed the label from the sight and matched 50 to 50, 60 -60 etc from the label with the best fit sight tape from SH. Once cut out, I placed the sight tape on the Eddie so that the purple pointer sits at 40 yds as indicated in the sight tape. So now when I need to shoot using the bottom mover, my pointer matches the yardage on the sight tape and I also maximize the total distance I can shoot before fletching contact on the sight housing.

This is excellent and clear information. Thanks for posting.

Yes, really informative reply.