Hunting Washington Forum
Big Game Hunting => Bow Hunting => Topic started by: DoubleJ on August 29, 2011, 07:47:12 PM
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Thinking of switching to single pin next year. I'm tired of tuning multiple pins. Problem is, I have no idea how to use a single pin. What are your thoughts? Anyone with single pin experience?
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all I use,.... HHA makes many quality one pin sights.
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i use a 4 pin slider by blackgold. i have 20-50 as fixed pins and then 50+ as a slider.
best of both worlds :twocents:
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Single pins all the way, better accuracy easy to use most have a tape that you adjust to your arrow speed. All you do is Dial in your 20 and 40 then do a little math and put the sticker on the wheel and that's it.
I use a single black gold myself
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See, I can't afford a new sight. Maybe next year I will be able to but, in the mean time, the plan is to take my multi pin sight, remove 4 of the pins, and center the 5th pin in the sight housing. Then move the sight housing up or down until it's zero'd at 20 yards. I only shoot a 49lb draw weight so, shots over 40 yards are not an option anyway. With my bow, I should be able to hold a 20yd zero to almost 30 yards and compensate about a 3-4 inch drop out to 40.
This is all in my head of course.
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what bow are you shootin?
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what bow are you shootin?
Archery research AR-34
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I've never been able to tell if it's the Ram and a Half or the Ram Plus. Any idea how to tell the difference?
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on the ram cam and a half system there were numbers or letter that can be used as timing marks
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Lemme go look
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there is only a cam on the bottom. It says "Ram cam" in the decal circle and the only numbers I see say "Ram 8R"
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why dont you bump your pounds up to shoot further
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why dont you bump your pounds up to shoot further
Can't pull it back anymore. Shoulder injury. I can pull more, but not smoothly.
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Multi pin for me. Try having a big bull come screaming in on a dead run and be at full draw. Unless you have a third arm to slide you pin with you are kinda sol. Unless you shoot a ton and really know your arch on your bow. A single pin can be harder to master.
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Do what ever feels more natural. I like a 5-7 pin set-up, but with the faster bows these days, a single pin could simply the shot sequence for me a bit. I know I would have to do some mental retaining, but I know several shooters who do well with single pins. Ive also been seeing a trend of guys going for a 3 pin set up..20..40..60, and they practice gap shooting to comp the other distances...that makes some good sense to me also.
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you should just go with 2 pins and do a 20, 40, then just split the diff for 30.
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The main reason I want to go to one pin is to clarify my sight picture. I shot a bit tonight and learned some things. I know a zero'd pin at 20 yards with my current setup will shoot to point of aim in to 13 yards and out to 28. At 5-10 yards, it's 1.5" high. At 30 yards, it is 1" low. At 35, it's 3" low. At 40 yards, it's 6.5"-7" low.
This is also why I can't do the 2 pin set up of 20 and 40 and splitting the difference. If I split the difference for 30 yards, it would shoot about 3" high due to the smaller drop from 20 to 30 than from 30 to 40.
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I've got a three pin sight on my bow- 20, 30, and 40 yards. I've been thinking I could get by pretty well with just one pin. But for now I'm going to stick with what I've got. I'm only shooting 53 pounds and that's with a 26 1/2 inch draw. But even with that the pins are really close together, and only one pin would sure be nice as I would be able to see a lot more of the target through the peep.
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Get rid of the Peep. "Anchor Sight". I shoot a 7 pin, and without having to look through a peep, I have a pretty open field of view. My 40 and 60 yard pins are red and the rest are green. I mentally group my pins (20 and 30 could be 1 pin and could cover from 6-35 yards with no more than a 4 inch drop, but I like the accuracy of being able to knock a grouses head off at 10-20 yards and not ruin any meat with the extra pin). My 40/50/60/70/80 yards take a little thinking for the half distances so would not want to lose the 50 yard pin and definitely not my 70 and 80 (though I usually only do those at the range). If I set my 40 yard pin (red) on an elks heart, it is dead anywhere from 6 yards to 40 yards. Those would be the shots I would have to think fast on.
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I've got a three pin sight on my bow- 20, 30, and 40 yards. I've been thinking I could get by pretty well with just one pin. But for now I'm going to stick with what I've got. I'm only shooting 53 pounds and that's with a 26 1/2 inch draw. But even with that the pins are really close together, and only one pin would sure be nice as I would be able to see a lot more of the target through the peep.
My thoughts too. Gonna wait until next year though. Need practice with it
