Archery Pins

[adamR]

I switched from a 5-pin fixed years ago because I really struggled to differentiate between the pins; my eyes just couldn't focus right. I went to a 2-pin Spot Hogg Fast Eddie and it improved my accuracy tenfold. I did learn during elk season that the 2-pin was a little tougher for hunting. I've recently moved to the triple stack Spot Hogg Boonie and feel like it's the sweet spot. I can accurately dial to 125 yards for 3D, or I can have pins set at 20, 35, and 45ish for hunting. I'm excited to run it this hunting season! One thing I've learned in all my years hunting is that you do have time to range and adjust your sight; I've always felt hurried but it was in my head.

[OltHunter]

I switched from a 5-pin fixed years ago because I really struggled to differentiate between the pins; my eyes just couldn't focus right. I went to a 2-pin Spot Hogg Fast Eddie and it improved my accuracy tenfold. I did learn during elk season that the 2-pin was a little tougher for hunting. I've recently moved to the triple stack Spot Hogg Boonie and feel like it's the sweet spot. I can accurately dial to 125 yards for 3D, or I can have pins set at 20, 35, and 45ish for hunting. I'm excited to run it this hunting season! One thing I've learned in all my years hunting is that you do have time to range and adjust your sight; I've always felt hurried but it was in my head.

This is almost my exact situation except 5 pin. I ended up going green 019 green 019 yellow 019 green 010 green 010.

Ideally I'd like a 4 pin and have my 3 019 pins and the 010 for the slider.

I found having horizontal pins for reference better for me than a better sight picture double pin vertical.

I think it's all user preference.

[hughjorgan]

Thank you everyone of the valuable insight!  Mid next month will be heading to the local bow shop to get some 125 grain fixed blade broad heads and new arrows.  Will look at your recommendations on some you tube videos and may purchase a new sight or stick with my current one.  Just got a forearm tattoo, so testing this bow in the next few days will not be happening 

Might want to check out option archery sights, kind of spendy but you get the option of a single pin or multiple in one sight….

https://optionarchery.com/collections/sights/products/new-s-series-option-sights

[NOCK NOCK]

Thank you everyone of the valuable insight!  Mid next month will be heading to the local bow shop to get some 125 grain fixed blade broad heads and new arrows.  Will look at your recommendations on some you tube videos and may purchase a new sight or stick with my current one.  Just got a forearm tattoo, so testing this bow in the next few days will not be happening 

Might want to check out option archery sights, kind of spendy but you get the option of a single pin or multiple in one sight….

https://optionarchery.com/collections/sights/products/new-s-series-option-sights

This is what Im running on my new bow. Love it so far.   3 pin fixed that folds out of the way for a 1 pin slider.

[Bows4huntn]

I switched last year from 5 pin fixed to the spot Hogg fast Eddie 2 pin. Improved my shooting immediately! With the speed of my bow, when I set the top pin @ 30 bottom pin is around 42. This allows me to basically shoot out to 50 without adjusting the sight and just holding a tad high @ 50. Anything longer and it’s pretty quick to adjust. Shot a cow last year opening morning with this set up. First saw them at about 70 yards coming my way and when they paused for a moment I was able to range the distance then set top pin to 50 and when she came clear of the trees all I needed  to do was focus and make the shot

[kodiak06]

I've used a single pin for over 10yrs and elk hunt religiously. I HAVE NEVER missed an opportunity at an animal due to having to adjust the sight. If you have time to range one, you have time to adjust the sight, it takes another 2-3 seconds. I've had them make sudden distance changes and it wasn't a problem. I keep mine on 30 and will kill one dead from 0-40 with no adjustment. It's simple hold over/under and no different than splitting pins. With that said, there are 7 hunters in our group and 5 are single pin shooters, and the same goes for them. Not saying it won't happen (distance change) but, the same is true for multi-pin shooters as well.

[kodiak06]

I had a single pin slider for a couple years and like mentioned, the biggest thing that I liked was the clear sight picture and only having one pin to focus on when shooting. Its great for target shooting and pretty good for stand hunting but I switched back to a standard 5 pin with a floater. In a real world hunting application, especially on the ground, there is a good chance that you won't be able to adjust your pin based on a lot of in the moment factors like coming to full draw on an animal before it comes into the opening you ranged and having it change course to a different opening with a completely different range. Very unlikely you can let your draw down, adjust your pin and draw again with much success. I will say that this really only pertains to shots 40 yards or so plus because under that, its not super difficult to just keep your pin set at 30 yards and adjust your hold point accordingly. I left my pin at 30 when practicing and would shoot from 20 to 40 yards so that I got comfortable where to hold.

I've elk hunted with a black gold ascent verdict single pin for 15 years and NEVER had an animal I couldn't kill. With my sight on 30, I'll kill anything from 0-45yds never touching the adjustment knob. It's simply practicing and knowing your gear. My back-up bows magic number is 25... My trees-tand whitetail bow is a 3 pin adjustable but, I dislike it for elk hunting.