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the 0.10 pin as well as you'll see the selves will help you gauge distances
if you don't have a rangefinder. You'll
0.39 pin in poor light.
Of course, you can add a battery- get a feel for how targets at different
powered light to most sights these distances look through the pins. With
days, which will illuminate your pins. a single pin, you don't have multiple
Choose a light that illuminates only reference points to use in gauging
the fibers, not the whole scope housing. distances.
Back to the single-pin sight, you
If a light is cast across the housing, you
won't be able to see through it to your can sight in that pin in 1-yard increments. Such sights typically come with
target in low light.
Should you choose a sight with a a piece of tape either with distances
single adjustable pin? Or one with mul- pre-printed on it, or which you mark
tiple pins? Again, that's your call. Some yourself. Slide the sight's calibration
bowhunters like a single-pin sight, marker to the appropriate distance, and
because there's no chance of using your sight pin is set accordingly.
So if you know your
the wrong pin. That's a
problem bowhunters who You'll get a feel target is 33 yards out,
use multiple-pin sights for how targets you can set your pin to
exactly 33 yards and aim
sometimes encounter
at different
right where you want
when they aim using
go.
their 30-yard pin when
distances look your arrow tosight,With
a multi-pin
you
they wanted to use their
20-yard pin - or some through the pins. have to either aim high
of the point of impact
variation of that. Bottom
using your 30-yard pin, or low using
line: it leads to a miss or a poor hit.
Also with a single-pin sight, there's your 40-yard pin.
Whether you've got one pin or five,
nothing else in the sight housing obstructing your view of the target. You've each fiber optic strand has to be congot one pin and the rest of the housing nected in some fashion to the sight
is free of clutter. In using a single-pin housing. You don't have to be an engisight, you determine the distance to neer to understand that a weak connecyour target before you shoot, then ad- tion is going to be easy to bend, should
just the pin so it's set for that distance. a stick or some other protrusion slide
Which brings us to the main reason into your sight housing. Look at that
other hunters prefer multi-pin sights. connection on the sight you're thinkYou don't have to adjust anything ing of buying and weigh its durability.
when it's time to shoot. You either Some sights employ metal blades that
guess the yardage or use a rangefinder, are extremely durable, while others use
then you use the appropriate pin to thin rods that you can bend with one
finger. Your sight isn't much good if
aim.
Most bowhunters set their pins in you get to your hunting spot and a pin
10-yard increments, starting with 10 or is bent out of position.
If you're planning to hunt with a
20 yards. After you shoot with a multipin sight for a while, the pins them- crossbow, you've got a couple of opJULY 2014

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