Horizontal versus Vertical

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I've tried a lot of sights and Spott-Hogg would have to be on top. The right on, 7 pin models, and hogg-it are all good, I personally didn't like the barebones without the vertical wire. There's a lot of other horizontal sight models I would go with before veritcal pins. IMO trophy ridge sights were one of the worst sights ever made. The plastic gadgets and vertical pins made it harder to shoot and unreliable. Go with the Spott-Hoggs, they really are the best.................

[SilentButDeadly]

Since I bought my longbow I have a new appreciation and loathing for compound bows and their components.

 

I've been shooting the longbow at 10 yards trying to develop some consistency. I went out the other day and got all the way out to 35 yards - still managed to plop most of my arrows into the vitals on a 3d antelope target.

 

I then got my compound out, blew off the dust and tried shooting it at 20 yards. My groups were so tight that I now need to replace a couple of vanes on my arrows. I worked all the way back to 70 yards; I found that my accuracy at 60 was about the same as my accuracy with the longbow at 20.

 

Anyway, my point is that just through working on form at 10 yards without a sight I was able to increase my accuracy at 60 with one.

 

(My new found appreciation is that compounds are so fricking fast and accurate, my loathing is that I wish I was as good with my longbow).

 

As for horizontal vs vertical, I like a horizontal multi-pin setup. I haven't purchased a vertical pin site - for the same reason that a few other people have mentioned -adjustability. In the heat of the moment, you've ranged your animal, and now you've got to adjust your single pin to the right distance? All that relies on a human carrying out a bunch of precision actions in fractions of a second. Conditions can change, you can make a mistake, and then you're out of the game.

 

Personally I like my pins to be as small a diameter as I can get them, the fiber optics to be as short as possible (to avoid too great of glare), the sight to be rock solid, and difficult to adjust (to keep me from messing with it when I'm having a bad day shooting and I think that there is something wrong with the equipment), and for there to be enough pins for me to shoot (I want a new sight that goes out to 100 yards, anybody reccomend one? - no I'm not accurate at 100 (or much past 70 for that matter) - yet!).

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(I want a new sight that goes out to 100 yards, anybody reccomend one? - no I'm not accurate at 100 (or much past 70 for that matter) - yet!).

 

I would go with the Duskdevil sights. You can attach as many pins as you can fit and easily go beyond a 100 yds. It was a toss up for me between the Duskdevil and Spot-Hoggs....The Duskdevil for longer ranges, the Spott-Hogg for quality. On the seven pin model Spott-Hogg I start my pins at 30 yards and go to 90 yds, so I still can get all the reach if needed. Either way both are great sights...

[SilentButDeadly]

Thanks, I'll check them out.

[Azlongears]

I told you Tyson-

 

Once you pick up that Stick and String you better forget you ever had a Wheelie Bow. Put that contraption of so called archery tackle in a closet and lock it away for good man!!!. All it is gonna do is mess with your head and take away any confidence you ever had with your longbow.

[COOSEFAN]

I told you Tyson-

 

Once you pick up that Stick and String you better forget you ever had a Wheelie Bow. Put that contraption of so called archery tackle in a closet and lock it away for good man!!!. All it is gonna do is mess with your head and take away any confidence you ever had with your longbow.

It's amazing how true that is! I would jump back and forth between my recurve and the compound, and it would screw my head all up! Just taking the compound out once after shooting the "stick n string" bow for a while, will throw you all outta whack.......there is a huge difference between the two! JIM>