Adjusting your sight
Before adjusting the sight, make sure:
- The sight was installed correctly
- The pins of the sight are inline with the arrow and bowstring
- The vertical adjustment is at zero ( or at a point where it can be
adjusted up or down )
- You are shooting the proper arrow and your equipment is tuned.
To sight in, first start off shooting at 10 yds with your top pin. If
your bow is off by a large margin, your arrow still should hit the target
/ target wall at 10 yds. Use common sense and check the trajectory to
make sure the arrow is not going to contact the sight housing and it is
not going to miss the target.
Take your first shot
Draw, Aim, Fire and notice where the arrow goes.
Adjust your pin
Where ever the arrow goes, you have to "chase" the
arrow with your pin. If the arrow hit low and to the left, you must move
your pin low and to the left.
Repeat this until you are consistantly hitting the bullseye. Once hitting
the bullseye at ten yards, move back to 20 yards and readjust so your
top pin is sighted in for a 20 yard shot. Your top pin will be your 20
yard pin.
Continue sighting in your sight using this method with the remainder
of your pins. With the speeds of current bows, we recommend you using
a pin for every 10 yards starting at 20 yards. A five pin sight will have
pins for 20, 30, 40, 50 and 60 yards.
Record your settings
Once all of your pins are "dialed in", make a record of their
positions with a pencil and a piece of paper. This will be a good reference
if you ever have to do work on the current sight or install a new sight
in the future.
TIP FOR COMPETITIVE ARCHERS
A useful tip is to use the frame of your sight for an extra "pin".
In this example we will first sight in the housing of our sight for a
desired yardage ( for field archers, we suggest 80 yards ). Once the bubble
/ wire intersection is set for our desired yardage, we can manually adjust
the other pins. We just turned a five pin sight into a "six pin"
sight!!
The sight used in these photos is a Spott Hog Hogg It
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