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Peepless sight options

Olympic archers do pretty good out to 90 meters without a peep good repeatable form must come into play. Natives and English bowman did pretty good but also trained since their youth. I have hated peeps all my compound shooting time so I am kinda biased but use what allows you to increase your odds at a clean, humane kill. Also I heard a saying years ago " Target archers try to get as far away from the target and still hit it while hunters try and get as close as possible and not miss". The art of stalking prey has somewhat been lost in the modern age. Shooting distance in my experience teaches where I need to improve because mistakes tend to be magnified.
 
cedar paul said:
Olympic archers do pretty good out to 90 meters without a peep good repeatable form must come into play. Natives and English bowman did pretty good but also trained since their youth. I have hated peeps all my compound shooting time so I am kinda biased but use what allows you to increase your odds at a clean, humane kill. Also I heard a saying years ago " Target archers try to get as far away from the target and still hit it while hunters try and get as close as possible and not miss". The art of stalking prey has somewhat been lost in the modern age. Shooting distance in my experience teaches where I need to improve because mistakes tend to be magnified.
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It’s not necessarily by choice though. The rules don’t permit a peep.
 
The point I was making is form and repeatability are critical everything else is an aid or can be an impediment. I personally shoot as well as a peep with a Bow Anchor sight but I only shoot at targets >40 yds as in my neck of the woods is very swampy with dense growth. I am not like my brothers who live out west where 70 yd shots are not uncommon.
 
cedar paul said:
The point I was making is form and repeatability are critical everything else is an aid or can be an impediment. I personally shoot as well as a peep with a Bow Anchor sight but I only shoot at targets >40 yds as in my neck of the woods is very swampy with dense growth. I am not like my brothers who live out west where 70 yd shots are not uncommon.
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I agree, form and repeatability are critical.

So many ways of saddlehunting compromise those.

Olympic Archers aren’t contorted on a ROS turned 180deg.

Not to say there isn’t an upside of instinctive too.
 
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Update. I opted to pick up an EZV, it was on sale a couple weeks ago. I pulled the peep out of my string and started slinging arrows. I love it, I’ve been punching sub 3” groups without a kisser or nose button at 20yds and with a new release. I’ll be picking up a new bow and a nose button (probably a kisser also) soon and expect to see those groups tighten up quite a bit. It’s been a natural transition, probably because I grew up shooting trad.

The only thing is that idk if I like looking down the left side of my string or right side (right handed shooter). I suppose I’ll wait to determine once I get my new bow, but looking down the right side seems to be slightly more accurate so far. Thanks for the input so far everyone
 
I had been thinking about removing my peep so I yanked it off my backup bow and I’ve only been shooting peepless for a couple weeks at the house out to 18 yards but my groups are just as good as with a peep. I picked up an IQ sight with the retina lock, along with a kisser button and so far so goo. Going to do a lot more shooting and at distance before messing with my main bow though.
 
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