Single pin sight remains set to 25 yards under 30

[bdcgregory]

So... I’m shooting my bow in the backyard today and got this idea that instead of changing my sight to the yardage I’m at, I’d leave it set at 25 yards and shoot 30, 25, 20, 15 yards. After 1 or 2 rounds I was drilling the bullseye. My thinking here is if a deer comes in on me 30 and under I don’t need to mess around with adjusting the yardage. Anything outside of 30 I’d of course make sure my sight was set on the correct yardage. Has anyone tried this technique before? Why is this a bad idea?


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[Weldabeast]

 

[Bowmanmike]

it is not a bad idea at all. Know your drop on your setup. I just switched to a one pin slider and I think I will do the same thing. Set it at 23 maybe and figure out my drop to 30 and lift to 15.

 

[shwacker]

It’s generally a 26 yard pin technique (25 is close enough). If you look at ballistics on most average speed setups it will have you 2 inches high at 15 yards and 2 inches low at 30.

Works well for me as well. I have a double pin fast Eddie. Set at 26, bottom pin is 44. I can gap shoot whole thing between 31-43 yards in a pinch or can roll the wheel if there’s time to range it.


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[Bigterp]

It’s generally a 26 yard pin technique (25 is close enough). If you look at ballistics on most average speed setups it will have you 2 inches high at 15 yards and 2 inches low at 30.

Works well for me as well. I have a double pin fast Eddie. Set at 26, bottom pin is 44. I can gap shoot whole thing between 31-43 yards in a pinch or can roll the wheel if there’s time to range it.


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Absolutely this! It gets me 15-50 without moving my setup

 

[Wirrex]

I keep my single pin at 30yds and gap everything when hunting from a tree. Easy to learn your gap and no need to move the sight in the heat of the moment.

 

[SCSaddleman]

So... I’m shooting my bow in the backyard today and got this idea that instead of changing my sight to the yardage I’m at, I’d leave it set at 25 yards and shoot 30, 25, 20, 15 yards. After 1 or 2 rounds I was drilling the bullseye. My thinking here is if a deer comes in on me 30 and under I don’t need to mess around with adjusting the yardage. Anything outside of 30 I’d of course make sure my sight was set on the correct yardage. Has anyone tried this technique before? Why is this a bad idea?


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It not

 

[Buckhole75]

It will work great I have put a many a crittter to its death with my rig set up exactly the same way

 

[Redoak47*]

I have been using 1 pin set at 25 yards for years, works great. Practice out to 40 yards. In the last 15 plus years have only shot 2 deer over 30. 1 was at 32 yards the other at 35 yards.

 

[bdcgregory]

Thanks all! Definitely going to give it a try this year!


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[raisins]

I run an HHA moveable pin and usually set it at 25 yards if I expect shots to 30 yards and beyond. My thinking is that if the deer is at 40 yards, then I'll either have time to move the pin or I won't shoot. The great thing about modern bows is that they can be fast and also quiet enough (in the 90s, bows with carbon arrows sounded like rattle trap 22 LR rifles going off). My bow is around 300 fps, and my 25 yard pin is never off by more than a few inches out to 30 yards.

Like everyone else said, know your drop, but I'd also practice at close range. At around 10 to 15 yards, my 25 yard pin is dead on again and at 5 yards it hits low. My brother missed a nice buck at close range because he assumed you just kept aiming lower and lower as they got closer. He shot under the deer holding low with his 30 yard pin on like a 5 yard shot from a ground blind. Last year's buck was at 13 yards, and I held dead on with my 25 yard pin and hit about the exact spot I wanted.

When I ran 2 pins with a fast bow, I had one at 25 yards and another at 40 yards. It was easy to gap in between.

 

[Apex7]

I set mine at 25 yards unlock my Trophy Ridge pendulum sight witch by the way they don't make anymore and I'm good from the tree out to 35 yards. Lock the sight housing and it's a moveable site with yardage out 70 yards not that I would shoot that far at a deer.

 

[Smokingbarrel270]

Used a single pin hha optimizer for years and typically never took it off of 25 yrd. Moved to a 3 pin slider fast eddy. I love it cause I have 20,30,40 without moving and anything further my bottom pin is used on slider yardage.