By
eHow Sports & Fitness Editor
Difficulty: Moderately Easy
Things You’ll Need:
Step1
Realize that there are many different bow sights available on the market today, all of which work, adjust and react differently.
Step2
Ask other people about the sights they use. Learn as much as you can about your options before you commit to a sight.
Step3
Test out as many sights as possible before you install one on your bow. The only problem with this is that it takes time to get used to each new sight.
Step4
Understand that a sight on the far side of a bow gives you a better view because it's further from your eye and allows for more critical aiming with a smaller dot. A sight on the shooter side of a bow is better for long-distance shooting, while the closer seating allows for better yardage settings.
Step5
Notice that most good sights are arranged around an aiming dot inside a frame or hood. Less expensive sights have either one or multiple exposed pins. The different marking and different pins denote different ranges. If you're not sure of the exact distance of your shot, it's your job to make a good estimate and convert to your aiming system before you shoot.
Step6
Many sight systems also incorporate a "peep site," which is a small hole set on the bowstring. When the string is pulled back, look through the tiny hole at your yardage pins to aim. The peep sight also ensures that your string is pulled back correctly.
Step7
Count off the yardage from an archery target. Bows must be sighted according to range - in order to adjust the setting on your sight, it's vital that you know the exact distance of the shots you're setting it around.
Step8
Shoot a series of four or five arrows, and note the tendencies of the shots. If the shots are all drifting to the right, adjust your pins or sights to the right. Same for the other directions. Adjust in the direction the arrows seem to be drifting.
Step9
Shoot another series and readjust.
Step10
Keep shooting until you feel your sights are set properly.
Comments
anullo said
on 5/13/2008 bows aren't used for hunting much so a sight is used for fun rather than food, and you are still talking about sights a real bow hunter would have along bow, a sycthian, a hunter or even a bare bow and there for no sight just skill, luck and a lot of practice
Anonymous said
on 9/9/2006 Draw a one inch by twelve inch line across your target. Assuming bow site is set 30 yards. Start shooting at five yards, ten, fifteen, twenty, twenty five, thirty etc. First shot aim dead on line left side of line with your 30 yard pin. Use 30 yard pin all the way out to 35, 40, 45, 50, 55, 60, 65. As you shoot each shot, keep aiming at the line. After each shot move your point of aim to the right. This will give you a mental picture of your arrow flight.You will know the highs and lows from 5 to 65 yards. Average deer is 16 inches from back to belly. You do the math, if you can't judge yardage get a range finder.
Let's be honest guys, most shots are from 18 to 30 yards so why deal with all those pins, your only 8 inches low at 40 yards. Under actual hunting conditions we all set up as close as we can to the deer trails, bottlenecks, between feeding and bedding areas. Also, most of the time the limb line will not permit a shot in the woods much further than 30 yards. If you like to kill dots instead of deer, keep the 5 pins for hunting. Don't take it the wrong way, if you hunt open country you will need 5 pins and a range finder, no wind and a lot of luck. We are all just high tech rednecks, the real bow hunters are dead and gone.
Anonymous said
on 11/22/2005 As in all shooting, the smaller the group of arrows, the better. Shoot for the smallest grouping and then move your sights to chase the arrow's direction, and soon they will all be in the ten ring.