Single or multi pin

[LostArra]

Single pin here.

The "Trick-Pin" System - Rokslide

The Trick-Pin System – Quit Your Range-Finder Habit Darin Cooper – Rokslide Senior Editor This may be the coolest damn thing you never knew about your bow! We have all heard somebody say something ridiculous like, “This new bow is so fast you probably only need one pin out to 50 yards!” And to...

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Thread 'Trick Pin & Welcome Darin Cooper - Check out his best archery tech article!'

Feb 26, 2013

Hey Roksliders, we are excited to announce a new addition to our regular staff at Rokslide. We’ve been working on this position for a few months now and it’s finally time to announce our first ever Senior Editor: Darin Cooper.

Some of you already know he is one of the leading technical archery writers in the industry. His articles teach and entertain. For those of you who don’t know Darin, you’re in for a real treat. We promise that you’ll be a better archer if you’ll consider his advice and techniques.

Darin will be heading up our Editing Department. Not only will his articles...

• robby denning
• Replies: 118
• Forum: Archery

 

[Mr.BowJangles]

I prefer a single pin for clarity of my sight window. In Michigan where I do most of my hunting, I rarely have to make yardage adjustments while hunting, but haven't found it to be an issue if I do. Less going on in the way of distractions for me.

 

[ATL]

Anyone shoot 15 yds pin gaps on a three pin? (20, 35, 50)

Yes. I have been configuring my sights like this for many years (10+). I do 20-35-50 or 35-50-65 depending on the circumstances. I use a “trick pin system” with my 35 pin for eastern whitetails and my 50 pin for elk. Makes the actual yardage less of a concern at less than 30 yards and 42 yards respectively. The 65 pin is mainly there only for further follow up shots.

 

[billysmals]

I'm a western guy. I had a friend who only shot single verticle pin. He didn't have an issue hunting western game. His reasoning was a single pin reduces the "which pin do I use" game, which can happen. But that also means he had to be fluent in "where do I hold game?" Elk move a lot as mentioned. It doesn't take them much to go from 30 to 50. That's a huge drop for most people. Even the fast bows. I couldn't do it, but it might be easier with pratice. My friend could. I run a 3 pin, but prefer a 4 pin and just ordered a custom 4 pin. But it can be easy to mix up pins...so I guess there are some trade offs with each. If you go multi pin I highly recommend one with more than one pin indicator. That way you can slide and still have multiple pin references.

The Triple stack is a good sight, especially if you like the vertical sight picture. I owned this sight, and the vertical post obscured some of the lower pin fibers. The fiber optic in low light, and with the dark background, I couldn't see where the pine was. It was just a black bar. I tried 2 different vertical set ups and had the same problem. I switched to the horizontal 3 pin.

 

[Zdub02]

Any of you single pin shooters ever dial in practice and forget to zero before a hunt? I imagine that has happened to more than a few folks. I've had to double check rifle scope turrets for that reason on more than one occasion

 

[butcherboy]

I’m a western guy and have shot a single pin long before it became a thing. In the old days I used one horizontal that just had a painted metal ball at the end. Shot a single crosshair sight for a long time. Used the first fiber t-pins as well. Been shooting a single pin MBG slider for at least 13 years. I’ve never had a problem shooting at animals at different distances from 10-40 yds without moving the sight. I set it at 30 or 35 and never move it. The only time it should be moved is for longer shots and only if it’s a follow up or the animal is not aware of your presence. If you are concerned then I would go with a two pin vertical and set the first at 25 or 30 and the second at 45. Practice a lot at different ranges never moving the sight so you will ingrain those gaps. For me, if it’s farther than 40-45 then I will dial my sight but in reality I will try and get closer or just not take the shot. Hell, that’s what I like about bowhunting is to get closer and take closer shots, not farther.

 

[CMF]

Any of you single pin shooters ever dial in practice and forget to zero before a hunt? I imagine that has happened to more than a few folks. I've had to double check rifle scope turrets for that reason on more than one occasion

It's an issue with any slider. Never forgot on an animal, but I've got into the field and realized I'm dialed for 60...

 

[NXTZ]

Big fan of a vertical 2 pin sight picture. BUT I have astigmatism and wear glasses, and the different colors using horizontal pins create a “staggered/offset” when looking through my peep sight. I didn’t have this issue wearing contacts, but contacts create other frustrations for me.

I don’t think any of my misses or failures are due to my sight or would be prevented by using a five pin sight instead of my 2 pin.

I set my pins at 30/43, and practice a lot between 15-40+ yards without dialing so I can get comfortable with my hold over.

 

[butcherboy]

Big fan of a vertical 2 pin sight picture. BUT I have astigmatism and wear glasses, and the different colors using horizontal pins create a “staggered/offset” when looking through my peep sight. I didn’t have this issue wearing contacts, but contacts create other frustrations for me.

I don’t think any of my misses or failures are due to my sight or would be prevented by using a five pin sight instead of my 2 pin.

I set my pins at 30/43, and practice a lot between 15-40+ yards without dialing so I can get comfortable with my hold over.

I didn’t even think about astigmatism as a problem with sight picture. It’s definitely true because I have astigmatism as well. I’m terrible though and don’t wear glasses or contacts. Vertical pins give a much better sight picture.

 

[Blcktail56]

I prefer a 2 pin at least. I have a 5 pin and had a 4 pin before. I like not uaving to adjust at all and have pins close to right on the money. I’m set up with pins 30-70 yds and not have to move at all then if I have one crippled or whatever I can roll out as far as I need. Where we hunt and how we hunt it’s rare to have a 20 yd shot and if you do a 30 yd pin is barely high at 20 so I usually opt to have a 70 yd pin over a 20 yd

 

[oranje1]

Single pin here.

The "Trick-Pin" System - Rokslide

The Trick-Pin System – Quit Your Range-Finder Habit Darin Cooper – Rokslide Senior Editor This may be the coolest damn thing you never knew about your bow! We have all heard somebody say something ridiculous like, “This new bow is so fast you probably only need one pin out to 50 yards!” And to...

www.rokslide.com

Thread 'Trick Pin & Welcome Darin Cooper - Check out his best archery tech article!'

Feb 26, 2013

Hey Roksliders, we are excited to announce a new addition to our regular staff at Rokslide. We’ve been working on this position for a few months now and it’s finally time to announce our first ever Senior Editor: Darin Cooper.

Some of you already know he is one of the leading technical archery writers in the industry. His articles teach and entertain. For those of you who don’t know Darin, you’re in for a real treat. We promise that you’ll be a better archer if you’ll consider his advice and techniques.

Darin will be heading up our Editing Department. Not only will his articles...

• robby denning
• Replies: 118
• Forum: Archery

this is super effin cool i'm gonna incorporate this into my next sighting-up with a multipin

 

[apizza]

3 pin, (20,30,40) last as slider

 

[AlwaysChasinTailNHorns]

I run a UV3XL scope with 3 horizontal pins, one vertical bonus pin, and my middle horizontal pin is the floater. I’ve got it attached to a Tetra frame and dial and it’s perfect for having quick go to set pins out to 50ish and being able to dial further if need be, although I practice at 80+ my cutoff for wild game is 65 personally. I just feel like too many variables come to play past that, wind, brush you can’t see, etc all things that can cost you an ethical shot on an animal in my opinion.

 

[BigSky]

3 pin...30-40-50 third as slider.

I’m not arguing with WCB; but, I thought I would provide the counter to this with respect to which pin to choose as a slider if using a triple stack. Using the third pin as a slider will enable you to get more distance out of your sight “IF” you set it up correctly. The counter to the third pin would be to use your top pin as your slider. First, setting the three pins at 20, 30, 40 (or whatever you choose) one can get past the biggest complaint about a triple stack which is the stack obliterates/covers too much of the target. At those closer distances, even with my failing eyesight, it’s a non-issue. However, the further out your target, the more the stack obscures your target. So, using the bottom pin as your slider creates the situation in which, at all distances beyond the set distance for your bottom pin in which you use the slider, the stack is obscuring significantly more of your intended target.

If you are using three horizontal pins then it’s a different story.