Sights and pins...

[Livesintrees]

You need two pins. 25 and 35. I have used strictly sliders for 16 years and I think I've moved them 3 times total. Even on my slider I can shoot the 25 mark out to 40 if need be.

[not on the rug]

A little update...I had a couple minutes free after dinner so I went out to fling a few. I decided to keep my top pin at 20yds and shot a bunch of arrows at 15, 20, 25 and 30 with it. 15 and 20 are bulls. Its about 1.5 inches low at 25 and 3.5-4" low at 30. So my top pin is staying where it is.

 

I'm going to spend some time tomorrow and set my 2nd pin at 35. This should give me the 30-40 yard range nicely once I figure out the holds. I will keep you guys posted

Edited August 21, 2017 by not on the rug

[B B]

 4 pins, set to 15/25/35/45. 

Keep them as they are and shoot the gap.  20/30/40

[Livesintrees]

Also if your having issues with fuzzy pins and a clear target then look into getting a Verifier peep

[Livesintrees]

I wrote the above a few years ago, but it still applies to this.

 

Since I'm not elk hunting in the near future, I'm back to two pins for hunting. For the East it's the best (impo).

 

In all fairness though, I do have two identical bows and the second one is setup with 4 pins for 3d and field edge hunting.

3D? You guys still shooting?

[Eden]

You can also check out the G5 sight.  It has one fixed pin and one slider.  I used this when I still shot my compound.

Like others have said my fixed pin was good out to 30.  It was 2 inches high at 10 and 1 inch low at 30.  I found it easier not to worry about distance at those ranges.

The slider was anywhere from 35-70, where knowing the exact yardage was more important(and used mostly for practice).

 

http://shop.g5outdoors.com/optix-xr2/

[not on the rug]

Just wanted to put out an update. I decided on 2 pins, 20 yards and 35 yards. and finally got the 35 yard pin dialed in perfectly. The sight picture is so much clearer now and the 2 pins really cover 99.9% of shots that I'll ever take in the NJ woods.

 

I was flinging arrows off my deck the other night to simulate treestand height, and was just nailing bullseye after bullseye at 23 and 38 yards. The yellow bag is 23yards and the other one was sitting at 38. I had to stop shooting at the same dot because I was stacking them in so tightly. I'm really itching for opening day now.

Edited September 1, 2017 by not on the rug

[Matty]

It's a great, simple way to set up a hunting sight. Nice shooting.