I have been using single pin system for a few years and love it. I have my pin set at 30 yards. At 20, I need to hold a little low, at 40 I need to hold about 2" high and I'll stack the arrows where I want them. I do have a 50 yard pin, but that is really for practice or if I hit once and have a chance to get another shot off.
I love the idea of only having one pin to use and not having the clutter of other pins. Its seems as though your field of view would be much better. I am able to focus on the vital area of a deer much better when a deer is moving from my right to left. I shoot right handed and with both eyes open. With a deer moving this way I can clearly see the front shoulder and adjust off of that. My thought is because I have the bow and pins blocking some of my view. But, I've always been worried that I wouldn't be able adjust a single pin to a different yardage in the heat of the moment. Has anyone not been able get a shot off because of this?
Since I have switched to a single pin I just have my pin set at 30 yards. Under 30 hold a little low over 30 a little high. 0-35 I don't even move the pin. Anything further out then that you should have time to adjust. Some of the sights you see that have the bigger wheels on the side to adjust (HHA, spot Hogg) you can literally adjust your yardage in seconds. You shouldn't have a problem, that's my opinion anyways.
I never saw a need for an adjustable single pin. I never liked the idea of adjusting my pin per shot or setting it once int he stand to a given distance. Just another thing I don't need to worry about. On the flip side, I am going to experiment this off season with shooting a single pin, set at a given distance on my Spot Hogg Hunter. I do really like the idea of only one pin. However, I have taken almost all pins out of my Hogg It and only use three and its not bad at all.
I use a 3 pin slider. Still figuring out how I am going to set everything up. Right know I am at 20-30-40 with 19 pin as my first with 10 for the other 2. I really like it so far. For me I think a single would be fine for target but I wouldn't like hunting with it I don't believe. The 3 pin set at the initial setting gives me out to my maximum hunting ranges and the slider part gives me the fun of practicing out to 90 or so yards. I do like the cleaned up appearance of 3 over 5 and 1 is even better but not my cup of tea for hunting. I am thinking about going to 20-30-50 set up. And I shoot a black gold so I can put two index points for yardages of two pins. I don't necessarily need the 40 yard pin for hunting so that would get me touch more range when practicing and clean up the view around that pin a little more. If I had a clean 40 yard shot I could still move down my second pin to 40 and take the shot. Basically there is just a a lot more options with a multi pin slider. Then if it comes down to it and you want a single take the extra pins out and you have a single. Or if you don't like the sliding get more pins and put them on and lock it down.
I would have to say that if you move to a single pin, practice at different distances without adjusting the sight. Some situations allow you to adjust, but some don't. Not practicing enough without adjusting has cost me some animals. I still use an adjustable sight bracket, but moved to a 3 pin MBG. This setup works well for me because I have the quick reference with the other pins, but can adjust to fit the shot distance scenario I may be in. Again, practice will help with a single pin. HHA are good sights and I have a few of them.
^^^ This. After you get your tape set up, just leave the pin at 30 yard setting and hold low for closer shots and high for further shots. Takes practice but you learn your arrow drop and get used to it. Similar to MOA hold overs for bullet drop on rifle scopes. I have the HHA OL-5519 slider. Has the rheostat for pin brightness adjustments. Quality product and not as expensive as many others on the market. Dolze
Before the Hogg father I had the hunter 5 pin, which is a great sight. After going to the Hogg father I would never ever switch back.. It seems like a lot of hunters think it's hard and time consuming to use a single pin sight. There are only advantages of going to a single pin sight in my honest opinion. It literally will take you 2 seconds to adjust the yardage on a single pin, set it at 30 and you are good to go out to 35 yards... Anything further out than that it's highly unlikely the animal your in pursuit of has any idea your there. I've been way more accurate shooting a single pin sight, I'd never go back to anything else.
Unless you have problems seeing/distinguishing between pins, there really is no reason to have a single pin slider... when multi-pin sliders are available. Why not have the best of both worlds, adjustable for longer distances and fixed pins for closer distances. Whitetail hunting from a tree stand is one thing, spot and stalk or ground hunting is totally different. I've heard rumors of a new HHA multi-pin slider coming available soon. That will be my choice if it happens.
