I am/trying sighting in my Diamond Bow. I have only 3 pins on my sight, what would anyone recommend I set the yardage at with only 3 pins? and as far as moving pins, you move the way the arrow goes correct? (if shooting high, move pin up? is shooting left move pin left?) how do you know if I need to move the arrow rest, or nocking loop or peep sight (attached to string)? Everything was set up on the bow when I got it, it was a ready to shoot package. so hopefully it is just sighting in the pins only. any help on this would be great, thank you Edit/Delete Message
Thats right, use that formula to adjust the sights for you. If correctly installed the rest should be fine. Only if you have trouble sighting in would you want to adjust the rest. As for me I shot 3 pins forever and don't like many of them in my sight window. I am a hunter not a target shooter. I usually go 20,30,40 but with the new fast shooting bows it varies now. Keep in mind your comfortable and PROFICIENT shooting range and go from there to your preference.
My first year I limited myself on how far I would shoot. I set my pins at 18, 22, 26, and 30. I did this to take the human error (for the most part) out of judging shots between two pins (like a 25 yard shot when your pins are at 20 and 30). If you're a first time hunter, I'd set my pins at 20, 25, and 30 so that way you're not tempted to take a 40 yard shot should the opportunity arise (if you're not ready for it).
I'm gonna go against the grain a little, here. 1st thing you need to do is set your center shot - or check it. Plenty of online resources to guide you through this. Once you set CS, then adjust your rest. Arrow flight will indicate whether or not you're spined, correctly.
I'm putting Jeff back in line with the grain, he's right. First things first. The bow needs to be in tune before you move on to sighting it in. There are lots of tuning methods to get the bow, arrow, rest and shooter in line with one another but this is the Bible; http://www.eastonarchery.com/pdf/tuning_guide.pdf Read this to get acquainted with tuning your bow and come back to us again if you have questions/issues. There's no sense in trying to sight in an arrow that isn't flying true.
