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Pendulum Sight Question

Discussion in 'Tech Talk' started by JDUB93, Oct 13, 2009.

  1. JDUB93

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    I just got that sinking feeling, after thinking I am dialed in. Hopefully y'all can help.

    My bow has a Keller pendulm sight, and I sighted it in from a friend's deck. My sinking feeling comes from realizing that the land behind the deck was sloping down at probably 10 - 15 degrees and was not horizontal. Will this throw off my sight (impact point) since my treestand will be on a place where the ground is level? Or to look at it another way, the relative height I was shooting from at 30 yards (including the falloff of the land) was from about 24' high, but my treestand will probably only be about 13' high (on level ground), thus changing the angle one would hold the bow when aiming, and of course the pendulum angle.

    Supposedly, on the video that came with the sight, it says to sight it in at any height over 12': first at a target 12 yards away, and then it should be on no matter what the distance out to about 30 or 35 yards. I don't remember it specifying that it needed to be on level ground, or that if you changed the height you were shooting from, that it would affect the sight's accuracy, but I have ran across a couple of sources that seem to indicate that the impact point changes with a pendulum sight if you're treestand height is not the same as the height you used to sight in the bow.

    Does anyone have experience with this and using a pendulum sight? Does it sound like I need to resight in my bow from my treestand location?
     

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