Am I doing something wrong? As I am dialing in my bow, I've run out of up and down adjustment on the sight frame itself, but have now had to remove 2 of my 5 pins to get a 20, 30 and 40 yard pin. Has anyone seen this or can anyone point me in the appropriate direction
Back up and give us more details. What are the specs of the bow. Draw weight, draw length, etc? What rest and sight are you using? Have you moved your rest? Have you moved your peep sight? How about your D-loop, have you moved it? Have you only moved your sight?
Shouldn't have to remove any pins. Usually if you have moved the housing for your sight you then you need to look at your rest and nock point.
While your having a sight issue...the real issue is with your bow set up and not with the sight at all. Lets start at the beginning. 1) Take the sight off the bow. 2) Your shooting a WB....so adjust your rest vertically so that when an arrow is nocked the the bottom of the shaft is level with the center of the burger hole. Adjust your rest horizontally to the recommended center shot for your bow, your manual should tell you. (this is the starting point)....if you dont have that info start at 11/16 and ypu will be close. 3) Set your knocking point at 1/16" above level. 4) Adjust your peep sight to 5" above your nocking point. Now with and arrow nocked using your release....draw your bow with your eyes closed and anchor at the your regular anchor point. Open your eyes and see what adjustment you need to make for your peep sight....it should be close but you may have move it up or down a little. 5) Now onto the sight. Put all your pins back in. Put the top pin 2/3 of the way up into the housing and put the rest of the pins down from there. 6) Now attach the sight, If your have two sets of mounting holes on the bow use the lowest setting. Adjust the entire housing so your top pin is a 3.5 inches above your nocked arrow, moving the housing so your at the upper third of the adjustment range adjusting your pins accordingly. You should have plenty of room from this point and now you can go on to tune and sight your bow. However if you find your still having to lower the sight significantly, then you can just move your rest up slightly from the starting point while adjusting your nocking point to maintain being about a 1/16" above level...... Hope this helps.
I'd check the arrows nocking point first an make sure the arrow is running in the center of the burger hole cause if it's not it can cause the problem your talking about
Thanks for all the advice. I followed trail's advice last night and got it reset and almost ready to shoot. But I ended up destroying my d-loop (homemade, not purchased). Would you guys recommend actually purchasing a d-loop and re-installing, or just using the string? I know my anchor point will change, and don't want to waste my time zeroing if I'm just going to make a change down the road. Also, my WB doesn't have the elevation adjustment.
Use a D-loop. Shooting off the string is not very forgiving. I did it for a long while and will never do so again. Take the bow to your local pro shop and they'll toss one on in a minute or so. If you bought the bow there, they will probably do it for free. My shop will.
I did get a string loop on her this afternoon and after some small adjustments put together one of my best 20 yard groups. I'll post a picture three next tine I'm on the computer. And I want to thank everyone for the helpful advice. Here's my best grouping before: And here's my best grouping today, after reseting my bow: Thanks again for all the helpful advice. I now feel confident enough to not purchase a new bow that is ready to shoot, if you know what I mean
Maybe it was the same. I had a d loop before. I guess the picture that I should have was where my sight was compared to is. My bad
