Peep diameter

[ncboman]

I had new peeps installed on my bows last fall and went with a larger diameter than I previously used, a good bit larger. I'm still gettin use to it ... wonder if I ever will. :rolleyes:

I know my long range shooting suffers some with it but low light shooting is improved.

~ undecided if I've gone too big or not. :rolleyes:

[LampLighter]

What ever happened to the Timberland's No-Peep ?

[ncboman]

I ditched it.

I never could get comfortable with the no peep in a hunting situation, too set in my ways I guess. :rolleyes:

I wish it wasn't such a pain to switch out peeps. I think somewhere between what I had and what I have is a size better suited for me. :rolleyes:

[Hink]

I went to the big 1/4 inch ?? a few years ago abandoning the small one that attached via tube to ensure it was lined up right. I even had one that was adjustable. It is harder and it took a lot of shooting for it to feel right and the sight pic to look right.

You might, just for the heck of it, take your old one and bore it out so that its bigger but not quite what you have been trying. ;)

I shouldn't have to tell you this but you are fiddling with a major component and time is getting short on your upcoming season. :D

[ncboman]

I shouldn't have to tell you this but you are fiddling with a major component and time is getting short on your upcoming season. :D

:D I'm not fiddling with anything, just taking notes for future ref.

The real test will come in a dark swamp near the beginning or end of legal shooting hours. Then I can determine for sure if I can go to a smaller hole and guess by how much. With all the sizes available these days, I'm sure there is a better match to what I want than what I have. It seems I went from almost one extreme to the other.

My first priority is acceptable peep vision in dark woods at times edge. Long range accuracy is the next priority. It gets down to picking fine hairs trying to have the best of both worlds with the same setup.

[GF.]

Can't ever have the best of both..... :D

But you knew that.....

It's useful for me that I have a shooting lane out back that's in deep shade, so I'm getting some good practice in 'edgy' lighting....

I'm getting around to where I think I'd like to switch to something like a Meta peep, but the guy at the local shop advocates the tubing to keep everything squared up... Which makes sense when I see how far around my string loop can end up.

It would kinda suck to draw a bead on Senor Muy Grande and have the bowstring running right down the middle of the peep, but I gather that this isn't a problem often enough to get guys to go back to the tubing....

[ncboman]

I've been shooting evenings until well after hours and today it was rainy again so it got dark fast. The big peep definately has advantage on the edge of hours.

It's almost pointless to even shoot but all I've been doing is close range stuff. I'll start stretching out tomorrow and see if I can keep from being bored with it.

[Twanger]

I use a peep large enough to center the whole pin-guard in.
Never have a problem with low light, and have not noticed that it makes my accuracy suffer - I'm just as inconsistent as always... sometimes 1" groups and sometimes 4" groups. Arghhhhh!

[ncboman]

I use a peep large enough to center the whole pin-guard in.
Never have a problem with low light, and have not noticed that it makes my accuracy suffer - I'm just as inconsistent as always... sometimes 1" groups and sometimes 4" groups. Arghhhhh!


:D

You must be shootin the 1" group variety at the squirrels. :D

[dave-t.]

I use a peep large enough to center the whole pin-guard in.
Never have a problem with low light, and have not noticed that it makes my accuracy suffer - I'm just as inconsistent as always... sometimes 1" groups and sometimes 4" groups. Arghhhhh!


I think some days my eyes don't want to line the darn thing up either, and I can't explain why. Just have off days once in a while.

[GF.]

Right now, my biggest concern on that front is working out someplace to shoot past my #1 pin...

Over the winter, the next-door neighbors were down south. Now, with so many more people out & about, it's just too nerve-wracking :eek:

But even just on that first pin; provided the broadheads hit right alongside the field points & vice-versa, I'm OK for any shot I'm likely to take on a deer, so the bigger issue is finding a way to practice shooting down at steeper angles....

[ncboman]

so the bigger issue is finding a way to practice shooting down at steeper angles....

I shoot from the roof of my house sometimes. It's walkable. :)

[GF.]

Not me, man! Steep pitch, no place for an anchor and a solid, 2-story drop if anything should go wrong.

We do have a balcony that's essentially at 2.5 stories, but by the time I stand on something to get me clear of the railing, I'm probably 30 feet up and too high for realistic practice. Guess I'll have to measure it.

But since I only have 3 shooter arrows right now, I haven't been quite up to 1) accounting for the whereabouts of the boys, 2) shooting three arrows into the back yard, 3) running down 2.5 flights of stairs, 4) going out the front door, 5) trotting around to the back yard, 6) pulling arrows... and reversing the whole drill after tracking down Thing One and Thing Two, who would doubtless have wandered off while I was out for my little jog :eek:

Though that would probably put me in good shape for Elk hunting :rolleyes: