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Article: Peep sight alternatives: consistent shooting without a peep can be had.
- Article from:
- Petersen's Bowhunting
- Article date:
- January 1, 2007
- Author:
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When the "bowhunting bug" first bit me 35 years ago, like many archers of that era, my aiming style was purely instinctive. That all changed in 1975 when I purchased my first compound bow and equipped it with a newfangled (at the time) pin-style sight. The key to pinpoint accuracy is a consistent anchor point, especially when using a bow sight, so eventually I also installed a peep sight. Even though my accuracy improved greatly with that sighting system, that's also when my love/hate relationship with peep sights began. In those early years with peep sights. I shot with fingers using a tab. Prior to pulling the string back. I had to align the peep properly so that it ...