Is there any bow sight lights out there that you can turn down enough at dusk to be able to actually see what you are shooting at?
Best Bow Sight Light for Dusk Shooting
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Is there any bow sight lights out there that you can turn down enough at dusk to be able to actually see what you are shooting at?
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Perry's no peep. You can than me later.:wink:
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It shocks me no one brings this up more and to answer your question......NO. What I did was take the sight light and fill it full of bow wax. There are many ways you could do this but the goal is too cut down the light by as much as 50%. My sight light (as they all do) went from too bright to way the hell too bright...…..lol. So sure you see the pins but that's all you see.
It amazes me how companies don't understand this but I'm use to fixing things they don't understand all the time. I guess these engineers they hire have book smarts but don't hunt.
I have taken a sharpie and blackend out the lens, stuffed cotton in the hole and the best seems to be the filling the hole with bow wax. Then on low it won't light the sight pins at all and as you go up in intensity (get the ones with the adjustable intensity) you'll hit a point where the pins softly glow BUT don't wash out the target behind them.
I don't use a peep and with this setup I can hunt in the dark as long as I can see the target. The problem I have is seeing little black pigs at night...….but if I can see them I can shoot just as good as in the daylight.
It amazes me how companies don't understand this but I'm use to fixing things they don't understand all the time. I guess these engineers they hire have book smarts but don't hunt.
I have taken a sharpie and blackend out the lens, stuffed cotton in the hole and the best seems to be the filling the hole with bow wax. Then on low it won't light the sight pins at all and as you go up in intensity (get the ones with the adjustable intensity) you'll hit a point where the pins softly glow BUT don't wash out the target behind them.
I don't use a peep and with this setup I can hunt in the dark as long as I can see the target. The problem I have is seeing little black pigs at night...….but if I can see them I can shoot just as good as in the daylight.
The Garmin Xero is the best low light sight I have ever seen, or used.
My favorite is a spot hogg rheostat that is a infinite adjust, because in the off position you can turn one way to go bright and the other way to go dim. You want the dimmest possible setting for shooting in near dark. I have done the sharpie trick and for me this was enough to dim new batteries down enough.
Another trick is to play with the fibers and get them blocked off from the light source. I don't like all 5 of my sight pins to be lit up by the rheostat, the only one I want to see is the 20 yd pin. So I take a piece of black tape and go around the 4 I don't want to see right where the rheostat light hits them. I leave the 20 yard pin visible to the light source.
The g-5 rheostats about 7 years ago looked awesome but within weeks they all failed and had internal issues, for me the spot hogg lights always dealt well with weather and stuff and I have some from back to 2007 that still work good. I have some spot hogg ones that have 5 settings and they are more easy to find, the infinite adjust good one is hard to find. You might call them and see if they have them and buy them from the website.
Another trick is to play with the fibers and get them blocked off from the light source. I don't like all 5 of my sight pins to be lit up by the rheostat, the only one I want to see is the 20 yd pin. So I take a piece of black tape and go around the 4 I don't want to see right where the rheostat light hits them. I leave the 20 yard pin visible to the light source.
The g-5 rheostats about 7 years ago looked awesome but within weeks they all failed and had internal issues, for me the spot hogg lights always dealt well with weather and stuff and I have some from back to 2007 that still work good. I have some spot hogg ones that have 5 settings and they are more easy to find, the infinite adjust good one is hard to find. You might call them and see if they have them and buy them from the website.
I have shot the no peep stuff and that stuff is worthless when it gets really dark, also shooting with a huge peep is no good also. I have found that a 1/8 inch peep type setup is way better for low light.
I have had multiple guys come over and shoot with me right at dark some with big peeps and some with no peep, we set up at 30 yards about 15 min before dark and start shooting and moving up as we can't see the deer target anymore. Most of the time they tap out at about 17 yards because they simply can not see anything anymore and I keep shooting for another 15 minutes up to 8 or so yards from the target and I can hit dead on the whole time.
The key is shooting with both eyes open and the smaller peep. I can hit perfect as long as I can see the silhouette of the deer because my pin is so so dim I can barely see the pin but it is faint. The small peep doesn't let that much light through so it dims the pin even more but I can still see the silhouette of the deer barely. But the real important part of this shot is the anchor, I believe in the past when I have missed deer at 9 yards it was because I looked through the top triangle split of the bow string or the bottom triangle of the split of the bow string not my peep. Because you are aiming down out of a 20 ft tree stand your shooting form is poor and when it is so dark I can't see my peep or bow string I have no idea if I am actually looking through the peep or not. So I come to anchor and I start aiming and I raise my anchor until the pin vanishes and then I lower my anchor til my pin vanishes and then I center it in the peep. The peep was vanishing because it was blocked by the peep. If it is in the triangle above or below that triangle is around a inch long and you will know it. then I take the shot.
I have had multiple guys come over and shoot with me right at dark some with big peeps and some with no peep, we set up at 30 yards about 15 min before dark and start shooting and moving up as we can't see the deer target anymore. Most of the time they tap out at about 17 yards because they simply can not see anything anymore and I keep shooting for another 15 minutes up to 8 or so yards from the target and I can hit dead on the whole time.
The key is shooting with both eyes open and the smaller peep. I can hit perfect as long as I can see the silhouette of the deer because my pin is so so dim I can barely see the pin but it is faint. The small peep doesn't let that much light through so it dims the pin even more but I can still see the silhouette of the deer barely. But the real important part of this shot is the anchor, I believe in the past when I have missed deer at 9 yards it was because I looked through the top triangle split of the bow string or the bottom triangle of the split of the bow string not my peep. Because you are aiming down out of a 20 ft tree stand your shooting form is poor and when it is so dark I can't see my peep or bow string I have no idea if I am actually looking through the peep or not. So I come to anchor and I start aiming and I raise my anchor until the pin vanishes and then I lower my anchor til my pin vanishes and then I center it in the peep. The peep was vanishing because it was blocked by the peep. If it is in the triangle above or below that triangle is around a inch long and you will know it. then I take the shot.
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Both the Rufflight and the Zbros will go from zero to full power. I'm sure the others (LP, etc) will as well. Versus the little tiny ones, I've had 2 of those as well. One was a zero to full power and the other had 3 detent settings, low-med-high. I can't remember which was which, IIRC it was the 3 setting one on the Trophy Ridge.
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