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· Bow Huntin' pure-n-simple
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What color fiber optics does everybody like for hunting with ? Mostly daylight to some dark shade hunting. How come ??
 

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Green and Yellow
Possibly Orange

Red is out (for 2 reasons)

1) The human eye has a lower sensitivity to red than green or yellow. This causes the red fiber to fade out faster as dark approaches.

2) As a glasses wearer, when looking through my glasses (high index lenses) at the red pin, in order to get it to "appear" in line with the rest of my pins, it actually has to be about 1/32" to the left when looking straight on, however at full draw it looks perfectly in line. This has to do with the lens in my glasses acting like a prism and causing the red light to defract at a different angle than the green or yellow.
 

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Red

I shoot red fiber all year while tournament shooting. Just what Im use to seeing.

MY next choice would be green. I have used it on the cosmic impact sight.
 

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20 yards Green best visabilty into the wee hour
30 red next best but fades fast in low light
40 yellow dont use it normally but if i needed too in the clear open woods then its there.

I say that about 40 because even at 30 them little twigs seem to be everywhere
in bright light, and they dissapear when looking through a peep or low light woods.
 

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Thanks folks, going to modify my cooper john and want the best color fibers on it
 
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