Depends on string quality. A crap string that stretches and a tubeless peep is not fun.

 

That's what I'm thinking too. It's on a Bowtech Fuel stock string. I've never personally owned a new Bowtech so I have no experience with the.

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Tubeless is better IMO but dealing with string twist or peep rotation does suck.

 

I started my daughter with a tubed peep so she didn't have to worry about a twisted peep at full draw.

 

caution,,,if the tube breaks while at full draw, it could put your eye out..just to save a couple bucks on a string,,Really!!

 

Exactly

 

Nothing to me says newby more than a tube peep or a metal d-loop. Just get a normal peep such as a fletcher peep for a few bucks and be done with it. Yeah you have to learn how to set things up to get it to turn just right, there are some high end custom bow strings that have no peep rotation but it doesn't matter. Even if it does rotate a little you just have to set it up so it rotates just right.

 

get a good quality string and go tubeless. much, much better.

 

All around, the tubeless peep will treat you better. If the tube breaks towards your eye target shooting, that’s bad. If the tube breaks the other way at full draw while you’re hunting, that’s bad. Going tubeless, once everything is set up correctly, is going to be better in the long run and one less thing to go wrong.

 

Tubeless definitely. But like others said, it requires a quality string and the peep needs to be installed properly to prevent twisting.

 

If the bow is set up properly with a D loop and the kid is shooting a release, you don't need to tube it

 

I shot a BT Fuel for a couple of years. I used a G5 Meta Pro Peep in it (tubeless) in the stock string. After about a month of shooting, the peep twisted in the string, but after I got it readjusted, I never had an issue after that.

 

I use tubeless but shoot good strings. But there is nothing "newbie" about a tube or not. Some folks just like the added insurance of one. Tube should only be long enough to get peep straight. So last inch of draw it gets snug. The stories you hear about putting eyes out etc are due to tube being installed wrong. Shoot in the string about 25-50 shots and install a peep. may never have to move it. If it has bad rotation I say tube it and forget it until string change.

 

I would go tubed. Tubed is insurance that the peep will go back straight.

MOST(all) Tubeless peep sights will turn on you at some point and that means it's either in an out of a press twisting the string, or pulling back, realizing it's not aligned, letting it down, giving it a twist and pulling it back again. More of a pain than anything.

The nice thing about Tubed Peep Sights is that if you replace the rubber tube once a year, you will never have an issue with it popping off and it's cheap. Only time they pop off is when the rubber gets dry rotted or if the tube is too short. Only complaint about tubes is they pop off, but do a little yearly maintenance on the cheapest part of the bow and you're golden.

 

thanks everyone for the input and advise. For now i have the tubeless put on it as i had to make a decision before it was sent. we will see if he likes it and if not we will switch to eight the 3 string style peep or the tubed. I have only ever shot tubed and a 3 string style.

 

I was at the range when someones tube broke as he was drawing. He was lucky that he didn't get hit in the eye. As it was he wound up with a cut on his cheek. I would never use a tube peep. It's just too dangerous.

 

I like tubeless, and is what I’ve been shooting. But when hunting different states I don’t know what causes it but I get very slight twist.Shoots fine all summer long long here, then head to Texas( seems to be the worst) and peep is off just the slightest. And it bugs the crap out me. I am probably going to go back to tubed full time, just so I don’t have to worry about it. I’ve seen many guys ( me included) that it is just habit, and before they draw they pre twist the sting, so that when they draw back there peep is straight. I hate having to do that, or forgetting to do it in the heat of the moment. And drawing back and its not a perfectly round hole. I would rather have that whole issue ( concern) off my mind. And I do shoot great strings, I’ve tried many.

 

Tubeless, not a fan of having a giant rubber band pointed at my eyeball.


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If it gets a little twist in it after a couple hundred shots, take it to a Bow shop and have them adjust it.

 

I agree with the comments regards tubeless. Purchase a good quality peep with the required diameter opening, personally a shoot a G5's and size my opening to match the exterior diameter of my sight ring at full draw. If you get a little twist after breaking in the string readjust to correct.

 

tubeless, as someone who's already been temporarily blinded by a piece of rubber from a popped balloon. theres something unnerving about having a stretched tube of rubber pointed square at my eyeball.

i've been using a 3 split peep for a while now but i think i'm going to switch to 2, i find the third string in the 3 string split gets in the way every now and then.

 

I agree with SonnyT. I have never seen anyone have an eye injury using a peep tube in 40 years. Granted the last 10 or so they have about gone away but back it the 80's & 90's that was standard issue and I never saw an injury to anyone I knew.....let along losing an eye. Many times when something sounds good people just like to repeat it.

Good string sure help but you still have issues because it's the nature of the beast. You can reduce it GREATLY but never eliminate it.

If you do use the tube then inspect it as you should many other thing like your carbon arrows after every shot...…….and don't worry about it. I think the people that had issues with tubes had them too tight, made them themselves, or set the bow up for 9 mo in the shed and then snatched it up before the next deer season and never looked at the condition, etc etc

I didn't like the rubber tubes because they were a little louder...….I don't use either now.

 

I agree with SonnyT. I have never seen anyone have an eye injury using a peep tube in 40 years. Granted the last 10 or so they have about gone away but back it the 80's & 90's that was standard issue and I never saw an injury to anyone I knew.....let along losing an eye. Many times when something sounds good people just like to repeat it.

Good string sure help but you still have issues because it's the nature of the beast. You can reduce it GREATLY but never resolve it.

If you do use the tube then inspect it as you should many other thing like your carbon arrows after every shot...…….and don't worry about it.

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Change the tubing regularly and there is no issue of it hitting you in the face

 

I've never seen or heard of an eye injury from a peep tube. Infact I don't recall ever seeing one break any place other than the post on the peep, which sends the tube away from your eye. Not saying it can't happen but until this thread I've never heard of it. Maintain your equipment and there won't be a problem.

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All good input. As a beginner I'll be sure to see what fits best, but.. the more you know!

 

I just switched to tubeless and after sorting out the twist I find it much better. Less stuff in Your eyeline

 

never put a tube on a peep in my life. they can all be persuaded to come around correctly, it just takes some time with a press.