Question for older archers

[Possum2546]

I do think that I will open the hole up a little bit, it doesn't let much light in as it is.

[Kelly]

Possum, lowering the peep in the string will enable you to raise your anchor. Start with whatever anchor point you are most comfortable and lower/raise the peep to where you can see through it. I used first finger in the corner of mouth.

[M60gunner]

I recall the target shooters in the club I belonged to in late 60’s early 70’s using something similar. After I watched on of our group using sight, peep, and target bow shoot 4 arrows in a group in the bull at 80 yards I never said anything about “cheating” using sights.
 

[Possum2546]

Possum, lowering the peep in the string will enable you to raise your anchor. Start with whatever anchor point you are most comfortable and lower/raise the peep to where you can see through it. I used first finger in the corner of mouth.

It’s probably hard to tell in the picture but it’s down all the way to my serving (white string and serving). I guess I could just re serve so I could lower it some more.

[John Cholin]

I started shooting bows back in the 50's, I was about 6 at the time.  By the time I was in high school, the mid 60's, all the serious bow hunters used sight pins of some sort.  I believe Bear Archery sold bow sights that were mounted to the bow by way of a threaded insert in the riser.  My brothers an I used either a sight pint or a piece of white tape (medical adhesive tape) on the back of the riser as a front sight.  We never used a string peep but relied on a consistent anchor point.  I shot with a bow sight up until I got caught-up in the c******d bow craze.

When I returned to the recurve 20 years or so ago I made a sight for the bow I was hunting with.  While I have tried several times to transition to bare-bow shooting I just can't make it work.  I can achieve my accuracy objectives with a single sight pin and solid anchor point so that's what I am doing.  Its working for me.

Best Regards,

JMC

[Possum2546]

I use to shoot bare bow pretty well until I got TP, since I’m then I really struggle without sights. Sights are not a fix all by any means but it helps.

[Bryan Bondurant]

Cool find, and a note in history.  Mostly peep sight were early day adaptions that went further in compound archery. They go completely against instinctive archery for multiple reasons with the biggest advantage in tradtional archery, getting an arrow off the bow, into meat on a fire, quick.

Im not going to argue precision, a peep sight can be very precise in a static situation, that stated any kid that shot a thousand stumps traditional growing up, thats who I would bet on making a real shot on live game.