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Well, I’ve been wanting to get back into archery for some time now & recently got a new bow. It’s nothing fancy, just a single string on a simple bow, not even a re-curve, but it fits my size & has a good feel to it.
But it came with a puzzling inclusion…a sight.
Now like I said, back in my youth I didn’t care about targets, but my dad did try to teach me some basic aiming technique. What I’ve retained of his instructions is "focus on the target & aim along the arrow". Simple enough right? (not that I practiced aiming enough to be good at it)
So basically I have no idea how I would even aim with a sight! In fact my first thought about it was "a sight on a bow? blasphemy! get the holy water!".
However, after that my second thought was "well maybe I should try it. it’s like a gun sight right?" but I got to looking at it and I’m just confused about how it works.

I’m not sure what type of sight it is exactly, it just has one pin, it looks sort of like a front sight from a rifle (the old fashioned kind that is a rod with a ball tip) only horizontal instead of vertical. The pin has threads and a flat end, which I presume is for adjustment. The whole pin assembly goes on a sort of bar on the front of the bow & can slide up & down the bar. I’ve tried searching online, but all the ones I find have multiple pins and/or circle things around the pins, my sight doesn’t have a circle thing, just a horizontal pin.

The problem for me is that I have no idea how to even reference the sight for shooting. I am used to using a gun, sights are easy with a gun, there’s two of them, you line them up, you put them on your target.

This bow sight tho, there’s just the one pin, what the heck do I line that up with? :confused:

I’m very confused by this whole sight thing, a have zero clue how I would aim with it at all. I need help.

If anyone could give me instructions on how this sight works that would be great. An illustration or a video or photo with a POV angle showing what my view should look like when shooting with the sight in the correct place, would especially be appreciated.

Thanks in advance. 🙂