I was sitting around the house yesterday – I had the day off and was watching my daughter – and flipped the Dish Network receiver over to the Outdoor Channel.  Archer’s Choice was on, and normally the show isn’t too bad, so I decided to kick back and take in an episode.

During the show they have a viewer mail segment of sorts, and during that segment they covered a topic that I thought was pretty interesting.  This particular viewer wanted to know why the Archer’s Choice staff only use one sight pin.  For me, I thought the answer was obvious – so that, in the heat of the moment, you don’t get confused by using the wrong sight pin.

And I was right……..and perplexed.

They do use a single site pin to prevent confusion during the moment of truth, but one thing they eluded to really confused me.  Apparently they have a single site pin system, just like the one I own, that allows for you to readily adjust your single pin to different yardages, and also provides the ability to mark those yardages right next to your site pin (If you’re having trouble picturing that click on the picture).  With this setup you can then, when your target shooting, simply loosen the knob on the right side of your pin, adjust it to your already setup and marked yardages, and be ready to go – using one site pin.

I’m with them so far.

But the next part is what really got me:  they apparently use a range finder to figure out the yardage, and then adjust their site pin accordingly to that yardage in the heat of the moment! Now I’ve been hunting whitetails for quite a few years now, and there is no way that I am going to be moving my site pin right before the moment of truth.  There are times, as we all know, that we might not even have time do this not to mention the added movement doing this would cause.  I can understand adjusting your pin for target shooting, but I for one will never adjust it during the heat of the moment.  And because of that I even target shoot with one pin without moving it at all; in order words I know where that pin needs to be for all yardages.

I suppose I should look at this more in-depth because they have definitely shot more and bigger bucks than I, but I was just a little taken aback by their approach.

What do all of you do?  Do you shoot one pin?  Do you shoot multiple pins?  Or do you shoot one pin and adjust accordingly during the moment of truth?  Let us know in the comments.

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