Bowhunting How-to HOW DO I SET UP A SIGHT TAPE ON A SLIDING SIGHT

Okay, how to set up a sight tape on a slider type sight. That's a common question we get here at Lancaster Archery, and first thing is, you know, slider sights, there are many different varieties. Right here I've got your basic single pin sight, but there are one pin, two pin, three pins, some where the pins are movable, some where there aren't. Many different varieties, but the basics of how to set up a sight tape for your bow are going to be the same for all of them. It's all going to start with going outside and getting your sight marks. So you're going to want to have a blank, some sort of blank paper marking to where you can actually, you know, you're going to go outside, you're not going to know where your sight needs to be, so you're going to have to gauge that as you move back. But the important things, the most important marks you want to get are from 20 yards and 60 yards. Now the more points you can get in there, the better, the easier it's going to be for you to pick up a sight tape. I usually like to do 20, 40, 60, pick a sight tape and then I test it. So a simple medium that I like to use is masking tape. I've got this green masking tape in here and you can see my sight marks already that I have made. So to start this, what I did, I went outside and moved my sight all the way up to the hard stop. This is a trophy ridge that allows me two adjustments. In other words, once I went up to my hard stop, then I can move the scope up or down by this dial right here. Some sights allow you to do that, some sights don't. However you have to do it, what you want to get is find out where the scope needs to be at 20 yards. So I moved my scope until I was shooting at 20 yards and then I made my top mark here on the masking tape. Then I backed up until I was hitting at 40 yards. I made my second mark there, backed up again, moved my sight down until I got to 60 yards, made my third mark there. So now I have my three marks on my masking tape, 20, 40, 60 yards. So there were a bunch of sight tapes that came with my sight. Yours will be the same. You'll have a lot of sight tapes. And then it's a matter of going through until you find one that matches the marks right here. So I've already identified which one it is just by lining them up. I line up my marks, you can see in there matches this sight tape 20, 40, 60. My marks are calibrated to this sight tape. So I would peel this sight tape off, take my masking tape off, put it in place there with starting with my 20 yard. I want to make sure that one matches on here. Now then what you're going to do is that's not necessarily that you're done. You want to go out then and test that sight tape. Shoot it at odd distances. Shoot it at 26 yards, 37 yards, you know, 54 yards. Check all of those numbers to make sure that your arrows are hitting right where they should according to this sight tape. If they don't, then maybe you, you know, as you shoot, you'll see, oh, I'm a little fast on some of these yardages. So you can go to a sight tape that where the markings are closer together. Or if you see that you're hitting low, oh, my arrows are flying a little slower. I need a sight tape that's a little more opened up. So you can move to the left or right of your sight tapes. They're always going to be graduated. You can see here on this scale that we're starting with the slowest here, and then they're just getting faster. So you can see that the sight tapes are actually shrinking. And what's happening is you're gaining distance. Here we start at a hundred and then the bottom is going to be 110, 120, 130. So the sight scale is saying the same size, but you're getting more distance out of them. So you're just going to play with that, shoot it, you know, over and over to make sure you feel confident that you do have the right sight tape.