CAN I EVEN SHOOT THAT FAR?? - Sight Tape Set Up

Hey everybody, yesterday we built my brand new bow and new arrows, so today Branch is going to get us rocking with the sight tape. Yes, we're going to be using precision cut archery. It's super easy to get a sight tape really quick. Starting out we're going to get our arrow weight, then we're going to get our peep to lens measurement and our peep height measurement. We're also going to get our arrow speed and density altitude and be able to bring a tape, lay it on there, compare your tapes, lay So starting out we're going to get our arrow weight and that is going to be 389.2. Write that down. We'll move on to getting our measurements. So next up we're going to get our pin to peep and peep height measurement. This is really easy with a draw board, but you can do this at full draw. You just want to be super safe and have someone who knows what they're doing taking your measurements, but this makes it nice. I can draw it back. You just want to get all the way to full draw just like that and then go ahead and throw our arrow in and take my tape measure. First we'll measure from our pin to the center of our peep. So I'm going to go from the pin to the center of our peep and that is 26.5. So go ahead and write that down. For peep height? Pin to peep. But I'll know, I'll be able to know which measurements. I just want to put 26.5. Yes ma'am, let me double check. Perfect. Then next up we're going to do our peep height and this is going to be the measurement from the center of the arrow to the center of our peep like that and that is going to be three and a quarter. Three and a quarter peep height. We'll let our bow down slowly and go get our arrow speed. Sweet. So let's go set up our chronograph. You know we're sighted in. Normally I like to start about 10 yards if we haven't sighted in, but we were pretty dialed yesterday for league night. We'll start to shoot at 20 yards. This is really easy. We're just going to have to shoot right next to it and let's shoot at there's kind of three roofers now. Three roofers now between targets nine and ten. See the three roofers now between nine and ten? Shoot the far right one. Okay. All right so we're going to do a three arrow average with the Garmin so we can have a consistent group size. We're just going to shoot right over the top of this and we're shooting for the right roofers now. Shoot from the shooting line. I'm afraid I'm going to shoot it. Very good. 235. Okay. 234.5. Pretty consistent. Blinched with that one. Good. 235.4. So our average is a 235. So we'll go add that. We'll write this down. Okay. Go pull those and then enter it into the precision cut. So we're going to add it to precision cut. We're going to start by going to my setups and adding a bow. I'm going to add your bow. Choose our sight. So that's going to be the HHA Nitrex. Let's see. Scroll down here. Nitrex Pro. And then our peep height was 3.25. 3.25. And our sight radius that's going to be the pin to peep. 26.5. 26.5. Awesome. So we've created that and then we're going to go to add an arrow. This is going to be a 5.0. And our arrow weight. 389.2. 389.2. We'll create our arrow. And then we're going to do sight in now. We're going to do the quick start method but first we need to get our density altitude. So what we're going to do is we're going to go search up Des Moines Iowa density altitude. I think it's like 8 something. So density altitude approximately 16 to 1800. I don't think so. Let's see. Maybe. Let's try to see if this has it for us. I mean I could be wrong but well maybe this average. Maybe like an average. You need the average? So each day changes based upon the weather. So some days if it's really rainy it can be low. So it changes pretty consistently. So I think that's probably going to give us a good average. We'll just say we'll just say 1700 and go from there. All right. And like a big jump would have to be like thousands of density altitude for it to start affecting your arrow. So long as you're close. And our launch speed that was 235. Yep. Okay. Add that in. Create our sight in. And then what I do is go to sight tapes right here. It's automatically pulling up your bow. So Caitlin's bow. And we're just going to want to print this. You want to include the scale checker. You can take a card and make sure that it matches up. I've done this a lot so I know but we'll give it all to me. Yes. Yeah. We don't need to include help. We'll conclude our setup specs. That way you've got those and keep it. And then tape settings. We don't need that. So it's going to print us three tapes. Let's download our pdf. Click on it. And so there's our tapes. And we're just going to print it out. And we'll just match it up to what your booklets are in the HHA box. Okay. Pretty straightforward. Yeah. It's really easy and it's for us it's been within a yard at 100. So for most people that's going to be super accurate. Yeah. Super consistent. Throwing it on there and getting going to shoot 20 and 60. Right. I'm trying to find a day that's not so windy or whatever. So let's grab our tapes. Perfect. All right. So we're going to grab our tapes here. And I figure we're probably going to be a little bit slower. So let's start on the back end. What you're going to want to do. What are you trying to say? I don't say anything. I don't say anything. I'm weak. That's what he's saying. So what we're going to do is we're going to match up our 20 and we're going to try and find where 20 and 60 align. So 20. We need to go faster because we've got a gap here. Yeah. So we're going to go faster. So I'm going to fold it over. I'm just kind of guessing here to get started. So line up our 20 and our 60 and we are really really close. That may be spot on. Just a little bit higher. So we may go to our next one. 20 and 60 is spot on. Pretty spot on. So we're going to be Sight Tape 68. Try and pull Sight Tape 68 off. Get the bow and the vice and lay it down. So for this you can pull off your setup tape that comes on it. I kind of like to keep it. Well you know what we'll do for now. I'm just going to take our extra wheel. That way you have your setup tape if you ever want to go shoot it through that. I'm just going to lay it on this this wheel right here. Lay it down. Roll it over. Nice and pretty. Then we'll move this wheel off and pull this. Now if you were just sighting this in by yourself we've got our zero and you're just going to back out to 60 and sight in like you would with most Sight Tapes. Rolling this down until it's knocking at 60. It'll tell you you know Sight Tape whatever was that 38 and then line up at 68 and you'd know which one to use on on the nitric site. I'm just going to take it. I want to make sure my indicator at our top is lining up with 20. Tighten this down and then do you plan to be shooting these pins at 20, 30, and 40? Is that what you would like to do with the XP3? Probably. Okay so then what I'm going to do is I'm going to move these indicators to point at 20, 30, and 40 as well. Just so that's already kind of set for you. So I'm just moving those up trying to get them to line. It can be a tedious task. Sometimes 30s lined up, 20s lined up. We've got our indicators at 20, 30, and 40 with our Sight Tape 68. So whenever you're ready let's loosen it up, rover it out. Now our top pin will be about 40. Awesome. Cool. I love that HHA has the nice like colors. Makes it easy to see. Quick. Yes ma'am. Cool. Awesome. I'm ready. Let's do it. Deer season. All right you guys we got it all set up with the Sight Tape. Should be pretty accurate. So we'll see. But we're gonna go take it home, do some shooting in the yard, just double check everything. And it's summertime so it's time to start shooting regardless. So I'm very excited. Thank you Branch. Yeah absolutely. For everything. Very knowledgeable. So if you guys are in Texas, stop by Corbin's Archery. We'll see you at home. Y'all have a great day. Okay guys we are back home and we are going to make sure that my Sight Tape is fully correct. As you know in the shop we use the Precision Cut to figure out what Sight Tape I needed. I am Sight Tape 68 and at 20 it was on. So we know that is at least good but we need to shoot at some different yardages. And typically without Precision Cut what you would do is shoot 20 and 60 and then you'd find your Sight Tape. And it was kind of a whole complicated process. So as long as this is accurate, which I'm assuming it is because it's based on math, but as long as this is accurate this is definitely a much more seamless process and you don't have to have like a range to shoot at that goes out to 60. So I luckily do. So we're gonna shoot at 60. But I think what we're gonna do is just start at 20, make sure we're still good and then just work our way back and see how it does. But we got the new HHA Nitrix Pro and I love this site already. It's so seamless, it's so clean, it matches the bow. And to be honest I've always been an HHA fan. I've used different sites over the years but I love the Sight Tapes on them because they're color-coded and so when you're needing to dial really quickly it's very easy to find what yardage you need. So that's one thing I'm really excited to be using this year. But yeah, let's get into it. Okay, we're just gonna do one at 20. I know I'm sighted in for that but just to make sure everything's still on from travel. Believe me, I need to shoot more. Here we go. We are on, I just tend to hold low and I guess slightly right. This is why you shoot every day so you have better groups than this. I've been waiting so we can do the Sight Tape. But the biggest thing right now, even if you are like me and you haven't shot a bunch yet, as long as your arrow's hitting where your pin is settled, that's how you know if it's on. So you got to pay attention to that. Okay, so we're now at 30 and what we're gonna do is, just for simplicity, we're gonna dial to each yardage. So we'll do 20, 30, 40 out to 60 and then we'll go back and shoot 30, 40 with my indicators to see if those are on. So try 30, top pin hooks on. Also for the record, I'm a little, I'm for sure not like as rock solid as I want to be, but I also have a little target panic and one thing with that is I never aim for the exact same spot. So you're never gonna see me with a insanely tight group because I just don't like to do that. I don't like to bust arrows. So far, so good. So we're gonna go to 40 now. It's toasty. All right, 40, top pin. There we go, that was good. So far, so good. Don't look. Okay, we're not gonna talk about this one because I won't. These look really good. So I'm okay with that. That's just how I know I need to shoot more. All right, 50. Also this might, this may or may not matter. If you have a lower poundage, every yard could matter, especially like when I was shooting 40 pounds. Like one or two yards for me was a big deal. So one thing I recommend is keeping like a consistent, I'll just call it an anchor point when you're dialing if you have lower poundage. If you don't, you could literally be a yard or two off and still probably hit the same spot because your speed. But I like to like put my cam on the corner of my head so I know I'm like hitting the same exact spot every time. All right, 50. We're getting close to no clearance here. 60 could be interesting. Just spin my arrows. All right, I am hitting right though, huh? Pretty consistent. I'm not gonna adjust anything though until I shoot more. I'm getting tired. Okay, last one. Still a touch low but I think that's just me. Okay, noticing a trend and that is I'm hitting to the right. I'm also hitting low but I think I naturally tend to hold low so I don't even really want to take that into account. So the right thing is what I'm going to pay attention to as I'm shooting the next couple weeks. I'm not going to adjust anything until I get into better shooting shape and feel like I'm steady. Right now I don't feel like the most steady so there's a chance that I'm just dropping and maybe pulling right as I drop. But aside from that, I am very happy with that group overall at 50. Let's see if we can go to 60. To be honest, I might run out of clearance so we might have to see what happens there. All right, 60. I will say my arrows are a lot heavier than my previous arrows so it's gonna be close. I might have to do like 59. If I lay, if I spin it a little bit I think we'll be okay. It's risky but you know what, do it for the plot. I think it's fine. I think my other arrows I could get like 70 out of so it's not that much difference and realistically I'm not going to shoot an animal probably that far. Don't mind the noise, they're doing road work. Very fun thing. Okay, I'm gonna truth. Oof, so sketchy. Can't even see it. Oh, smack dab in the middle. I don't know why I was worried. So the biggest thing also I want to note and I can say this because when you shoot Total Archery Challenge or any sort of like 3D course and you start to run out of clearance, some people are wary about, oh like a certain vein has to be up. Yes but no. Like end of the day as long as there's no contact whether it's with the sight or the rest or your veins hitting your roller guard or anything, as long as it's like a clear shot, twisting the arrow is not going to make that big of a difference. Like there's times where I'd even have to flip them completely upside down just to get clearance but kind of the way I have these oriented I can just twist them sideways and I think can't see it so far away. Oh no, it's a little higher. Honestly, it's hitting where I want it to so that's what I care about. All right, last one. Touch right I think but we're in the ballpark. I'm getting tired but honestly not the worst. Let's go look. All right, we're not going to talk about why my 60 was better than my like 40 yard group but I'll take it. I always have one that just wants to fly weird but I think that's just like I get lazy or tired and then that happens but for 60 yards that's not that bad. I mean that's less than a pie plate so I am happy with that. I would say my sight tape is on and I don't think we have to make any adjustments. I think what we're going to do now is instead of dialing we're going to set it back to 20 and then just use my 30 and 40 indicators to make sure that those are on because you know sometimes in the field you don't want to have to dial or you don't have time to dial so I want to make sure those are at least ready to go. Okay, so we're going to dial back to 20 which should also be your stop too. That's a good good way to know you're at 20 which means 30, 40 are the other indicators so we're just going to shoot with those. See how we do. Okay, for the sake of me being tired I'm just gonna do one arrow at each distance and then if they suck then I'll do more but I think we would be on. So second pin that was me. I'll do another one though and I'm gonna leave those. We're gonna go back to 40. Everything should be on. I'm not gonna touch anything. Use my third pin. I'll use my second pin. Scratch that. Hold on. That's not what you want to do and that's why we buy the big targets. A little low. Again, I'm getting tired but I think it's on. I'm just dropping my arm for some reason. Get it together, Caitlin. Biggest buck of your life. 40 yards. Low. He dropped into it. Smoked him. All right, last arrow. Make it count. There we go. I'm tired. You know, it's not the worst. I think it was like one, two, three. So really could be could be way worse. As a group it's not bad. So my overall thoughts are that my sight tape is on and I need to shoot more but I feel very confident in the setup. It's just a matter of kind of getting my muscles back in and like just practicing because I'm not somebody. I know there's people that say, oh I don't ever shoot. They just go out and shoot a deer the first sit. I'm not one of those people. I gotta shoot. I gotta practice. I gotta feel like mentally in it. So those are gonna be. Honestly, I'll probably have a couple videos of just kind of going through that. If you haven't seen it and if you deal with any kind of target panic or just feel like you need to also get into shooting shape this past year. So last year I made a shooting shape series which is one of my playlists. Go check it out because that is literally my step-by-step on how to get into shooting shape. That's a side note but I do think it helps a lot and that's literally what I do. It's just my process of getting ready for deer season. So hopefully somebody finds that helpful but for now I'm very happy with the accuracy of this. I was a little skeptical but I mean I guess at the end of the day it's really just a bunch of calculations and as long as everything in your setup is how you want it to be it should get you a very accurate sight tape. So I'm really happy with that. It's just a matter of shooting now and I'm so ready for deer season. I wish the temps would drop a little bit but other than that I'm so ready and yeah. Thank you guys so much for watching. I'll see you in the next one.