Pin Colors

[NWBuck]

I've got a Trophy Ridge sight, and have a minor problem I'm wondering if anyone else experiences. My sight has 3 pins. The top and bottom are chartruse green and great to see, but that middle one is red and I have a helluva time seeing it. Maybe just my age showing...but I sure wish they'd picked something a bit brighter than dull red for that middle pin. Can these pins be replaced?

NWBuck

 

[Blaster]

The red pin is hard to see. I have a 5 pin so i dropped the red pin behind my yellow. Now i have a 4 pin!

 

[Jethro]

I have a Toxonics 5 pin with the third pin being red. It is the last one to light up in the A.M. and the first to go out in the P.M. It is my 40 yard pin. I wouldn't take the far of a shot if it was that dark anyway so I just deal with it.

 

[NEIOWAARCHER]

I have it set like this, Green, yellow, blue, red. Seems OK. On a old bow I had it was like this. White(when you see the whites of there eyes) red (the kill zone) Blue (wild blue yonder). That was quie a few years ago, Sights have come along way scince then.

 

[bowhuntr311]

I used to use a three pin setup 15, 30, and 42. Green Yellow Red.

Red was the first to get dark, and when I drew on a deer and it was tuff to see the pin it was hard to see the rack at 40yards. It usually not much after that before I get down. I figure if I cant tell if is is a shooter or not I dont want to shoot it.

Dean

 

[FLGator]

If your sight has fiber optic pins you could replace them all with new optics from Fitz fibers. I personally haven't done it, but have read great things about the improvements guys get from replacing their optic material. Not very expensive and only takes about a half an out to do from my understanding.

Chris

 

[muddy]

I'm going to be working on replacing all the pins in my Matrix just as soon as I fill 7 more doe tags! I was going to do it this weekend but figure I'll probably mess it up and then I'll be SOL because my supplier (LimbChicken) will be in the treestand until Thanksgiving!

 

[deadeye]

Yes they are replaceable. You can get new fiber from Trophy Ridge or you can get fiber anywhere and cut it to length and put it in. You will have to cut the old fiber off so you can get that plastic tube out. You will need to put the fiber in the tube. I shove the tube up into the bottom of the site and then make sure you get enough fiber up to the pin. Make sure the fiber isn't cold else it will break easier when you bend it to get it threaded into the pin hole on top. It will then need to be melted so it expands and then won't come back through the pin hole. Be careful with that step so you don't get your fiber pin too big. Then wrap it around and heat up the other end so it doesn't come back out and you should be good to go. For heating up the fiber by the pin when I put in new fiber next time I am going to try heating up a nail head and pressing the nail head against the fiber to see how that works.

Its not a hard process but the fiber can break pretty easy when you are trying to bend it around the pin hole.