HHA single pin sight PROBLEM

[mhbaseball]

I bought the OL-5000 from BP yesterday and mounted it to my bow and started to sight it in when I noticed a big problem.

I have sight screwed in as low as it can go. You have to sight it in at 20 yards first and my 20 yards is halfway up the pendulum. THERE LIES THE PROBLEM!!!! So in other words I only have half the pendulum to sight in all my yardages. My 20 yard line should be at or near the bottom of the pendulum.
I called HHA and they are mailing me a bracket extension so I can attach it and lower my sight, therefore allowing my 20 yard mark to be somewhere near the bottom of the pendulum.

[Downwind]

HHA makes a shim plate drop bracket cost is about 5 bucks. Depends on the bow if you need it or not.

[mhbaseball]

yes they are mailing me one out for free today. I think thats it. All he told me was its a bracket extension that attaches to those 7 holes and makes it to where you can lower it

[Downwind]

Thats great customer service.

[mhbaseball]

yes it is!!!! It jus puzzles me why its doing that, but he said it happens sometimes bc everyones bow is different

[bowhuntntxn]

I thought you cold actually move the sight pin housing up and down the arm, to increase your range. Are there 2 bolts holding the pin housing to the arm that moves, and extra holes? if so, try moving it down one set of holes and see if that helps.

[Nitro1970]

I thought if you wanted it to shoot lower you had to move the sight housing UP not down.

[mhbaseball]

no you can move it down....but I have it all the way down in the bottom two holes. I mean I could use it like it is now but the top of the pendulum would only put me at 35 or 40 yards MAX!!!! I think 35 is the highest it would go. Which would work but just in case I want to have it sighted in at up to 50 yards MAX.

[DaveC]

Nocking point location, the rest center shot elevation and peep sight elevation come into play as well.
Move any of those three up or down and your 20 pin location will move up and down as well.
Does your arrow intersect the berger holes when the arrow is at rest?

[bowhuntntxn]

Have you tried moving the pin housing up? That might be the direction to try.

[Nitro1970]

Have you tried moving the pin housing up? That might be the direction to try.

That's what I was meaning but maybe I didn't word it right.

Put your slider at the bottom the way you want it then unscrew the sight housing and move it up one hole at a time.

[Skinny]

Glad CS is taking care of you.

[wellingtontx]

Had the same issue on an old Cobra single pin.

Sounds like great customer service took care of your issue. Got to hand it to most of these bow companies and hunting accesory companies, they try to cater to the consumer.

[mhbaseball]

Nocking point location, the rest center shot elevation and peep sight elevation come into play as well.
Move any of those three up or down and your 20 pin location will move up and down as well.
Does your arrow intersect the berger holes when the arrow is at rest?

My old sight worked perfect in terms of all that and peep location so I didnt change anything. U would think there wouldnt be that much difference. What are the berger holes? i am sort of confused on what ur saying

ANd yes I moved my sight up all the way and its even worse.

[DaveC]

The holes that your rest screw into on the riser.

Normally you want to set up where the arrow is dang near covering the holes when you look at the rig from the side (with the arrow at rest).

A bow can be tuned to shoot great with the arrow above or below the holes, but doing so will also bring the sight housing up or down with the initial set up to match the flight of the arrow above or below the center of the riser.
Used to be the bow was set up where the arrow rest placed the arrow directly beside the berger holes to establish the knocking point of the arrow. Move the rest up a 1/4 or 1/2 inch and everything else will follow (knocking point and peep sight) but then your sights will also be higher than need be.

I always felt the arrow needed to be nearest center of the string to provide the longest power stroke the bow had to offer (this = speed and level nock travel) . Single cams used to want the nock high to provide good flight since the nock travel on most single cams wasn't as straight as dual cam/ hybrid cam models.

To exaggerate the example. Let’s say you moved your arrow rest up 1", nock up 1" and peep up 1". The bow could still be tuned to shoot bullet hole arrows, but this means your sight would be higher than normal as well to accommodate the arrows leaving the riser higher than designed.

On the opposite end, if you are shooting a drop away and the drop allows your arrow to fall below square while leaving the string the arrow will land lower on the target than if the drop was tuned to have the arrow leave higher or normal level as it exits the bow.

To test this- If you are shooting a drop away- - shoot a bare shaft arrow through the drop away at the target. Then shoot another bare shaft with the drop away held in the up position (a chunk of foam is what I used) and see if the arrow lands with, higher or lower than the other arrow.

But heck, if everything else is good, just slap on the drop down bar you have coming in the mail and get to shooting.

What you'll have to watch out for next is making sure the drop down bar doesn't place the sight in your arrow/ vane flight path.

What will most likely happen when you add the drop down bar is you'll need to now raise the sight elevation holes to bring the adjustment slide to a full range of use- the desired 20 at the bottom.

I hope some of my ramblings are making sense (I know what I'm trying to say )