North 40 Life Magazine | Page 47

The next step is the sighting in of the bow. Here at our shop, we have about 10 yards from the shooting line to the target. I get the top pin close to sighted in off my anchor point before installing the peep. As an anchor shooter, if I can sight in without the peep then I know I'll still be in the same position under poor lighting conditions and unable to see the peep clearly. Once I get the bow sighted in, I install the peep sight. Since I know the bow was sighted in before installing the peep, I move the peep slightly up or down to bring my arrows back to the same spot. I was able to get a couple dozen arrows in before I left the shop, and a couple dozen more that night with our local 4H group. My hope was that I could get the strings settled in so I could do a more complete tune on Friday. The next morning I started on the paper tune. First arrow was a ‘bullet hole.’ So was the