

You can hit a bullseye, or even two, with luck, but the accomplished shooter can do it shot after shot. Purposeful repeatability is the true evidence of an accomplished shooter. Conversely, if you shoot without being careful, much like cooking those pizzas without using measuring cups, your shots will scatter. If you are careful about how closely you follow the steps (and how well you manage pistol recoil), your shots will hit the target where you intend. Marksmanship, like cooking, is a series of steps that get repeated every single trigger squeeze. Or, if you cook like me, your pizzas will look like 10 completely different items. If you alter any one of those steps or ingredients, even by a fraction, you can end up with 10 pizzas that taste just a little different. The oven has to be set to a specific temperature and each pizza needs to be in the oven for a specific amount of time. Each time you make the dough and the sauce, it takes a specific amount of ingredients in a specific order. The archer then can direct the helper to move the peep up or down the string, until the archer can perfectly see the bow sight through the peep.Now here is where pizza making and marksmanship share roots. The proper setting for one archer might not work for another.Once the peep has been installed by pressing the bow and evenly separating the strands of the bowstring to accept the peep, setting it in the proper place for an individual archer is something that's best done by two people.Using a safe-draw tool - an imitation release that has no trigger - the archer should draw the bow and get into his or her comfortable anchor point. Peep sight alignment varies from person to person, due to differences in face size and anchor points. Reilly demonstrates how to set the peep sight for an individual archer. It does so by forcing the archer to look through the bow sight the same way for each and every shot.In this video, Lancaster Archery TechXPert P.J. The peep sight is a commonly-used device among compound bow archers, which helps foster consistent aiming.
