I’m in agreement with you on shooting within the proper yardage; I only took a long shot once at 60 yards and got the deer, but I had been practicing with a compound bow up to 80 yards (I could put 6 arrows in a pie plate at 80 yards back then) and I had a clear shot and knew I could make a good shot.  My typical shot now is from 10 to 20 yards.

Hello All I am new here....

This Savage site is Awesome have been using it for sometime now and love it!!! He is right. You sight in at 20 Yards on flat ground...Then it is pretty much dead on out to 30 yards. If you need to shoot beyond that you must adust for iot..No different than a fixed site...Anyways I dont think you should shoot beyond that yardage but thats just me....

shooting downhill, uphill, or on the ground does change the point of impact -- i have been using a pendulum sight for a long time now and have always stayed away from steep grades , or anytype of hillside  --  till this year forgetting about it and missing a very large buck -

shooting uphill and downhill are the only drawbacks -- if your not going to find yourself in those positions they work great  -- i use an impact archery pendulum i am pretty sure the trophy ridge mantas has an adjustment for downhill shooting  -

i am going to switch to a single pin site for next season  -  have new property to hunt with alot of steep grades.

How much off depends on your bow and other factors. for example if your shooting a bow that goes 330 fps vs a bow that shoots 250 fps then the bow with the 250 fps is going to be off more than the one that shoots 330 fps. It’s the same thing with the hillside. if you shooting down a hill that has a 5/1 grade then it’s going to be more off than shooting down a 3/1 grade.

I have had my eyes on pendulum bow sights for a while. I have noticed that they tell you to sight your bow in from an elevated position most of the time 10 - 30 feet. Now I have some questions that maybe some of you guys could answer for me.

Do you know how it does if your sitting on the ground or shooting uphill? Like if it’s completely inaccurate while shooting on flat ground I probably won’t want it. I am pretty sure that it will be off if your shooting uphill (not that I have ever taken an uphill shot that I can recall. This is not a big issue with me.) Plus I have gotten used to guessing yardage over the years and I am pretty darn good at it in my opinion.

My understanding of the Pro’s and Con’s right now is:

Pros:

• not haveing to guess your yardage up to 35 yards while sitting on a stand
• accuracey between 0 and 35 yards while sitting on a stand.

Cons:

• Not accurate while shooting from the ground? (I don’t know if this is true.)
• Not accurate beyond 35 yards (I don’t know how inaccurate)

Any help or suggestions or experiances in this area would be greatly appreciated.