How to install, setup and align your recurve sight

so the recurve sight can be quite intimidating to start with but don't worry in this video I'm going to show you how to install it on your boat from scratch and how to make sure importantly that your sight alignment is correct and the sight is lined up with the bow in the correct way so let's roll the intro and then we'll get to the video so when you buy a sight obviously the first step is to install the block onto the riser and I'll show you now how you do that so this is a shibuya sight I've got here and basically you have the sight block here and you simply there's two holes here the screws come in the bag you'll have an allen key in the sight bag and you simply use these screws and you screw the sight block into the riser and you make sure that it's tightened down and is in the correct position for where you want it because some sight blocks like this this one has two holes some have another two holes further back so you can choose the location on your boat it doesn't actually matter which location you choose that's just up to you but what you do need to make sure of is that the screws of both tight and there's no movement of the block at all and this is something you should check during competition regularly as well one thing to note here is depending on the length of the screw and the riser model you've got sometimes the screw can actually be a little bit too long for the riser and what can happen is the screw will end up hitting the bottom of the riser before it's tightened the block and it would it will appears if it's stable and secure but then it's quite easy to come loose so you might shoot a few shots maybe you're in competition and it will come loose so make sure that the sight block is really secure and the screw isn't actually too long because that can bottom out and then stop it actually locating the block onto the boat so sometime you might have to cut the screw down a little bit or get some other screws but for this combination of shibuya sight on window window you should be good the screws that come with it and normally great so this is just simply locate it in the boat and make sure these are really tight as you can tell these have been here on here a while I don't use a lock tight or anything you could use some Loctite if you wanted make sure it's the type that you can actually remove the you know the screws from the bow if you need to in the future but that's the simple part of setting up the block and then you just simply put the locator into the block and then you're ready for the next step there's actually been so long since I got this site because I've just had this for years that I've forgotten if it comes attached or not to the bar so I'll just show you as if you have to put it all together and this is the key point anyway that you need to understand so this bar is the piece that goes into the bow this track is what you need to align and this is how you set up your sight so simply put this bar pull it places into the bow and it is stable that's fine then you have these two screws on the back of the track that locate the track against the bar and this is what you need to align up if you have the bow here the track of the sight can actually move you can see how that's moving there you need to find the position that's correct and line it up so that when you move your sight down or when you move your site to the top then the actual sight doesn't need to move left and right because it's moving in a straight line rather than a diagonal so this is what you need to align up so the first thing is to just get the screws loosely put them in here like I have done you can see how it's still moved and then just use the allen key to just lightly tighten them down so that you can still move it but it's not a rattling anymore so I'm just lightly tightening them down and now there we go it's not rattling anymore and I'll just loosen them a little bit there so I can still move it if I need to but it's not rattling around and then now all you do is put this on the boat and then we do the alignment so that's what I'll show you now so if you get the boat you put the sight in the boat like this and then make sure it's locked down and then you can just look at the site roughly to start with you look at the side of the riser hit you look at the side of the riser and you can see the site alignment on the riser here so you can see when I move it it's obviously wonky or 1'p the other way there's a part here that looks slightly more straight this is just a rough starting point now what I'll do with this I'll just do this by eye and then loosely very loosely tighten it down and then just check roughly later on so let me just tighten this down there so now what I've done there is I've very loosely tightened it down and now what we need to do is actually check it properly so for this you'll need an arrow that you put in the boat and then you'll just need something to rest your bow on like a chair or something like that so that you can look down the bow so let's do that now so as you can see here the site is very roughly lined up with the riser and the side of the riser but now what we do is we put the arrow in the boat then we simply look down the boat we line the string here you can see the string in the arrow you line the string up with the arrow there and then you look at where the string is on the site so here you can see the string is slightly on the right side of the site and perhaps the right edge of the string is just touching the right edge of the site and you can see that there so now what we do that's the site at the top now what we do is move the site to the bottom of the track just like this and check where the position is so the same thing you line up the string with the arrow and it can be a little bit harder at the bottom but you line up the string with the arrow here and then you check where the string is in relation to the site so you can see there that the string is actually somehow I've managed to get that pretty close first time but that's kind of unusual the string here is actually in the same position at the bottom of the track and when the site is at the top of the track so that means as the site moves up and down on the site track the site doesn't move left and right and this means that when you move between distances you won't need to move your horizontal windage at all so now what you would do in this case is just tighten this down and then finally check again that the alignment is still good but I'm gonna show you what it would look like if it's bad because you know for the sake of demonstration so so now at the bottom the string is pretty much in the center of the site maybe a tiny tiny bit to the right and then when I move the site at the top of the track and move it to the top then you can see that the string is not in the center of the site there the string is to the right so that move that means when I move the site down the track it's gonna move to the right and you can almost see that here by the alignment of the site against the bow so this is an example of a bad alignment and in this case as you move the site down for further distances what you would actually need to do is then move your horizontal windage to the left to compensate for that which is very annoying and not what you want to do so this is why the site alignment is important and it's super easy to get simple you know to get done here and it's really simple to do so just spend the time doing it now actually using the site against the riser to align it is not a good method to get it spot-on it's good to as a starting point to make sure it's not you know way way off but don't actually use it as a finishing point and the reason for that is because the you know exact paint on the riser or the exact finish or maybe there's a slight blemish or something can make the block just sit a tiny bit unevenly and then that once you've got the extension on the site and the you know the the length there that can make you know quite a fair different on the position of the site block when you move it up and down the track so don't use that for the final position this is why it's important to use the arrow line it up and then this is your solid reference point for then aligning the site and making sure it's correct up and down the track if you sometimes need to move your site in or you know closer to you it's also good to make sure that this alignment is correct but it is harder to compensate for that because you haven't you know got that alignment there so it's something to bear in mind and if you do move your sight in maybe you can check and see how many clicks you need to move so for example if you have your furthest distance and you have one of the inner notches you know that when you move your sight you have to move your windage a certain amount to compensate for that so definitely check that as well if you need to move a site in and out for different distances now finally what you would do to finish setting up your site is to simply line up your site with the arrow as a rough starting point so if you have a reasonable technique reasonable tuning your site should be somewhere near above your arrow and this does depend on different things like string picture and and composition and stuff like this but it shouldn't be way way off to one side as this indicates a problem sometimes so as a starting point you put the site roughly above the arrow when you line up the string with the arrow the site should be roughly in line with a string like in this demonstration and then this is a good starting point so that you can then start you know the whole tuning process and get moving that was a complete guide of how to setup and store and align your site on your boat it is pretty simple it's super easy to do there's not really any excuse for not doing it because it's probably raining at some point so even if you don't want to just use sometimes when it's raining or something and you don't want to go outside make sure it's lined up because it makes it much easier when you move between distances you don't have to worry about you know are do I need to move twenty clicks left or 20 clicks right or you know why my air is going right at thirty meters and they're going left at 70 meters and stuff like that so much simpler just to line your site up and make sure it's correct from the get-go so I hope you found this video useful as always be sure to smash that like button and also subscribe to the channel if you haven't already I'll put the links to social media down below and thank you for watching and I'll see you next time [Music] [Music] [Music]

Channel: Online Archery Academy

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Length: 11min 17sec (677 seconds)

Published: Sun Feb 09 2020