Short Range
Overview
This section will guide you through the process of creating short range marks for your bow. We'll also discuss the various options at your disposal and offer troubleshooting tips for common issues.
You may have noticed that when shooting very short range targets, you need to use a mark further down your tape.
For example:
- For a 2 yard target, you might need to use your ~90 yard mark
- For a 5 yard target, you might need to use your ~40 yard mark
This is due to a phenomenon called parallax. This occurs because your eye is higher than your arrow.
The good news? We can calculate the exact mark you need to use for these short ranges.
Prerequisites
Before creating short range marks, you'll need to have completed the following:
Creating Short Range Marks
Start by navigating to the Short Range page within the application.
You can modify the Active Setup at the top of the page.
Configuring the Marks
Density Altitude of your Current Sight Marks
Because the distances are so short, the density altitude of your current location is not a significant factor for short range marks.
However, the density altitude of the current sight marks you're shooting off of is important.
Read more about density altitude here.
Target Distance Units
We support Feet, Yards, and Meters for target distances. This is handy, as different styles of competition archery use different units.
Output Type
- Shoot-for ranges - This essentially tells you what to dial to on your sight tape for a given target distance.
- Sight marks - If you're setup is setup for target sight marks, we can also simply provide the sight mark to shoot each distance for.
Measuring the Distance to the Target
For short range marks, the distance to the target is extremely important to get right.
Technically, the target distance is the line-of-sight distance from the target to where you peep sight sits at full draw.
Note
Measuring the distance to the target is the most common mistake we see. You'll need to figure out a repeatable way to measure this.
We recommend using a tape measure to verify your marks, and then determining a repeatable way to measure this distance in competition.
Remember: The distance should be from the target to where your peep sight sits at full draw.
Troubleshooting
With good data, we expect our short marks to be same-arrow-hole level of accuracy.
Besides the target distance measurement, the other most common issue is in the peep height ("peep-to-arrow") measurement. Double checking this is always a good place to start.
We have a thorough list of troubleshooting steps here!