Trophy Taker Micro Alpha V5 Sight

When I was thinking about putting a sight on my new bow this year two thoughts crossed my mind, do I take my G5 off my old bow, or look for something new.  After thinking about it for awhile I realized that there where a couple of things I didn’t like my current G5 sight.  With that said, I ended up looking for and purchasing a new sight.  After lots of research I went with the Micro Alpha V5 by Trophy Taker.

Here where my reason for the change:

The G5 Optix XR overall is not that bad of a sight, but there where two things that I didn’t really like about it.  First, the adjustment of the pins I found difficult.  You loosen pins on the side with a hex wrench to allow movement of the pin up or down.  It’s hard to note your adjustments.  The second reason is purely preference.  I used to shoot a single vertical pin before switching to this one and I realized that it was harder for me to identify the aim point with the multiple horizontal pins.  I feel that the sight just blocks too much of the animal and presents more risk of a poorly placed shot.  Below is a diagram that I made to try and explain my thought process with this theory. 

PICTURE 1: Horizontal Pins

PICTURE 2: Vertical Pins

 

Picture 1 shows the horizontal pin setup and picture 2 shows the vertical pin setup.  Granted these pictures aren’t to scale, but you get the idea.  To me, I believe that if using the horizontal pins you have a harder time of identifying the aim point.  With the Vertical pins, I feel you have greater sight picture which allows you to easily identify the aim point and tighten up your arrow placement.

When researching a new sight, I was looking for a good vertical pin sight.  The Micro Alpha V5 in my opinion was one of the best sights that offered this.  The sight has multiple mounting options in the arm for you to choose from.  I mounted mine as far away from the bow as I could to present a smaller sight picture (aim small, miss small).  The sight housing has micro adjustments that move with a turn of a dial.  It doesn’t take long to find your line.  Each pin is also adjustable with a hex wrench with either a right (to rise) or left (to lower) turn.  Another great feature about the pins is that they are each marked with hash marks that make it easy to note your exact adjustments.  This allows you to really zero your pins in.  This sight is very durable and easy to adjust, I couldn’t be happier with it.   Fuzz