hey guys dan pickar here with eastman's bow hunting journal and beyond the grid tv
today we're going to take a look at the trophy ridge digital react single pin slider sight
now i'm able to test this bear refined eko with this bow they do offer a package with
all these trophy ridge accessories which includes a stabilizer uh their drop away
full containment rest and a bow sight so kind of an all-in-one setup especially for those guys
that don't like to deal with all the accessories or getting into the tech of everything you can
kind of buy a complete ready-to-go setup so that's definitely handy if that's what you're looking for
so this digital react bow sight basically you have a digital readout right here where your
sight tape would be on the inside of your bow uh yes it's battery powered you might be like
well why do i need another battery powered device in my hunting kit and i see pros and cons to it
obviously the battery can die i've let this bow sight set outside for about an hour and a half now
it's about 35 degrees it's supposed to be a high of 40 today and it's about noon so it's probably
getting close to 40 but i'm still i haven't dropped a bar yet um obviously you're probably
not going to want to turn it on until maybe you're you're ready to shoot or you're seeing animals but
as a backup you do have a place right here for the old standby paper site tape so you do have
a backup just in case your battery were to die an application i can see somebody that would
really enjoy this site or for those guys they're getting a little older and i've heard it in the
past they say dan i just i can't see my sight tape i got to pull out my reading glasses and
to be able to see my sight tape read out and i do believe this would alleviate that problem uh
the readout the display is is fairly big so i think those guys are you know they're getting
up in their 40s i'm probably knocking on that door here in a few more years where that close vision's
getting a little soft i think that this could be a good answer for that so something to keep in mind
what else i do appreciate about this site is its micro adjustability
i kind of get tired of sights with hex heads all over the place and you got to tighten this
to adjust that and tighten this to adjust that and loosen this screw i mean obviously it's necessary
but they did something really cool with this react bow sight where you just have this one
tensioner bar right here and then you have your micro adjustment for your left and right and your
micro adjustment for your up and down uh make your movements and then just tighten that tensioner
it's really quick really simple so once you start messing with a lot of these products you start to
appreciate some of those fine things those small things on these these bow sights some other cool
things about this site are the profiles you can add up to five different profiles
in this site if you're gonna shoot a different arrow and calibrate it accordingly so that's
pretty cool you can also change the screen brightness there's three different settings
to change the brightness of the readout for those low light conditions also you have six different
options for the color of the readout as well which that's pretty cool you also have orientation to
set up for left and right handed shooters and your units of measurement you can do yards or meters
so that's pretty handy too you can also change the precision of the readout on this site
meaning you can have it read out in half yards or full yards for your target guys when it comes
to battery life uh this site will just stay on and sit for three days before the battery does run low
other guys have hunted with the sight all season all fall on one charge it
obviously is going to depend on how much you shoot and how long you leave the site on but if you turn
it on and off and you're really diligent about it then you're going to get a long battery life
out of it for one charge now you might wonder about the weight this site does weigh 12 ounces
there are electronics there is a micro computer in here and you do have a battery most sites that
i've used are somewhere between 8 and 11 ounces up to 12 ounces depending on how long of a dovetail
you might have so it's in the ballpark obviously it is a compact site it's not going to set any
records in the weight department but it's not the heaviest one out there either so something to keep
in mind there well let's dive a little bit closer into the details on how you set this site up and
let's test it out all right i got the chronograph set up we're going to calibrate the digital react
the speedway so that means we're going to set the 20 yard mark assign it in for 20 and then enter
our speed that we're getting and it's going to do the rest and we're calibrated so i shot through
the chronograph twice already with these arrows they're the aerotech mt300s finished weight as you
see it is 480 grains 29 inch draw 70 pounds let's see what we get i'm looking for consistency here
because i want to be sure so i shot a a 289 a 289 and now it's saying duplicate to
289 again so i would say that that's very consistent we're getting a good readout on the
chronograph so i feel comfortable with entering 289 feet per second into the digital react here
duplicate number three it's 289. let's uh calibrate it and see what happens
okay let's calibrate the digital react uh the speed method so first thing is we turn on the site
press mode it says ready
i'm going to select the first input is 20 yards we already have it sited in for 20
so it's blinking 20 long hold till it quits blinking
okay which is two flashes now let's get to
speed
select our speed let's find 289
289 using your mode button to toggle down you use your select button to toggle up in speed
and we're going to get to 289 and then press and hold select to set it so that's 289
press and hold select you get two flashes and it's set so look at that it's set
as you run your site down it automatically just runs down your yardage until we bottom it out
at 116. that's how it's calibrated so that's just calibrated with a site in at 20 yards enter your
speed of your arrow and it's calibrated so let's go test that out all right we step back to 40 yards
we run our site down to 40. once again this is the speed calibration let's see what it does
yeah that's even a little high you want to really shoot several shots and make sure your groups
are consistent over time you don't want to just shoot like two arrows and be like yeah we're good
and really make sure you're good before you keep stepping farther and farther back especially when
it comes to broadheads but all right a couple more shots at 40 testing this calibration out
oh yeah that's money
that was a bullseye i feel like the speed calibration
is going to be the way to go for a little more consistency
i pulled that one but my my elevation is good let's drop back to 60 and we'll test that
at 60 and we may be good to go who knows we're up here on the porch
61 yards from a boone and crockett matrix target down there
we're just testing out the speed calibration with with the digital react what i'm looking for here
is elevation that our elevation is good at 60 with this digital calibration
right above the bull's eye i'm happy with that i'm way more confident in the speed calibration with
this digital react uh over the yardage calibration i suggest anybody that's using this site to do the
same do the speed calibration i think you're gonna get a little bit more accurate of a
calibration okay let's try round number two i'm happy with that first arrow let's shoot one more
almost touched my other arrow that's what i was looking for okay now that we tested out the speed
calibration setup let's move into the yardage setup all right the first thing we're gonna do
with this site is leave it turned off we're gonna roll it to the top so we're to start at the top of
the sight tape and we're going to get it sighted in for 20. plain and simple now with this tension
system on the front you don't need your allen keys or anything you just loosen this tensioner
and then you can make your micro adjustments on your left and right and the up and down so it's
very simple so let's make sure we are rolled to the top and we are good to go at 20 yards
okay i'm gonna shoot probably
three to make sure i had it pretty close earlier so we're about sighted in at 20.
good all right i feel confident with that we're sighted in at 20 with the sight turned off now
let's go in to the yardage setup we're going to calibrate this site using yardage inputs okay
first thing i'm going to do is turn the site on you might see a weird number
make sure your sights rolled all the way to the top and we just need to calibrate
it we're going to hold mode down it's going to say rea for react we're going to select first
second speed so the mode will toggle you through the first and second inputs
then we're going to hold hit select and our yardage flashes so we know we're sighted in
for 20 so we're going to scroll up and set it for 20 and we're going to press and hold select
until it flashes twice and then it's going to stop so we're set at 20.
all right we've got our 20 set now we're going to just bounce back to 50
and slide our sight down and set our second yardage input okay i just rolled my sight down
to 50. i want to shoot and see where i'm at here
okay it's pretty good
and so at this point i'm not really paying attention to the number
on the readout on the site i more or less want to get
my slider the position set and then i can go in and change the second input to 50 yards
okay i'm happy with that now we're gonna go right in here and input this is 50 yards for
this position for the second input of the yardage setup okay i want to set my second input to 50.
so i pressed and held select until it flashes
and then i want to scroll here let me do this so you can see it here
i'm just going to scroll up to 50.
there okay so i have it set to 50 i'm going to press and hold select
it stop flashing and it blinked there we go all right we're going to shoot these
last couple arrows at 50 now that our second position is calibrated
and we should be good to go as long as you know exactly at 50 yards i guess i'll double check
yeah 50.6 so that's probably 50. see what we can do this should be right on it better be right on
money that looked good
do one more
perfect all right guys that's the digital react bow sight by trophy ridge pretty slick little
setup digital readout especially for you older guys that have a hard time seeing your sight tape
could be a good option for you be sure you take a look and subscribe to our youtube
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