Hot Dot sight for your bow

**Flintlock1776** · 06-28-2007, 10:07 PM

I did not ask, nor seek them out in any way, but I was approached by Summit Treestands and asked if I would try this out. I said YES!

In the mail today from Summit Treestand was the new to market HOT DOT sight and a Summit Hat!!!!

This is a dual sight, fixed and pendulum ability all in one sight!! I like the fact that no pin arms will get in the way to block your view. I use the Bushnell Holo Sight on my Turkey Gun and I just love heads up display.

With the Hot Dot you can have multiple dots for various ranges or bracket ranging if the deer is not perfectly at the yardage intervals.

I will post photos of the Hot Dot tomorrow before it goes on the bow. I will also post photos of the sight on my Hoyt bow as well as pics of how it shoots for me.

Wow, this is awesome! This is a breakthrough over the older mechanical pendulum sight I used. No pins slipping down on this baby!

Here are some of the more detailed features:

* The Hot Dot sight has 3 bow speeds. Slow, medium, fast. These settings figure in arrow weight, bow strength, fletchings which is different for everyone. Thus just as well I wait to set this up with the guy at the Pro Shop. Default is set to Medium.

* In pendulum mode at an elevated height as you test it out: Take your shot; if the bow is shooting low put the sight into fast mode; high set it to slow. Once sighted in the sight will compensate for target closer than 30 yards! Just point and shoot!!

* In Pendulum mode the LED will move with the forward tilt of the bow.

* The LED will shut off after 5 minutes of inactivity

* Tilting the bow to either side over 6 degrees will turn it back on.

* Get this, the sight has a built in level. If you cant the bow 6 degrees or more will turn the LED off. That'll keep me from canting!!! It will reactivate once you get back from going over 6 degrees.

* It uses a CR2032- 3 volt battery. One of those flat round batteries you can get at Wally World. It is a Lithium Battery that should go for less then $3. I'll always have a spare. At the end of the season I get rid of the old one, stick the new one in and buy a back up one. This is what I do with my Holo Sight so I can keep that discipline with the Hot Dot, no big deal to remember.

Pins are very bright day or low light which is a benefit to this old geezer. I like it that I get to see the entire target picture with part of it being obscured by the pin arms.

Some folks focus on the 'risk' of the battery going dead.

There are Probabilities and Possibilities.

There is always, the the furthest decimal point out a Probability that something can happen.

Possibilities can be affected by preparation so by keeping your gear in top notch shape, having spares or back up pln the issue of going hunting when the battery goes dead can be significantly mitigated.

Having a pendulum and fixed sight in one is pretty awesome too!

bowhunter56 · 06-29-2007, 07:49 AM

anxious to hear how you like it, i currently use the trophy pendulum, and have used the keller sight.

**Flintlock1776** · 06-30-2007, 12:32 PM

Simple and quite. A hugh improvement over my old Keller. I have not had the opportunity to shoot it out of my tree stand yet, I hope to get some time soon to give that the final test.

**ralphk46** · 12-28-2007, 12:28 PM

Well what's the verdict? Does it work as advertised? Do you still need a peep sight with it? Approx cost? Thanks.

**horst** · 12-29-2007, 08:27 AM

From everything Ive read you still need a peep sight.Cost is around $160 for the ones Ive looked at

**LifeNRA** · 12-29-2007, 08:58 PM

Looks nice, but I don't like the dots all the same color. Besides, just another thing that will die if you let the batteries turned on! Imagine that monster buck coming up, and it doesn't work, then what? LOL!