The White Mountains of N.H. are not as high as the western mountains, but they are inspiring and brings hikers, campers and nature lovers to admire the view. What does this have to do with bow sights you might ask?

Well Timberline Archery Products resembles all of the above.

I have shot many sights over my 40+ years of shooting and I love “x-hairs”. Timberline sums up the cross hair sights advantages very well. To quote “Timberline crosshairs have many advantages over pin sights — they help to stop bow cant — they line up the bow vertical with the animal legs — they help you pick a spot on an animal — the easily allow for proper sighting by lining up with the front legs and horizontally dissecting the lower third of the body."  That works for me and says a lot for taking out rights and lefts.

Another good discussion point is the size of the fiber end.  The folks at Timberline point out that most fiber ends are only 0.65 inch whereas most pins block out an area about 0.80 inch. The Timberline x-hairs are 0.16 inch the smallest in the industry. I have used them for many years and loved them, but I lost my Timberline sites while in the process of moving.  So a new pair was in order and I recently received them.

When I received the sights, the fiber optic hairs were installed.  All I had to do was install the site on my bow and make sight pin adjustments.  Well, I decided to mount the bracket while outdoors. My standard operating procedure is to drop at least one thing, and this time was no different.  I am good at dropping things.  I dropped the body of the sight directly on a rock. Yet, when I picked it up nothing was loose, broken or damaged.   The x-hairs did not move or come loose.  It passed the “Champoux Test”.  If there is a way to break something — I will find it.

A nice feature is the hex-tube wrench that fits over the nut that adjusts the pins. Just put it on the nut to loosen or tighten the nut that moves the vertical and horizontal fiber optic hairs. The small wrench is silver so when I drop it, it shows up in the grass or leaves — another nice feature.

The sight is not so big as to be cumbersome but not so small as to be too hard to see.  My eyes adjusted to it nicely.  More and more the experts tell archers to frame the sight body in the peep sight; a large sight is hard to do that. Timberline products seem to frame very well. The company makes two models, one with a standard bracket and one with a dove tail mount, you choose.

Final comments
I found the sight easy to set up, easy to use and easy to sight in. The construction is of high quality and as rugged as mountain peaks. It points as well as the timber tops does to the skies. The contrast of its fiber crosshairs can pin point like an eagle eye on a rabbit. The one thing I would like to see them do is to somehow attach their hex wrench to the sight so I cannot possibly lose it. So look to the mountain for Timberline Archery Products. Their products are RIGHT UP THERE in quality, dependability and visibility.

www.timberline-archery.com

Arthur Champoux has years of experience in the outdoors.  He is has served on many  advisory staffs and is a member in good standing of many outdoor organizations.  Art currently works for Big Al's Archery in Seabrook, NH and writes for several publications.