Predator IV Pendulum Site Review

Its been a long time since I have made a post on my blog, so I figured I would write a review of the newest site I got for my bow. 

My Summit Hot Dot sight has been acting up on me, so I opted to get another pendulum site that was not electronic.  I just feel that the less there is to a bow site, the less there is to go wrong. 

I decided on the Predator IV Pendulum site after researching quite a few bow sites.  I looked closely at the TruGlo Pendulum site and the Predator IV and ultimately decided to go with the Predator IV because it got slightly better reviews.  In reality both products are probably good, but I can only speak for sure about the Predator IV.

Right out of the box, the Predator IV appears big and ugly.  I am used to the smaller sites, so this Predator IV just looks old.  The site itself was patented in 1994, and probably not much has changed about the site since then.  I quickly found out that the reason for that is because there is no need to change a good thing.

Setting up the site was a complete pain in the neck.  Most sites take me about 30 minutes to get it dead on.  On fixed pin sights you just have to adjust windage and elevation, but on pendulum sites you have to set bow speed, etc.  I shoot a Mathews Q2, which is a relatively fast bow for this site, so I had to dial the bow speed up to maximum.  A testimate to the age of this site is that it is good from 170 fps to right at 300 fps.  That range shows tells me that the site was designed a long while ago.  It took me the better part of an afternoon to get the site setup and working correctly.  This is probably due to the fact that I had to flip pendulum bracket over to to get the windage correct.  The instructions to do this are included with the site, but that does not mean its easy.  The total time it took me from taking it out of the box to drilling bullseyes at 30 yards was about 3 hours.

Once set up this is probably the most accurate pendulum site I have ever shot.  The key will all pendulum sites is to take your time setting them up. Once set up, they are extremely accurate.  After the initial setup and dialing in, I was hitting bullseyes regularly at any yardage between 5-6 to 30 yards.

All and all I would say that it is a great bow site aside from the aesthetics.  In practise, the aesthetics don't matter to the deer on the other end, but they do matter to your buddies.  When I showed my friends the site, they were less than impressed.

Pros:
Extremely Accurate, much more so than the summit hot dot.

Cons:
Setup was a nightmare
Aesthetically unpleasing