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Looking for an Arten Olympic Sight
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Thomas J. Finucane
Jun 14, 1994, 11:56:35 AM6/14/94
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I'm interested in buying an Arten Olympic sight, and would appreciate
any suggestions about where I might locate one. Since I shoot left-
handed, I'll need a left-hand sight, unless it is possible to invert
a right-hand sight. My first preference is to locate a new one in the
US, but I'm willing to buy a used one in good condition. Also, if
any one knows of a shop in the UK that will mail a sight to the US
(possibly Quicks?), please let me know.
any suggestions about where I might locate one. Since I shoot left-
handed, I'll need a left-hand sight, unless it is possible to invert
a right-hand sight. My first preference is to locate a new one in the
US, but I'm willing to buy a used one in good condition. Also, if
any one knows of a shop in the UK that will mail a sight to the US
(possibly Quicks?), please let me know.
If you prefer, you can respond to me directly at FINU...@SUVM.BITNET
Thanks,
Tom Finucane
j.dickson
Jun 16, 1994, 5:22:17 AM6/16/94
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Arten Olympic, don't do it ! It's just not worth the grief. I have owned two Olympics,
one bought new and one second hand, they were both awfull. In the end I vandalised the
last one and it took several hours getting it to work better (not properly!). I have
come accross good ones but they are few and far between these days.
The main problem is the pressure plate onto the main bar, when you loosen the
holding screw it doesn't free the plate completely. The result of this is that the worm
drive turns but the teeth climb out of the groove and your sight points off in some weird direction (you rarely notice this until you shoot your arrow and it goes left
black!)
A second problem is similar to the above except that your standing on the line
trying to move your sight and the whole damn thing is locked up and you can't get anything to move ("Equipment failure! Judge!").
They also tend to shake themselves to bits at every occasion that they get so you tightenthem up more and......see above.
My first replacement for the Olympic was an AGF Technic 15, yeah 180 quid for
a sight, what a mug! It literally fell to bits after about seven months. It was the
nicest sight I have ever met (including Halstein at 200 quid) while it worked. However,
if anything does go wrong it's a bitch. My second replacement for this was a Shibuya
RX965s Carbon extension. It no longer has the sight bar on the bow, it's a conventional
T-style sight. I still have this and I am very impressed with it; it's light, it locks up solid and it's pretty for a T-style!!! (I recommend the coloured ones 'cos the bar
is still black!)
Alternatives to the Olympic that maintain the track mounted on the bow are
the Carbofast (Yeugh, as bad as Olympic and whistles when windy), AGF Safari (weighs a
ton and similar to technic, see above), Yamaha YSV (only available second hand and after a few simple mods, very nice), new Spigarelli Carbon extension (I have played with one of these briefly and it seemed well made and a nice design (Cross between
technic and YSV) I couldn't really recommend it because I don't know enough about it!
(approx 140 quid tho')
If your looking for a sight in the 80-100 pound mark, have a look at the
Shibuya RX10 (same as mine but with aluminium extension), if you get really good sight
marks then the FT10(also shibuya) with twin side mount is nice but a pain if you have
to use boths side positions (I know two people who don't). The 10" K-Type Light sight
is also a fine peice of equipment (99 pounds ish).
If your still determined to get an Arten Olympic (good luck!!!) then any of the
british dealers will have them. (Quicks, Severns, Wales (nice people!), Marksman etc).
If you want I could get you the Arten address. If you want any of the above addresses
mail me.
one bought new and one second hand, they were both awfull. In the end I vandalised the
last one and it took several hours getting it to work better (not properly!). I have
come accross good ones but they are few and far between these days.
The main problem is the pressure plate onto the main bar, when you loosen the
holding screw it doesn't free the plate completely. The result of this is that the worm
drive turns but the teeth climb out of the groove and your sight points off in some weird direction (you rarely notice this until you shoot your arrow and it goes left
black!)
A second problem is similar to the above except that your standing on the line
trying to move your sight and the whole damn thing is locked up and you can't get anything to move ("Equipment failure! Judge!").
They also tend to shake themselves to bits at every occasion that they get so you tightenthem up more and......see above.
My first replacement for the Olympic was an AGF Technic 15, yeah 180 quid for
a sight, what a mug! It literally fell to bits after about seven months. It was the
nicest sight I have ever met (including Halstein at 200 quid) while it worked. However,
if anything does go wrong it's a bitch. My second replacement for this was a Shibuya
RX965s Carbon extension. It no longer has the sight bar on the bow, it's a conventional
T-style sight. I still have this and I am very impressed with it; it's light, it locks up solid and it's pretty for a T-style!!! (I recommend the coloured ones 'cos the bar
is still black!)
Alternatives to the Olympic that maintain the track mounted on the bow are
the Carbofast (Yeugh, as bad as Olympic and whistles when windy), AGF Safari (weighs a
ton and similar to technic, see above), Yamaha YSV (only available second hand and after a few simple mods, very nice), new Spigarelli Carbon extension (I have played with one of these briefly and it seemed well made and a nice design (Cross between
technic and YSV) I couldn't really recommend it because I don't know enough about it!
(approx 140 quid tho')
If your looking for a sight in the 80-100 pound mark, have a look at the
Shibuya RX10 (same as mine but with aluminium extension), if you get really good sight
marks then the FT10(also shibuya) with twin side mount is nice but a pain if you have
to use boths side positions (I know two people who don't). The 10" K-Type Light sight
is also a fine peice of equipment (99 pounds ish).
If your still determined to get an Arten Olympic (good luck!!!) then any of the
british dealers will have them. (Quicks, Severns, Wales (nice people!), Marksman etc).
If you want I could get you the Arten address. If you want any of the above addresses
mail me.
Whichever sight you buy I hope you get a good one, good luck and good shooting,
John
PS. I presume you are using a recurve, if not all of the above are totally unsuitable
especially the Olympic!
Stephan Melin
Jun 17, 1994, 7:14:51 AM6/17/94
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In article <2tp5k9$r...@nof.abdn.ac.uk>, mph...@biomed.abdn.ac.uk (j.dickson) writes:
[article on how to spent lots of cash on sights which fall apart deleted]
I also had some trouble with sights:
At some point I decided, that my old AGF sight wasn't good enough for me
anymore and I wanted one of those inverted T type sights (the up|down rail is
fixed at the riser). Finally the dealer convinced me that the AGF Technic
wasn't very good after all and talked me into some new sight from K (or Nihon).
This was again a T type sight but with a very long extender, after about two
years (I was still shooting Al-arrows, so this is not very much). The joint
between the rail and the extender just broke. Not to mention that before
and after I got it repaired it had the tendecy to rattle loose after a
couple of arrows. Finally I put it away since at some day where it was
very cloudy I realized that the contrast between the ring/pin and the target
was so low that I had difficulties aiming at 90m.
Back home I unearthed my old AGF, cleaned and regreased it and put it back on
my bow. Right now I'm only using one of the supplied apertures and no pin.
The only grip I have is that the mount between the plate attached to the bow
and the extender wobbles a little bit if the screw is not tightened properly.
The new extenders like on the AGF Top with the sawtooth pattern are not very
good, they wobble regardless of how the screw is tightened.
[article on how to spent lots of cash on sights which fall apart deleted]
I also had some trouble with sights:
At some point I decided, that my old AGF sight wasn't good enough for me
anymore and I wanted one of those inverted T type sights (the up|down rail is
fixed at the riser). Finally the dealer convinced me that the AGF Technic
wasn't very good after all and talked me into some new sight from K (or Nihon).
This was again a T type sight but with a very long extender, after about two
years (I was still shooting Al-arrows, so this is not very much). The joint
between the rail and the extender just broke. Not to mention that before
and after I got it repaired it had the tendecy to rattle loose after a
couple of arrows. Finally I put it away since at some day where it was
very cloudy I realized that the contrast between the ring/pin and the target
was so low that I had difficulties aiming at 90m.
Back home I unearthed my old AGF, cleaned and regreased it and put it back on
my bow. Right now I'm only using one of the supplied apertures and no pin.
The only grip I have is that the mount between the plate attached to the bow
and the extender wobbles a little bit if the screw is not tightened properly.
The new extenders like on the AGF Top with the sawtooth pattern are not very
good, they wobble regardless of how the screw is tightened.
The ideal sight IMHO would be build like those found on target compounds, but
with the versality of the AGF (Top or ZGV) and an aperture instead of a scope.
- I'd rather have a heavy sight than a feeble one which rattles loose, shakes
and sometimes falls apart.
So if someone knows of a particular model with fits the above description,
please EMail or post...
Good shooting
Stephan
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