Bow sight

DETAILED DESCRIPTION An improved bow sight enables an archer to shoot with a high degree of accuracy.
The bow sight provides ready adjustment to compensate for different shooting distances as well as for windage.
A sight assembly includes a sight support, a spring loaded sighting pin mounted on the sight support and movable between a sighting position and a nonsighting position, and latch means mounted on the sight support for releasable engagement with the sighting pin.
The latch includes a lever pivotally mounted on the sight support.
The lever has a pin engaging tip pivotable between an operative position engaged with the sighting pin to hold the pin in its nonsighting position, and an inoperative position disengaged from the pin which releases the pin so that the spring forces the pin to its sighting position.
Thus, a lever is manually actuated to release the sighting pin to provide a bow sight that can be quickly and easily operated without any complicated release mechanism.
The bow sight also provides means for readily and quickly adjusting the sighting pin to compensate for both distance from a target and windage.
Preferably, the sight support for each sight assembly is in the form of a block having a transverse bore formed therethrough that slidably receives the sighting pin.
The supporting block includes a pair of legs which straddle a base plate attached to the bow.
Each leg has a mounting screw therein which permits the sight assembly to be securely mounted on the bow at any desired distance above the arrow rest.
Thus, a plurality of such sight assemblies are positioned at different vertically spaced distances above the arrow rest of the bow so that an archer may quickly find the proper range and accurately shoot an arrow at a target.
This readily enables an archer to compensate for distance from the target.
Windage is compensated for by means of an adjusting knob threadedly engaged on the sighting pin.
The adjusting knob moves a stop member also located on the sighting pin which in turn engages the supporting block when the pin moves to its sighting position to limit the extent to which the pin projects laterally from the block