Archery Sight Tape

Overview

This is a tool to help make nicer sight tapes.

The main benefit of this is to be able to print on address labels instead of using a whole sheet, or gluing the sight tapes on.

It can be accessed from https://sight-tape.alphabet5.dev

Sighting in your bow

Archers Advantage has an excellent write-up on how to sight in your bow using the calculate speed method. (dialing to two distances, and mesasuring the pin gap/sight movement between the two.)

Generating your sight marks

Copy and paste the values (starting at 0.000) into the form at https://sight-tape.alphabet5.dev/

Measuring your sight

The two critical measurements for your sight tape are the height and width you want your sight tape. (A and B)

All other measurements are for appearances.

How to print.

Using microsoft word, drag and drop the svg onto the document. Update the absolute height to be the same as the input settings.

Advanced Settings Overview

• A: Height of the sight tape
• B: Width of the sight tape
• C: Start Height
• F,E,D: Line Width
• G: Font Y Offset
• H: Font X Offset

Building and Running

To create the docker image

docker buildx create --use
docker buildx build --platform linux/amd64,linux/arm64 --push -t alphabet5/archery-sight-tape .

To run locally

docker run --rm -p 8090:8090 alphabet5/archery-sight-tape