Perhaps the most noticeable aspect of the Hogg Father is the oversized yardage wheel referred to as the bull knob (below).
The quality and durability of the entire sight system is obvious without adding senseless weight to my bow - for a premium three-axis sight of Spot Hogg’s meaty caliber, the overall weight of the system was a welcomed surprise. True to Spot Hogg’s promise to deliver “archery’s toughest products,” all three Hogg Father bowsight components - the bracket, sight arm and shooter ring assembly - are constructed heavy-duty, aircraft-grade 6061-T6 aluminum, while other elements are comprised of stainless-steel and other rock-solid materials. Worth noting here for the double-pin option, Spot Hogg now includes its Double Pin yardage marker. The Hogg Father includes multiple micro-adjustable features, including second and third axes, tool-less windage and elevation and yardage pointer, as well as a quick-release knob, coarse vertical and horizontal adjustments and laser-engraved reference marks. The sight package also includes a calibration tape (above), yardage tapes, a single-ring pin guard and Spot Hogg’s popular multi-ring (MRT) pin guard for enhanced sight alignment with varying peep sizes and lighting conditions. One look at the Spot Hogg and it’s obvious - there’s a lot going on! Although I chose to review a single-pin model, the Hogg Father comes packed in a handy hard case and is available in five pin options: single, double, 3-pin, 5-pin and 7-pin.
There are still a mountain of archery products left to test, but of the Spot Hogg products I’ve worked with, all of them were certainly rock solid, including the Hogg Father bowsight. To such an end, Spot Hogg even describes its products as “The World’s Toughest.” Are they the toughest? I can’t say. Either way, some of the best products available in today’s burgeoning hunting and shooting industry started life in someone’s home.Īnd, while many have grown legs, walked out into the industrial world and found success, countless more never crossed the threshold - the disappointing dog-eat-dog reality makes Spot Hogg’s rise (and others like it) buzzworthy, especially since Spot Hogg’s decades-long commitment to enhancing the outdoor experiences of competitive archers and bowhunters is that much more of a testament to their relentless pursuit of purpose-driven, industry-leading performance. In doing so, I learned a few things about Spot Hogg itself.Ī handful of release aid ideas, and a kitchen table turned workbench in 1987 strikes me as a pretty humble beginning, perhaps even more so than another one growing legs in a garage - although that’s a pretty humble beginning, too. Between challenging eyesight and the propensity for variable-distance shooting on the hunt, a high tech system such as Spot Hogg Archery’s The Hogg Father sure seems like a perfect fit, but is it? Fortunately, as a writer I get to tinker with a lot of products, and this time around I had the opportunity to spend quality string-stretching time with the Hogg Father bowsight.
This indeed is where my perfect combination comes into play. That said, for many of us, a middle-ground single-pin sight with on-the-fly distance adjustability can be a perfect solution. Known-distance archery competitors tend to stick with single-pin competition sights, while shooters engaging targets at varying distances, including bowhunters, tend toward multi-pins. While serious archers certainly buy into get-what-you-pay-for bows and accessories, starting with the end in mind is a critical decision-making component. Whether splitting paper Xs or settling a pin over the vitals of the buck of a lifetime (or both), the hunt for purpose-driven equipment truly designed to leverage odds of success can be a daunting undertaking.
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