Spot Hogg Boonie DT 5-Pin

I already have a Fast Eddie or Fast Eddie XL — is the Boonie worth the upgrade money?

If your Fast Eddie still works, the Boonie is a refinement, not a revolution — but owners who upgraded say it fixed their specific Fast Eddie gripes: a much better center lock-down knob, crisper micro windage with hash marks, gang-adjustable swappable tape wheels, and it's the lightest Spot Hogg yet. If those exact annoyances bug you, the upgrade lands; if your Fast Eddie XL is dialed and you don't mind its quirks, save the money. This is the Boonie's whole pitch — the Fast Eddie, with the rough edges sanded off.

Can I swap my existing Spot Hogg MRT scope housing (e.g., Triple Stack) onto a Boonie base, or do I have to buy the whole sight?

You can run Spot Hogg MRT scope housings on the Boonie base — the platform is built around swappable heads and mounts, so a Triple Stack and other MRT housings move over rather than forcing a whole new sight. Confirm your specific housing generation with Spot Hogg, but head-swapping is a core Boonie feature, not a workaround.

Which head should I run on the Boonie — single, double, triple stack, or 5-pin — and how far can each dial before fletching contacts the housing?

Match the head to how you hunt: single or double pin for the cleanest picture with a dialable bottom, triple stack for individually adjustable pins, 5-pin for fixed-distance speed. Dial range before fletching contact depends on your arrow and rest, but the more pins in the housing, the sooner the bottom pin's travel can bring fletching near the housing at the longest yardages. For most hunters the double pin is the sweet spot; gap shooters who want exact pin spacing go triple stack.

How does the Boonie compare with Black Gold sliders (Pro Hunter, Dual Trac) on weight, durability, and pin brightness?

The Boonie's calling card is durability — owners and shop staff call it the toughest hunting slider made, with metal-on-metal rail and gearing that they contrast against Black Gold's Delrin gears. Black Gold counters on pin brightness, where it's widely considered the brightest, and it runs lighter in some configs. On weight the Boonie is the lightest Spot Hogg yet but still not featherweight (one owner measured a pic-mount double pin at 11.1 oz). Buy the Boonie for ruggedness, Black Gold for brightness and weight.

Can the double pin's gap be set where I want it (e.g., 20/30 instead of 20/35), or do I need the triple stack with individually adjustable pins?

The double pin's gap is factory-set based on your arrow speed and typically lands the two dots 12-18 yards apart — you can't freely set it to 20/30 versus 20/35. If you need exact, independently chosen pin spacing, the triple stack with individually adjustable pins is the head to order. For most hunters the fixed gap works fine once you know where the dots hit; if precise gaps matter to you, go triple stack from the start.

What's the best way to set up and swap multiple sight-tape wheels for different arrow setups (hunting vs 3D/summer arrows)?

Set up multiple gang-adjustable tape wheels — one per arrow setup — and swap them when you change between hunting and 3D/summer arrows. Owners list this as a Boonie improvement over older Spot Hoggs: the swappable, gang-adjustable wheels make running two arrow profiles painless. Sight in each arrow once, label its wheel, and swapping takes seconds.

Does the Boonie dovetail fit a Mathews Bridge-Lock riser cleanly, or is there slop before the set screw is tightened?

It fits a Bridge-Lock riser, but order the Bridge-Lock-compatible dovetail and tighten the set screw fully — like most dovetail-into-Bridge-Lock setups there can be a touch of slop until it's locked down. Owners run Boonies on Bridge-Lock bows successfully. Snug the set screw and confirm zero movement before you sight in.

Repeated 'built like a tank' verdicts: owners and shop regulars call the Boonie the toughest hunting slider on the market, contrasting its metal-on-metal rail and gearing with Black Gold's strippable Delrin gears and UltraView's 'sardine can' feel.

Owners consistently say the Boonie fixed their gripes with prior Spot Hoggs: a far better center lock-down knob, crisper micro windage with hash marks, gang-adjustable/swappable sight-tape wheels, and swappable mounting bases. One dissenter reports the locking knob can seize up and is hard to operate with cold fingers.

Praised as the lightest Spot Hogg yet — 'doesn't weigh like a typical Spot Hogg' and roughly on par with an HHA Ryz — but several buyers were underwhelmed: one measured his pic-mount double-pin Boonie at 11.1 oz versus 11.2 oz for his old direct-mount Fast Eddie, and others note Black Gold and B3 remain meaningfully lighter.

Fans say the MRT pins beat UltraView's and even .010 fibers are plenty bright, but a recurring gripe is that the yardage pointers are too big/blunt to read precisely, and dark-timber hunters in no-sight-light states (e.g., Idaho, Oregon) still prefer Black Gold's photochromatic housings for raw pin brightness.

At roughly $400-500 depending on configuration, buyers wince — one wished it were closer to $250, another framed the choice as a $400 Boonie versus a $150 used Fast Eddie. The counterpoint: against the UltraView slider it's seen as the value pick, doing more for ~$250 less.

Demand swamped Spot Hogg at launch: January pre-orders shipped mid-year, dealers got batches of five sights at a time, and posters reported backorders stretching to the end of 2024. Stock normalized by late 2024 — a dealer announced plentiful inventory that October — so this is largely a historical footnote now.