UltraView Slider Archery Sight: Review

Without Further Ado…

I purchased this Ultra View Slider Sight and target scope from my local trusted pro shop for a few hundred under a $1K a few weeks ago. It was a pretty hefty expense. I wanted to take some torsional weight off my bow’s sight side and at a similar token come up with modern technology. This sight fit that bill and also contributed to some other secondary desires.

• Ease of Adjustment
• Speedy Changes of sight fixtures
• Easy to see indications for my 40 year old eyes
• Elegant fit and finish on a 2024 flagship target bow.

UV’s Slider is simplicity over relativity. it really rivaled my delectable and insatiable cardinal desires and achieved aspects of comfort behind my archery experience. My check book continues to be on fire after this purchase, but I knew it was for better. I chose UV’s hunting vertical pin system that had a double fiber input; Green and Red. Pin size is roughly .010 and I can still see them clearly in bright daylight. I had no issues with my LASIK Eyes and having Halos from natural light fed sources. Even UV’s backlight gave that right amount of light to see pins in florescent and overcast conditions. Although I still have a minor halo to deal with. Monitoring of light intensity was needed.

Now, I did say unnatural… Natural light sources are great with this setup.

I opted for UV’s XL model. I like lots of real-estate and not looking through a straw. This is their biggest sight they have and that too, pleased my eyes. Interchangeability of bubbles and modules really peaked my interest. Matte finish to boot as well.

Now, this isn’t just all good during that illusive honeymoon phase, I want to like this sight and I have grown accustomed to it’s quirks and irritations. These are enough for me to stop shooting this sight, but I continue to power through and force myself to use it. I hold my hopes up that I will not have a catastrophic failure at some point. For now, I would like to note those ever stacking grievances here.

• Set Screw Failure: 10-32×1/8″ screws consistently back themselves out from vibration that my Bowtech produces. I need to add some blue thread-locker or tape to prevent this from happening again. I have not as of yet. I questioned after loosing one of these screws, “Should I really need cobble items on a several hundred dollar sight (all said and done)?” No, I shouldn’t. However, UV must have seen this happening as they included 2 extra screws in their kit. This was a god-send to find them, but looking on their website, 4 lousy screws is $10USD. I can go to amazon and get those same screws for $6.99 X 30 pieces. I figure go this route and get some extra screws since I am invested in this sight for a very long time. 20 or so extra set screws will come in handy should I loose an excessive amount. I maybe being a bit obtuse, but having a failure on an event does make for a bad reputation of hardware quality.
• Cracked front plastic module: on 01/12/2025 I have found that my front module is cracked along parallel that starts at set screw indentations and runs length of the module. Why could this be? Over-torquing these set screws to get them to stay in because they back themselves out and fear of a module sliding out during an event. This is why. Again another poor design choice. Using metal set screws into a plastic module is a recipe for disaster. Cracking can happen and it just so happens this was my case. UV calls this polymer. In reality, it is just plastic…

• A Need for a stubby angle allen key: Front and back module set screw that is on right side of scope housing is impossible to get to with windage settings < 3, even with a stubby 3/32 allen key. What sucks also is that I need to count amount of clicks in windage from bottomed out left hand travel to reset back to proper location after sight module adjustments are made. This is a very poor design. These screws should have been put Longitudinally instead of on a horizontal plane. I find this more of a major downfall than having screws come up missing. In summer time, my plans to shoot 3D are apparent and potentially well justified. I may shoot open or hunter class. What if I want to change out my sight? Should I really perform Surgery? Why do I need to carry around a specialized set of allen keys?

• Windage adjustment can be adjusted without clicker feedback: Several times I have seen and felt windage adjustments lack a click response as adjustments are made. Movements are made, but without that click feedback. I need to stop what I am doing and give that knob an extra gentle pull to get that click feedback working. Without it, I really don’t know how much I am adjusting. This often resulted in knee-jerk reactionary re-confirmation followup shots to ensure my sight was still on target where it belonged. I also have a fear of that collar jumping out from it’s resting (locked) position and slowly changing itself, throwing off my shot. I should not have to feel this way.
• Poor pin illumination in unnatural light sources: Pins hardly stay illuminated without any feedback from an external and unnatural forced light source. UV’s backlight does work and supplements, but I get that halo from my LASIK surgery. If I am not careful, that turns into a giant softball sized ring around that green fiber optic pin.

Picture on left is with backlight off and Picture on right is with back light on lowest setting. Room is fully lit with daylight from outside snow covered ground.

This other set of pictures below is from outside daylight. Left is without backlight, Right is backlight turned to 100%. There is a noticeable difference. pins are much clearer in daylight both ways.

Those are my list of quirks that are a deal breakers for me right now. I would happily return this sight if I could, but as of now I am really trying to like this sight and vowed to myself to keep working through its issues. It is wonderful in it’s engineering and I shoot this sight well, but I would be more comfortable with it if I was not afraid that screws would be falling out or alignment self-adjusts.

If Ultra View ever comes across my website and happens to see this article, I hope they understand, they created a very competitive and ultra futuristic sight to last a very long time. There can be some improvements made to this design that would make it far greater sight for that price point, in my opinion.

• Add a locking windage adjustment collar: that black knob has me paranoid sometimes. I feel it will wiggle it’s way loose and cause some windage changes by vibrations from my bow, for reasons I noted above with click feedback not engaging.
• Move set screws to top and bottom of sight housing: I found this to be a major oversight (No Pun Intended) in design.
• Add tighter tolerances and stop points to threads on set screws: Pitching set screws to only seat at a certain depth will more than prevent backing out, even at a specific torque setting (“hand tight”).
• Add indentations for setscrews to fit into scope modules: Adding those extra plastic indentations to scope housing modules will also be beneficial to prevent scope modules from falling out during a lengthy event and prevent crushing plastic. I also recommend drilling and tapping these modules with longer set screws to ensure maximum module security.
• Use a better material for modules: Listen, plastic is plastic, no matter how it is spun with marketing names like polymer, Composite etc. I have a plastic recurve bow at 20 pounds. it is marketed as composite. It is still plastic.

• Another point about plastic in contrast – Glock/Springfield/Smith and Wesson. They use reinforced plastic for their non-impactful components and reinforce metal to metal critical points with metal fused plastic using proprietary methods minimizing failure. Tried and tested technology. How can this be applied to UV’s designs?
• Add more fiber optic length: additional length of fiber optic will gather more light and thus mitigate need for an intense back light. This would remediate more use cases that I would need to become reliant on that back light and dependent on it’s functionality.
• Backlight design to pipe light into fiber optics: Instead of illuminating pins inside scope housing, could there be a way to illuminate ends of fiber optics themselves with your light design?

Don’t get a wrong impression. I am not out to bash UltraView or their creation. It is wonderful to have up-to-date technology and that serves my purposes as an archer. However there needs to be improvements to their design and significant mitigation to relieve end-user concerns. I am happy to test their improvements should they wish me to, or even help design new improvements to this platform.

Overall, It is a worthwhile endeavor for any archer to invest in this company’s products, just be mindful that overall ideas usually don’t work well under real world priorities and stresses.

I plan on keeping this listing up to date as I continue my journey using this sight.