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Release options
#1039520
08/10/14 10:58 AM
08/10/14 10:58 AM
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Joined: Nov 2003
Posts: 1,021
Odenville
Heath
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6 point
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6 point
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Odenville
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I find myself punching a lot on my caliper release. What other options would you suggest for hunting? Thumb release?
It's not the strongest species to survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change. - Charles Darwin
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Re: Release options
[Re: Heath]
#1039539
08/10/14 11:22 AM
08/10/14 11:22 AM
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Joined: Mar 2013
Posts: 14,588
Tuscaloosa Co.
N2TRKYS
Booner
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Booner
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Tuscaloosa Co.
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As long as you punch it the same time, every time, you'll be fine.
83% of all statistics are made up.
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Re: Release options
[Re: Heath]
#1039573
08/10/14 11:50 AM
08/10/14 11:50 AM
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Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 28,989
Fosters, Alabama, USA
Shaw
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Fosters, Alabama, USA
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If you're punching a wrist release, you'll punch a thumb release even worse.
"I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it." Captain Woodrow F. Call
ShawBuilt Custom Bowstrings
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Re: Release options
[Re: Heath]
#1039621
08/10/14 12:30 PM
08/10/14 12:30 PM
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Joined: Nov 2003
Posts: 1,021
Odenville
Heath
OP
6 point
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6 point
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Odenville
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The trigger is fairly stiff. Do you recommend that I lighten it up? Mentally I know it's stiff so I believe that is why I punch.
It's not the strongest species to survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change. - Charles Darwin
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Re: Release options
[Re: Heath]
#1039640
08/10/14 12:50 PM
08/10/14 12:50 PM
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Fosters, Alabama, USA
Shaw
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If it's stiff, adjust it. But don't go too light. If you don't have confidence in the release, replace it. You need to aim with your finger on the trigger. Like so:  Your finger should never bend to fire the bow. Instead, you should pull with your arm or squeeze your back muscles (like you are trying to make your shoulder blades touch). When the bow fires, it should be a surprise.
"I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it." Captain Woodrow F. Call
ShawBuilt Custom Bowstrings
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Re: Release options
[Re: Shaw]
#1039815
08/10/14 03:25 PM
08/10/14 03:25 PM
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Posts: 39,449
Marshall County
FurFlyin
Freak of Nature
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Marshall County
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If it's stiff, adjust it. But don't go too light. If you don't have confidence in the release, replace it. You need to aim with your finger on the trigger. Like so: Your finger should never bend to fire the bow. Instead, you should pull with your arm or squeeze your back muscles (like you are trying to make your shoulder blades touch). When the bow fires, it should be a surprise. OR if you have target panic like I do, you'll punch that sucker every time. Target panic stinks.
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
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Re: Release options
[Re: Heath]
#1039852
08/10/14 03:43 PM
08/10/14 03:43 PM
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Posts: 16,967
Madison
BowtechDan
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
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Madison
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I find myself punching a lot on my caliper release. What other options would you suggest for hunting? Thumb release? Use back tension during the spring and summer to train your mind not to punch it. Then calipers won't be so hard....normally. It worked for me.
Nathan Carl Goff 19 Sept 2016 - 14 Jan 2017.
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Re: Release options
[Re: Heath]
#1041151
08/11/14 04:02 PM
08/11/14 04:02 PM
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Posts: 4,172
Trussville, Al
Jpipererp
10 point
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10 point
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Trussville, Al
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I went to a thumb release and adjusted the thumb out until it caught my knuckle at almost full extension. When I anchor, I put my thumb around and tighten by back muscles while making a fist. Always surprises me. Seems to have taken my mind off the trigger pull and allows me to focus on tighten all me muscles.
Bass Bandito
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Re: Release options
[Re: Heath]
#1041442
08/12/14 02:58 AM
08/12/14 02:58 AM
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Odenville
Heath
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6 point
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Odenville
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I'll admit that I squeeze the trigger on my release, a lot like a gun trigger. I will work on the back tension method and see how I do. Like most aspects of shooting I know it's a mental/thinking problem.
It's not the strongest species to survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change. - Charles Darwin
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Re: Release options
[Re: Heath]
#1041555
08/12/14 05:01 AM
08/12/14 05:01 AM
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Posts: 4,172
Trussville, Al
Jpipererp
10 point
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10 point
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Trussville, Al
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I get my bow out regularly and get ab 10 feet from target and work on form. I shoot until I just start getting tired. If you over do it you can kill your technique. May help you as well. That way you aren't focusing on the target as much
Bass Bandito
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Re: Release options
[Re: Heath]
#1041635
08/12/14 06:29 AM
08/12/14 06:29 AM
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Posts: 28,989
Fosters, Alabama, USA
Shaw
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To get target panic under control you need to be focusing on aiming, not firing the bow.
"I hate rude behavior in a man. I won't tolerate it." Captain Woodrow F. Call
ShawBuilt Custom Bowstrings
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