wingate_52
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Has anyone let go of their release aid and had it fly off into the field on release. Is this why some people use wrist mounted ones, rather than hold in the hand ones?
I've seen it happen on a couple of times, but not that often. One guy I saw it happen to used a trigger technique involving hooking his thumb over the trigger and relaxing his draw fingers to trigger the shot - he just relaxed a bit too much on one occasion.wingate_52 said:Has anyone let go of their release aid and had it fly off into the field on release. Is this why some people use wrist mounted ones, rather than hold in the hand ones?
I've done that, infact it disapeared into a hedge and I still haven't found it. :muted:wingate_52 said:Has anyone let go of their release aid and had it fly off into the field on release
geoffretired said:I have recently changed to a hand held release after the wrist strap. I have the hand held release tied to a wrist strap on a longish cord. That way, the wrist strap is not taking any weight during the draw. It also means I am less likely to get to the line without it;or shoot it up the field.
Now not that you would - but, if you did let go of the release at full draw how far would it get (how fast would it be going) before the tension was taken up by the teather? especially if the release is closed jaw and will not come off the string, I would have thought that would hurt if you have a fairly long teather.geoffretired said:You missed a bit, the bow arm would be attached too! Actually as I'm no heavy weight, I may be dragged along too. "Archer strikes gold!" literally.
What Shirt said.Shirt said:Well, yeah, if you're crap and flinching like hell you're likely to let go of your release aid.