The Meggy
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"Non-release-aid" training device?
I have a spare compound with an Airbow (one of those captive arrow things where the "arrow" attaches to the string and goes inside a tube, bit like a bicycle pump) which allows me to "shoot" indoors (I aim at a scaled down target about 4 metres away). It works fine but I do find it slightly alarming to shoot - the forward yank you get on the bow is quite something, due to the "arrow" staying on the bow I think. You need to have a very good bow-sling arrangement otherwise the bow is wrenched out of your hand and lands on the floor! Another issue is that you need to remove the arrow-rest to fit the tube, so it's not really practical for your regular bow, plus it is a bit of a fiddle attaching the "arrow" to the bowstring.
But I'm thinking of a different idea: kind of a release aid, except it doesn't release :rotflstay with me please... ray. What would happen is you attach it to the string/D-loop with some sort of locking mechanism such that it couldn't possibly come off unintentionally, and the trigger would produce a reasonably loud click only. The trigger could be set to give the click at varying pressure to simulate your favorite release aid. So.. you could practice aiming and releasing - if it clicks when you're nicely on aim then (good form permitting) that would have been a good shot right? You would not get any sort of follow through (in fact the bow should not move at all) but then I subscribe to the principle that the follow through should just be allowed to happen as a result of what you have done before anyway. I think this could be a very good therapy for those of us suffering from target panic or even just a mild or occasional case of the "yips" :guilty: also.
Has anyone ever made such a device? (unfortunately I was distinctly average at metalwork at school...). I would probably want a wrist release type version since that's what I shoot normally. I know that Zenith, and maybe some of the other hinge release manufacturers make cams to fit their releases that just give a click, but I'm not aware of anything similar for trigger releases. I guess it is very possible I'm not the first to think along these lines, but what do you reckon to this idea folks? :duck:
I have a spare compound with an Airbow (one of those captive arrow things where the "arrow" attaches to the string and goes inside a tube, bit like a bicycle pump) which allows me to "shoot" indoors (I aim at a scaled down target about 4 metres away). It works fine but I do find it slightly alarming to shoot - the forward yank you get on the bow is quite something, due to the "arrow" staying on the bow I think. You need to have a very good bow-sling arrangement otherwise the bow is wrenched out of your hand and lands on the floor! Another issue is that you need to remove the arrow-rest to fit the tube, so it's not really practical for your regular bow, plus it is a bit of a fiddle attaching the "arrow" to the bowstring.
But I'm thinking of a different idea: kind of a release aid, except it doesn't release :rotflstay with me please... ray. What would happen is you attach it to the string/D-loop with some sort of locking mechanism such that it couldn't possibly come off unintentionally, and the trigger would produce a reasonably loud click only. The trigger could be set to give the click at varying pressure to simulate your favorite release aid. So.. you could practice aiming and releasing - if it clicks when you're nicely on aim then (good form permitting) that would have been a good shot right? You would not get any sort of follow through (in fact the bow should not move at all) but then I subscribe to the principle that the follow through should just be allowed to happen as a result of what you have done before anyway. I think this could be a very good therapy for those of us suffering from target panic or even just a mild or occasional case of the "yips" :guilty: also.
Has anyone ever made such a device? (unfortunately I was distinctly average at metalwork at school...). I would probably want a wrist release type version since that's what I shoot normally. I know that Zenith, and maybe some of the other hinge release manufacturers make cams to fit their releases that just give a click, but I'm not aware of anything similar for trigger releases. I guess it is very possible I'm not the first to think along these lines, but what do you reckon to this idea folks? :duck: