Since changing over to compound over 25 years ago, the biggest problem I have experienced is with triggering the release.
The finger trigger set to light pushed me towards TP, and overcoming that was all about learning to activate the release without punching.
In an attempt to get some sort of surprise releases, I have tried all the main types of action, including the hinge.
For me, the hinge gave the most relaxing releases.Let me expand on that a little.
With my first thumb trigger I was constantly trying to squeeze the trigger, NOT too hard and not too soft so the release didn't go too soon or too late. I tried the Evo thinking I could get rid of the trigger and just pull. Again, the struggle was trying to find a pull that was not too light or too heavy. Eventually I tried a hinge. The fact that the handle moves and I knew it was moving gave me some confidence. I reached full draw and settled on aim and manipulated my handle in the sure knowledge that it would eventually go off. Wonderful; confidence building; leading to relaxing for the first time in several years. I would have stuck with the hinge but for the fact that I had a couple of misfires and decided not to risk it again.
So, I have almost come full circle. My hair trigger Fletchmatic came with a extension spring. I never knew what that was for and I guessed it had ended up in the box by mistake.
Recently, I have been wondering about trigger travel on a thumb trigger release and trying to find a way to give it enough travel to feel like the hinge. Enough moving going on for me to know I am working the trigger, and not just thinking I am.
The current release aids I have do not offer such an amount of travel; even on the slowest setting there is not enough travel to know it is moving. Then the spring in the Fletchmatic box came to mind! That's what it was for!! It was supposed to replace the rigid hair trigger and bending the spring by pressing gradually, the release would happen at an unknown point.I would feel the thumb moving and know it would activate a release in its own time.
I will be making a sprung thumb trigger for my current Whisper release aid. I guess a blade from my lizard tongue collection should do for starters.
The finger trigger set to light pushed me towards TP, and overcoming that was all about learning to activate the release without punching.
In an attempt to get some sort of surprise releases, I have tried all the main types of action, including the hinge.
For me, the hinge gave the most relaxing releases.Let me expand on that a little.
With my first thumb trigger I was constantly trying to squeeze the trigger, NOT too hard and not too soft so the release didn't go too soon or too late. I tried the Evo thinking I could get rid of the trigger and just pull. Again, the struggle was trying to find a pull that was not too light or too heavy. Eventually I tried a hinge. The fact that the handle moves and I knew it was moving gave me some confidence. I reached full draw and settled on aim and manipulated my handle in the sure knowledge that it would eventually go off. Wonderful; confidence building; leading to relaxing for the first time in several years. I would have stuck with the hinge but for the fact that I had a couple of misfires and decided not to risk it again.
So, I have almost come full circle. My hair trigger Fletchmatic came with a extension spring. I never knew what that was for and I guessed it had ended up in the box by mistake.
Recently, I have been wondering about trigger travel on a thumb trigger release and trying to find a way to give it enough travel to feel like the hinge. Enough moving going on for me to know I am working the trigger, and not just thinking I am.
The current release aids I have do not offer such an amount of travel; even on the slowest setting there is not enough travel to know it is moving. Then the spring in the Fletchmatic box came to mind! That's what it was for!! It was supposed to replace the rigid hair trigger and bending the spring by pressing gradually, the release would happen at an unknown point.I would feel the thumb moving and know it would activate a release in its own time.
I will be making a sprung thumb trigger for my current Whisper release aid. I guess a blade from my lizard tongue collection should do for starters.