Having shot the hinge release for a week I chickened out of shooting the hinge at Panther and broke out the trigger realease. Mostly down to the fact that it takes me a good 45 minutes shooting the hinge release to get it going smoothly and partly because I tried the trigger and was able to shoot it properly without punching.
It was still sometimes a bit of a struggle, but it was good enough to smash a nock at 23m...
The shoot at Panther went considerably better than the month before at Pentref. The month before I hadn't been able to get into the gold, punched away and just generally grumped my way for the rest of the day. I will admit, it was very hard at Panther. For the first five targets I was averaging 7-8 draws per target... after that it was probably closer to 5 draws per target. But by the end of the first day I was tired, but nearly 40 points up on the previous months score and hadn't punched the release once. So a win.
Speaking to a couple of the guys on the practice field the next morning I happened to mention that it was quite a struggle to get the release to work and I was lent a release... and the trigger was so light that it went off as soon as I brushed the trigger!! And of the three that I tried that was the heaviest!! How people wrap their thumb around these triggers I don't know!
I shot the second day, trying to make stronger shots and while I still had quite a few come downs I did manage a handful of points more... alas there was also a punch on the first shot on a 20m bunny... I may have sworn loudly...
This evening I tried lightening the spring in the release aid, and after switching to then a slightly heavier spring found that the release was light enough that it wasn't too much of a struggle, but it was hard enough that I could get the thumb on the trigger. Whilst I was only shooting my field set-up I was able to shoot 105-110 doz @70m, and most importantly do it whilst aiming in the gold.
It was still sometimes a bit of a struggle, but it was good enough to smash a nock at 23m...
The shoot at Panther went considerably better than the month before at Pentref. The month before I hadn't been able to get into the gold, punched away and just generally grumped my way for the rest of the day. I will admit, it was very hard at Panther. For the first five targets I was averaging 7-8 draws per target... after that it was probably closer to 5 draws per target. But by the end of the first day I was tired, but nearly 40 points up on the previous months score and hadn't punched the release once. So a win.
Speaking to a couple of the guys on the practice field the next morning I happened to mention that it was quite a struggle to get the release to work and I was lent a release... and the trigger was so light that it went off as soon as I brushed the trigger!! And of the three that I tried that was the heaviest!! How people wrap their thumb around these triggers I don't know!
I shot the second day, trying to make stronger shots and while I still had quite a few come downs I did manage a handful of points more... alas there was also a punch on the first shot on a 20m bunny... I may have sworn loudly...
This evening I tried lightening the spring in the release aid, and after switching to then a slightly heavier spring found that the release was light enough that it wasn't too much of a struggle, but it was hard enough that I could get the thumb on the trigger. Whilst I was only shooting my field set-up I was able to shoot 105-110 doz @70m, and most importantly do it whilst aiming in the gold.