[2nd Nature]

I have alway's shot wrist strap. But now I have ordered a Stan Super X thumb release. Now i know from comment's on here that any release can be shot as a BT. But is a good progression to go to a thumb release then pure BT?
Shawn F.

 

[Doc]

I shot a thumb trigger, but just couldn't make myself shoot it with BT. I always found myself increasing the thumb pressure on that thumb trigger. Before long, I was just nailing the trigger with my thumb. I guess I started out wrong and made a bad habit worse. I have since switched to a Carter BT release and wished I had done so many moons ago. The release I got is a Solution 3, so that during hunting season I can convert it to a thumb trigger with the removal of a set screw and be good to go. I don't want to hunt with BT, because sometimes the arrow just has to go and not within the next 4 seconds.

 

[2nd Nature]

Doc,
It was actually a toss up between the 2. The Carter solution 3 or the Stan. I liked the options of the Carter, but with so many adjustments according to the pdf I found it a little confusing. I mainly wanted to get the feel and proper form of shooting a T-handle style before going BT. It was very close choice but I went the way I did because I also wanted a 2X magnifier for HHA sight and found them both on one site. How was your shooting using a regular thumb release compared to wrist strap? My main idea is that my form will get used to shooting a T-handle then go to BT,as it seem's the same hold and form. Or will I develope a bad habit from it?
Shawn F.

 

[menaztricks]

I'm curious how a thumb release can be used as a BT.

 

[nuts&bolts]

I'm curious how a thumb release can be used as a BT.

Hello menaztricks:

It's terminology.

Any release can be shot using the back tension "technique".
What that means is that any release can be made to fire
by squeezing the middle back muscles.

Michael Braden teaches in his DVD, "Straight Talk with Michael Braden"
how he shoots his wrist strap Carter Two Shot release,
by just squeezing his middle back muscles.

No squeezing of the trigger finger. He just makes his index finger into a hook and pulls his entire release side hand, wrist, arm and elbow
using his middle back muscles. Just pull with your back muscles to make your release side elbow move behind your head.



This same technique,
make your release side hand into a "claw"
and pull with your back muscles,
and you can also make a thumb trigger release fire.

If you read Larry Wise's book,
Core Archery,
then you will see lots of pictures and lots of explanation
about how after you hit full draw, and hit your anchor,
you relax the release arm muscles,
relax the release side shoulder muscle,
and squeeze your middle back muscle
to move your release side shoulder blade towards your back bone,
and try to move your release side elbow tip
back behind your head.

No squeezing of the release hand required.

It does work.

I was just helping a local AT member today
at my home range with "back tension" technique
using a thumb trigger release,
as well as showing him the finer details of
the "power triangle".