Wife can't draw bow with release....

[BEARBUSTER66]

This is confusing to me, my wife wants to shoot her bow,when she starts to draw when using a release she gets to the breaking point of the cam and can't get past it, with out a release it comes right back like there nothing to it. I've tried both long and short styles of releases do you think a t style would work? What am I not picking up on?

[KodiakArcher]

Can't tell without seeing but I suspect the release strap isn't cinched tight enough and is sliding down her hand, effectively lengthening her draw and stopping her from being able to break it over... just a theory.

[JoshKeller]

when i first started shooting, I had trouble pulling back my bow with a release. Knocking off 5 lbs of weight helped tremendously.

[Beezer]

Kodiak makes sense in his post. I had this type of problem with the new bow and release I bought. I bought a Tru-Fire release that has two mount holes, one forward and one closer to the your palm. It's the cheapest one they had. I moved the mount and bolt back toward my palm to the closest notch and it made an incredible difference in the ease and smoothness of my draw. You might check into this possibly being the problem.

[Arthur P]

Ain't no law you have to use a release to shoot a bow. If she can draw and shoot comfortably with her fingers, then set her up with a flipper rest and turn her loose.

[JimPic]

With the release on,she's probably trying to pullit back with the arm muscles and not using the back muscles

[Straightarrow]

I know that personally I can draw more weight with a release. I suspect as others, that the draw length is too long with the release on. On a compound, a release willl usually require a shorter draw length than shooting with fingers. Even if you can shorten the bow's drawlength, you may want to look for a release that is made for loops. It tends to bring the hand closer to the string, thus enabling a person to shoot a longer draw length.

[BTDavis]

You may need a different release, one that is shorter. Maybe the lil bitty goose. I would go to the shop and try some different models.

[jsasker]

Try a True-fire stalker--hand held,3-finger,set up as a push or pull trigger.I use this release and know exactly what she is struggling with(much easier to pull back with a hand held release than using a release that makes you use your arm and wrist without gripping with your hand--she'll be able to pull more with a hand held.It sure did the trick for me!

[BGfisher]

I think most of the guys have it pretty good here. Converting from fingers to release usually requires about 1" shorter draw length. Couple that to the increased length of the release and sh'e getting stretched out to the point that when the cams are rolling over she's out of oomph.

Too much length.