I don't much care for releases. Just one more thing to have to spend money on (you can buy a whole pocketfull of finger tabs for the price of one decent release), one more thing that could malfunction during the hunt, one more thing to drop or lose, one more thing that can clank around and make noise, one more thing that can absorb human scent... Andyour Dad is telling you straight when he saysthat a release is never as quick into action as fingers.

Shooting fingers requires a bit more personal involvement from you, as in learning how to make a clean release and practicing it... although it doesn't require hours and hours of your time asmost release shooters seem to think.It's not that big of a deal.With just slightly more practice than you'd need with a release, you can get hunting accuracy just as good as you'd have with a release, for all practical purposes.

Fingers releasealso limits how short you can go in bow length. It IS possible to shoot a short bow with fingers, but it's more difficult than it would be with a longer bow and requires a bit different technique. For someone with a 28" draw, I think 36"-38" axle to axle bows are about as short as they can go before running into some problems. Most finger shooters, especially those with draws30" and longer,like bows longer than 40" axle to axle.

Release shooters can go as short as they like on bow length. Releases give a tiny edge in accuracy, though not so much better to make a whit of difference when putting the arrow into an area the size of a soccer ball, like the heart/lung area of a deer's chest cavity. They allow for a few more fps of arrow speed.Releases let you use really fancy, expensivearrow rests, soyou can have something extra to brag about whendescribing your hunting rig.

It basically comes down to you. You're the one who is going to be shooting the bow. Not your dad, not me, but YOU. If you want to be like 99.9% of all folks shooting compounds these days, shoot a release. If you have a bit of maverick in your personality and like to do something a bit different than everybody else, then then shoot fingers.