A back tension will improve your archery shooting skills and confidence more than you can imagine. They take patience to learn though, maybe 2 or 3 months of consistent shooting to really develope the technique and burn it into your brain; and even then, you'll still improve every year as long as you stay with it. If you can, learn from a really good target shooter at a local pro shop. No matter how discouraged you get, and how much your trigger release punching buddies laugh at you, when you learn back tension, you'll smoke 'em.

As far as hunting goes, I carry mine as a back up, that's all. As much as punching a release is discouraged, not to mention bad for you mentally as far as archery goes, there are times in the woods when you'll need to punch that trigger. There are also times when you'll have the few extra seconds to squeeze a perfect shot. I prefer a trigger for hunting, back tension for year round practice and target shooting. A month before hunting season, I get my hunting release out, and sight in my broadheads with it.It only takes about an hour or so and shooting the Bt release all year 'round makes shooting a trigger a breeze.