I agree, once you figure out how to "make" it go off you are doomed. Say hello to target panic of the likes you have never seen before.

If it takes you 10 months to master a back tension release you are doing something way wrong. Unless you only shoot a couple of hours a month. It took my girlfriend a day or so to get it down and then about a few weeks to to get used to it. It took me about 20 arrows to get it down and then a week or so of blind bale to really get used to it. That is shooting every day though.

The bad thing is until you REALLY get it down if you stop shooting for a while it will mess you up. This is what my girlfriend did, and now she is having trouble with it again. I told her to go back to blind and blank bale shooting again but I don't think she is doing it.

It is also hard to go back and forth from a trigger release and a back tension release. Which is why I don't use one. If I were going to strictly target shoot I would probably get one just like Nikki's. However I don't want to hunt with one so I will just stick to a trigger release.

Paul