Shooting a back tension release takes a fair amount practice. You don't just pick the thing up and shoot at a 3-D target with it for the first time. You might get lucky, but chances are you will do more harm than good in the long run. You need to do a lot of blind and blank bale practicing sometimes to get it down and be confident with it. Then practice aiming while using one.

Rick, the bennifit of using one is it is a surprise release. You don't trigger it, so you don't have to think about triggering it. All you do is concentrate on aiming and the shot just happens when you have it down.

I feel when most talk about messing up a shot during the shot they actually did it just before the shot, not during it. Like if you drop the bow or grab the grip anticipating the shot. This is easy to do with a triggered release because your mind knows when its going to happen. In almost all cases the bad thing will happen just before or while triggering the release, not during the shot.

With a back tensioned surprised release your mind doesn't know when the shot will happen, so it can't make you flinch, drop your arm or grab the bow. By the time it figures out what happened the arrow is long gone.

The down side is back tension releases can cause aiming target panicinstead. Like havingtrouble holding steady, or freezing above or below the target.Especially if you are having problems with it going off. This iswhy I feel lots of blind and blank bale practice is good before you start actually aiming with one. Even though you don't know when the shot will occur, you need to be confident it will happen in a reasonable amount of time.

Proper form and bow fit is pretty important with this type of a release as well. If your bow doesn't fit you well you will have all kinds of problems with a back tension release. At least that's what I have seen.

Paul