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.