So yesterday, I pulled my bow out of the case for a quick round of practice. The first shot out of the gate, perfect. Second shot, perfect.This trend continued, and itrounded out to bea prettydecent round of shooting, with a couple fliers scattered through the routine.



After this many years,and probably tens of thousands of shots - it'slike riding a bike, but I STILL have to be cognizant of jabbing at the trigger. I continue to get occasional fliers because I'm a habitual trigger puncher.

I just don't know where this impulse comes from.

Not blowing my own horn or anything, but I'm a really good rifle shooter. Give me a gun that can do it, and I canmake Mickey Mouses all day long. I have an excellent trigger squeeze, and am super-finicky about my triggers. Honestly, I could shoot 100 shots out of my long range rifle, without a single trigger punch.



If you take the rifle out of my hands and hand me a bow,I punch one out of every15. Maybe one out of 10 (not horrible whiffs, just enough to make it frustrating). I've been this way all my life. Why the increased tendency to punch? I could shoot 200 arrows a day, for 10 years straight, and still do it. It's almost as if I'm doomed toa lifetime of7-10% of my arrows consistently floating a couple inches off center. I practice a lot, practice a little bit - same results. Maybe Jewell or Timney needs to start making bow releases... I don't know.

Let's be real here. These aren't horrible misses. They're just outside the diamond. Just off the pin. Just bad enough to piss me off. Just good enough to still walk away happy. It's not the equipment.

Maybe that's simply the difference between being a world-class competitivearcher and not being a world-class competitive archer.

What is it? What is it about the bow trigger that makes me want to punch it? Why is it worse in the field? I never punch the trigger on my rifle in the field. If the biggest buck of 10 lifetimes is standing there - it's a tale of two weapons...If I've gotmy rifle in my hands, there's a 1000% chance that he's dead on his feet... With my bow, on the other hand, I actually have to pause and remind myself to make a good pull.

With the gun, it comes naturally. With the bow, it just doesn't. It never has. No matter how much I practice. What is the difference? Why can I pull one trigger so cleanly,and not the other?



Maybe it's just me, but every release I've ever had - the trigger never seems to be in the right spot - the ergonomics are always weird. They just never seem to break as crisply as a good, custom rifle trigger. Invariably, I feel as if I'm never getting a solid, soft squeeze-off on the trigger.



So what's the difference? Why can one guy shoot a gun, but not a bow (or vice versa)? What tips do you guys have to help the twoskill sets translate between the two weapons?