All the above are good advice , bare bale, eyes closed, no sight on your bow, back tension, Ive tried them all. A good carter release or back tension will work wonders for panic but some people cant get the hang of it. For hunting situations you might like your scott better anyway. I have a scott itty bitty goose and I ordered a spring trigger for it. It is a spring that replaces the trigger and is pretty flexible. If you try to punch the trigger too fast the spring will bend instead of setting the release off, if you apply slow steady tensio to it it will set it off with a " suprise release"