That statement struck a cord with me. I was brought up shooting a recurve and you couldn' t draw and hold. The hard part was getting a shot off without the deer seeing you draw. My technique was to draw quickly and when the deer looked, I' d shoot before the deer had a chance to figure out what was going on. This is how I shoot today, with my compounds. If I could draw when the deer was 70 yards away and just hold it, until it walked in front of me, then it would be an awful lot like a crossbow. Not that crossbows are terrible in my opinion, but it' s not archery.

In my winter hunting league, I practice the same way. I draw, aim for about a second, maybe two and then release. I watch these guys drawing and holding for 30 seconds and I think, what are they going to do when they' ve only got a 3 second window to get a shot off at a deer? Probably draw a minute earlier and then just release, as the deer comes to the opening. At this point, why not just use the draw-loc devise and eliminate the drawing/holding aspect of archery?