Ossage,

Are you saying you wouldn't want one on hunting buffalo because of the fumble factor?

OK I am going to get long winded here so skip to the next section if you don't want to hear a story

I was hunting one day this past season. It was about 10:30 and I looked up and there was a doe running straight at me. I was hunting about 250 yards from a group of duck hunters (I was hunting flooded timber). I could hear the duck hunters getting ready to leave so I didn't think anything about the doe running. I thought she was getting away from them. I started to stand up and let out a loud grunt as I was standing, the doe had already come to a stop. I stood the rest of the way up, grabbed my bow, hooked my release and shot in a matter of about 1.5 - 2 seconds. The doe ran off and hung my bow up to watch her and mark trees (not much of a blood trail in the water). As I was watching I heard something behind me that sounded like a buck grunt. I continued to watch the doe and heard it again. Then it dawned on me that it was a buck grunting. I turned around and there was a pretty nice 8 about 40 yards out trotting straight for my tree. I looked down and grabbed my bow from the EZ hanger and then grabbed an arrow out of my qwiver that was also hanging on the hanger. I looked down and the buck was about 25 yards. I then knocked an arrow and hooked my loop and by then he was about 18 yards. I grunted as I was drawing and he stopped. I put the pin behind his shoulder and realeased and he didn't even make it as far as the doe did. I would lay odds that from the time I saw the buck until the time I released the arrow, five seconds didn't pass. That's about as fast and furious as it has ever been for me while hunting and the loop didn't seem to hamper me at all. So for me I don't see the loop as a detriment. I also wouldn't do anything different if I were hunting buffalo or grizzly or anything else. JMO