You seen those Ronco commercials where Mary Homemaker is shredding a carrot on a hand held grater and acts like she dang near took her hand off with the blasted thing (whilst the announcer says OUCH for dramatic impact) to make the Ronco Automatic Carrot Grater look SO much easier?? That's about the same kind of marketing foolishness that's gone into brainwashing people into believing that you can't shoot accurately without a release.

Take a grain of truth and blow it thousands of times out of proportion.

Yeah, some people's shooting flat sucks with their fingers and it's a release or nothing... for them. There are some folks that literally can't walk and chew gum at the same time, too. Most 'normal' people have better coordination than that.

Some people actually shoot BETTER with their fingers than they do with a release. Many people that are struggling with their shooting might be better off getting rid of the release.

And, like I said before, what's the difference between a pinwheel 11 and one that's inside the edge of the 11 ring? They both score the same.

If anyone thinks there isn't any fumble factor involved in shooting a release, I'd be happy to challenge them to a test. Deer target at 15 yards. Start out with your arrow in the quiver. Get someone to work the stopwatch and holler GO. Load the arrow on the bow, draw and shoot. You have to hit the 10 ring for the time to count. 8's are NFG.

My best time to get an arrow from my quiver to the 10 ring with fingers is 7 seconds with my compound. 4 seconds with my recurve. Since we're talking releases though, we'll stick with the compound. 7 seconds. Beat that time and I might accept your notion that a release has no fumble factor.