HuntingNet.com Forums

HuntingNet.com Forums (https://www.huntingnet.com/forum/)
-   Traditional Archery (https://www.huntingnet.com/forum/traditional-archery-19/)
-   -   Do you use a release with your recurve and/or long bow? (https://www.huntingnet.com/forum/traditional-archery/336215-do-you-use-release-your-recurve-long-bow.html)

Stonewall308 12-13-2010 09:48 AM

Do you use a release with your recurve and/or long bow?
 
I have a bear recurve that my grandfather recently gave me because he couldn't pull it anymore. I was thinking of trying to take a deer with it next year. I tried to practice with it, and found it to be much more difficult than my compound - I've got a lethal range of about 5 yards!

Do you guys use a release? I have a truball that I use with my compound - the handle kind, no wrist strap - will this work?

bigcountry 12-13-2010 09:52 AM

I tried when I first started but you just won't get any arrow ossillations with a release and most likely get feather contact with the rest.

Only way i would use a release is with a elevated rest. You need that arrow to bend around that riser.

Stonewall308 12-13-2010 10:54 AM

Thanks, bigcountry.

Why would a release affect how the arrow bends?

bigcountry 12-13-2010 11:59 AM


Originally Posted by Stonewall308 (Post 3740220)
Thanks, bigcountry.

Why would a release affect how the arrow bends?

You want to pick a spine of an arrow that bends around your riser. If you have a good release, and the correct spine, your feathers nor your strike plate should have any marks on it.

Here is a good video showing this. A hand release induces this bend. A mech release does not. But you have more of a up and down ossilation.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzWrcpzuAp8

burniegoeasily 12-13-2010 12:33 PM

I never use a release. Good ol glove for me and bare fingers when Im hunting.

If memory serves me, I believe back in the early 80 or maybe even the late 70s, there was a trend with some target bow shooter that used old flipper releases.

If you choose to use a release, retune your arrows. You will need to adjust the spine.

Night Wing 12-14-2010 04:43 AM

I don't use a release with my recurves. I use a tab; one over, two under.

Valentine 12-14-2010 08:59 AM

Reminds me. . .
 
when I got back into archery, some twenty years ago, I decided to go with a release and a compound bow.
I let those Indians keep those 19th century instruments.

bigcountry 12-14-2010 09:06 AM


Originally Posted by Valentine (Post 3740889)
when I got back into archery, some twenty years ago, I decided to go with a release and a compound bow.
I let those Indians keep those 19th century instruments.

You know I have seen you post some silly stuff and extremely poor advise. But you do realize your on a trad forum? Don't you?

SteveBNy 12-14-2010 05:35 PM


when I got back into archery, some twenty years ago, I decided to go with a release and a compound bow.
I let those Indians keep those 19th century instruments.
Just remember compounds where invented for those physically unable or unwilling to do the work needed to shoot real bows. Maybe someday you will really get into archery, but I doubt it.

Bernie P. 12-15-2010 07:09 AM

Not even at gunpoint!!!!


All times are GMT -8. The time now is 06:34 PM.


Copyright © 2024 MH Sub I, LLC dba Internet Brands. All rights reserved. Use of this site indicates your consent to the Terms of Use.