What triggers your shot?

[Bullfrog 1]

What gives you the green light?  Thanks.

[EWill]

when the middle finger hits the corner of my mouth

[fnshtr]

I shot with Rick Welch several years ago and have adapted his "feather to nose" anchor a bit. I fletch my arrows now where at full anchor the cock feather is just not quite to my nose... at that point I think pull, pull, pull... until the feather touches my nose and I immediately release.

This seems to me to be a non-anticipatory release trigger. It seems that my sub conscious knows to release without actually thinking about it.

That has improved my shooting exponentially!

Hope that helps.

Hard to write an explanation, but.....

When I get to full draw I maintain tension; begin aiming, then, commit to the shot, and continue pulling to conclusion.  Hopefully, the arrow "just" goes off somewhere between commitment and conclusion.

[rscornutt]

When I hit anchor.

[ron w]

Once I hit anchor.......sight picture.

[slowbowjoe]

Well if I think about it too much, my shooting goes down the tube… but I'd answer that most of all, it's when the sight picture feels right.

[LongStick64]

The internal gremlin that wakes up when I hit anchor and yells Fire Away

[stonewall]

When the animal gives me a good shot.

[Jakeemt]

when I am ready. I usually hold a bit till it just feels right.

[longbow fanatic 1]

What triggers my shot is back tension, which if done correctly the shooter doesn't know or anticipate when the bow will go off. What Jim Castro said.

[cab207]

Originally posted by EWill:
when the middle finger hits the corner of my mouth

This

[Spookinelk]

The best way I can think to explain my trigger is that I come to anchor with my middle finger in the corner of my mouth and start rotating my elbow back with my back muscles while relaxing the string fingers until the string looses itself. This is how I try to do it anyway. When I start shooting poorly I usually find that I am purposely letting go of the string which results in weak, off line shots(AKA plucking).

[katman]

Originally posted by longbow fanatic 1:
What triggers my shot is back tension, which if done correctly the shooter doesn't know or anticipate when the bow will go off. What Jim Castro said.

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[Terry Green]

I don't really know....sometimes I don't even remember drawing the bow.....just the arrow arriving.  Curt Cabrera can tell you the same thing.

[cvarcher]

WOW, a while back I would say yeah,just as I hit anchor. The problem though with all that snap shooting is , I never really got to anchor.Ive retrained myself .So now as I draw, the target is already sighted and being lined up. By the time I am on anchor Im locked on target sight wise. I deliberately wait a few seconds more so I can relish the lineup and conciously make a clean release.