I learned one little trick from Howard Hill early on, when I picked up a bad habit of plucking the string upon release. I worked on it and worked on it and out of nowhere it would happen again, when I was trying to shoot at a target. Didn't ever occur with me when I was hunting, but target shooting that little devil would come out of nowhere. He told me what to do as it had happened to him once upon a time. He said,"Jerry practice without a target on the backstop or hay bale." "Come to full draw and keep thinking to yourself release bottom finger first, bottom finger first". "Then turn loose of the string with your bottom finger first and the other two will automaticaly follow". I practiced this way until it became second nature and the devil has stayed away. He instructed me that when drawing a bow with three fingers, each finger has a purpose. The top two are on the string for the only purpose of holding the arrow in place against the nocking point, and the bottom finger should be used as your trigger finger for releasing the string. He said that if you were not going to use it for that purpose then why use it at all. Jerry Hill.................
Topic: Get rid of the string plucking devil (Read 263 times)
