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- From: mje@pookie.pass.wayne.edu (Michael J. Edelman)
- Subject: Release technique
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.124644.3591@cs.wayne.edu>
- Sender: usenet@cs.wayne.edu (Usenet News)
- Reply-To: mje@pookie.pass.wayne.edu
- Organization: Wayne State University
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 12:46:44 GMT
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- I was ordering some cedar arrows from Three Rivers Archery yesterday and got into
- a conversation about some problems I've had shooting. I use plain Mercury nocks,
- not snap-ons, as most traditionalists do. Anyhow, I've had some difficulties shooting
- the instinctive style with a corner-of-mouth anchor. Tab, which I used to use,
- tended to slap me in the face. Most gloves lacked the feel I was looking for, and
- the one I settled on, a soft deerskin model, resulted in irritation to my index
- finger from the nocking point, as I had to grip the nock to keep the arrow from
- slipping off the string.
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- This is probably old hat to many of you, but it wasn't to me. What I was told was to
- roll the index finger away from the nocking point ever so slightly as I approached
- full draw, just prior to release. Voila! No pinch. It seems to make my release a
- little cleaner, too.
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- --mike
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