| As everyone else has said (or at least those that have given a serious answer), reasonable scores have been shot without a clicker.
However, what is the point of putting yourself at a disadvantage?
Undoubtedly a clicker will improve a good archer's scores, there is no question of that.
You should comfortably pull up to the clicker, and the last "squeeze" of your shoulder blades should pull the arrow through the clicker, at which point you should release - you should have been sighted on the gold for well over a couple of seconds already at this point. There shouldn't be any discernible time lapse between the click and the release (you should be ready to release by the time the clicker click's. If you your not, you should have come down by then).
My scores initially dropped when I started using a clicker (from 520 Portsmouths down to below 500, but after I learnt how to use it, I now achieve 580+ on average). Admittedly this process is much easier with a coach or other experience archer, I am pretty much self taught.
Kae.
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