[Cimbian]

Before you'll have any success with a clicker you must have a consistent and reliable anchor (sound like a catch 22?) and your clicker must be set at your draw length... not where you can set it off.

Make youself an elastic string using some nylon cord and a couple of bits of thin bungy-cord at each end.

String your bow as normal and the fit the elastic string to each limb nock.

Nock your arrow on the elastic string and practice a repeatable anchor over and over again and make sure you are not hunching towards the string.

You are looking for just a few mm of pile under the clicker each time you anchor, then aim and finish the draw... CLICK.

This will allow you to determine the correct position for your clicker; once you then apply load using the limb-weight do not move the clicker... especially forward as this is likely where the pain is coming from. The clicker does not set your form... your form sets where the clicker goes.

Once learned the movement will be smooth, quick, fluid and comfortable. Don't worry too much about aiming as your form should have you in line anyway, if it doesn't then that's another issue to look aside from draw-length.

All the other good stuff about bow shoulders etc. is important and equally valid without a clicker.

If you have the Cavalier clicker to avoid cutting your arrows then I would suggest the version that mounts between the sight block and riser as this doesn't alter when you draw your sight extension in or out.