Hello Tom,

Cheers for the PM. By the way the guy in the picture holding the bow with the Laser sight is "Bernie Pellerite". The pictures on you threa are featured in his book. Here is my pm to you for all to see:-

I have read you very lengthy journal with great interest. I notice you refer to Bernie Pellerites book quite a lot. A book I hold dear to my heart. I find it a very informative and helpfull read, all be it very american.

A bit about me.

I am 40 years old. I started shooting at the end of August 2004, so I will have been shooting 2 years this August. I started shooting recurve. I found from day one I could not hold on the Gold or aim properly. I paid this no attention as I had no way of knowing why? I did Ok and managed to shoot Ok by "drive by" shooting. As the sight ring passed the gold I would loose the arrow. I decided on my own to fit a clicker and saw an instant improvement in my shooting. Within a month of shooting with it I was in the top two in the club. Winter struck so I did not shoot much outdoors. I did quite well indoors putting in two consecutive 546 portsmouth scores ( 600max) but started to freeze on the clicker. I had little or no help from e decent coach so ended up very down and fed up. By the end of winter I then started to shoot Compound.

That is when TP really kicked in. No way could I aim with a button type release aid. Again by pure luck I bought a back tention release aid. To this day I still shoot it. I managed a 1240 Fita by the end of last outdoor season. So I'm doing OK. I shoot my BT release with ease and find I can shoot a conventiol release aid OK now. But I don't trust my self. I know I would start to punch the button within two weeks. So I just shoot my BT release and find TP is no longer a problem. I still freeze a little sometimes and then have to come down and start over. But on the whole I shoot OK. Often better in competiition.

How TP feels for me is:-

A giddy happy feeling where I see the gold and I have to let go, like my mind says" its in, shoot now" It goes off and I get a miss. I never get this "giddy feeling with my BT release as it's near impossible to punch"

Any more input, let me know

Cheers

Rich