Any of you guys ever practice shooting your compound bows with your fingers? My bow is at #70 and I've never tried but thinking I should. I'm always thinking that there may be a situation where I don't have the time to clip my release on and I need to take a shot. Walking to and from my stands or even still hunting and tend to walk with my release clipped to the D loop and ready. I just don't want to miss a shot trying to get it clipped on.
Your POI is going to change, a lot. Another thing to consider is nock pinch. If your bow is shorter that 36-37" ATA then your going to have some severe pinching going on, which in turn affects accuracy. Personally, I would spend to time becoming more proficient with my release.
I tried it a few times recently and like Backcountry said your POI changes i shoot a few inches high with my fingers and yes they get slightly pinches as well
I shoot with a double caliper Scott sabertooth NCS release and I always clip it by feel not by sight so I never have to look down to clip it on. I was just thinking if you don't have the time to do all that and you knew the POI difference by using fingers, it may be good to know.
By no means am I trying to start anything, but if you don't have enough time to clip on your release you may not have enough time to make a clean shot, I tried doing speed shots and to make an accurate shot it at least takes me 8 seconds to clip, draw, anchor and fire and make a decent enough shot to hit a pie plate, I don't fell like that gives me enough confidence to take a shot at a deer doing it that fast.
I shoot a Tru-Fire Hardcore release. It is a single hook release not a dual-caliper. Makes it really easy to make contact with the D-loop especially if you use your thumb as a guide.
I finger shoot my compounds for bowfishing. Unless you shoot fingers a lot, you're going to hurt your fingers. I shot my 22" axle to axle TNT compound with fingers while it had a d-loop on it. After a couple dozen shots the d-loop knots started taking skin off my fingers... and I finger shoot a lot... ouch. Granted there's more finger pinch with a 22" ata bow.. but I also turned it down to 35lbs. Finger shooting really requires a rest that has a lot of contact to correct the inevitable torque you get with finger shooting. A drop-away rest will not cut it. If you don't have time to clip on your release, you either need to practice clipping your release on, or just accept the fact that you didn't have enough time to shoot. This is bowhunting... it's not supposed to be easy and sometimes you have to let the deer walk.
Finger shooting is a whole different game than release shooting and the Monster is absolutely the LAST bow I would ever think to shoot with fingers. It is everything that a finger bow should NOT be. You should seriously try it but do it from 10 yards or less. You're going to be amazed at how painful it is on your fingers and how hard it is to have any kind of accuracy. My tip is to have as few fingers on the string as possible and put them under the arrow. But seriously, either stick to shooting that bow with a release or get a bow/arrow/rest set-up that is designed for finger shooting.
Thanks for all the input. Sounds like I need to just to still hunt to and from my stand with my release clipped on and ready.
That's why I like the thumb trigger style release. I can clip it to the string when I'm sitting and have it ready to go. I can keep it in my pocket, out of the way when I'm hiking. Or I can have it clipped on and in my hand while I'm stalking up on something. It's never in the way and it never has me awkwardly attached to the bow.
