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I was watching the Bronze metal competition (USA vs India) and I noticed that all of the archers have a long, narrow band that appears to come off of the riser and it touches the front of the arrow. The commentator stated that when the band slips off of the arrow, that is the exact moment that they should shoot. Can anyone explain this in more detail?

Clicker. It gives an audible cue to release.

It helps keep draw length consistent.

It helps pulling through the shot instead of possibly releasing back tension and collapsing.

A clicker.. not unlike one of the klickity click you see some trad guys use… even fewer compounders

That’s because the compounders have a back wall

A clicker that goes off by drawing the arrow tip past the clicker which drops in towards the riser creating a click .I use a string clicker made out of a tape measure for my recurve but it does not click it vibrates the string.It make no noise for hunting purposes and does so about 1/4” or so before full expansion.A bitch to set up the first time until you know exactly what your full draw settles in at -My string is adjustable so if I gain strength/ longer draw length I can adjust but I have been at 26” for a long time now and shoot very comfortably.

Corax until I switched to a release aid I always shot a clicker on both compounds and recurve

If you’re used to it, I guess that makes sense, but probably not a lot of people are short-drawing their compounds these days…. if you’re up against a solid back wall, though…. I won’t say it can’t be done, but between the rollover of the cams, the let-off %, and the back wall, I’d think they’d be uncommon….

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