i shoot with a clicker and have for a while now.  i do o.k. with it.  i love the 3-d shoots and have a problem with the home organization and cant use it at our state shoot...no big deal.  i use it with no problems everywhere else.

that said, right now i am having the worst time shooting i have ever had and am at the point of just giving up and going in reverse.  i really love the trad bows but i am in a slump that i cant seem to pull out of.  i have been shooting a recurve for a while now and shooting a longbow now..this may be the problem.  may be overbowed.  i am also busting my face open when i shoot..and that is getting old and painful, not to mention the blood that flies everywhere when i release!
i know a problem solver that i am confident i could shoot with and be better than ever..a release.  i would not need the clicker anymore.  i know i would not be accpeted in the trad world ever again..and as much as i love the 3-d shoots, that would suck.  i wouldnt care hunting.  i just know i would catch a lot of crap and really dont want to try it for that..and i know i would do a 360 with my shooting and would not want to change.

so no, i dont guess i would swallow my pride just yet..if i get any worse, then i may or drop it all and go back where i came from

I'm socially unexceptable anyhow,lol. When everone went to compounds in the 70's I stuck with stickbows cause it worked so I saw no reason to change. I shoot however I feel like shooting. If I hurt a finger or something that maybe be 3 under or even 2 under. Whatever allows me to keep shooting. Personally thats why I don't like that "trad" word. It is used sometimes to beat people up over whether or not what they shoot or how they shoot is "trad". Shoot what and how you want n above all, enjoy!

Good stuff folks. Fountain, If you shoot better with a release, who cares. I know a guy in your neck of the woods who shoots stickbows that way. He has some type of nerve damage in his fingers and can shoot no other way. I'd shoot one too , but when I shot wheels I always would get in my stand and my release would be on the dash of my truck. No worries about a release for better accuracy in my book. Don

Just shoot man! If your arrows fly straight and hit where you look (or aim), have fun & don't worry about what others think.

Watching arrows fly is pure and simple fun.

I wonder if the people who think everyone should shoot the same way if the guys that shoot differently than they do were out in the woods wounding animals so they could shoot the "right" way.  Ultimatly, isn't that what we all strive for, quick clean kills on an animal?

Point being, if they weren't complaining about how someone else shoots they'd complain because they were wounding animals, I'm so sick of people like that.  They'd complain cause their ice cream is cold.  

I don't know maybe I'd feel differently if I were a serious competition shooter.