Hunting Washington Forum
Equipment & Gear => Archery Gear => Topic started by: sebek556 on September 07, 2012, 11:12:28 PM
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I learned a new lesson today.. If your release sticks on you keep holding it on target.. I have own this truball trail boss for 5 or so years now, never had a problem with it until today. I went to a new area to elk hunt after being invited by the owner. Spotted a few elk at about 700 yards( pretty open terrain mainly wheat fields) put a stalk on but they were gone before I got there. So proceeded to work my way around a creek figuring that in 85 degree weather they would stick close to it to stay cool. nope, but did find a awesome muly buck, stalked, ranged at 35 yards, drew back the bow, put the 35 pin on him, squeezed the release, nothing :o, try again, nothing, squeeze the hell out of the release nothing. Start riding the arrow forward while moving bow out to look at release and poof, arrow to nowhere. And the buck bolts :bash: I looked over my release and didn't see anything wrong with it, so I grabbed out a judo point and put it into a log with no problems, grabbed another one and repeated just to be sure. Think when I was crawling and had it in my pocket some grass or something got jammed in the release is what caused the issue. But if I would of kept it on target I would of eaten fresh backstrap for dinner instead of cold pizza
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:DOH: that sucks!! At least it was a clean miss and not a wounded deer though :tup: I kept having the pins start to fall out on my last release, after one misfire I decided a new release was in order.
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Truballs are awesome. I don't even remember which one I own. I've had it since 2007. Still works great. No sign of breaking. Love truball.
