Bow release device and method

Abstract

A bow release of the type having a wrist strap, a first body and a second body, the first body comprising a bow string keeper and a trigger system for releasing a bow string held in the keeper, the second body comprising a coil spring biased plunger extending from the second body and attached to the first body, the second body attached to the wrist strap so that when the bow string of a bow is held by the bow string keeper while the bow is drawn by an archer having the wrist strap attached to the archers draw hand wrist, the archer can actuate the trigger of the trigger system to release the bow string from the bow string keeper. The improvement of the instant invention relates to the coil spring. The coil spring of the instant invention has an uncompressed length in the range of from one half inch to five inches and a spring rate in the range of from three pounds per inch to eighty pounds per inch and where the coil spring is compressed in the second body to a length in the range of from 0.15 inches to 2.5 inches. The bow release of the instant invention can be used as a back tension release or a trigger release.

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