Illegal Barebow Tab? Let’s Read the Rules

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• NU

  @Nuno_N · 7 months ago

  You can use farting for the same purpose.

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• JE

  @jerds9293 · 7 months ago

  Calling that piece of metal a "trigger" is inviting confusion and rules trouble.

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• B.

  @B.A.Bassangler · 7 months ago

  "assist in releasing"  sounds like they would need to define a psycho-trigger as an assist, or not.  Seems about as clear as anything coming from the DMV.

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• ML

  @Mladen_Kovacevic · 7 months ago (edited)

  I have been suffering from TP for a long time and my category is IB-TRRB, but the limbs are W&W RCX100 41# on my 26.5 inch stretch, the riser is wood lamination in the ilf system, 23 inches long, the limbs are long. I instinctively shoot 3 under and I miss like in the BB category, but I almost walk on the wire. Otherwise, even with the TP syndrome, I enter to make a good guess, but those rules... Thanks Jeck, you help me a lot even if I shoot in the IB-TRRB category! You are the 👑 of archery and you know how to explain to us how it should be done! 💪🏹👑

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• PA

  @ParallaxArchery · 7 months ago

  I have to agree with you here Jake. &nbsp;I&apos;ve seen the conversations in the groups and I think anyone that says this is illegal, with few exceptions, is in the &quot;mental triggers are cheating in general&quot; camp, and I do not agree. &nbsp;It&apos;s a stage in a mental process, and you still have to decide to let go. &nbsp;It&apos;s actually incredibly difficult to shoot this way still, it&apos;s certainly not EASY or doing any work for you. &nbsp;<br><br>these are the same people that comment on barebow videos that ILF bows are cheating... you should be shooting wood bows with wood arrow. &nbsp;And only at animals, and actually... just use a spear because shooting it with a string is cheating and you should have to chase what you&apos;re trying to hit. &nbsp;There&apos;s always someone trying to be the most hardcore version of whatever is going on.<br><br>If it passes tech inspection, let it fly.

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• WH

  @whale2562 · 3 days ago

  Could you teach me the proper hand-to-face positioning for the Tab-Sear technique? Every time I try it, my thumb knuckle keeps hitting my jawbone.

• LS

  @lstavenhagen · 7 months ago (edited)

  It sounds to me like WA&apos;s real objection is to using an &quot;external&quot; method of timing the release. In my view, they&apos;re interpreting the &quot;spirit&quot; of barebow as including forcing command-shooting, whether you&apos;re a target panic sufferer or not. And I would say that&apos;s a debatable point, tho I have a definite opinion about it.<br><br>But my criticism would be the folks who wrote those rules didn&apos;t fully understand what target panic is, and what causes it. If they did, they probably would address timing the shot in the rule with plainer language - disallowing (or allowing) methods of external (or maybe &quot;assisted&quot;) timing of the release. As-is, they&apos;re dancing all around trying to regulate a bunch of different things they have a vague idea about, but they don&apos;t seem to quite pin the tail on the donkey fully on what they really want you to do (or not do). That&apos;s because <i>they</i> don&apos;t know either.<br><br>Personally, I don&apos;t consider a target panic sufferer with identical equipment to be on the same playing field as a shooter without it - one can time the shot and the other cannot. There is such a thing as command-shooters who don&apos;t have TP, or they&apos;re able to cope with it well enough to not suffer. They have a huge advantage over a TP sufferer just on that alone. So I would either a) allow sears or other timing devices or b) simply create another &quot;target panic barebow&quot; class, that allows sears. &nbsp;B) is probably not a road you want to go down, for obvious reasons, so my choice would be a).<br><br>Not necessarily draw check devices like our clickers, since they give another significant advantage of forcing a very consistent drawlength, but for sure grip sears, tab sears and the like that provide an external means of timing the shot. <br><br>That&apos;s JMHO only as a 20+ year debilitating TP sufferer who&apos;s now in remission with external shot-timing devices like the clicker or the surprise release with a release aid, and I&apos;m sure others would &nbsp;have a different view...

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• FI

  @Fidtz · 6 months ago

  The irony that the more restrictions you put on the bow to make it &quot;simpler&quot;, the more complicated you actually make it. (For competitive shooting, obviously).

• NR

  @nrwmedia5488 · 7 months ago

  Been shooting a setup similar to this for a while now but I just bolt a piece of solid aluminum to the tab plate so my thumb can reach a sear edge. Perfectly league per the rules. If the rule of bolting things to a tab become illegal then to by pass this I would just build a custom tab plate with the extension for my thumb to reach built in. If tab sears and grip sears become illegal, I&apos;d just do an internal trigger like the bubble pop in your mouth. Challenging the use of sears would be pointless.

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• TH

  @thepusharchery · 7 months ago

  Your tab is 100% legal

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• DA

  @daveholland6170 · 7 months ago

  Your best way is to test how judges feel about it <br>We went through a stage where judges wanted AT FX stabilizers removed from the riser. My issue would be if you went to a comp and a judge said no. My day would be done or at least low scoring

• CR

  @CrimeVid · 7 months ago

  I know why I&apos;m scratching my head !!