Firstly I opened the case, which was a job and a half because of how snug the components fit. Upon checking, the trigger sear and levers were gunked in a heavy grease that had gotten quite dirty so that must be slowing things down a bit, and the trigger pressure spring is stiff as a board, even with the adjuster backed out completely. I removed all of the components and gave them a bit of a clean. Here's a pic of what the inside of the release looks like with the casing off...
Once it was cleaned I reassembled it and used a quality bearing lubricant from a skating shop on the pivots. The trigger spring was far too stiff as I mentioned, and as I do not have any other springs I took a drastic step and cut about 1/3rd off it.
What can I say, it's like a totally different release! It cocks incredibly smoother than before and the trigger feels fantastic, with much less pressure needed to release. I tried it out at the club and it's amazing now, I think i'll stick with this one for a while longer before changing to a Carter or a Stan :)
The next shoot for me now is on Sunday at Dinefwr Archers in Llanwrda, a marked animal round. I have never shot this round before and it will be quite strange shooting at animal pictures to hit the 'killzones' instead of at circular targets. Bruno and I shot some of these at the club at various distances to get a feel for it and it is very different.
The earthy colours of the animals is harder to pick out through the scope, and you have to select a point on the animal to aim at rather than the middle of rings so a lot more care has to be taken in aiming and i'll need my stronger glasses! The shoot promises bad weather and lighting so this may make it a bit trickier, but in practice I was nailing killshots on almost all arrows so I should be ok. It's a high scoring round i'm told, and since I am now A Class if I have a good day, I may be able to claim an incentive award... here's hoping!
The next post will be the post-shoot review, fingers crossed :)
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