They will repair things for sure - my partner had a pair of their trekking tights start to lose the threads on one of the zippers and she dropped it off and picked it up a week or two later repaired.

Ok, I will stand corrected!

Unless you actually have the ability to produce an image like this from start to finish, you're just guessing. Your attempt at the robot analogy is failed, because you *don't actually know* how to create an image like this, you're just assuming that if you spent the money, you could do it too because *it's just as easy as telling a robot to do it.*

Hurricane, like many others on this list, are of indigenous not Spanish origin.

The "surprise" is down to milli or micro seconds of difference, it does exist, and no it is not dangerous. Regardless of whether or not someone should or shouldn't be surprised by a tension release and your own opinions of their use, it still happens. Maybe it's just semantics and how you define the word "surprise." In my experience it allows you to practice archery in a flow state similar to throwing a ball or playing ping pong. You do the action and the thing happens.

I'll try to explain from my perspective (for what it's worth). Not sure if you have extensive use shooting one of these releases, but when aiming at a target I'm sure you can imagine seeing the sight pin "bobble" over the bullseye (or equivalent). It's impossible for us to hold a sight perfectly steady and always held dead on the target, but what we are able to do it to train ourselves to adjust and readjust and constantly pull the sight pin back onto target after drifting. This means that the exact moment the pin is dead perfectly on the target isn't quite the proper moment to pull a trigger, because you will inevitably drift away again a short (micro second) later, and now you have just pulled the trigger while the pin isn't on the target.

The surprise element comes into play because that specific micro second in time has been removed from the equation, and you can just focus on the form of the shot, and not the when of pulling the trigger. Since you can train your muscle memory to be constantly adjusting and readjusting to put the pin back on target the exact fraction of a second that happens if the pin was slightly off the target it will be moving back towards dead on even as you execute the shot. This gets removed from conscious thought and becomes reliant on muscle memory to execute.

Not trying to say there is anything wrong with a regular trigger release. Everyone has their own preferences. Honestly I think it's bogus to say one way is right or the other wrong, mostly I just took issue with your claim that there's "no surprise" and especially that there is something dangerous about tension releases.

Yeah, well as someone who uses and hunts with one of these releases, I don't agree with their critique. IMO the surprise part is in fact an important element of how they are used.

Sorry, but saying these having "nothing to do with a surprise" is just flat out not true. Maybe you could make the argument that is true for pros, but in general use, the surprise element is a real component.

The "surprise" part is down to a few milliseconds of difference. I use one for hunting, and killed a bull elk my first year bowhunting using this style of release!

I would use JB weld. They'll never open again short of breaking.

If she is proven to be right, this may just be a good example of the mindset of the people who denied her all these years :/

My partner absolutely loves their outdoor leggings. The zipper of a side pocket did start to come unthreaded on one pair of hers once, but she dropped them off at the store and a couple weeks later they were repaired free of charge. So they did start to fail but they just handled it, which works for me ...

Haven't found anything that beats Ministry of Supply for hot weather for sharp looking formal/ish wear.