Patent ID: 6925995

Claim:
An archery bow breech structure comprising body means having an elongated outer surface portion, a longitudinal pull axis, a front portion and a rear portion, bow string keeper means mounted on said front portion and movable between a cocked position and a firing position, trigger means slidably mounted on said outer surface portion of said body means and having a finger contact surface, cooperating first shoulder means on said trigger means and second shoulder means on said keeper means, said trigger means being generally axially movable relative to and independently of said body means to a first axial position wherein said keeper means can be moved to its cocked position, and further axially movable to a second axial position to engage said first and second shoulder means and release said keeper means to its firing position, and haft means mounted on said body means for hand pulling said body means along with a bowstring held by said keeper means, wherein said haft means is attached to said body means by spring means selected to impart a desired lost motion action to said haft means at a preselected bowstring draw force whereby the relative axial positions of said bowstring, body means, keeper means and trigger means remain substantially fixed during said lost motion action until said trigger means is physically moved rearwardly on said body means by the archer to said second axial position.