Patent ID: 8276575

Claim:
An archery bowstring release including: a. a pair of jaws, each jaw having a jaw tip end and a jaw tail end, the jaws being rotationally fixed at a common jaw pivot, whereby the jaws rotate about the jaw pivot such that the jaw tip ends move apart as the jaw tail ends move together; b. a cam having: (1) a driving surface fit between the jaw tail ends, (2) a pair of rearwardly extending cam legs, each leg having an elongated cam channel therein, with the cam's driving surface being situated between the cam legs and the iaw tail ends, (3) a cam slot defined between the cam legs, wherein the jaw tail ends move together when the driving surface moves away from the jaw tail ends; c. a trigger: (1) fit within the cam slot, and (2) being pivotally actuatable about a trigger housing pivot situated: (a) at a fixed location with respect to the iaw pivot, and (b) within the cam channel, to urge the cam away from the jaw tail ends.