Where to source materials etc. Also the place to show off your new bow or quiver etc.... Making things belongs in Traditional Crafts.
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Blinkybill
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by Blinkybill » Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:03 pm
Hi All!!!
I was just thinking about fingertabs and gloves. Who here prefers shooting with a glove or a fingertab? I much prefer a glove but there was a guy at our club the other day saying that fingertabs will always outperform gloves. I was wandering what your views on this were.
Thanks,
Ben
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gary p
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by gary p » Fri Aug 31, 2007 5:53 am
hi bill, i have used both i personaly prefer the tab ,when i used a glove it seemed that there was too much leather off the end of my fingers it was difficult to get a smooth release.i now make my tabs out of kangaroo tail and have custom fit them to my hand.Gaz.
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Jeffro
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by Jeffro » Fri Aug 31, 2007 5:55 am
Tab,but you can lose them easy when hunting so I take a spare with me.
I agree with Gary that the gloves have too much leather hanging off the end
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Axe
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by Axe » Fri Aug 31, 2007 7:15 am
Glove...I use only two fingers
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Abaci
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by Abaci » Fri Aug 31, 2007 9:00 am
Finger tab... I shoot three under. If I use a glove for some reason the arrow always comes off the shelf when I draw back... I think it grips on the leather of the glove... where as when I use a finger tab the nock rests on my finger and I can feel it...
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alicat
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by alicat » Fri Aug 31, 2007 4:52 pm
Im with axe. I just use my fingers and i shoot a 60 pound recurve it took me a week or so to get used to it but fingers are hard to leave behind.(I hated looking for my relese aid when i was a compound shooter.)
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flyne
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by flyne » Fri Aug 31, 2007 6:06 pm
i useto use a calf hair tab but curentley im using one of the dark side things with the little trigger
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Poppy
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by Poppy » Fri Aug 31, 2007 6:33 pm
Soft glove for me, I like to feel the string on my fingers
Paul
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Kieran
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by Kieran » Fri Aug 31, 2007 6:36 pm
should get a poll going for this topic, im intrested as well
ill be using a glove....mostly coz i dont hav a finger tab
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Hood
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by Hood » Fri Aug 31, 2007 8:18 pm
Stickbow Hunter wrote:A glove - Martin Deer Skin glove.
Jeff
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Mick Smith
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by Mick Smith » Fri Aug 31, 2007 8:47 pm
We pretty well covered this question not that long ago. Check out ...
http://www.ozbow.net/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=5262
It's interesting to read about the opinions of people who didn't respond to the article linked though.
Mick
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