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Offline The Gopher

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tab or glove?
« on: April 05, 2010, 12:34:01 pm »
When I finally made a successful bow and started shooting i just started using a glove, probably because a had an old one lying around, i guess i never thought about using a tab.

this weekend i thought what the heck, tried using the tab. I would shoot a round with the glove, then shoot a round with the tab. i did this for several rounds and am sure now that i was shooting much better with the tab than with the glove.

I guess i always thougth it was more of a preference thing and that there really wasn't a significant difference in performance or shooting effect.

was this true just for me, or do any of you have similar experience with a tab working better for you than a glove?
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Re: tab or glove?
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2010, 05:07:11 pm »
i was shooting with a 3 finger glove.  and this weekend, i tried a couple different things.  i was doing much better shooting with nothing.   though, my bows are kinda light, 40 and 43, i feel i get a better release.  if i make a more powerful bow, ill probably use a tab.
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« Reply #2 on: April 05, 2010, 05:37:34 pm »
It took me a lot of shooting practice and experiments to see that there can be quite a difference between a glove and a tab. For that matter, different kinds of each. I used a Neet glove for a couple of years, occasionally a Kant-pinch tab. After a while I got frustrated with my accuracy, so I tried a high-end tab, the Cavalier Elite. I discovered a couple of things. One is, a slick tab like that may require you to use a stiffer arrow. Anchoring will feel different, too. I also discovered that part of my problem with the glove was it was worn out- it had just enough string groove and set to it that I was getting inconsistent releases.

Anyway, though I do better with a tab, a glove feels more natural, and I just ordered a Duraglove, that I hope will be the best of both worlds.

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« Reply #3 on: April 05, 2010, 06:36:08 pm »
Tabs, in general, give a cleaner release than a glove or jsut bare fingers. A glove grooves, as do your fingers, where a tab does not. Actually, a tab serves more to clean up a "bare finger" release than it does to protect the fingers unless you use a thicker one- and that's a normal regular leather one, not a slick one. Of course, most tabs these days are single hole tabs, so they may flop about and slow a shot down- hence alot of hunters using gloves. I use the old English War bow style tab with two holes and that thing is about as fast as a glove and out of the way as can be. I got started bare fingers so a glove was either too thick and therefore cumbersome, or too thin and useless to protect my fingers.

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Re: tab or glove?
« Reply #4 on: April 05, 2010, 09:58:28 pm »
I go Barehanded...except for Winter time...then I wear a Deerskin Glove
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Re: tab or glove?
« Reply #5 on: April 06, 2010, 08:14:28 am »
I use a tap or bare fingers,about the time I would get a glove broke in it would get grooves in it,so I stay with a tab. :)
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Re: tab or glove?
« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2010, 08:04:58 am »
So far I have been shooting bare fingers. My bow is 47# and I can shoot up to 35 shots or so before I start getting sore. I hunted this winter with fingerless wool gloves and shots felt good.
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Re: tab or glove?
« Reply #7 on: April 07, 2010, 02:23:16 pm »
Damascus glove for me.
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Re: tab or glove?
« Reply #8 on: April 07, 2010, 05:51:48 pm »
bare fingers for me
as far as etting sore goes,well that depends on the bow i am shooting
most of mine are in the 45-50 lb range,those i can shoot well over 100 arrows before i ger sore fingers
my 65lb elb,after about 60 shots my gingers are getting tender
must be these little girl hands that i have  ;D
i should work with them a little more,maybe they'll toughen up some
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Re: tab or glove?
« Reply #9 on: April 07, 2010, 11:08:39 pm »
I shoot with a tab, but I'm going to make myself go barehanded.  I'm sick of losing tabs. ;)
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Re: tab or glove?
« Reply #10 on: April 08, 2010, 12:10:24 am »
Damascus glove for me too. I shot with a tab when I shot wheels but once I started shooting trad I switched to a glove. I generally have to buy a new one every year to year and a half but I still prefer it. I tried a super glove with Cordovan stalls. The stalls were great but the glove under them fell apart in about 1 1/2 years. I'll stick with the Damascus.
  Also I got tired of dropping my tab from the treestand. If my glove hits the ground I will still be attached!  :o
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