what are you using, I use a super mit it is getting ROUGH and I wonderd if there was anything out there better.
Thanx guys / girls
I've been using a glove (currently a Shultz by American Leathers) for 20 years I've tried a tab a couple of times but for me it just doesn't work,,Frank
I've been using a Cavalier tab for the last six
months and I really love it.
I shot a Berlin then a Super glove for many years. A few years ago I went to a tab and have no intention of going back. Currently shooting a Saunders plastic Nam Tab. I think it's called a Pac tab now. I started using it for bowfishing and liked it enuf to keep using it for all my shooting. I've been on the same tab for at least two years now and is shows no sign of giving up the ghost. Cordovan leather tab would be my second choice.
Ive used the cavalier as well for the last year abd a half
Plain old damascus leather glove for me.
I use one of those grizzly gloves from Braveheart Archery. Best glove I've ever used.
http://www.braveheartarchery.us/new_page_5.htm
Tab. The gloves seem to form a groove and catch the string. My tabs seem to last forever.
For 3D and target shooting I use a Black Widow 3 under tab and for hunting I use a Damscus soft glove.
Big Shot glove. The elk skin model. I used the Neet cordovan glove all last year, but found that it never stopped stretching! It started of really tight & ended up 2 sizes too big!
Just can't seen to get it right with a tab. Everything I shoot goes a foot right of where I'm aiming, compared to a glove.
Saunders "Fabtab", & Cavalier Elite liteweight tab.
Tried a glove, but never got comfortable with it. Will try a glove again, but this time, something quality. My last glove was a "cheapy" so I won't pass judgement on gloves till I can try a few good ones.
Any suggestions from glove shooters?
I've shot a superglove for the last 2 years, liked it ok, but it never had that perfect fit, so I bought a few more of them, trying to get one that fit me better, never happened, then when my favorite fell apart a couple weeks ago, I just sat down and made my own from a piece of elk hide and the cordovan tips off my favorite glove.....Man I should have done this long ago, I now have a glove that fits me like a second skin!!.. and it wasn't hard,just took me a couple hours...........Steve
Damascus glove works for me.
Big Shot glove for me.
I have always used a glove...for about 50 years. Five or six years ago I went to a friends home to scout and shoot. I forgot my glove. He loaned me one of his simple cordovan tabs and I haven't used a glove since. Don't know how I ever shot well with a glove, now, but that tab gives me the best relaese I have ever experienced.
Saunders slick tab for the past 6 months. I used a glove for 42 years. I changed when I started shooting 3-D in the Southern states and had to change golves 3 or 4 times during a shoot due to sweaty wet gloves. The more I shoot the tab the more I like it, but it is like everything thing else you have to get use to it. It took me about 2 weeks to get use to it. I like it alot.
Skookum Glove.
Bill
Just got a big shot, and wish I had a long time ago.
Jake
I like to shoot with a thin deer skin glove or "damascus" style glove for practice. When hunting I wear a pair of thin uninsulated deer skin gloves and I like to practice with something similar to what I hunt with. Although I am going to try a big shot glove to just see what the hype is all about.
Cordovan Tab....
From Alaskan Bowhunting Co.
Howard Hill glove. Hap
bigshot elk leather glove
I go back and forth from a cheapy NEET glove to...well...a cheapy NEET tab. :knothead:
Glove
Simple cordovan tab
For me it is a Bateman cordovan tab,I've tried SAM,Big Shot,deerskin glove.They just give me the feel I wanted,it's a personal choice.
Cordovan Tab from Kustom King, I have shot the same one for 4 years now and thousands of shots and it will be good another 4-5 years easily. Shawn
damascas leather glove here
I used a tab for years. Recently I tried a Black Widow glove with the overlays on it. I am shooting better with the glove. My release was not as consistant with the tab, so for now i'll stick with the glove.
Glove for Neet. They are cheap, reliable and available around home. They just take a little breaking in and oiling. My last one lasted 4 years of 3D and lots of yard practice.
Has anyone tried one of the Palm Tabs that Black Widow sells?
American Leathers Big Shot Glove!!!
I shoot with a tab I made myself out of cow hide. I use it all summer and when hunting season rolls around I shift to bare fingers. My hands get cold late season, and I wear unscoured wool mittens I get in Newfoundland. When I have a shot I just pull my hand out of the mitten and shoot. I hunt with a 46 lb longbow, so a flemish string is easy on my fingers. Works for me.
DAM glove by Ol Buff and Big Shot from American Archery leathers.
Danny
Gloves; Damascus and an Alaskan. I like the padded fingers on the Alaskan when your shooting fast flight.Some low strand fast flight strings feel like piano wire when you draw them.This is what my Bud Bucky says.
i like the damascus
Been shooting finger tabs for over 35yrs. I make my owm tabs but this year I am shooting with a leather glove that covers my whole hand. I am tired of the mosquitos trying to eat my fingers off.
I swithed over to a tab this year. Improved my shooting big time.
Damascus glove. Then to a black widow tab. Now back to the glove. I prefer the glove is all.
ummmmmmmmm...errrrrrrrrrr...i use a tru-fire 3d hunter release aid...recurve and longbow...the fingers ain't what they were thirty years ago and arthritis dictates it's use... :( :eek:
i use a glove at the moment.i honestly dont know what kind it is.i'm working on using a tab though.
I have always used a glove, 3-finger style. I started with the type that has the stitching along the side of the finger, until I started getting a large, painful callous on the index finger (first between index and second finger, then on the other side after I switched to 3-under drawing) right next to the nail... Since I switched to a glove with the stitching on top of the "fingers", I no longer have problems with callouses. I like that with a finger glove, I can let the glove dangle without it getting in the way if I have to do field repairs on arrows or anything else requiring finger-tip use.
I've shot a Damascus glove since I fist dicovered them in the 90's. One a year, they wear out fast though... :thumbsup:
Okay, I'll be the wimp for this thread. I have got so I like those saunders rubber string thingies (like a No-Glov, but thinner) AND my glove when shooting fast-flight over 50 lbs. I know, it "slows the string down" and "rolls off the fingers too much for a clean release." Blah, blah, blah. You may have a point, but....
Friends, I'm no Jeremiah Johnson, but I'm man enough to admit that when I can COMFORTABLY draw to my anchor, all afternoon, my form gets better quick. And when my form is better, I can concentrate on the spot. And when I can do both those things without my brain hollering for me to let go of that damn piano wire, I can usually put 3 in a group the size of my fist at 20-25 yards. I have learned that if you try something and it doesn't work right away, give it another couple hundred shots and see if you can get used to it. Usually you can, if you're honest with yourself. I figure if some guys can shoot with other real disabilities, I can adjust my shooting for a more comfortable string. And for me, that means more accurate.
As far as speed goes, well, I'd rather the arrow got to where I want it eventually than miss instantly.
so there. Now, shooting 40 lbs and dacron, who needs a glove (at least for the first 2 dozen shots...)?
Charlie the Wuss, out.
DAM - 98% of the time.
My own tab 2% of the time. (Just to do something different.)
cordovan tab .....Alaska Bowhunting
3 under tab and trimed to fit :thumbsup:
I shot good with a glove but I shoot great with a tab. I only use my glove if its very cold outside. I make my own tabs and they work great.
I mostly use a tab. Can shoot a glove but my release is much better with a tab. I have a pattern and make my own. Sometimes I spay the leather good with a silicon spray that I found for un-sticking and lubricating things. No odor, waterproofs to a point and is slick for awhile. I keep some practice going with my glove cause what I forget is what I really need the most and my tab is on that list.
Actually I spray, see no need to spay a piece of leather. Pretty much past its prime.
damascus glove for me
Tab for me. Never liked the way a glove felt with my anchor point.
damascus glove lately, but have shot bare fingered a lot in the past. Been thinking about trying the triple serving as described Roger Rothaar in MOBB.