What flaw in my form causes the bottom of my ring finger(shooting split finger) to sting at release? And how do I cure it? Thanks.

Maybe you can move some pressure to your other fingers.

Sore ring finger = elbow to high or at least for me anyway . When you have a high (drawing arm ) elbow , you will put more pressure on the bottom two fingers . Bring your elbow more level will put more even pressure on your fingers . Give that a try and see if it helps , it did for me .

Mike

My ring finger would sting also.  I found that I was canting the bow, but not my head.  The bow would be slightly off vertical, but my fingers would be vertical.  This caused a slight "S" in the string and excess pressure on my ring finger.  Now my mantra is "Cant from the waist, not the bow hand."

QuoteOriginally posted by hgsnpr:
My ring finger would sting also.  I found that I was canting the bow, but not my head.  The bow would be slightly off vertical, but my fingers would be vertical.  This caused a slight "S" in the string and excess pressure on my ring finger.  Now my mantra is "Cant from the waist, not the bow hand."

I second his reason. That whole cant the bow but not the head caused a huge sore on my finger. Worked it out though.

This has come up several times on here and I too have went thru it.  In almost all cases it has came from as mentioned above, torquing the string(small S in string or lower part of hand coming away from the face).  Hope you figure it out.

brtiiman and hgsnpr hit it on the nose High elbow and twisting the string. A high elbow will cause you to twist the string also.