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mikekeswick:
The main thing with a thumb ring is a completely different way of aiming. As mentioned before the impact point is way different if you just aim the same as when using a finger release.
If you make yourself a thumb ring then the first will likely be junk, the second mildly better....after a few you will be getting there  ;)

Marks:
I use the no glovs on my bowfishing #%^pound bow. I can shoot 30-40lbs all night without conditioning my fingers with no ill effects. Not primitive but it works.

reminniear:
I am new archery and bow making.  After an evening of working on a bow with hand tools, my fingers hurt for days afterwards so I decided to give a thumbring a shot.  I made one from a piece of water buffalo horn that I found at a pet store for less than $10 bucks.

I am shooting off the knucle of an osage bow that I made.  ( Thanks to everyone at the West Bottoms Bowyers!) 
I can't say I'm a great shot, but I am getting better.  I'm hoping to get a copy of "Kay's Thumbring Book", I hear it is good resource for using a thumbring.

I like my thumbring and am looking forward to trying Traxx's suggestion of using the middle finger to lock the thumb.

ohma2:
Ive shot a tab forever, I use black stretch band for attachment and I can just brush my leg and turn ibt around onto the back of my hand in a second. I got to hand it to someone who bowhunts in griz country would take some getting used to.a cougar was filmed just across the road from where I bowhunt and I have been looking over my shoulder ever since.you can also tripple serve your string where your fingers sit on it.

Traxx:
The main thing with a thumb ring is a completely different way of aiming. As mentioned before the impact point is way different if you just aim the same as when using a finger release.

once again,at the expense of sounding argumentative,i disagree.I think the mistake that most make is,they assume,that when the thumbring is used,the asiatic style is used as well.

I truly believe,based on personal research,that a thumb style hold and release was more widely used than previously believed,by American native people.I believe it was used in a more shorter draw style that had the same aiming,or lack of aiming style,much like many use today.I personally,can be fairly accurate,with this style,out to 40 yards,so far.I played with it here n there over the years,but recently started giving it serious consideration.

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