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Thumb ring versus shooting tab or glove (Mediterranean)

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mullet:
Yea, I don't have anymore trouble pulling my 60# horn bow with either grip. My 50# Hybrid I pull with my thumb bare finger. Seems to be a lot cleaner release. I've watched James Parker shoot that way constantly with a 85-90# bow.

loon:

--- Quote from: mullet on December 20, 2015, 08:59:16 pm ---Yea, I don't have anymore trouble pulling my 60# horn bow with either grip. My 50# Hybrid I pull with my thumb bare finger. Seems to be a lot cleaner release. I've watched James Parker shoot that way constantly with a 85-90# bow.

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Wow. The string+serving better be reaallly thick at the point it's drawn, then. I think I'd still get all sorts of blisters, or worse.
Thumb ring can be very clean if it works, but it's very hard to get a thumb ring that fits well, in my experience.

Gao Ying talked about supporting the thumb with index and also with index+middle finger. On Turkish archery, supposedly just the index is used and it barely applies any pressure at all on the thumb because of the way the thumb ring works? Yet on other (Ming Chinese?) styles, using index + tip of middle finger strengthens the hold. Turks also drew 100+lb, had tiny thumb rings

Urufu_Shinjiro:
I made my own thumb ring so the fit is perfect. The opening is oval so it slides over the knuckle when put on sideways but then you rotate it and it locks in place and will not slide past the knuckle bone, and that is where all the draw weight is, not on the pad of the thumb as you might think but transferred through the ring and spread out on both sides of the knuckle bone, the part of the ring that goes over the pad of the thumb is really just a guard to prevent injury on a bad release. So the ring does more than just protect your thumb from the string like a leather thumb ring, it spreads the draw weight over the majority of one of the strongest bones in your body and not on the joint at all. The index finger over the thumb should not be applying very much pressure, it's just there to steady your thumb and prevent accidental release.

loon:
Not on the joint of the thumb when it suddenly gets thicker on the sides? How does it not just push on that joint, if not?
Do you think the thumb rings with guards could do that at all? Like this kind of ring, where the string doesn't just go on the edge but on a 'bent' section

Urufu_Shinjiro:
If you feel that knuckle on your thumb you'll notice that the wide part of the bone is part of the bone in the middle of the thumb, not the bone on the tip of your thumb, all the weight and pressure in on that bone, not the joint or the bone on the tip of your thumb. That picture is the kind of ring that I use, it's hard to describe but even though the string rests where the lip and the ring meet the pressure is still transferred to your thumb bone, so much so in fact that if the ring is too loose and doesn't lock onto the bone the ring will come right off your thumb and be shot like an arrow, lol.

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