Glove vs Tab

[katman]

I'm sure there are people out there, but I've never known anyone who has gone from a glove to a tab and went back to a glove. That tells me something....

Yeah Gene, I'm one of them. Tired a tab and went back to a glove.  I didn't like a tab for several reasons. 

I am another. While I shoot better with a  3 under tab, shooting split with a glove is so quiet I am changing back.

[Terry Green]

4 more notes.....

If you are shooting a glove and it grooves, you are shooting the wrong glove.

I have never lost an animal due to me not using a tab.

Howard Hill did pretty well with a glove.

And lastly, I wonder how an Olympic shooter would fair shooting and killing a charging boar - not once but 3 times dropping two in their tracks, and how they would fair shooting and dropping a buck in the dark that was a recovery, or shooting a friends hog he shot on a dead run, more that once, or an Angora goat scalding away at a 45* angle?  For me, any Olympic reference is totally irrelevant. I shoot what suites me best, not what suites an Olympian.  So, use what suites you and your hunting style and needs.

 

[Roy from Pa]

My target shooting with a glove.

My target shooting with a tab.

[McDave]

Wow Roy, do you give lessons?

[Roy from Pa]

LOL, sure I can Dave:)

[Terry Green]

Nice Roy, very nice. I'd say a tab definitely works for you! 

[Roy from Pa]

LOL

[David McLendon]

Barbee tab for me.

[Terry Green]

I had a second look Roy..... Your aren't fooling me....

You switched to bigger/longer feathers. 

[Roy from Pa]

Yup, they are more forgiving:)

[Terry Green]

Yes, obviously more forgiving than your tab. 

[Roy from Pa]

 

[Rustic]

Hey Steve, I started out with a glove. Then I decided I didnt like the smell of the leather treatment chemicals.
So, I bought some cedar chips you use for guiniea pigs or gerbils and put my glove and chips in a small bag, shook it all up. Glove smelled like cedar but I never got all the chips out of the glove. That was 10 yrs ago and thats when I switched to a tab...

[Zeebob]

As a kid I started out with a glove and used it religiously.  A friend introduced me to a tab back in the mid 80s…my shooting improved immediately. I switched then.  As time went on I tried several gloves again..but never found one that gave me the clean release I get with the tab.

I suppose the right glove is out there for me someplace, but I haven’t found it yet.  So for me, it’s a tab!

[acedoc]

Way less experience than you gents but started with a glove , got another glove and now will not shoot without a Tab- the best I found was the Toelke fleece faced tab. The fleece does wear off but that why I asked them to send several more of the fleece faces rather than the plain leather.
I have the American leathers bison and the 3 rivers deerskin glove but the tab feels most natural

[Wannabe1]

Is this overall improvement normal when using a tab?

Everyone is different and will experience different results. I have switched back and forth over the years but, really prefer a tab as, like you stated, my groups are better and my release seems more natural. I shoot with a Bateman Cordovan tab.