Numbness in tip of ring finger

[Barry Winner]

This past Wednesday, I shot trad for the first time in quite a while at a local club here in Westminster.  I shot with a group of three other guys and I had a lot of fun.  The fun stopped the next day when the pad/tip of my ring finger alternated between numb and tingly!  It's now Saturday and the feeling has only slightly subsided.

I was shooting my 52 lb. Savannah using a 3-Rivers Dura Glove.  I also shoot right handed with a deep hook(string in the first crease).  Anybody else experience this? And what was your fix?  Thanks.

[String Cutter]

Are you getting a calus or soar spot on the inside part of you ring finger??

[Barry Winner]

Nope, just the numb/tingly feeling.

[NoCams]

Try a thicker glove, 52lbs is a lttle heavy for my taste with a dura glove. I like the Super Glove with cordovan tips better on 50+ bows and lots of shooting. I do like the Dura glove, just not on a heavier bow.

Also make sure your draw elbow is down and inline with good back tension. Pull with your back and elbow and relax that draw hand. Only enough tension in your hand to make the hook with your fingers. Until I was blessed with a great coach I had way too much tension in my draw hand. I still have to remind myself to get that draw elbow down and back too. JMHO

nocams  

[52 bow]

I pinched a nerve in my neck shooting in Jan. and my thumb is still tingly to the touch.Hope yours goes away.lost 50% feeling/ strenght in thumb.

[bowfiend]

I get this in the spring after not shooting enough over the winter. It usually takes a couple weeks to go away, but never seems to cause "damage" to my finger.

Good luck.

[xtrema312]

I started shooting trad seriously again starting this winter after many years shooting compounds primarily.  I had a lot of finger issues with puffy tips, calluses and a middle finger with numb issues.  I was shooting a lot of arrows most days of the week.  The numbness would last a few days then faded if I didn’t shoot for a while.  I tried different things including gloves and tabs of different kinds.  Deep hook for a cleaner release helped.  What made a big difference was a tab with sufficient padding and shorter than I thought would be correct for fit.  Thinner tabs helped with the sore finger tips, but make the numbness issues worse.  I am using a BW super leather right now.  I started getting fewer issues with it, but it didn’t totally resolve the problems until I got a shorter one.  I was shooting with one almost to my finger tips for length with an open hand.  Then I went to one that only came about to my tips when hooked on the string.  That made a world of difference.  The extra tab material was causing the string to push off my finger tips even with a good release.  I originally thought the extra length of the tab would be needed to protect my finger tips from the string leaving my hand, but in reality it did the opposite.  With the shorter tab the string gets off the tab before putting pressure on my finger tips.  I thought the string would hit my exposed finger tips, but it doesn’t.  I am shooting just as much now and no numb finger or puffy tips.  I even went up 5# in bow weight without issues.  I probably shot 200 arrows yesterday through the day and my fingers are fine today.

[moose eye levi]

You'll eventually get a calus and build up tolerence and get used to it.

[ksbowman]

I've had finger issues with numbness and soreness. I put the office supply rubber finger tip protecters in my glove on all three fingers and they work perfect no matter how long you shoot with any pound bow.You still get a crisp release too.  Ben