Three fingers under or Mediterranean stye?

[BadKarma]

Shot split for 25 years, then tried 3 under and found my groups tightened up. Good enough for me to switch full time.

Old dogs can learn new tricks.

[Mo0se]

3 Under is better for close shooting, 35 yards and under. It lowers the impact of the arrow, and gets the shaft closer to the eye. Aiming is not a bad word...missing because of some non valid belief that doesn't even exist to appear to be trad is the real problem. Only the archer has to live with their results.

[TSP]

Hmmm, this thread is six years old.  Looks like the dead horse is rising out of the pumpkin patch again, lol.  

Three under is better...aiming is not bad...otherwise you'll miss...to be trad is the real problem, yada yada ding dong.  

I respectfully disagree.  There is no universally better or even zipcode-based better.  There's just what works for you and what doesn't.

But If I were you I'd shoot split...it's much more effective.    

[highlow]

Hmmmm! I was surprised to learn that those of us who shoot 3 under weren't aiming. Now I'm really confused. Always thought that's what one did when shooting a weapon, be it gun, bow, spear, whatever. Could anyone help out here? Please!

[TSP]

These days any question/topic containing the word 'traditional' is probably going to end badly, or at least it'll rile up the masses.  Asking whether something is 'more traditional' than something else is an open propane tank waiting for a lit match. Best not go there.  At least not unless rational common-sense discussion can be guaranteed, which of course it can't.

It's much better to ask questions like 'Is it considered cheating to gap aim? or "Is it ok to hunt deer with a 14 pound bow? ".  Those always make for quiet good-natured conversation.    

[Sam McMichael]

3 under was never comfortable enough to stay with long enough to get used to it. A lot of people like it, so, at least for them, it is a good method. Others prefer split finger, so it is obviously a very good method also. So, like many things in archery, it is a simple question of preference.

[Tajue17]

split finger for me using a glove,, tried 3 under and couldn't hit anything but curious if any selfbow shooters tiller their bows for 3 under?

I came over from the Primitive side of Trad and maybe that's why it really stuck with me.  

traditional is any way you want to hold the string a lot of people shoot with two fingers.

[WVbowhunter]

I have tried both and prefer split finger over three under simply because spilt finger is more comfortable as I grew up doing it. Three under is slightly more accurate at short distances but past fifteen yards I can't tell a difference as far as accuracy is concerned.