Tabs?

[cbushee]

Why do you prefer tabs over gloves or bare fingers? Does the tab get in the way? Can you keep the tab on and nock arrows with it? Can you keep it on your whole practice? Thanks.

[lpcjon2]

My wife keeps tabs on me and I cant use anything with that word in it.  

[kybowman]

Personally I believe the difference between the two is with a tab your fingers lay against each other during the draw. With a glove the leather acts like a spacer between each finger creating a wider contact point on the string. My accuracy improved when I started shooting with a tab. JMHO

[Jeff Strubberg]

20 years shooting a tab.  I can do things wearing a tab that would destroy a glove.

Yes, you can nock arrows just fine.  If you need the tab out of the way, you just rotate it around your finger to the back.

[xtrema312]

Do a search.  There have been several great post on this in the last week.  I have no problems with doing all that with tab or glove.  I think a tab gives a finer feel to the anchor and anchor closer to the face with nothing but skin on skin.  My tab stays on my hand all the time just like a glove when I am shooting.  I even change points with it on and pick up small items.  A tab should be cut back a ways from the finger tips.  If it is really in the way I just flip it around to the back of my hand. A think glove is probably very easy to have on all the time also, but I have not so thick fingers so I like a thicker glove and they reduces my ability to work with small items with my string hand.

[Jack Denbow]

I switched to a tab about 35-40 years ago and have been using one since then. One thing I like about it is that if I am doing something with my hands like climbing a tree or whatever I can just turn the tab to the back side of my hand and not get it messed up.
Jack