Tab Lubrication???

[PeteA]

I use a Cordonvan tab. Was wondering if you tab shooters us any type of lubricate on your tab to keep it slick.

[fatman]

bowstring wax;  not really for lube, mainly to quiet the "squeaks"...

[Ron LaClair]

In my Tournament days we used powder, keeps the tab smooth and slick.

[Pepper]

Powdered soap stone.

[Scott Teaschner]

I would stay away from wax. Bowstring wax will grip. You can fell the grip as you apply it to a string. Cordovan leather with the process it goes through is about as slick as it comes and probaly gets slicker with use. Its like trying to get black ice on the road a little slicker. I heard an old timmer talk about rubbing baby powder on them. I would try that first wax you wont get off to easy.

[PowDuck]

Back when I used to use a glove I kept a tube of chapstick handy and would rub a little bit of it on the fingertips. I guess a cordovan tab would be the same (I use a calf hair one now.)

[Stumpkiller]

When my tab gets scuffed looking I use a special natural mixture of readily absorbed non-greasy animal wax esters and fatty oils plus the long-chain organic leather moisturizer squalene that I make myself.

That is, I wipe my thumb on my nose or forehead and rub the finger pads of my tab.

[CurlyMcFletch]

What Pepper said...go to a hardware store and buy a stick of welders marking chalk...really inexpensive...and when you rub the edge on a solid object, it produces a powder...hence the powdered soap stone!!

[ScottinPA]

montana pitch blend

[BOWMARKS]

I'll second the Montana Pitch.

[Tox]

I don't use a tab but I use powdered soapstone on my glove.

[K. Mogensen]

baby powder

[SEMO_HUNTER]

I use my own Beaver Hide finger tab that I custom cut to match my 2 fingers under shooting style and I think it gets plenty of wax from the string? I haven't ever used any lube of any kind on it so far. I kinda like the powdered soap stone idea though, maybe give that a try and see if it helps me get a cleaner release.
I wouldn't like the baby powder unless I used a different tab for hunting because baby powder has a strong perfumy scent to it.

[cyred4d]

I'll second the baby powder. Corn starch will work as well.

[Van/TX]

Yep, baby powder or corn starch in a powder pouch clipped to your belt.  Bateman still makes them.  Baby powder for target, corn starch for hunting...Van

[Tater]

Not sure if they still make it but Martin used to sell Glove/Tab powder in a small plastic flip top bottle.

    I agree with Van on the cornstarch for hunting.

           Pat

[Friend]

Baby powder has performed well for me.

[Tater]

 Sorry about the terrible picture

[EL Mejor]

WOW,GOOD INFO,,,ON THE POWDER...

[Phil Tuccillo]

MONTANA PITCHBLEND