Some of my archer friends have threatened to have that nailremoved from their fingers, but they all compromised byusing a glove.
Fig. 25C illustrates the conventional shooting glove. Theback of the glove and the wrist strap are made from a softglove leather. The finger stalls are formed from cordovan andsewed to the finger straps. Some gloves have a strip of elasticwebbing connecting the wrist strap to the back of the glovefor the purpose of keeping the finger stalls pulled up snuglyon the fingers. This gives all-around finger protection. Thearcher cannot "feel" the string action on the fingers quite aswell with the glove as he can with the tab. The archer who canshoot with a tab, without hurting the fingers, is wise in choos-ing a tab.