jjnap,

You might want to try a different tap or even a shooting glove. Other than that I can’t think of any reason for the pinched finger and callus other than your drawing arm is too high which is causing excessive pressure on that one finger. You should be able to work that out by shooting a blank bale to see what you’re doing wrong. Your fingers shouldn’t be taking a beating like that.

Brett

Hi Jjnapp, I would guess that if you are putting that much pressure on the nock then it will certainly effect arrow flight.

You might try this, without tabs or glove nock an arrow and just start to draw so that you can see and feel whats happening and where your fingers need to be. It may be that you are holding more weight on the middle finger thus pinching the index finger between the string and nock, this may also have an effect when trying to set nock height.

A lot of maybe’s there but good luck and let us know how you get on, Mark.

I’m one of those guys, that when trying to bare shaft my arrows……

I say this with all do respect but it sounds like you are pretty new at this so I recommend not worrying about bare shaft tuning. Nock high or nock low…don’t worry about it.

You might try this, without tabs or glove nock an arrow and just start to draw so that you can see and feel whats happening and where your fingers need to be. It may be that you are holding more weight on the middle finger thus pinching the index finger between the string and nock, this may also have an effect when trying to set nock height.

All your experimenting, searching, problem solving should be done on a blank bale approximately 5-8 ft away. Since you’re having issues with your string fingers begin experimenting with different finger pressures first. I would recommend putting even pressure across all 3 fingers on the string. Deep hook, shallow hook…..all done on the bale with no aiming involved. Don’t worry about shooting a target. Immerse all of your thought into that string hand til you find what works for you without pain. The bale is your friend if you will learn to embrace it. It is where all the parts of your shot should be developed and fine tuned. Not on the target range:wink:

Brett

JJ,

You may consider changing your release, too. From the sound of it, I take it you’re shooting split finger. Have you tried three fingers under? I tried shooting split finger when I started, and it just didn’t work for me, so I switched to three under, and it helped my accuracy immensely. You may find that switching will help with that finger pinch, too. And definitely give a glove a shot. You can get some pretty decent gloves for pretty cheap, anymore. Good luck and keep us posted.

Michael.

I shoot 3 under, but on my Super Kodiak I have double sting brass string nocks, some shooters do some don’t.