Best Archery Finger Tabs

The Neet Pinch-Free is the tab a million school-program kids learned on — a $7 split-finger leather pad with a soft felt spacer that keeps the fingers off the nock. It's not fancy, and it's not trying to be: smooth super-leather face, sueded backing, five sizes, right or left hand. For a new finger shooter it does everything a tab needs to do for the price of a couple arrows.

Price

$6.99

Face

Leather

Sizes

5 sizes

Bear's Leather Tab is about as simple as string protection gets: a single piece of full-grain leather with a soft felt backing, cut for traditional shooters who want nothing between them and the string but good hide. No spacer, no plate, no adjustment — just a $7 tab that works on a recurve, longbow, or trad bow. It comes right-hand only in two sizes, which is its main limitation.

Price

$6.99

Face

Leather

Sizes

2 sizes

The Fivics Saker 2 is the AAE Elite's chief rival on the shooting line — a competition recurve tab built on an anodized aluminum frame with a replaceable cordovan face, a cordovan finger spacer, an adjustable thumb ledge, and a pinky holder. It comes in six sizes, the widest fit range in the category, and it's the tab a lot of Olympic-recurve archers swear by. Same premium tier, same premium price as the AAE — the choice between them is feel, not spec.

Price

$74.99

Face

Cordovan

Sizes

6 sizes

The AAE Cavalier Elite is a target archer's tab — an anodized aluminum plate carrying a replaceable cordovan face, an adjustable anchor ledge, and a plastic finger spacer, all tunable to your hand. This is the platform Olympic and barebow shooters build a consistent release on, and the reason it costs ten times a beginner tab: everything on it adjusts, and when the cordovan wears you swap the face, not the tab. Overkill for a beginner, essential once your release is the limiting factor.

Price

$74.99

Face

Cordovan

Sizes

3 sizes