The Best Finger Tabs & Shooting Gloves of 2026

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

The Damascus 3-Finger Glove is the thin-leather traditionalist's favorite — soft doeskin deerskin with reinforced fingertips, prized because the thin hide gives strong contact and feel with the string while still protecting the fingers. It handles bows up to about 55 lb and comes in four sizes, either hand. For traditional and longbow shooters who find a suede glove too clumsy and a tab too detached, this thin doeskin sits right in between.

Price

$14.99

Face

Leather

Sizes

4 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 Neet FG-2L is the entry point to shooting gloves — a tan suede three-finger glove with smooth leather fingertips and an elastic back that snugs it to your hand. Made in the USA, it gives traditional shooters the direct, feel-the-string connection a glove is for, without the price of a hand-tooled one. At $18 it's the natural first glove for someone who's decided they prefer a glove to a tab.

Price

$18

Face

Leather

Sizes

3 sizes

The Bearpaw DOA is the shooting glove as a piece of craft — soft REACH-compliant deer leather, leather-reinforced double-stitched fingertips, German Gütermann thread, hand-embossed with milled brass dies. It's the glove for the traditional archer who wants the best hide on their string hand and doesn't mind paying for stitching that outlasts everything cheaper. At $46 it's the premium end of gloves, and it feels and lasts like it.

Price

$45.99

Face

Leather

Sizes

3 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