When you shoot with fingers do you put the three fingers below the arrow or two below and one above? I have seen the three fingers below method used, but I use the other. What are the advantages and disadvantages to both methods?
I shoot both styles with my compound, usually 3-under when I'm shooting barebow and split finger with sights. 3-under raises the nock of the arrow close enough to my eye to offset the speed difference between my compound and my stickbows. What I mean is, with 3-under I can use the same sight picture with my compound's flatter trajectory as I use when shooting my stickbows w/split finger release.
3-under makes more bow noise and is a little tougher to tune for because it puts more bend in the bottom limb. I have to make some serious adjustments to my bow's tiller for shooting 3-under, to equalize the pressure on both limbs. Some folks feel like they get a smoother release when using 3-under vs split. Can't say I've noticed much difference tho. If I hadn't been so much of a switch hitter between compounds and traditional over the years, I'd probably have stuck solely with split finger release.