Thumb ring used for. I have seen them on afew diferent pages for sale.

In most of Asia, especially the Mongols, Turks and Japanese, they used a thumb release. The thumb tip hooked over the string and the fingers folded down over it, to hold it in place. To release, they relaxed their fingers and the string flipped the thumb out of the way. So, they made thumb rings to protect the skin, just like we use gloves and tabs.

They made them from leather, bone, ivory, jade, silver, copper... I've seen pictures of some really beautiful ones.

I tried shooting my bow like that once and felt an incredible amount of strain in my wrist. I'll stick to fingers.

Can someone post a pic of one ? I've never heard of it, but sounds interesting.

thumb ring info

or this one: more thumb ring info

RC

Thanks for the info T.C. Looks cool,but I think it would take some gettin use to.