Topic: Biting pain on thumb when using thumb ring.
Hi all.
I've been trying to make my own thumb rings out of wood for some time now, but it seems like whenever I go to use one of my homemade thumb rings, I get a sharp pain in 1 of 2 places. The first one (which I have figured out and solved as of writing this), was due to the skin on the pad of my thumb getting squished and pinched by the ring when I went to draw. I filed out a larger groove around the top of the thumb ring, and that fixed the problem.
The second pain, and the one that I have yet to solve, is a pinch on the flanges of my thumb. The opening in my homemade thumb ring is slightly elliptical, so that I can insert my thumb, then twist it into place, seating the ring against the flanges of either side of the knuckle on my thumb. I was under the impression that this was the right way to do it, but whenever I draw I get quite a bit of pain on my thumb. I've tried tinkering with my thumb rings in all sorts of different ways to try and solve this, but none of them have worked so far. Is a bit of pain natural for a fairly new shooter such as myself?
Any help on this would be greatly appreciated, as I really don't want to have to bite the bullet and buy a thumb ring, and risk having it not fit.
Cheers!