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Riceburner, the pain/discomfort on your thumb is something you will strengthen through hopefully with more and more thumbdraw shooting. it can be considered normal to experience this pain/discomfort on the "line" where you have described that you are sitting the string on, and a "numbness" feeling above it on the top digit of thumb. i'm not to sure what you mean about experiencing pain on the nail...
Riceburner, the pain/discomfort on your thumb is something you will strengthen through hopefully with more and more thumbdraw shooting. it can be considered normal to experience this pain/discomfort on the "line" where you have described that you are sitting the string on, and a "numbness" feeling above it on the top digit of thumb. i'm not to sure what you mean about experiencing pain on the nail...