Hand warmers!

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LawrenceN

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Just a head's up my fellow hunters. I've used a lot of different products over the years trying to keep my hands comfortable. For years now I've used a hunters muff and I keep my hands and hand warmers in it as well as putting my gloved hands in. The nice thing about the muff is that I can use fairly thin gloves which allow for good tactile feeling and trigger control. I used to use "Hot Hands" hand warmers which are no longer available it seems. I have an Ocoopa electric hand warmer that plugs into a USB adapter and works like a charm. My buddy had picked up a whack of these pictured hand warmers. DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY ON 'EM!! These things were one step away from useless. They only get slightly warm, never really hot, and you'd be lucky to get 3-4 hrs. of any heat out of them, let alone the advertised 8 hrs. Just sayin'.
 
ok? My waders come with a heated fleece internal pocket. It worked really well when we out on -6 morning. I look forward to colder duck days!
 
I have a few ocoopa hand harmers as well. They double as battery banks to charge your phone or other electronics.
 
Guy I work with bought some heated gloves, charges the batteries at the end of the day. He swaps out his regular gloves when they get wet/damp for the heated one and is comfy the rest of the day.
 
Don't know where you're looking that you cant find the single use chem ones.

Still see them all over the place in Ontario, Amazon has packs of them, Crappy tire has em, frig even the dollar store has em (albiet they have the crap one).

Also you can get rechargeable ones you boil between uses under a bunch of names just search for sodium acetate hand warmer or gel hand warmers. Only issue with them is they need to be a decent size bigger to be effective.
 
You must have a bad batch. I used them during this year's deer hunting week in my cut finger hunting glove/mit. Kept fingers warm during below freezing temp in the morning. Open the pack 7 in the morning, they were still warm by 4 PM.
 
buoff said:
You must have a bad batch. I used them during this year's deer hunting week in my cut finger hunting glove/mit. Kept fingers warm during below freezing temp in the morning. Open the pack 7 in the morning, they were still warm by 4 PM.
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My chemical hand warmers give a good eight hrs of heat when the expiry date is still over a year away, but I tried some that I found that had just passed the expiry date, and they never got as hot, and lasted less than two hours.
 
stubblejumper said:
My chemical hand warmers give a good eight hrs of heat when the expiry date is still over a year away, but I tried some that I found that had just passed the expiry date, and they never got as hot, and lasted less than two hours.
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I have some old ones with the same issue. Some never generated and heat
 
Something I’ve been dealing with sitting in the deer stand, cold hands. Tried the hand warmers you shake when remove them from the package,not impressed. Thinking about a pair of electric gloves for next year.
 
Hunter7 said:
Something I’ve been dealing with sitting in the deer stand, cold hands. Tried the hand warmers you shake when remove them from the package,not impressed. Thinking about a pair of electric gloves for next year.
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I tried all sorts of ways to keep my hands warm. Keeping a spare set of gloves inside my jacket or next to my body and swapping them out for the other pair when they got cold. The mitten style gloves that you can peel back to have have exposed fingers. None of that worked for me. I read about a hunter's muff and I bought one. Best move I ever made for keeping my hands warm! I could use thinner gloves so better trigger feel and tactile sense. By putting my electric hand warmer in the muff with my gloved hands I keep very comfortable.
 
I've been using the Grabber hand warmers sold at CT and have worked out well for me for last couple years. As for how long, I'm not sure but have used them for one evening hunt this past season and lasted long enough.
 
One trick i use with the disposable hand warmers is to put them against my forearm between my base layer and sweater sleeve. It warms the blood up going to your hands and keeps them warm and don't take up space in your hand when you need to grab a rifle or sandwich or whatever.

I've always had good luck with them but this year i had some that were getting close to their expiry date and found the same as others here, they didn't get very hot and didn't last very long. Check those dates when you buy them
 
I've used several "thermopad" warmers, and it's hit or miss - sometimes they work well for 6-8 hours, other times only for 2 hours.
 
dand883 said:
One trick i use with the disposable hand warmers is to put them against my forearm between my base layer and sweater sleeve. It warms the blood up going to your hands and keeps them warm and don't take up space in your hand when you need to grab a rifle or sandwich or whatever.

I've always had good luck with them but this year i had some that were getting close to their expiry date and found the same as others here, they didn't get very hot and didn't last very long. Check those dates when you buy them
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A few different gloves and mittens have pouches on the backside of the hand for hand warmers and it works very well to keep hands and fingers warm. I have Raynauds (circulation randomly stops in certain fingers) that makes colder weather painful from October to April and this method works best for me while working, hunting or fishing. They’re barely noticeable and it works great keeping my blood flowing.

I also use rechargeable warmers, but being rigid they’re uncomfortable to use in the same manner. I leave those for ice fishing and hunting when I am stationary and can hold them in my hands.
 
dand883 said:
One trick i use with the disposable hand warmers is to put them against my forearm between my base layer and sweater sleeve. It warms the blood up going to your hands and keeps them warm and don't take up space in your hand when you need to grab a rifle or sandwich or whatever.
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That's a great idea.
 
I like two on my lower back between my base layer and wool sweater. One on the back of my neck. One in a hand muff. The hot hands this morning in hand muff never got past warm, which sucks because it was -20. Hand muff belt goes through a hot seat loop. Especially nice when still hunting, I’ll often only wear wool and it keeps my arse dry and warm when I find a nice log or rock.
 
I've had great success using these up North. Never tried putting them in my boots while on stand, but I don't see why they wouldn't work nicely. I believe they sell them at Home Hardware but I found them on Amazon as well.

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Nothing beats the old Joni hand warmers from the 1950s. Filled with lighter fluid or camp fuel they will work all night. Put one or two inside an old woollen sock for extra ease of use. Works great in a sleeping bag to prevent cold spots usually around the kidneys or feet. Old hunting jackets would come with kidneys pockets that fit the hand warmer. Scour old guys garbage sales and you will come up with one. I can’t believe this product is no longer available around here. My four came from a garage sale.
 
I've been rocking the Zippo ones (same principle as the JonE) and they are bar none the hottest and longest lasting warmers that I've ever used. Granted when the catalyst material starts to get near its end of life they can get a little finicky to light.
 
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