Hunting Gloves
- Thread starter Crazytrout
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Depends what stores you have in your area. Tons and tons of choices, find something that fits your hands well. I have a hand warmer for cold days so I can wear thinner gloves that I can feel my trigger with better.
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I wear thin leather gloves (similar to batting or search gloves) inside of large mitts on the real cold days...
I have some windproof gloves (medium stuffed if that makes sense) that I can still manipulate loading the mag and things like that, for the decent days
Edit - The point of the 2 gloves, is that I pull my leather gloved hand out of the mitt when its trigger time... Slip it back in when its getting too cold.
What Maple_leaf_eh said also
I have some windproof gloves (medium stuffed if that makes sense) that I can still manipulate loading the mag and things like that, for the decent days
Edit - The point of the 2 gloves, is that I pull my leather gloved hand out of the mitt when its trigger time... Slip it back in when its getting too cold.
What Maple_leaf_eh said also
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maple_leaf_eh
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
I would STRONGLY advise trigger time on the range with whatever gloves you chose. I have a sad recurring nightmare about dragging my trigger finger on the outside of the trigger guard as I was lining up on one of those mythical bigger than any other buck ever encountered in the field bucks. (Near Midale, Saskatchewan about twenty years ago looking into a hollow grassy slough. Sigh.) I was wearing insulated nylon ski gloves and the index finger didn't feel right going into the trigger guard. Before I could reorient myself, he was gone.
Since then I carried at least two pairs of hand wear in a cargo pocket. Warm and serviceable for the support hand, and thinner and more supple on the shooting hand. Air Force pilots' gloves are Nomex with leather wear surfaces and 100% wool liners. Designed for operating Her Majesty's expensive airplanes - great for hunting deer.
Since then I carried at least two pairs of hand wear in a cargo pocket. Warm and serviceable for the support hand, and thinner and more supple on the shooting hand. Air Force pilots' gloves are Nomex with leather wear surfaces and 100% wool liners. Designed for operating Her Majesty's expensive airplanes - great for hunting deer.
Butcherbill
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- Blaster land, Okanagan BC
Green wool military surplus glove liners with the finger tips cut off are my go to, I carry a second set without the finger tips cut off in case it gets real cold. Best part about wool is if your hands get wet you still stay warm.
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THIS!!!! I've been hunting for many years and tried all kinds of things. I'd keep an extra pair of gloves next to my body so when the first pair got cold, I'd switch them up. I've tried the solid fuel hand warmers (they stink!), and I've tried sitting on my gloves to keep them warm. What fratri wrote get my endorsement 100%. I bought a muff at Bass Pro and I love it! I have a pair of relatively thin hunting gloves. I throw a couple of the disposable "shake and bake" hand warmers into the muff and my hands are very comfortable throughout the whole day. Mind you, I sit on my stand all day and don't do much walking or moving.
I'll second (or third?) mitts for cold hands... I usually go with an extra large size so that they are easy on/easy off. Does anyone remember the mitts with an overlapping slit across the palm? Slide your fingers out to shoot/manipulate...back in to stay warm. Been looking for those for the last 5 years, no joy.
Cheers
and good luck
Cheers
and good luck
walmart had them near their hunting gear when I was wondering around aimlessly while the wife was shopping.
my personal preference is mechanics gloves. I almost always have a pair of insulated and non-insulated ones. I also bring a pair of mittens for when it gets real cold.
Mechanix gloves inside wool/thinsulate "flip" mittens that convert to open fingers when you flip the front mitten part back. Often I keep the mitten part forward and just keep my trigger finger exposed.
My life long hunting partner is left handed, when we were kids without a lot of money, he would buy mitts and I would buy gloves and we would swap the ones for our trigger hands at the start of our day rabbit hunting; those were good times. WK
My life long hunting partner is left handed, when we were kids without a lot of money, he would buy mitts and I would buy gloves and we would swap the ones for our trigger hands at the start of our day rabbit hunting; those were good times. WK
I struggled with every type of glove/mitt configurations and ended up getting a Sitka Incinerator muff a few years back and its amazing. Goes around my waist and keeps my bare hands toasty warm and I don't have to give up any dexterity with the gun or bow. Next best we're fingerless mitts that opened and closed with a magnet to keep the mitt flap open and out of the way.
Patrick
Patrick
swinginberrys
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The prices for gloves is stupid (if you look at stuff like the browning line of waterfowl gloves) Honestly I'm with everyone else that are using muffs. (Insert muff joke here) only thing I'd add is I use the solid fuel stick style hand warmer in it to keep it toasty. They are much better than the disposable warmers.
Thinsulate-lined deerhide work gloves is about all I ever need.
I got a pack of 3 pairs at Costco a few years back, for like $20 or something. Doesn't take long to take the right one off when it comes time to pull the trigger. They are great for handling ice-cold tire chains when the time comes, too.
More often than not, the gloves are in my pack. My hands have to be really frickin' cold for it to bother me. Like a couple weeks ago when it was 1C and pouring rain, and I was riding my dual sport with soaking wet gloves at 100 km/h. Actually my entire body was wet. About 3 inches of water inside my insulated rubber boots, too. That was unpleasant.
In severe cold, I agree that thin wool gloves inside some good mitts is the way to go.
I got a pack of 3 pairs at Costco a few years back, for like $20 or something. Doesn't take long to take the right one off when it comes time to pull the trigger. They are great for handling ice-cold tire chains when the time comes, too.
More often than not, the gloves are in my pack. My hands have to be really frickin' cold for it to bother me. Like a couple weeks ago when it was 1C and pouring rain, and I was riding my dual sport with soaking wet gloves at 100 km/h. Actually my entire body was wet. About 3 inches of water inside my insulated rubber boots, too. That was unpleasant.
In severe cold, I agree that thin wool gloves inside some good mitts is the way to go.
I went with the Heat 3 gloves a couple years ago and I add the handwarmers to the mitt on the colder days.
The conductive finger and thumb are useful for electronics that have a touch screen.
They are pricey but buy once/cry once and be done with cold hands and numb fingers.
The conductive finger and thumb are useful for electronics that have a touch screen.
They are pricey but buy once/cry once and be done with cold hands and numb fingers.
Thinsulate-lined deerhide work gloves is about all I ever need.
I got a pack of 3 pairs at Costco a few years back, for like $20 or something. Doesn't take long to take the right one off when it comes time to pull the trigger. They are great for handling ice-cold tire chains when the time comes, too.
More often than not, the gloves are in my pack. My hands have to be really frickin' cold for it to bother me. Like a couple weeks ago when it was 1C and pouring rain, and I was riding my dual sport with soaking wet gloves at 100 km/h. Actually my entire body was wet. About 3 inches of water inside my insulated rubber boots, too. That was unpleasant.
In severe cold, I agree that thin wool gloves inside some good mitts is the way to go.
I wore the same this year, very comfortable. I also like those flip down convert-a-mitts, but have to find wool ones for best result.
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