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Title: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: Howard on May 23, 2024, 09:24:22 AM: Been a long time since i posted here but hopped back in because there’s so much good stuff. Anyway, yesterday i thought that since i hunt with gloved hands I’d try shooting with a leather work glove. It wasn’t great but I noticed something weird, my good shots were really good but my bad were mat much worse than normal. Just wondering if anyone else has had similar experiences.
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: Terry Green on May 25, 2024, 01:12:57 PM: This belongs on the Powwow.
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: Terry Green on May 25, 2024, 01:46:15 PM: Great to see you Back Howard, you've been around for over 20 years.

I don't wear a bow hand glove hardly ever. It's got to be pretty cold on a hunt where I have to have my bow hand expose for long periods of time.

You being from GA you know all about the humidity. I use a leather, rubber, or stippling for a sure grip.

BTW, the BowHush CFO is getting married next Saturday, and she's moving to Carrollton. My mother is from Temple. Take care.
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: Walt Francis on May 25, 2024, 01:56:33 PM: I always wear a glove when hunting.
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: Terry Green on May 25, 2024, 02:04:18 PM: Quote from: Walt Francis on May 25, 2024, 01:56:33 PM
I always wear a glove when hunting.

Walt, on your bow hand? If so what brand?
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: Howard on May 25, 2024, 04:06:31 PM: Quote from: Terry Green on May 25, 2024, 01:46:15 PM
Great to see you Back Howard, you've been around for over 20 years.

I don't wear a bow hand glove hardly ever. It's got to be pretty cold on a hunt where I have to have my bow hand expose for long periods of time.

You being from GA you know all about the humidity. I use a leather, rubber, or stippling for a sure grip.

BTW, the BowHush CFO is getting married next Saturday, and she's moving to Carrollton. My mother is from Temple. Take care.

Yes, Georgia has that sticky feel right now for sure. Probably ease up a little come October 😃 I usually use just a very light glove when its cold but out of the blue tried a leather wells lamont type.
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: Magilla on May 26, 2024, 09:46:31 AM: I don’t wear one myself but if I did I would most likely try a golf glove, you can get them in regular, rain and cold weather.
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: Howard on May 26, 2024, 10:36:27 AM: Quote from: Magilla on May 26, 2024, 09:46:31 AM
I don’t wear one myself but if I did I would most likely try a golf glove, you can get them in regular, rain and cold weather.

I’m probably not going to start using a work glove based on results but it was just something to try. I’ve never thought about golf gloves but i have used mechanix gloves before when it was cold. Golf glove is probably a great idea if you’re inclined to wear one regularly.
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: Terry Green on May 26, 2024, 11:31:58 AM: Yes, I wear a golf glove if I have to wear one.
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: Walt Francis on May 26, 2024, 09:52:47 PM: Quote from: Terry Green on May 25, 2024, 02:04:18 PM
Quote from: Walt Francis on May 25, 2024, 01:56:33 PM
I always wear a glove when hunting.

Walt, on your bow hand? If so what brand?

Terry,
No particular brand, light weight leather or wool when it is warm, heavy wool or an insulated ski glove when the temperature gets cold. For me it doesn’t make much difference in accuracy as long as I keep a loose grip.
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: Wudstix on May 26, 2024, 10:31:42 PM: I wear a very thin nylon mesh glove to just cut shine off my bare hand and help with mosquitoes. Same on shooting hand with nylon tab.
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Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: artifaker1 on May 27, 2024, 08:41:35 AM: I do wear a goat skin glove on the bow hand when I'm having trouble with my hand sticking to the riser. One of my fav risers I sanded the finish off and hand rubbed bees wax on it in the grip area mainly. That does help to keep the riser from sticking to my hand. It is a Texas ebony ILF riser and the wood does seem to be nearly impervious .... But I do shoot a lot without the glove unless it is cold of course.
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: TSP on May 27, 2024, 09:33:28 AM: Have worn a tab-over-utility-glove since the early 90's. Gave up using archery-style shooting gloves long ago, for the same reason I like using thin utility gloves and a tab...the latter provides a much better feel of the string.

Gloves of some type are needed during the cold weather we have here in the fall/winter. They also help reduce the 'flash' of light-colored hands when moving the bow into position, and over the years I've found I actually shoot better with them on.

Using a tab with a wrist loop also makes it much faster/easier to reposition the tab or remove both tab and/or glove. Only a few seconds are needed to pull the loop on or off the glove or to spin the tab out of the way when more convenient. It stays put on the wrist and I don't even notice doing it anymore...it just becomes habit. And I never lose or drop a tab with this setup, unless it happens to fall out of my pocket or bag on the way in or out of the woods. Lots of advantages to this set-up.
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: charles m on May 27, 2024, 10:17:44 AM: TSP, he's talking about a glove on the bow hand.

I wear a glove when its cold, normally a light weight leather as I always have hand warmers in my outer layer jacket pockest.
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: Skates 2 on May 27, 2024, 10:32:01 AM: What Charles said. :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: TSP on May 27, 2024, 11:00:10 AM: Charles m, perhaps I should have been more specific. I buy my utility gloves in pairs and prefer to wear them that way...in pairs...one on each hand, when I shoot (might as well get my money's worth, right :goldtooth:). Point is, I don't find that what I wear on my bow hand (nothing, utility glove, work glove, golf glove, mitten, or rubber) makes much difference at all, EXCEPT perhaps for helping with the cold in late fall/winter conditions.

Basically, for me, the FAR more important setup for general shooting relates to what's worn on the draw hand, not the bow hand. Sorry that I wasn't clearer on drawing the distinctions.
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: Terry Green on May 27, 2024, 11:25:35 AM: Thanks Walt.
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: Jim Wright on May 27, 2024, 02:01:47 PM: I've never worn a glove on my bow hand before but I'm going to try one. For most of this month when shooting a 3d course here in Baton Rouge I find myself wiping the perspiration off the palm of my hand on my pants which of course are already soaked. It has been hot, today it will hit 96 with 70-75% humidity. It feels like what you used to have to wait for July to get. This could get serious if climate change was real!
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: Trenton G. on May 28, 2024, 07:45:38 AM: I wear flip over mittens when it's cold out. I just have to make sure when buying them that they have some sort of grippy material in the palm so that the riser of my bow doesn't slide around too much.
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: kopfjaeger on May 28, 2024, 08:56:24 AM: I only wear a glove on my bow hand when it's really cold, or if I'm shooting a 3D course in the hot summer and my hand gets sweaty. I wear one of these Easton gloves. They are a lot like a golf glove.
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: TGbow on May 29, 2024, 11:42:58 AM: Being from south Alabama it's not that cold very often.
I wear a thin glove on my bow hand for camo.
If it's cold I sometimes wear a glove but not a thick bulky glove.
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: Wild Bill MCP 808 on June 03, 2024, 10:22:07 AM: Try a golf glove they work great good grip, good fit, offers some warmth in cold weather, helps grip in summer with sweaty hands. They are not real expensive.
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: Bamboozle on June 03, 2024, 11:59:30 AM: To answer the question that was asked, I also use wraps or stipling on every bow for a no slick grip. The only time I wear a glove on my bow hand is when it's cold enough.
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: blacktailbob on June 03, 2024, 04:51:39 PM: Can't remember where or whom wrote it but I rmemeber someone stating (about 5 yrs ago) that beavertail actually got grippier (if that's a word) when it got wet and sweaty.
Here in Central FLorida it's always rainy and super humid most of the year and I have propensity to sweat quite easily when it's warm out (360 days of the year).

So I bought a beavertail and BIG JIM's had a video on how to install beavertail. A little challenge being a recurve over a LB and success. Had to remove, clean it and reinstall a few times but I'm a believer, beavertail works for me.

Five years and super durable even if the black dye has worn some. But when it gets cool out these old arthritic hands go for my gloves right away.
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Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: Hud on June 03, 2024, 09:39:47 PM: No glove unless it is freezing. Back in the 1950's, I bought a pair of deer skin gloves, and the right had leather stalls sewn onto the shooting glove. Still have them, I think. The original idea for an English Longbow with cord handle but no rest. The archer shot off the glove. It prevented the grey goose quill from cutting the hand. Here is an Englishman that uses one All The Time:

https://www.google.com/search?q=shooting+an+english+longbow&rlz=1C1PQHA_enUS539US565&oq=shooting+an+english+longbow&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyCQgAEEUYORiABDIICAEQABgWGB4yDQgCEAAYhgMYgAQYigUyCggDEAAYgAQYogTSAQoxNTkzOGowajE1qAIIsAIB&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:77f05022,vid:GbINsn5EVg4,st:0
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: toddster on June 04, 2024, 02:12:52 PM: For me when I hunt, I wear same thing as I do shooting year round, a Bateman glove. When cold may wear a fingerless wool glove on it, or just keep hand in my pocket.
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: Bobby Sikes on June 04, 2024, 04:15:42 PM: toddster, does Bateman make a bowhand glove?
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: Even on June 04, 2024, 07:38:19 PM: I use a deerskin bow hand glove that goes on the first finger, and that one is cut off around the second knuckle. The thumb is also cut off, but at the first knuckle. The three bottom fingers are completely free. I like the dexterity this gives me, yet I still get the top-of-hand-and-forefinger protection of the leather.

I shoot longbows without a shelf often, and even when I have a good shelf, my hand is right up next to it. I've had a few good nicks and zips from feather quills, and this prevents it completely.

I can't recall the brand of glove :/ Its holding up pretty well... but you can see the minute slices on the leather that would have likely been a nick on my hand. So yeah, I like a bow hand glove.
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: Terry Green on June 04, 2024, 07:56:47 PM: Even. Do you ever put super glue gel on the front of the quills?
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: Even on June 05, 2024, 04:32:08 AM: I have Terry... carefully faired, so there is no quill edge. I've also trimmed really carefully too, and used thread to wrap as well, on some of the carbons I've built myself (pain in the arse!). The sets I have tuned with the higher poundage bows I shoot now, and regularly, don't nick at all. I COULD shoot them bare handed.

The trouble being, when I was restarting shooting after a long hiatus, I moved up pretty rapidly in poundage, and did a lot of experimenting with various arrows, lots bought, some built before I learned a few tricks. That was the point at which my nicks were happening, and I got "gun shy" so to speak, so started using the glove then. I just became used to it, I guess, and frankly, am too lazy to go back and go over a LOT of arrows that I probably won't spend much time with again, removing burrs.

I still go back from time to time and shoot them though, so its nice not to have to worry if I shoot a shitty arrow, and the glove has long become a habitual thing.
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: Wudstix on June 05, 2024, 12:27:06 PM: A dab of extra glue on my feathers has been good for me. Only wear the light nylon glove for hunting, as camo.
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Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: Even on June 05, 2024, 04:19:41 PM: The glue solution was the one I settled on eventually for building my carbons. Fletching tape, with a tiny dab at the quill front and rear. At first I tried for pretty, and did a thread wrap over the front part of the quills... then came time for refletching LOL, a lot faster than I thought I would have to, and thats when I said "Hell with that" and went to a dab of glue, after carefull trimming of the quill front. It works well.
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: Hud on June 06, 2024, 01:55:30 AM: Fly tier thread comes in a variety of colors, or heavier rod makers thread for guides. Either can be protected by thread cement (liquid in bottle with a brush). Personally, I taper the quill and add a drop of glue, then sand when dry to remove any rough edge.
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: smokin joe on June 06, 2024, 10:56:16 AM: When I am hunting early in the season and the mosquitos are still bad, I will wear a thin glove that I have treated with permethrin. It helps a lot.

Later in the season I will often wear a light glove just to provide a little bit of warmth and concealment. When it is cold, I use hand warmers in my pockets and maybe a light glove as well.
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: Friend on June 13, 2024, 08:55:07 PM: My fingers stay tender even with all the farm work,,,,The Big Shot permits me to stay fully engaged w/o distraction and maintaining extreme confidence.
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: trad_bowhunter1965 on June 20, 2024, 03:33:25 PM: My all-time favourite was the Under armor glove before they were sold now it's the Kuiu Ultra Merino glove and the Sting Fleece
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: cacciatore on June 21, 2024, 12:33:13 PM: I wear gloves only in the winter,most of my bows are checkered or stippled so they are never slippery. In the winterI wear a light Merino wool glove if I am moving and if hunting from the tree stand I add a fleece glove that I can slip off if something approaches and still the Merino keeps my hand warm.
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: Stinger on June 24, 2024, 03:54:04 PM: My dad taught me as a kid that the key to keeping your hands warm when it got cold was keeping your wrists warm. Now I don’t know if that’s true for most or not, but it has worked for me for over 55 years. I do wear gloves on the bow hand however mostly to camouflage the skin. I opened my glove bag the other day and counted 23 different pairs of gloves. I have everything from old leather palmed aviators gloves to wool, to work gloves to thin cotton with the little grippy dots on them. Also have heavy insulated gloves. In the end I found that I tended to wear the same thing most of the time. In early season I wore the cotton gloves and when it got colder I wore a thin pair of ski glove liners with the cotton gloves over them. When it got really cold, I used that same setup but kept my bow hand in a hand warmer muff with a chemical heat pack in it until I was ready to shoot.
The key is that you have to practice with each setup so that you know how you will shoot with each one. Some of my gloves induced a bow torque that I couldn’t live with and I took them out of the lineup.
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: trubltrubl on June 24, 2024, 04:26:45 PM: I wear one 90% of the time . Unless it's hot out and the riser has a leather grip.
The glove does a few things , it stops mosquitos, it's dark so it is not noticed if moved , as lighter colors , and the grip on wood is more firm.
I have not noticed any difference in shooting accuracy.

On a side note . Make sure the index finger part of the glove does not go above the shelf if your wearing an I insulated glove , as it will raise your arrow above the shelf and your shot will be quite high ...... And likely a miss.
Title: Re: Who wears a glove on the bow hand all the time?
Post by: trubltrubl on June 24, 2024, 04:29:45 PM: Also , I prefer a glove that is leather on the palm or some form of grip . Straight wool can be slippery.
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Post by: MnFn on June 25, 2024, 10:29:17 AM: I hunt in pretty cold weather here in MN and ND. I do like a hand warmer in each pocket of my jacket or coveralls. But generally speaking, if my core stays warm that goes along way towards hunting comfortably in cold weather.

One of my passions used to be riding motorcycles. After my bypass surgery I sold or gave away almost everything associated wih scooters.

Except for these:
They look thicker than they are. They are actually quite thin. Harley Davidson stuff is never cheap, but most of it is pretty good stuff. I also have a thicker, heavier insulated pair also but seldom wear those.

Never tried it, but I think I could shoot with a tab over them.
As noted above, I do like the length of the cuff, they cover the wrist area pretty well.