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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: ShaftSlinger33 on December 17, 2024, 01:51:49 PM
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Apologies if this has been asked, but I cannot find the answer. Probably just overthinking it.
Curious if there is any reason someone would not want to use a heavy set of warm winter gloves and shoot with fingers instead of using a tab or shooting glove?Does this affect the release? Something like a pair of leather kincos or mechanix wear gloves comes to mind.
Struggle with cold fingers every year in Michigan winters. Bought some surplus wool fingerless gloves to wear under my tab, but finger tips are frozen after shooting for 30min. Can’t imagine after sitting for a few hours.
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It's pretty easy to put your hand with tab on in a pocket with a handwarmer pack.
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It's pretty easy to put your hand with tab on in a pocket with a handwarmer pack.
My current plan. Have the handwarmers on stockpile. Was just thinking a winter glove would allow me to be on the ready which could be nice in some of my setups where I don’t see or hear a deer until it’s <10yd away.
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the issue would be the glove material wrapping around the string affecting the string on release (similar to heavy coat wrapping the string on chest contact.
I wear pretty thick gloves, and wear my tab over the glove. I use a hand muff tube most of the fall, and once it gets into the low teens I'll shove a hand or toe 'hot hands' inside the back of the glove and that will usually keep my fingers warm enough to shoot.
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For years I shot with a golf glove for this reason. Wool fingerless gloves over a golf glove works pretty well
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I haven't done it intentionally, but i have shot a few deer with bare fingers on the string. I usually keep my hands warm in my jacket pocket or a muff with heat packs. In these cases, I misplaced my tab so didn't have it when it came time to shoot. Got the job done, but it does sting the fingers a bit if they're not used to it. Also, the release isn't as smooth because for me, the string get's caught up a little in my finger joints. I wouldn't do it intentionally.
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Only the best glove for the job and the right amount of practice with it will tell you if it’s doable or not. I’m of the keep the hand in the pocket til the shot opportunity is imminent school of thought. Chances are if it’s so cold I can’t pull that off, it’s probably cold enough to hang in by the fire with my feet up :biglaugh:
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I use a warm glove on my bow hand, and have a wool glove with 3 fingers cut off on string hand. Works good with shooting glove or tab. Thumb and pinkie stay warm, and hand goes into pocket or muff if really cold.
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I use a pair of military cold weather military pilot gloves with built in leather finger tabs.
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Those gloves look pretty good, thick gloves make for a poor anchor .I cut the first 3 fingers off a wool glove and wear it over my shooting glove and keep my hand in a muff till its time to shoot .
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No one can tell you what you will be capable of doing. Put the glove on and go try it.. I don't believe you will like it, but I'm told i'm wrong all the time.. most notably by my wife!
BigJim
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Jim, your wife and my wife must be related:) :biglaugh:
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I use a thin glove that I can wear under a pair of flip over mittens. This has worked well for me, although definitely practice with it a little bit as it feels a bit weird the first few shots.
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I would try fingerless mittens Ragg Wool for years Waterfowl hunting, but for bowhunting just uses Merino wool gloves by Kuiu and keep my hand in my pocket.
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Been using the Bear Paw fleece glove with the leather finger tabs sewn in. And a hand muff when real cold to keep them in. Can also put a hand warmer in the muff, no issues shooting with them, I practice often with them too.
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I always wear glomitts over a dura glove shooting glove. I have ones with the magnet on the cap so no velcro to clog or make noise.
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For years I shot with a golf glove for this reason. Wool fingerless gloves over a golf glove works pretty well
Good idea. I’m sure I got a few spares laying around. Thanks.
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Only the best glove for the job and the right amount of practice with it will tell you if it’s doable or not. I’m of the keep the hand in the pocket til the shot opportunity is imminent school of thought. Chances are if it’s so cold I can’t pull that off, it’s probably cold enough to hang in by the fire with my feet up :biglaugh:
Haha good point.
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Whats the opinions on those mittens that fold back away from fingers
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It can work in a pinch, but it isn't ideal. Many's the time I've chased rabbits wearing normal, winter gloves, or forgotten my shooting glove and just grabbed a leather work glove out of the truck's tool box. Accuracy might suffer somewhat because you don't get the same string feel, and depending on what your gloves are made of, you might not get a smooth release: a lot of gloves have grippy, high-friction material on the fingertips, which will tend to grip your string instead of letting it slide off. It can wreck your winter gloves, too, since many of them aren't really built to withstand the pressure of string release.
For serious cold weather hunting, I wear a shooting glove under a thick pair of convertible mittens, the kind Tajue mentioned, with the hand flap that folds over the fingers. That way I can keep my fingers warm until I need them. Once you flop the top off, it's business as usual.
(https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/81-aIb0PY5L._AC_SX679_.jpg)
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It has long puzzled the heck out of me that nobody seems to make a winter shooting glove: One with good insulations, but fingertips made of slick, string-releasing leather. Maybe even a convertible mittens with a shooting glove built-in. Wouldn't that be great for cold weather hunting. Some of you guys that sell archery stuff, get on that, will you? Thanks. :laugh:
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I shoot the same glove the entire year. A glove on the bare hand mostly. A muff makes it bearable in the cold weather. If I'm roving, I have a wool glove with 3 fingers cut off. I never was comfortable with a tab.
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What works for me is wearing a thin cotton jersey or polypro type glove on my tab hand. Then slide the tab on as if not wearing a glove. You may have to stretch the hole a bit larger on the tab for your finger (depending on tab style). I am a split finger shooter so I use that style tab. I have a few tabs laying around and I reserve the stretched ones just for this purpose. It does NOT affect arrow flight in the least for me and I have very large hands (XXL). The other hand gets to wear whatever works to hold the bow and not affect the arrow. I keep hand warmers in my pocket if needed. Hope this is useful!
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I use a shooting glove, but for this discussion it doesn't matter.
I use a muff with Hot Hands warmers inside to keep my hands warm while sitting & waiting. I keep my shooting glove on & stuff both hands into the muff, & they stay toasty warm!
But, when I'm going to and from a hunting spot, I don't have the shooting glove on-I put on a pair of thin deerskin gloves for the walk in or out. While sitting, I stuff them inside of my shirt to keep them warm.
I practice shooting with those, as well as my normal shooting glove, and I'm now used to shooting with both. The shooting glove is thicker and I feel the string less, but for the one shot that I might take with the deerskin glove, it's definitely doable!
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I sometimes use an insulated fingerless glove while wearing my shooting glove on the string hand. I have two pair of thick, Redhead camo gloves that match, one with full fingers and one pair that’s fingerless. Just mix and match…. I’ve also used a shorter tab with the fingerless glove that hangs up on my knuckle. Works well.
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I fully agree that Noone can say what works for you other than you and your experiences...
With that said, all we can do is give you "our experiences/preferences"...
These are mine.
I'm admittedly Hot blooded , and love cold/snowy weather. I do NOT like heavy gloves/mitts and over gloves. It completely changes the FEEL of the bow/grip connection for me on the bow hand , and makes an oddity even with the release /draw hand the way it feels/touching the anchor points/face...Yes , you could practice with these gloves and likely get more "comfortable" with how they feel.....Just not for me.
For me, No glove /mitt other than my leather shooting glove..I love hand muffs . Even in well below -0 temps it works for me.
That is just another bowhunters experience, your mileage may vary !
Best with your quest my friend.......... :campfire: