Glove for hunting

[CRM_95]

Now that my shooting is coming along well, I'm starting to try to test all my hunting gear and run through all my hunting scenarios in my mind. I've shot out of treestands, shot from ground blinds, shot with heavy clothes on, but today I just had another thought. I use a glove when I practice, and I'll wear the same glove hunting in early season, but what about when it's cold? Do you guys that use a glove just wear regular insulated hunting gloves and shoot with those when hunting in cold weather? My glove that I wear practicing isn't going to be anywhere warm enough when the weather gets cold.

[Gdpolk]

I got some cheap midweight gloves and flip back mittens from Wal-Mart.  I cut out the fingertips on my midweight gloves and wear my shooting glove under the flip back, fingerless mittens.  You can pick both pairs up for less than $30 which is a pretty fantastic value in my opinion.  I certainly have some expensive camo items, but these are just simple, high wear items that I like to buy as needed and modify as needed.  No need for top end gloves in my opinion.

This gives me the warmth I need as the season progresses and gives me an identical string feel and release year round.

  https://www.walmart.com/ip/Mossy-Oak-Men-s-Pop-Top-Gloves/37948202

Another thing I try to do the most is run as light of a glove as I can and keep it in a pocket with hot hands as needed.  This really helps you to maintain dexterity, run binoculars more naturally, and reduces the bulk around the hand coming in and out of pockets or your pack so it's a little easier and more quiet to move.

[jamesh76]

I use a pocket heater and med or light weight gloves still

[Fletcher]

Not really a glove answer, but I wear a tab over a light or medium weight wool glove.  After a few shots it feels normal to me.  When it gets cold, my string hand hangs out in my pocket much of the time.

[Shadowhnter]

I wear a heavy glove until time to shoot, then remove it, and shoot bare fingered.

[Pat B]

in warm weather I wear cotton jersey camo gloves with the fingers cut out over my shooting glove and in colder weather I wear rag wool mitten gloves with fingers cut out. I keep a hand warmer muff on with heat packs for real cols weather.

[kevsuperg]

I usually wear a cold weather golf glove.
Warm enough but still thin.

[Rob W.]

I wear surplus pilots gloves all year. One on my bow hand when it's warm and just my shooting glove. Then when it gets cold I put them in a Asbell wool hand muff. If it gets really cold I add a fingerless wool glove over my shooting glove or a pilots glove under. I'm on season 3 with the same set.

[Sam McMichael]

It has been many years since I used a glove. I used hand warmers our heavy mittens that would easily fit over it. Now I use a tab. I wear fleece gloves now, and my tab easily fits over it.

[CRM_95]

Good stuff. Thanks for all the ideas.

[eidsvolling]

One of the principal reasons I switched from a glove to a tab was the desire to hunt regardless of the weather. Most of the time, my preferred tab is the Fred Eichler 3-Under. I can wear it very effectively over summer and early fall gloves.

When colder or wetter weather arrives, I switch to the SafariTuff tab because it has a cord instead of a hole and can accommodate a thicker glove finger. I melted the two cord ends together so I can pull the cord lock out to the end as far as possible. This leaves plenty of room for shooting with the Sitka Gear Mountain Glove, which has leather tips. I get a very good feel for the string from this arrangement.

When the really cold stuff hits, I use a mitten on my bow hand and a thin wool liner inside the Mountain Glove on my string hand.

[Bill Turner]

A cold weather golf glove has always worked for me. With that said, temperatures in Texas and Oklahoma, where I spend most of my time hunting, are seldom cold enough to require much thought to this problem. I wear the glove primarily for the camo effect.    

[Wudstix]

Just get by with light nylon camo glove.

[damascusdave]

You talking about Texas style cold weather or Alberta style cold weather

DDave

[Pointer]

At times I've used gloves...sometimes I removed the fingers sometimes I didn't..with mixed results. I found that I did better with just a thin leather glove on my bow hand keeping my right hand in a pocket with a hand warmer.