Keeping your hands warm?

[bunyan]

I love hunting in the snow and cant wait for the late season here in Pa. But I have trouble keeping my fingertips warm. I've tried various handwarmers, gloves, etc. With little success. So how do you guys keep your hands warm enough to shoot after sitting all day in the frigid cold?

[David Mitchell]

When gloves are not enough, I use a hand warmer muff that fastens around my waist like a fanny pack with a large hand warmer pack inside.  Slide both hands in and easy to get them out if a shot presents itself.  I usually wear light jersey gloves with that set up.

[Trenton G.]

I usually wear a light glove on one hand and my shooting glove on the other and put my hands in a hand warmer like the one David described. If it's really cold, I'll activate a Hot Hands pack and put it in there as well. The only problem is if it gets too warm your hands sweat and then they get really cold when you take them out.

[Don Stokes]

When it's really cold I wear a pair of army surplus wool glove liners, and a pair of the fingerless mitten gloves with a mitten top that flips back, over them.

[Zradix]

Well...1st I wear good enough layers to keep my whole body warm....if your core cools the blood will be sucked out of your extremities.
...Tied for 1st..Wear a darn good hat...gotta plug the chimney vent.

I normally don't wear any gloves...messes up my shooting. I only wear a thin pair while walking in and out of the woods.
While hunting I normally put my hands in pockets that are close to my body to catch some body heat.
In those pockets I may have 1-2 chem packs and or a zippo type warmer.
I found the zippo type hand warmers work just fine with methanol as fuel.
They don't burn quite as long...but at least they don't stink.
For long hunts I bring a little bottle of methanol along to refill.
Also...they get a heck of a lot hotter than the chem packs.

[J. Cook]

I can be sweating because of core warmth and still have cold hands if my hands are in the wind at all - just I guess.  My father was one of the "no gloves" guys and even when he's admittedly cold on stand, his hands are warm to the touch.  I didn't get that gift. 

I use a hand muff (fleece lined) and put the hand warmers in there and keep my hands in it when it's cold, and especially if it's windy.  I'm rarely cold when hunting in terms of my feet, my body, or my head - but my hands will be cold often if I don't take these extra precautions.  The muff and the hand warmer combination are the ticket for me.  I do most of my cold weather hunting in WV - not cold by some standards, but many an all day sit in the teens, 20's, and low 30's. 

[GCook]

When gloves are not enough, I use a hand warmer muff that fastens around my waist like a fanny pack with a large hand warmer pack inside.  Slide both hands in and easy to get them out if a shot presents itself.  I usually wear light jersey gloves with that set up.

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[Soonerlongbow]

I’ve been thinking about the old school army surplus trigger finger mittens. I shoot split fingers with a Damascus glove so it might work as an alternative to a
Regular glove, maybe? 

[yeager]

Another one for using a waist attached hand muff with the hot packs that you activate by shaking.

[goingoldskool]

I've had really good luck with the glommitt. .. the fingerless glove with the mitten that folds over the back.  Keeps my hands toasty warm.

[katman]

A pair of merino wool glove liners and chemical heat packs in pocket or waist muff as described if really cold. When the shot is presented I don't feel the cold until well after the shot.

[goobersan]

Try sandwiching a chem heater between two gloves or wrist band- directly on your wrist below your palm. Same place you'd run cold water in the summer to combat heat exhaustion. Not directly on your skin though. This has worked well for me

[larry f]

Grey wolf makes a great muff, put a hand warmer or two inside and your hands will be toasty. There muff has a stretchy band that goes around your body and is always snug and quiet.

[paradocs]

Fleece-lined muff with a Firecel+....rechargeable handwarmer/light/phone charger.  Can turn it on or off as needed, and alot hotter than a chempack on high.

[stagetek]

A muff with two heat pac's.

[Bob Morrison]

Anyone remember the wooly burger that Paul Brunner was producing?

[Pfranchise]

Check out the Cabelas windstopper hand muff it’s super warm.

[Zwickey-Fever]

I use a Asbell wool hand warmer with a hand warmer packet. Keeps my hands nice and warm.

[Curtiss Cardinal]

I use layering just like the rest of my cold weather attire. I start with a Woolpower wrist gaiters 200 gram wool. Then a 400 gram Woolpower mitten on my bow hand and a wool glove on my string hand. Lastly I put a shooting glove on my string hand then a waterproof windproof mitten on my bow hand and I keep my string hand in the pocket of my wool pullover with a hand warmer or 2 in it.

[Kevin Dill]

Anyone remember the wooly burger that Paul Brunner was producing?

I do. I wanted a set of them but was too cheap to spend the money back in the day.

I'm not doing anything innovative or superb to keep my hands warm. Heck...half the time they aren't warm when hunting on cold days. My best strategy is a big thick muff and chemical warmers. I like to wear a pair of KUIU Peloton 200 gloves which protect my hands from instant cold when using binoculars, climbing, holding the bow, etc. I don't care a bit for thick gloves or mittens which must be removed or get in my way when action happens. The one little secret I own is a pair of Black Rock Foldback Mittens stuffed with 900 fp down. They are very warm and anatomically correct, plus allow quick use of fingers as needed.