[David Phares in AZ]

Do any of you wear gloves while shooting, other than for warmth, when shooting clays? If so, why, and what gloves do you recommend? If not, why?

thanks for your input.
David

 

[sandcountyalmanac]

These Home Depot Utility Gloves work well and last a long time, plus they're inexpensive and provide a good sense of touch: FIRM GRIP Utility X-Large Glove (3-Pack) 33103-24 - The Home Depot

 

[Steve Y]

I have a lot of friends that use golf gloves.
Steve

 

[jerrys]

for cold or wet, I swear by Macwet gloves. For very hot days when my hands get sweaty, I have some Bob Allen shooting gloves that I got at cabelas.

 

[oyeme]

I use Firm Grip Deerskin Gloves or Franklin batting gloves. I have also used some thin goat skin gloves. I use them year around although not needed for warmth here in Swampland, aka FL. I started using gloves to shoot 45 years ago and can honestly say that the gun feels very strange in my hands now when I don't have them on.

Some say they can't get used to them. I say use them every time for a month and then decide.

I feel that gloves give me a more secure grip on the gun without any additional grip pressure.

When hunting in brush they are a real blessing to protect from getting all scratched up. I recommended them to a hunting partner once when we were hunting grouse; he of course knew better until we had hunted for 2 days. He had some on the last day of our hunt.

They also are one of the best ways I know to protect any type of gun finish.


Full Grain Deerskin Leather - Firm Grip

Shok-Sorb® X Batting Gloves

Franklin's full-leather Shock Sorb X batting gloves feature sting reduction technology and offer superior grip in all conditions.

franklinsports.com

 

[24601og]

MacWet gloves year round.

 

[Rocky White]

Batting gloves.

 

[dmay815]

Love these. They’re easy to move in.

 

[oneounceload]

Do any of you wear gloves while shooting, other than for warmth, when shooting clays? If so, why, and what gloves do you recommend? If not, why?

thanks for your input.
David

I use gloves all year round - started when I lived in Northern NV for cold and continued even after I moved to Florida for sweat. I find Cabretta leather golf gloves (the bargain bin $5 ones) to do a great job - thin enough for a good feel, yet I maintain a great grip on the wood. Been doing this for 30 years now and shooting without them is like shooting naked.

 

[jusanothajoe]

I wear these for clays and hunting.

Specialty Vent Coyote | Mechanix US

Buy Specialty Vent Coyote at Mechanix US.

www.mechanix.com

 

[atthemurph]

Russell Shooting Gloves

In the early 1900s the Russell brothers, Will and Frank, had both a boot and glove division. While we focus on boots today, we still maintain partnerships in the glove industry. These deerskin shooting gloves are expertly made in the USA to our specifications. Available in Tan (Pictured) and Brown.

russellmoccasin.com

 

[Riflemeister]

Gungloves in warmer weather and Bob Allen leather and Thinsulate in colder weather. I always wore gloves when flying attack aircraft in the Navy and it just feels natural to wear gloves when shooting a shotgun. I truly believe that wearing gloves helps preserve the finish on my SXS's, especially the case coloring.

 

[Turbo 213]

I wear Bob Allen gloves and have done so for decades when I do wear gloves.

 

[thor_sen]

…other than for warmth, when shooting clays? If so, why, and what gloves do you recommend? …

There was a time I ASSumed the few blokes I saw wearing gloves while shooting outside cold weather months were just kooks. Then …

I shot 100+ open field sporting targets … solo … with my first 28ga SxS … a splinter fore-end … in Culpepper, VA … in midday … in mid-July!

That was the day I discovered it is very possible to sustain nigh on clinical 2nd degree burns on one’s support hand and fingers.

I’m sure it was a combination of the barrels heating up AND the sun radiating directly onto that same steel but, before I was halfway through the course it was downright PAINful anytime the steel even brushed up against flesh!!!!! The extremely light-profile gun barrels were simply too hot to touch, let alone hold, with my bare hand, my scores were suffering terribly with my trying use just my fingertips to move just the wood splinter forend; and, the lone trapper and I were too far from the vehicles to retrieve a bandanna or anything similar so, I wound up taking the perspiration-soaked ball cap I was wearing off my head and using that to protect my now raw skin.

Immediately after tipping the trapper and making my way back out to a main road and then civilization again, I went straight to a hardware store and picked up a pair of the softest thinnest leather finger / nylon backed “work” gloves I could find. Iirc they are “Mechanix” … anyway, I ain’t particular who makes em as long as they aren’t too stiff or thick and I don’t care what they look like (only thing I care about looks in are women and dogs; cars and guns I don’t care how they look as long as they do what I need em to do when I need it).

 

[Silver]

I use Geier kangaroo gloves for hunting/target use; esp. with SxS double trigger shotguns.

 

[cdb1097]

I use Gripswell gloves.


cdb

 

[sneem2]

Golf gloves. Really just in my left hand. With some guns the barrel gets hot.

 

[Ulysses]

I've been wearing gloves for shooting for 25+ years. Mesh shooting gloves work fine, but I often use thin leather golf gloves since they are readily available and cheaper. Gloves give a better grip on the gun and also protect your hands against burns.

 

[Frankieboy]

Orvis shooting gloves, only in the cold weather & I'm not sure they make a difference, my fingers still go numb from November thru mid March. Might be a mental thing??

 

[dogdstr69]

Gun Gloves for me but only on the trigger hand.Bobby