Interesting question, and I may invest in an ebay infrared thermometer for this summer. When shooting skeet at Ben Avery in the summer the barrels are too hot to touch by Station 4.
The ASTM standard for Thermal Pain Threshold (and when tissue damage starts) is 111 F or 44 C.

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1908 London Olympics. Walter Ewing (Individual Gold) and George Beattie (Individual Silver).



Woolfolk Henderson and many others always wore a glove on the forward hand. Courtesy of Chris Lien


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