doublegunshop.com - home Forums General Discussion DoubleGun BBS @ doublegunshop.com Shooting gloves or not?

I'm a shooting glove junkie of sorts. Anything that keeps the metal of the gun from drawing the heat from your hands is helpful. When I shot damascus guns, having a light glove helped protect the browned barrels from the mild acid in your sweat. I've tried about all of them: Galazan's, Palm-swell, Orvis, Filson, etc. I think I've got a pair in about every weight now.

Truthfully, my favorite is an unlined deerskin for upland if there's briers. I just hate getting scratched by blackberries on the back of my hands.
TIG gloves are thin and supple, but are white.

I wear XL gloves. And I have warm hands, and take no heart medicines to worry about. So, YMMV.

I take a size L unlined deerskin glove, fill it with I-Propyl alcohol, slosh it around, and then dump out the alcohol. I jam my hand in and pull the cuff back to get a skin tight fit. The heat of my hands form fits my upland leather gloves.
But, I still prefer my Orvis Micro fibre, and their wool backed leather gloves.

But name brand thin leather gloves are 60$ or more, and I can form fit a leather glove, while stretching the leather out to a thinner condition for about 20$.

It's easy to try.

Fit is critical. Never tried the alcohol thing. Sounds interesting.

Once again, you won't be able to beat a black pair of baseball gloves. They're perfect, relatively inexpensive, and readily available. And most have good ventilation on the back.