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Thanks, LeFusil, the Sealskinz look great. But I'm also tempted by the Aleutians, purely because I spent a formative spring/summer in the western Aleutians, where I learned to hunt. I was a lowly USFWS field assistant, taking out introduced Arctic foxes as part of the Aleutian Canada Goose recovery project. Because of the foxes, the geese were nearly extinct in the 1970's, but are now a pest species in NW California, with an extended season.

I never wore gloves for hunting until my best hunting buddy in college told me his dad, who was a surgeon, wore right and left golf gloves to prevent brier scratches which tended to infect when his hands were inside a patients body. I still wear them and find them perfectly satisfactory...Geo

Sometimes they match.

Geo, an old hunting buddy scratched his hands dove hunting retrieving doves in brier patches and ended up nearly dying from staph infection. Gil

I guess that would be better than swimming for a wood duck and dying of a brain eating amoeba...Geo

I've had a few brier scratches but so far, no drain bamage. Gil

My old hands have so many scars from mechanicing on farm equipment all my life until now I get scars on top of scars. But, I've never had a cut, scrape or scratch to get infected in my life. I never had my hands inside a patient's body cavity, either (and don't plan to). I think some people's immune systems and bank of antibodies are just stronger than others.

SRH

I don't wear gloves until it gets below freezing. Then I wear some very thin unknown synthetic gloves that were a light gray color, but I dyed them dark green. They are thin enough to not cause issues with the set trigger on my flintlock. And if they get wet, they dry out within minutes without removing them just from body heat. I wish I knew who made them. I have about 10 pairs left, and they are unbelievably warm considering how thin they are.

Multiflora rose is especially fun to crawl through without gloves, and hawthorne needles will penetrate boot soles... nevermind gloves. I've torn up my hands on many occasions trying to protect my gun stock from getting scratched. I figure my hands will always heal. I'd hope any surgeon who had his hands inside of me was wearing surgical latex gloves whether he had any scratches or not.

I never noticed that wearing gloves did any damage to barrel blue or case colors. But I have heard that the salt in human tears can be corrosive to gun metal when grown men cry.

I own approximately 10 different types/styles of gloves. My preference in general is for Climatec. Several brands use the fabric. The material is durable, will turn a normal briar, breathes, and provides excellent tactile feel. Second favorite is Bob Allen goatskin, unlined, treated with obenauff's.

I'm wondering who the surgeon is that had his hands inside a patients body cavity without gloves on!

Pretty long time ago. I didn't ever assist with the surgery in question so I don't know about the surgical gloves. That's just what the man said...Geo