Hey All,

 

I'm relatively new to shooting and I hope I'm not asking too basic a question but does anyone here wear gloves when they shoot? If so, what kind of gloves do you use?

 

Assume this would be out of the question for competition but I ussually just do some casual plinking and target shooting. I have an infant and a toddler at home and am trying to minimize my exposure to lead. Also I ussually shoot outdoors and will probably need to start covering my hands in winter anyways.

 

Are there any hunters on the forum who have to deal with this?

 

The movies and video games seem to show military and SWAT folks wearing Mechanix style gloves but wasn't sure if that was actually common practice.

 

Thanks!

I have a set i use have also used them in steel shoot.

 

Purchased from dicks sporting goods, pair of addidas sports gloves..

I don't wear gloves shooting, but I am very non tactical.

My wife as well as many shooters wear gloves. In my wife's case she has soft hands and the stippleing on most grips is too aggressive for her as well as her claiming she gets a better grip with gloves.

 

One big plus is she doesn't get gunpowder residue all over her hands. Make sure you clean your hands before you put them near your face/mouth.

 

I smoke and shoot wearing no gloves and I'm messed up with high mercury and lead. So take precaution!

 

Make sure you get gloves that you can feel through. I buy Kimber these Browning branded gloves that are like mole skin and sensitive. You need to maintain somer degree of tactile sense.

 

Wash tour hands and face throughly gloves or no gloves and it's not a bad idea to change your cloths after shooting and going near the kid.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ What he said..

I don't wear gloves, even when hunting, I'm a bearback kind of guy. I keep hand sanitizer and paper towels in my range bag and wash my hands when I get home.

I don't wear gloves, have thought about it and I do say it's a good idea but when it comes down to it, I'll only wear then when it's cold out when I am waiting to shoot, and take them off to shoot. I shoot jacketed or at least some sort of coating and mostly outdoors. Yes it would probably be smart but it just doesn't feel right, same with mechanics gloves, could never wear them and heck that last corner of the sandwicch with the grease on it always went down better anyway. Lol.

Unless you are reloading and shooting your own lead bullets, the exposure is minimal. Just wash your hands after shooting.

bird hunting it can get cold so i wear some mechanix wear bright orange to keep my hands warmer and they feel great on the trigger too..

I wear those mitten/gloves during the cold weather... the finger tips are exposed so I can feel the trigger and grip things, but I can also mitt my stabilizing hand if it's really cold out. Not really heavy duty though...

 

During the summer I use a set of work gloves, nothing fancy... they're lightweight and breathe easy.

If its bitter bitter cold I will wear a pair of thin leather Hatch gloves. I just dont like shooting in gloves because it doesn't feel right.

 

Maybe glenn or vlad will chime in on this, but I have heard that shooting an ak designed weapon with the wrong handguards can get downright hot.

If its bitter bitter cold I will wear a pair of thin leather Hatch gloves. I just dont like shooting in gloves because it doesn't feel right.

 

Maybe glenn or vlad will chime in on this, but I have heard that shooting an ak designed weapon with the wrong handguards can get downright hot.

 

It's a lot harder to do this in New Jersey with 15 round mags and semi-auto only AKs. There are youtube videos of AK handguards catching fire. Oh to be in a free state.

I sometimes wear half finger biking gloves. If it's really cold I have a pair of gloves that have a decent feel to them and they're padded for some protection.

I kinda wished I had some gloves on yesterday, when I snagged a nice hunk of index finger in the slide safety of my XD40, and proceeded to bleed all over the Heritage Guild in Easton :-)

Mechanix gloves are widely used by the military (I can't speak for the LE community), and that was a reason why they make military-type gloves now (compared to the original). I have a pair, though I still do prefer my Hatch gloves I have used for years. My use is when it is cold, or when I know that I'll be using a firearm for an extended amount of time.

if it is cold out, I'll wear gloves.

I will NOT wear gloves while I am shooting.

I've worn nomex gloves, mechanic gloves, hatch gloves, winter gloves with wool inserts, and recently started using my icon tarmac motorcycle gloves for warm weather shooting. My preference is wearing gloves because I always seem to find a reason to cut or burn myself when shooting. But in the past I've slammed cover trays on my hand, swapped out red hot barrels, and gone palms up when racking the bolt on an M2. Nowadays I only wear gloves when doing 3 gun.

bird hunting it can get cold so i wear some mechanix wear bright orange to keep my hands warmer and they feel great on the trigger too..

I wear mechanix as well but black since I am a mall ninja.. and black fits the rest of my ninja garb..

If it is cold, I wear whatever pair of spare gloves I have laying around from work, so either a pair of mechanix type gloves, or a pair of nomex flight gloves.

mechanix light duty/utility gloves. thin and tight enough to give full dexterity, yet protect your hands.

I shoot without gloves and with them, and my advice would be to try several types/ brands to find the ones that fit you best. Unfortunatly you won't know it untill you spend several hours on the range So you mite not be able to return the gloves. try to find the gloves locally 1st before looking online. And don't buy into all the marketing for the "shooting" gloves. i did and spent extra cash on, well, gloves ......

http://www.midwayusa.com/product/1524129174/browning-mesh-back-shooting-gloves-synthetic-suede

 

These are the ones Kmber uses. There are a couple of pair in the range bag. Her's are all black and they run small.

 

Like I said they are synthetic and feel like mole skin.

Thanks, Old School. Those look pretty good and reading the reviews on the site it sounds like they really run small. Price is pretty modest so may see about rolling the dice and trying on a pair.

 

I have a couple of the basic Mechanix gloves in my garage and will plan to try them out this weekend too.

Hey All,

 

I'm relatively new to shooting and I hope I'm not asking too basic a question but does anyone here wear gloves when they shoot? If so, what kind of gloves do you use?

 

Assume this would be out of the question for competition but I ussually just do some casual plinking and target shooting. I have an infant and a toddler at home and am trying to minimize my exposure to lead. Also I ussually shoot outdoors and will probably need to start covering my hands in winter anyways.

 

Are there any hunters on the forum who have to deal with this?

 

The movies and video games seem to show military and SWAT folks wearing Mechanix style gloves but wasn't sure if that was actually common practice.

 

Thanks!

 

I only wear one when strong hand reloading shotgun as it prevents burns.

 

As for the lead thing, these are supposed to be the be-all, end-all of lead cleaning products.

 

http://www.policestore.com/.aspx/pid=42542/sku=100-006-928/Product/FIELDWIPES

 

Supposedly works better than the d-lead stuff.

I try to wear gloves as much as possible to reduce the amout of nicks and cuts that one gets from shooting, reloading, and clearing jammed weapons. I for a good portion of time used a pair of the $25 5.11 tactical gloves, but then bought another pair of gloves which were the mechanix fast wear or something liek that cost ~$12, and recently bought another pair of mechanix gloves for about ~$18. So yea I have 3 pairs of gloves and I carry them almost everywhere and I use them as much as possible to shoot. If your shooting under stress chances are you will some how cut yourself so gloves help reduce that. That's just my view on the issue.

I wear hatch all weather shooting gloves, there supposedly used by sniper... But they work great on my glock. Cheap to about 40 bucks

Only during extended shooting sessions with the Wasr-10. Other than that, NO.

Competition, I take gloves off to shoot, I just dont feel the gun/grip with them on too well.

 

If it is just plinking, will wear gloves if cold out. I do try to wear gloves when I am brass whoring, whether regular gloves or latex gloves if it is warm out.

 

I picked up a pair of Blackhawk shooting gloves from Dvor for like $10, and love them. Quite thin and tactile, yet warm and cushy.

I picked up a pair of Blackhawk shooting gloves from Dvor for like $10, and love them. Quite thin and tactile, yet warm and cushy.

 

I saw you wearing them and meant to ask you about it.

Quite thin and tactile, yet warm and cushy.

 

How feminine of you.