Cold Weather Shooting Gear

[Nightcrawler]

Here in Upper Michigan, it gets quite cold in the winter. It's not one of those rainy seasons you folks down south get; we get snow, lots and lots of snow, and it gets cold.

So your typical thin, cool-weather gloves don't cut it around here.

The problem is, my regular winter gloves make manipulation of most firearms difficult. The fingers are so bulky that I can barely get them into the trigger guards of any of my pistols, and they prevent proper reset of the trigger on my revolver.

The only gun I have that doesn't have this kind of problem is my FAL; being a military design, the grip is well-suited to gloved use, and if my gloves were even bulkier, the trigger guard can be removed.

But, can anybody recommend good cold weather shooting gloves? I'm talking COLD weather gloves here now; they'd need to keep your hands comfortably warm when it's zero degrees outside, and protect from the wind and moisture.

And yet they should allow proper firing grips on handguns.

Does anybody make such a pair of gloves?

[mpthole]

Don't know if this will help or not, but I've used the nomex aviator gloves (the really long ones that go half-way to your elbow) in cold weather. They allow for pretty good manipulation when firing and handling things. When not doing anything that requires any manual dexterity I put my hands in a big pair of "choppers" - big leather, fur-lined mittens - to keep them even warmer.

Only problem I had once was that my trigger finger got really cold after a long string of shooting. I was laying prone with a bolt-action at about 400 yards out in an open corn field. The wind was blowing like crazy and since I was proned out, I wasn't moving around to generate any more body heat. That particular day it was about 15-20 degrees F with a pretty steady 20 mph wind.

[SapperLeader]

I usually wear nomex flight gloves, hatch police gloves, or blackhawk solags. The key with any of the pairs, is that I use the thin army brown wool liners with them, and that definitly adds to the warmth layer.

[simon]

Check your local surplus store.They may have the military cold weather gloves/mittens but with trigger finger separate.

[Nightcrawler]

I was issued a set of those. I don't think they'll work well with handguns.

Doesn't anybody make very cold weather shooting gloves?

[Dr.Rob]

Sure.. get some hotfingers glove liners, wear them onder shooting mittens made of wool. Our side you are all "Scott of the Antarctic" inside you are all "Thriller". Works like a charm. The mittens fold over to reveal fingerless gloves, the dual density layer saves a lot of heat. Make sure you get the kind with a fully covered thumb.

I tried scuba gloves once.. never again.