Anyone use shooting gloves regularly?

[DevLcL]

Yes, I wear kevlar shooting gloves everyday at work.

Usually I put them on when I'm about to search someone or I think I might have to tussle. I wear them mostly for the cut-resistant qualities. I rarely actually shoot with them.

-Dev

 

[RNB65]

I wear batting gloves to shoot clays with shotguns. But I don't normally wear gloves with rifles or handguns (except on cold days when I wear fingerless granny gloves).

 

[thewheelsonthebus]

I use Bob Allen 316 shot gunner gloves when shooting. They are thin cool and eliminate moisture from getting on the pistol or rifle. That’s a plus for the southern outdoor shooters. They keep everything clean including hands. That’s the reality when letting 300 down range. And for the purists and hard cores that don't want to ask for time out to put gloves on - no finger prints - ah ha. Plus computer hands don't really like the HK USP 45 checker after a couple hundred. So in the end go bare or use mittens as long as you get the job done. plus sometimes you really need them as second skin.

 

[Joey2]

I wear gloves when I go to the bathroom, that way I don't have to wash my hands.

 

[LAK]

I've used various combinations in winter when it was just too cold to shoot barehanded. Other than that, just a neutral color-toned cotton or goatskin leather for hunting - and the latter for shooting the heaviest loads with .44 mag revolvers etc.

For winter I recently scored some nice Austrian pure wool gloves with suede panels and a trigger-finger slit. Will not get the chance to try them out until later this year though.

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[Bix]

I wear gloves when:

a) I'm shooting outdoors and it's really, really cold out ; or

b) at a shotgun or carbine class after the weapon gets hot enough to burn my fingers.

 

[carpettbaggerr]

computer hands don't really like the HK USP 45 checker after a couple hundred.

That's some sharp checkering, 'Bus. Or was it a couple hundred thousand that did your hand that way?

 

[mljdeckard]

I have a few pairs of GI D3-a glove shells I cut the fingers off of. Out in the dirt I always wear them, and when it's cold, I slip in the green wool liners. I have made sure I am comfortable using all my guns with them. But this more to save my hands if I fall than shooting. I guess I use them when I shoot a lot of clays, I keep a pair in my shooting bag.

My daddy told me, when we were roofing in December, "The only thing you can do with a pair of gloves on is wet your pants." I guess he never tried cutting the tips off.

 

[allstarz]

Batting gloves. I got the kind with no padding, thin material, air holes, black, and the name is Under Armour, 25 bucks, still in good condition after a year. No affect by using gloves and then switching to a bare hand either.
The thing that sucks is you have to buy a set and I only use it on my right hand...guess I could use both when shooting a revolver, and keep my hands clean.