Very good gloves/mittens rifle hunting?

[mrbladedude]

Hello. I will be hunting this year in early December up in the Poconos PA. I am looking for gloves. My hands freeze every year here in VA and from what I understand it gets way colder up in the mountains of PA. Even with those Mechanics gloves you see everywhere my hands feel like iceblocks.

I have been doing some reading and allot of people say that the mittens with the magnetic flaps work really well. Some say you put gloves underneath those?

So do I need to wear gloves under the mittens? Any help here would be great.

What is an excellent mitten or/and glove to buy?

Thanks

 

[rcmodel]

I have been using Gates #706215 Glo-mits from Wally world for years for all winter tasks.

They are gloves with thin fingers, with a thick mitten flap you can close over the fingers.
Magnets hold them open.
Also have an elastic snow cuff inside the large coat cuff to keep snow out and seal warmth in.

Very warm, & very versatile while doing 'finger things' you can't do with mittens on.


All I see now have the fingers cut out of the inner gloves like the action hero's wear in the movies!!
Lot of good that does your fingers when you need to wear gloves in the first place!!


The only problem is, I don't think they make them anymore.

Luckily, I had enough good sense to buy several pair of them on sale one the spring for something like $5 bucks a pair!!

So, I'm set for life!!

rc

 

[matrem]

Thin gloves inside a hand muff have worked the best for me lately.
When it's really really cold, you can cut open the chemical packs.
Yep, they work.

 

[tnelson31]

I love my hand muff, no/light gloves, northern Wisconsin deer hunting.

 

[Lj1941]

Mittens

I use surplus military mittens. These are the ones with the trigger finger and knitted inserts and leather and cloth outers.I got a super good buy on the inserts 4 for $5 and bought the outers online with a bunch of ammo cans. They work for me excellent with a long gun and just OK for a handgun.

 

[mrbladedude]

Thanks for all the replies. Any good brands of mittens and fleece gloves you guys recommend?

 

[rcmodel]

Well I said in post #2:

I have been using Gates #706215 Glo-mits from Wally world for years

See if you can find some of those in the hunting department for a starting point to see if you like that type of thing.

rc

 

[WTBguns10kOK]

Glomitts ftw, and carry a muff for when you're not moving.

 

[mrbladedude]

Well I said in post #2:


See if you can find some of those in the hunting department for a starting point to see if you like that type of thing.

rc

Thanks I will see if I can find those at Walmart today

 

[mrbladedude]

Glomitts ftw, and carry a muff for when you're not moving.

Do the Walmart Glomitts differ from the ones at Cabelas?

How are these?

http://www.cabelas.com/product/Clot...=SBC;MMcat104797080;cat104358780;cat104000580

Will I still need fleece gloves to go underneath?

 

[rcmodel]

Yes.

The ones I use have full fingers in the thin inside gloves.

The ones you show at Cabala's are the 'Action Hero' model with the fingertips cut off.

They may work fine, but I have never worn gloves without fingers, so I don't know.

And no, I doubt you would want or need fleece gloves inside glomitts.
They would be getting pretty thick & bulky if you did.

rc

 

[bainter1212]

Glacier Gloves make pretty good stuff in all different configurations. The gloves I use for fishing have a mitten that covers your 4 fingers and also flips back and velcroes to the back of your hand when you need your fingers for fine work. The thumb is like a regular glove except for a small slit that you can stick your thumb out of if you need to. The palms are rubbery material and the backs are some type of fleece.
I regularly have to dip my hands in ice cold water in the winter and these gloves will warm them back up fairly quickly. If the gloves get wet they dry fast and warm up anyway kinda like wool.
YMMV.

 

[WTBguns10kOK]

The only thing you'd wanna put under glomitts would be something like this, which of course will rip quickly if you use your hands much with them exposed.
http://www.amazon.com/Terramar-Adul...52588&sr=8-1&keywords=thermasilk+glove+liners

I've used the cheap (remington?) fake wool glomitts from walmart, they work decent but fall apart faster than they should.

For a hand muff, I use the classic model of this. That's all I know...if you put on liners, and then a chemical handwarmer inside one of these, that should help a ton.
http://www.amazon.com/IceBreaker-Ha...id=1384952895&sr=8-1&keywords=icebreaker+muff