I need a good pair of winter gloves....suggestions?

LeviSS

LeviSS

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I want some gloves that are really warm, my hands and feet always get cold first.

Price isn't that important, as long as they aren't ridiculous.

What do you guys like?
 
I always use wool gloves in cold weather, you can find them at any outdoor supply. I usually get mine from wal-mart. They will keep you warm even if they are wet. Give them a try, they aren't that expensive and they do the trick for me. I usually only get a season out of mine, but they are worth it. Hope this helps.
 
i wear a pair from cabelas called snow mobile gloves i think, they are tan leather with black nylon that goes up part way up your arm, nice on a 4 wheeler in the winter
 
Trophy Glove Co. in Albia, Iowa sells very warm gloves and they also sell them to www.wiggys.com. I bought a pair last winter and they are the warmest I've ever found. They use the same insulation, Lamilite that is in the sleeping bags, which a lot of people consider the warmest bags available.
 
Leather gloves with Thinsulate liners.

Abit of survival info; I've stalked & crawled up on bedded coyotes on well below zero WC days. Sometimes, my hands got mighty cold. So I would pull my fingers out of the glove fingers & make a fist inside of my gloves.

A few times, making a fist didn't cut it. When I got to my truck I couldn't use my hands & fingers. To get into my pocket to fetch my truck keys. Let alone grasp them to unlock the door.

So, I pulled off both gloves useing my teeth. Et stuck both hands under my clothes & under my skivees. Both hands between my clamped legs[to warm them /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif] to get some feeling back in my fingers, in order to use my keys to get into my truck.

Works in a pinch.
 
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i wear a pair from cabelas called snow mobile gloves i think, they are tan leather with black nylon that goes up part way up your arm, nice on a 4 wheeler in the winter



I have the same thing and love them
 
I don't know the brand, I think there's several, but there's a system that works really good.

I just compile my own, so I've never bothered to get a "set."

But it's...

1.) a synthetic fiber liner glove. Very form fitting, wicking, warm for it's very thin construction and very dexterous.

Then... 2.) over that you put wool glommits. Operating the mitten finger cover as needed.

Then... 3.) when it gets unbearably cold, or you're on stand or etc, you put sheepskin lined leather "chopper" mittens over the whole operation.

That set-up will make your hands sweat at 40 below. (First "hand" experience!)




If you don't have that extreme of cold to deal with, the snowmobile glove/mittens are a real good bet.
 
If you have a motorcycle shop close, check out their inventory and styles...

I have a pair of 'half mittens' that have the thumb and index finger separated from the other three fingers. The cuff goes about six inches past the wrist and they are really warm... I use to put a lot of miles on in cold weather and they allowed me to operate all of the controls, including the stereo...

They do, however, take some getting used to if you have a very light trigger on your rifle..

They are also loose enough to slide a thin handwarmer packet inside the wrist area, or the back of your hand..I keep two or three inside my backpack, just in case..
 
I have a pair of UnderArmour liner gloves and wear then under a pair a thinsulate gloves and they seem to work pretty well if it is not too cold and I am glassing alot and need the dexterity. When it is really cold though I wear that liner glove under a set of polar Ice fishing mittens that I got at cabela a few years ago. They are a rough finished rubber like exterior with a seperate layer inside them. The rubber layer makes them heavy enough that I can flip them off quickly when ice fishing yet still have the liner glove on to real in the fish. Another thing I won't deer hunt without is my thinsulate muff. I wear the liner glove and stick a couple heat packs inside the muff. that works great also. Just depends on what I am doing and how much finger use I need. I also got my fingers so numb a few years ago i could not feel them and ever since they have been very sensitive to the cold. The ideas above are working well the last couple years. Hope they help.
 
You say that your hands and feet always get cold? I used to have that problem deer hunting and duck hunting. I was wearing camo baseball caps hunting. I started wearing a fleece toboggan or a wool watch cap. I don't have near the problems that I used to with feet and hands getting cold. That's not to say that gloves aren't necessary at some point, but you might try the toboggan. Add a mock turtleneck to that, too. Think of the human body kinda like a chimney; a lot of heat goes out the top.
 
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You say that your hands and feet always get cold? I used to have that problem deer hunting and duck hunting. I was wearing camo baseball caps hunting. I started wearing a fleece toboggan or a wool watch cap. I don't have near the problems that I used to with feet and hands getting cold. That's not to say that gloves aren't necessary at some point, but you might try the toboggan. Add a mock turtleneck to that, too. Think of the human body kinda like a chimney; a lot of heat goes out the top.



That there is good advice. The reason your fingers are getting cold is that hands are vasoconstricting (slowing blood flow) in order to conserve heat to where it is the most important, the core of your body. As was said, that doesnt mean that you dont need gloves. Do a good job of keeping your core warm will go a long ways in helping to keep your fingers warm.
 
My cold weather glove setup is this, I wear some type of glove inside a pair of leather 'choppers'. This gives you the gloved fingers quickly but keeps the fingers together for warmth. On a cold predator set I take my gloved shooting hand out at the start, both if I am the one calling. For deer hunting I leave the chopper over the glove most of the time if it's cold since shots develop with time to remove it. For trigger feel while shooting my favorite gloves are Navy pilots flight gloves. For colder weather some type of thinsulate. Anyway it works for me.
 
I use both the wool and the snowmobile type

Has any one tried the mittens with the zipper running along your trigger finger looks like a great idea.

Sorry didn't mean to hijack thread
 
I have yrs of cold hands and tried all different gloves, mitten and choppers, they never seemed to be just right. Especially for shooting as I like to have my hands bare.

Last year for Xmas, Santa brought me one of these and it is great:

Cabela's MT050® WindStopper® Handwarmer Muff Item:XJ-921324 for $29.99

Has a little side pocket to load up with chemical handwarmers and you can either belt it on or hang it around your neck.. It kicks butt and really loved it for deer hunting this yr..

Take a look.

Nodak
 
I use the ArticShield System Glove

System Glove

They are not bulky at all and are amazingly very warm for there light weight. I often times don't even need to pull down the mitten part unless it is really cold. I highly recommend them.
 
I picked up a pair of gloves a couple years ago from a hardware store that are great for hunting & ATV riding in the winter.

They are made by Youngstown, model "Winter-Water Plus" and are waterproof, windproof & breathable. Not much bulk to them either, so no problems wearing them while hunting. If I remember right, I paid around $40 for them and they are holding up fine.
 
Something that has worked really well for me is to have many dry gloves with me, I find that if my hands are cold if I take my gloves off for awhile they freeze even if they seemed dry. So if my hands are cold I change gloves, if it is really cold I put large mittens on over the gloves.
Another thing that has been better than I would have believed is what we call a wristlet I make them from worn out wool socks cut off at the heel then cut slots for thumb middle finger and little finger. these go under the glove and are to much hassel to change over and over. The really nice thing is the price.
 
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