I shoot a tab currently. Here in Iowa we are looking at well below zero temps during this late season. What's the best way to keep your shooting hand warm?
Right now I'm just using a thick glove and have been practicing with it some. It's just a regular winter thermal glove, nothing made for shooting.
I like ragwool glomits...the heavy pair I'm still wearing is no longer made or alteast I cant find them anymore. Glomits are a great glove for tab users (and glove for that matter). If you need more for the finger tips wear a really super thin poly pro liner underneath. I dont need it but you may.
i don't wear anything on my hand, but have a muffler that straps around my waist. Yeah, i know, almost like ones little girls wear, but its camo. I bought one and its great. Don't knock it till you try one.
I wear a pair of thin under armor gloves and use pocket hand warmers if i need to.
I wear a thin or medium glove with the 1st. 3 fingers cut off of my shooting hand . Then I also use one of those hand-muff warmers with a couple pocket hand warmers inside----works great!
Ditto on Ben's. Bought a $10 pair of lined wool gloves, took three fingers out, and wear a Damascus glove underneath.
wear the glove mitts extra large with my shooting glove underneath then just pull back the mitten top when its time to shoot
The shooting muffs are great, especially with the chemical hand warmers inside. A thin knit glove under the tab will also help for the time when you take your hand out of the muff to get ready to shoot. You really don't need to cut off the ends of the fingers on the glove if it is thin enough. I don't and it doesn't affect my shooting.
Allan
Thin pair of Under Armor gloves and the big hand warmer in my coat pocket, hands never get cold.
Besides seeing a lot of deer :bigsmyl: I hang my bow and wear fingerless wool gloves, I keep them in my pockets with hand warmers.
I agree with bornagainbowhunter! I don't wear a glove. I have a screaming eagle sheep muff and slip a chem pad in. It has always been warm enough to allow me to go with just the tab. A great set up! Jon
Handwarmers, the big ones, two in each pocket!
A friend of mine that shoots a tab uses a big fur lined leather pouch that attaches to a belt and keeps a hand warmer in it. He keeps his hand in there till its time to shoot.
I agree....a handwarmer muff with a chemical hand warmer inside. I shoot with a glove and sometimes wool fingerless mittens over it. If I use both, the mittens and muff, it has made my hands sweat at times.
my wife made me a large pouch (that has a belt-loop), she used an old army OD blanket for the outside, and on the inside she took a section of an old fur coat and lined it...I have hunted in zero degrees and so far I don't even need a hand-warmer in it...I just put my shooting hand in it each time it gets cold-it warms it instantly...I LOVE the thing
Pocket pool with a Hot Hands pack...
handwarmer and muff. Just don't get pink. Makes folks look at you funny
I bought a pair of those thinsulate mossy oak half-finger gloves that have the flippable mitten doohickey-thinga-mijigger on them.
They are the magnet kind, not the velcro. The thumb even flips back.
I stick a thinner Demascus glove right inside of it and leave it there. The fleece feels great against my face. No noise, no fuss, no problem.
Didn't even notice it was there when I shot my deer.
One other thing, esp. with the thin gloves......if you don't have a leather, rubber, etc...wrap on your bow handle--your hand will FREEZE if you have to hold it very long when a deer is around in very cold weather---mine do anyhow! I'm defintely gonna try one of those thin slip-on grips for some extra insulation......
I also use the same as "limblover"----the flip-back glo-mitts; but the thin gloves and hand-muff works better for me in the COLD............
I don't wear a glove on my shooting hand. Depending on the clothing I am wearing, I will either keep my shooting hand in my jacket pocket (equipped with a chemical handwarmer), or I will use those sheepskin mitts sold by Screaming Eagle.
Hand muff works great, with or without a chemical hand warmer. Another solution I like is wearing a thin glove (silk, Under Armour, polypropylene, etc.) under a heavy wool liner mitten designed to fit inside a heavy chopper mitt. I don't wear the chopper, just the wool liner. Wells Lamont used to make a nice heavy unlined wool mitt. It is easy to slip my hand out of the mitt as a deer approaches. Farm supply stores can be a good source of realatively cheap heavy weight wool mittens. Cedar Falls should have a few farm supply stores in the area!
I use to wear a heavy glove, with a my tab. Just slip the glove off to take the shot.
Now I shoot with a glove. I've found that I can simply keep my hand in my pants pocket and keep it warm. On colder days I wear a thin wool or fleece glove and I can still keep it in my pants pocket. I
I also have a pair of Screaming Eagle muffs. They are made of unshorn sheephide. I throw a hand warmer in there and I've sat with warm hands in -15 F. If these can keep my hands warm here in The Great White North I'm sure they'll work for you. I do wear a light glove inside on the coldest days because even a few minutes out of the muffs will freeze your hand when it's below zero!
Has anyone used the full Glove with lined shooting fingers that 3Rivers sells?
Lucas
I would have to 2nd a muff. I don't like to shoot with a glove on either hand and when the time comes to shoot I just slide the muff off to the side.
Here...
http://www.graywolfwoolens.com/store/product.php?productid=167&cat=38&page=1
I always go with the hand warmer muff. No glove on my shooting hand and a light one on the bow hand. Anything more and my hands start sweating in the muff and when you take them out they freeze.--Patrick
A number of years ago Paul Brunner had an archery catalog which sold, among other things, Screaming Eagle Treestands, Swanni wool, etc. He also sold a sheepskin pouch (fur inside) that you hang from your belt and stick your hand(s) in. It was called the wooly something-or-other. I still have mine and it is the only thing that will keep your shooting hand warm when it is brutally cold. You can probably make one if you can find a piece of unsheared sheepskin. Wear a thin liner glove under your shooting glove or with a tab to wick moisture away from your hand.
I use these:
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They're Military Extreme Cold Weather Mittens.
I hate to wear gloves, so I just keep my hands in these and slip them off when I need to get ready to shoot. Roomy enough to slip off easily, and toasty warm.
Brian
Shooting glove and a fingerless glove over it.
I just use a couple hot hands in that pocket. I'll have to look in the the thin under armour glove, but the hot hands do work well for me.