Which do you prefer ? I wanna be able to shoot with thin gloves on.
My recommendation is to use what you normally do. Just keep your shooting hand in your pocket to keep it warm.
glove...i just cut the ends off the three string fingers.
I realize this is a question of personal preference, but I'm with durp. Cut 3 fingers off a cold weather glove and wear your shooting glove. Keep the hand in a pocket with a checmical handwarmer and it's almost too warm.
I like a glove and I have one of those Fanny pack hand warmers like you see quarterbacks use. You can get them for $20 at cabelas
QuoteOriginally posted by EHK:
I realize this is a question of personal preference, but I'm with durp. Cut 3 fingers off a cold weather glove and wear your shooting glove. Keep the hand in a pocket with a checmical handwarmer and it's almost too warm.
This works for me too.
I am with macksdad I do the very same thing never had a problem.
QuoteOriginally posted by macksdad:
I like a glove and I have one of those Fanny pack hand warmers like you see quarterbacks use. You can get them for $20 at cabelas
I use the same thing to keep my shooting hand warm, but I prefer a tab.
Tab for me. I've been stump shooting with friends about every week through January and February here in NE Pennsylvania. On my bow hand, I wear a warm glove. I keep my tab-hand in my coat pocket next to a hand warmer...... does the trick.
Tab all the way. Hand warmer, and exact same feel as when you target shoot.
I use a glove and wear light gloves overtop with the shooting fingers cut out as described above. I'm also a huge fan of the fanny packs like Macksdad said with some hand warmers thrown in. Works like a charm. I'll carry some heavy gloves with me just in case, but I usually don't need them.
When it is bitterly cold, I use a cant pinch with a very hard piece of leather added to it that is large enough to fit over an insulated glove, otherwise I use a American Leathers glove with a fleece glove over it..
YEP, KEEP HANDS WARM, HOW EVER U CAN, WHEN READY SHOOT... GOOD LUCK...
dura glove and jersey with three fingers cut off is all i use no matter how cold. can always put your hand in a pocket if need be.
Nathan,
I also use a tab year round here in N.H. but do it a little differently. I use a tab over thin a glove (either wool or fleece) which helps when your "on point" with game in the area but waiting for the shot. I practice regularly with too. Hope this is helpful. Best regards, Todd
Both my bow and string hand are bare when I'm about to shoot, regardless of the weather. I do like others have written above to keep warm until time to grab the bow. I'd have to practice with the thin gloves to trust wearing one when shooting.
I use a glove rather than a tab. I like the feel of the string better with the glove than with the tabs I've tried.
There's 2 options for me.
When "normal cold"...
A tab with a "good", thinner glove. When colder, I use a light/midweight Under Armour glove and I picked up a nifty, lined belt style handwarmer at the K-Zoo show, that you slide your hand down into. Throw 1-4 handwarmers in there and you're all set with hot hands.
When "silly cold"...
I use the Grey Wolf "mitts". They slide over your whole arm and have a huge opening that you kind of "flick" your hand out of, when shooting. If that makes any sense.
http://www.graywolfwoolens.com/store/product.php?productid=167&cat=38&page=1
They are a tad bulky, but if you also add 1-2 handwarmers in there too, you are good at very cold temps.
Tab, with those flip open gloves with velcro or magnets to hold the flap back JG
I like the tab...easy to get on quickly..
I use a glove and a heavy gove minus 3 firngers also.
I meant 3 fingers. Lol
I shoot all winter long with light or medium weight gloves that I slip a single layer cordovan tab over. The hole is sort of stretched and enlarged, so I can't use that tab without a glove underneath, but it works well for shooting in temps down to single digits. I have more trouble with the bow hand glove getting in the way than the drawing hand, though- just have to be careful not to grip too high on the grip.
I use glove with fingers cut off with my tab, also use one those insulated pouches with a hand warmer when it gets really cold.
I'll shoot a tab year round. I keep my hand in my pocket with a hand warmer and a couple of pieces of wool.
Mittens for us. Just put a Velcro tab on the back. The other side Velcro sewn inside your pocket. When it's time push against the velro. It grabs and you slide your tabbed finger out and warmly on the Strindberg.
Cold here in nv as it snood here today
We hunt rabbitsbevery Sunday duringthebseason and mittens with Velcro works so well
Bow hanger, bare hands & pockets for me.
I also use a glove and cut 3 fingers off.
QuoteOriginally posted by EHK:
I realize this is a question of personal preference, but I'm with durp. Cut 3 fingers off a cold weather glove and wear your shooting glove. Keep the hand in a pocket with a checmical handwarmer and it's almost too warm.
I've got a pair of Manzilla bowhunting gloves/mittens that are the best cold weather bowhunting gloves I've ever owned.
They have a mitten flip up that covers all your fingers and you can insert a hothand in the pocket of the mitten. When a shot opportunity is presented you pull the mitten off and flip it up away from your fingers. There is a magnet on the mitten and the glove on the back of your hand that will lock it down out of the way. Your fingers tips are open on the glove part. the mitten covers up.
I plan on wearing my shooting glove with the recurve under the Manzilla's this year.
If its cold I just use my regular cold weather glove, its not like it screws up your release, and if it does you just need a little practice, but I prefer to stalk hunt so keeping a hand in a pocket isn't viable for me. I dislike tabs and 3 fingered shooting gloves anyway so when hunting or practicing in warmer weather i just use an elk or deerskin leather glove. Years ago Cabelas use to offer different full 5 fingered bowhunting gloves, sadly no one seems to make anything like this anymore.
I cut 3 fingers off a glove for many years so that I could wear my shooting glove, but last year I started using a tab over a full glove and boy is my hand warmer!
Tab with a handwarmer in pockets works well for me.