Handguard or gloves?

[Rick Riddell]

Which do you prefer? I've always liked the handguard but thinking these days I might want a nice set of gloves to round things out! If you are into gloves which pair do you have or better yet what would you recommend? There seems to be a ton of tacticool gloves out there to weed through!

[Double Lab]

I've used the $15 or so dollar batting gloves from WallyWorld. They last as long as the more expensive "shooter gloves", keeps your sweaty hands off the metal and your hands clean.

The handguards tend to wear the bluing if used on a regular basis.

[B. Dudley]

Gloves.
Hand guards cover more forward of the forend and at the tip of it. Thats fine if you hold the gun out that far.

[James L. Martin]

I have used both , I think gloves work the best for me.

[OH Osthaus]

gloves

Orvis upland glove work for me - but get them at a store- thickness varies a lot and i like the thinnest i can find

[Ken Hill]

Gloves. If I'm hunting it is a thin leather glove. If shooting clays a light cloth type glove.

[Double Lab]

My first post was what I wear for target shooting. For hunting gloves do yourself a favor and go to Home Depot and check out their deerskin work gloves. Get the snuggest fit you can as they will break in nicely, you can treat them to be water resistant and they allow you to extract fired hulls with little difficulty even 28 ga hulls.

[todd allen]

Golf gloves.

[Drew Hause]

Woolfolk Henderson and his Parker won the GAH with a 98x100 from 22 yards, the Amateur Championship of U.S. with a 99x100 from 16 yds, and the Amateur Doubles Championship of the U.S. with 90x100 from 16 yds. Have never seen an image without the forward hand glove. Also note "recoil boot".



In my opinion the "Top Gun" of the turn-of-the-century shooters Fred Gilbert with his DH SN 103649; no dolls head, no ejectors, 32” barrels at the 1904 GAH with a hand guard
More on Fred and others
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1...iW-cpc/preview



1908 London Olympics. Walter Ewing (Individual Gold) and George Beattie (Individual Silver) of Canada with their Lefevers.



My vote is quality leather golf glove on right hand to manipulate the shells and double triggers, and deerskin glove on forward hand

[Drew Hause]

Rolla A. Heikes was probably the best shooter with the most guns. He was the first industry representatives in 1885, with the Lefever Gun Co. In 1895-96, Heikes participated in 67 tournaments (despite having malaria in the summer of 1895) and was high gun in 60 using a Winchester 1893 slide-action. He defeated Fred Gilbert in 1896 at the 2nd "E.C." Cup "Champion Inanimate Target Shot of the World" in New York and was 4th in the GAH at Live Birds. Prior to using the Winchester, he shot a L.C. Smith. He defeated Charles Grimm on Dec. 6 1897 for the Cast Iron Medal using a Winchester 1897. He defeated Fred Gilbert for the "E. C." Cup at Chicago, August 13, 1898 with a score of 140 to 137 out of 150 targets, then successfully defended the "Cast Iron Medal" against Fred Gilbert at Eau Claire, Wis., in August and W.R. Elliston in Nashville in October.
In 1899 he used a Remington Hammerless Double to defeat E.D. Fulford for the "E.C." Cup in January and won the Sportsmen's Association Championship Trophy in the trapshooting tournament held on the roof of the Madison Square Garden in March. He used a Parker at the 1900 GAH at Live Birds, then went back to his Remington to win the first Grand American at Clay Targets held at Interstate Park in New York City June 12-15, 1900. In November 1900, he was using a new single trigger Remington hammerless double. He was part of the victorious American team in the June 1901 Anglo-American Clay Bird Match using a Parker.
He started 1902 shooting the Remington single trigger hammerless, then used a L.C. Smith at the Ohio State shoot and to take 3rd in the last GAH at Live Birds in Kansas City. He came back from Typhoid Fever in 1904 to take HOA at the Dominion of Canada Exhibition Shoot in Winnipeg again shooting a Remington. In 1905 he began shooting a Remington Autoloading Shotgun and was 2nd High Professional at the 1906 GAH.



Not sure if he ever actually used his 1889 patent "hand protector"