Handguard or gloves?

[Richard Flanders]

$10 mechanics gloves from Home Depot work just fine for hunting in cool temps and for all target shooting. The fingers fit nice and snug at the tips and allow you to handle shells and such. No need for expensive shooting gloves until it gets pretty cold. Browning makes a good thinsulate shooting glove that works very well for that. I do like hand guards too, especially for clays shooting. Forces you to hold your left hand well forward where it should be as per the Churchill method.

[Pa SxS]

Shooting in the cold is not the problem for me. Just about any insulated gloves work for me. I take the trigger hand glove off when it's time for me to shoot. The problem is in the hot weather that your leading hand can get burned on the barrels. I went to the Gripswell web site: http://www.gripswell.com/gs12.php
I got as far as the place to enter your credit card without any problem. Since I'm not ordering, I didn't continue. Don't know what would have happened if I entered the credit card info and completed the order.

Greg, I think I bought my gloves at Lehigh Valley Sporting Clays years ago. https://www.lvsclays.com/pro-shop/apparel-accessories/ You may want to give them a call and see if they have the SxS gloves. Maybe they would ship them to you.

[Wild Skies]

Originally Posted by Chuck Bishop

I went to the Gripswell web site: http://www.gripswell.com/gs12.php
I got as far as the place to enter your credit card without any problem. Since I'm not ordering, I didn't continue. Don't know what would have happened if I entered the credit card info and completed the order.

Greg, I think I bought my gloves at Lehigh Valley Sporting Clays years ago. https://www.lvsclays.com/pro-shop/apparel-accessories/ You may want to give them a call and see if they have the SxS gloves. Maybe they would ship them to you.

Chuck, I don't understand why Gripswell's website is still operational, I see it was last updated in 2009 and their phone # has been disconnected.

I appreciate the link to Lehigh. I called them, but unfortunately they no longer have any of the Gripswell line of gloves left in inventory, nor has any other dealer that I've checked with. Too bad, as they are/were a top-of-the-line product.

[Byron Teates]

I always shoot with a glove for the barrels... I have shot just about every weekend for the last eight years. I have gone thru numerous "shooting" gloves and have decided that the Cabelas leather shooting gloves will last about a year. Allen gloves about 10-12 weeks...Florida humidity and sweat tough on gloves.

[Drew Hause]

Timely thread. To be 118-120 tomorrow and I'll be checking the barrel temps of two new fangled fluid steel and one damascus shotgun with an infrared thermometer at the beginning, middle and end of a round of skeet out at Ben Avery in the morning.
I can say there is NO WAY one can hold the barrels at the end of a round during Hell Season in the desert without a handguard or gloves.
Results to follow...if I can still use my digits