Need advice/ recommendations

John Truitt · 05-03-2016, 01:55 PM

Looking for advice for a good glove to withstand heat for a flurry event.

200 targets in 5 minutes time.

I would like to use a pair of guns but they have splinter forearms.

I have usually used beavertail guns with a shooting glove and this worked well. But I need a really good glove to use for splinter forearms.

Are there any welder gloves of mechanics gloves that are thin enough to give some tactile feel at the same time retarding heat?

B. Dudley · 05-03-2016, 02:04 PM

I would think any glove for tig welding would work well. I habe a pair from Tilman. They are pretty thin, but work well for the heat.

J. A. EARLY · 05-03-2016, 02:05 PM

Try Handball Gloves. Thick in the palm, vented in the back, designed for sweat and to breathe.

Wild Skies · 05-03-2016, 02:37 PM

Here's your answer! I've been using a pair of these Gripswell GS-12 model gloves for many years shooting scores of flurries with my splinter forend 20-ga. Repro without any issues. They work.
https://www.gripswell.com/gs12.php

Autumn Daze · 05-03-2016, 03:09 PM

Plus 1 on the grip swell gloves

Pa SxS · 05-03-2016, 04:23 PM

Plus 2 on the GripSwell glove. I've had mine for many years.

George Lang · 05-03-2016, 05:43 PM

Why not use leather handguards such as sold by CSMC and others. besides you can also use then in the field or for normal shooting.

Wild Skies · 05-03-2016, 08:33 PM

A 200 bird in 5 minute flurry would be considered the Mother-of-all-Flurries. That undoubtedly would be the ultimate test for both gun and man. Good luck.

Opening Day · 05-04-2016, 10:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Greg Baehman

A 200 bird in 5 minute flurry would be considered the Mother-of-all-Flurries. That undoubtedly would be the ultimate test for both gun and man. Good luck.

I feel sorry for the guns involved. I have seen too many guns damaged by one man flurrys. As Del Whitman (SxS gunsmith) use to say at the UP flurry (2 1/2 minutes 75 targets) I love the flurry because I get so many guns to take back to the shop to work on....

John Truitt · 05-04-2016, 10:57 AM

It is a hard event on the guns and shooter. But I like it. IMO the guns were made to be shoot. I don't own a single gun that I would not and do not shoot the heck out of.
Yeah it can wear them out but they can be fixed also.

But like I said I like the event and look forward to it when it comes up.