Stalking gloves

[User00014]

I too have had seal skins gloves for years, in fact I have just bought a new pair this last week!

another good pair of gloves if you like fingerless are musto sailing gloves £18 off eBay, had them a good couple of years now and I'm very pleased with them.

 

[Ranger22]

Gave up on gloves, just use my pockets now if my hands get cold

 

[OISÍN]

Try looking on the cycling websites, some great gloves that the cyclists use when riding in the winter, Assos is a manufacturer, that's what I'm using...

 

[greville1689]

I am sorry but I am NOT a SealSkinz fan. These have to be the worst gloves ever made:

https://www.sealskinz.com/UK/gloves/ultra-grip-gloves-olive

They are certainly not waterproof (not at the Hinds in Wester Ross or on the ranges in North Yorkshire anyway). and don't keep your hands warm. What are gloves meant for?! I have had another pair of SealSkinz gloves but can't remember the model and although marginally warmer than the above they were not that good and certainly not worth the price charged.

If the weather is really s**t then wear goretex outer mits (military arctic ones are fine) with fleece gloves underneath this will keep you dry and warm. Keep a second pair of fleece gloves in your pocket and swap at lunchtime or when the first gloves are wet and your hands should keep warm.

 

[smokey]

i have give up on all these modern gloves unless it is bone dry (Scottish stalking when?? ) so for cold wet conditions both stalking and Wildfowling i use army Goretex over mittens with either a silk or wool mitten underneath and just take it off to shoot i have them on a string through my coat like you may have had as a kid depending on your age You need a coat with a baggy sleeve to took them into so they do not fill with water it works for me keep the mitts tucked in the sleeve for walking and flick them out for glassing its a pain until you get used to it but i find it ok when your familiar with the process

 

[TOMMO.B]

Aye i am with you. Gloves are for wee lassies. just kidding. mitts are prob the best if needed. just take them off when shooting. army goretex mitts for a few pounds.
and if you loose one (as happens) its no hastle.

 

[AN DU RU FOX]

aldi do bike gloves,and mitts

 

[JabaliHunter]

The green Norrona gloves with leather palm and gore-tex have been fine for me.
Hestra have a good name so thanks for the link.
For really cold conditions I would go for mittens with a glove liner, provided they are designed to be waterproof and not just for snow/skiing

 

[JabaliHunter]

But stalking gloves in general are much less of a problem than good winter fishing gloves... still to solve that problem

 

[Feugh]

I use a set of these:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Genuine-G...hash=item1c536a59d1:m:mHDz30Y_W3SHAWG-khsanGg
I haven't given them a full test yet (which would require open hill stalking in the snow with a crawl of several hundred metres), but I've found them good the times I have used them, and the reviews are also good.

 

[Orion]

The problem I have with gloves is down to sizing as I have large hands, and most manufacturer's size XXL still tends to be tight. Probably because of this those that claim to be 'waterproof' I find cold due to constricting circulation.

Other than going for mittens, which I find clumsy for general use, the only pair that I've found comfortable and reasonably warm, while offering a degree of water resistance are the Fjallraven Forest gloves in 3XL, but I still wear a pair of silk motorcyclist liner gloves in very cold conditions.

http://www.exxpozed.com/fjallraven-forest-glove.html

 

[willie_gunn]

I use Cabela's camo liner gloves. I have regular ones for summer and merino wool for winter. Very thin, perfectly warm enough and dry out quickly if they get wet. If it's exceptionally cold I'll put a pair of fleece gloves over the top - never been anything but toasty.

I use them both for stalking and photography.

 

[tusker]

Gave up on gloves, just use my pockets now if my hands get cold

By the way what is this thing "gloves" . I am trying to remember when my hand s were cold. Probably 1976 winter, riding race horses on the beach at Theddlethorpe, the sea actually froze.
Tusker

 

[bryn]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Skytec-Argon-Thermal-grip-gloves-medium-/302139460761?hash=item4658ea4c99:g:Rr8AAOSwzaJYA9cU

And at £6 a pair no big deal if you loose them

bryn

 

[Dawnrazor]

The Miller Mitt gets my vote.

 

[AN DU RU FOX]

go outdoors have a load of gloves in.

 

[RPA 6MM BR]

Deerhunter Rusky if you get cold hands. They are bloody warm.

 

[Shiftshot]

I have tried various gloves over the years and have now settled on Hestra Falt guide gloves, by far the best gloves I have ever owned. They are built on a principle that your look after the leather outers with a special wax which makes them waterproof and use a merino wool liner which is ridiculously warm. These liners I take out and dry that evening meaning if the leather was damp which it normally isn't you have a warm dry inner the next day. You can also attach a elastic handcuff to keep them close when taking a shot. Brilliant design from a man that wrote the book literally on Arctic military survival and made by a glove company that has a reputation for making high end products.
Using these gloves has made life so much easier in winter whether its hind stalking in the west highlands or a cold day out walking the dogs. I have so impressed I have now got a further two pairs of other styles of Hestra gloves/mittens and I am equally impressed.

 

[JTO]

If you don't want cold hands, at the start of every outing, plunge your hands into cold water and let them dry off in the wind. It takes some sticking, but it seems to stimulate the blood circulation and you don't feel the cold afterwards. It used to work 50 years ago, not sure if it does, now I'm older. It's what the wildfowler/punt-gunners used to do, I think.

 

[Southern]

Merino wool skier's glove liners, inside shooting glove with Thinsulate liners, or inside a US Army sniper mitten, which has a long cuff that seals off air, leather palm for grip, separate fingers, and a slit for the trigger finger.