Does anyone use "shooting gloves?" Which ones?

[jrr]

+1 for mechanix. I've also tried baseball batters gloves, but they fell apart with a half days use.

As for the "mall ninja" aspect. Yes, if you use gloves and dress in a full camp tactical rig while standing at a bench at Angeles range, you are a mall ninja. lol

But, they do help keep you hands from getting all mangled doing an 8 hour pistol class.

Also re. mechanix melting. Yes, they WILL melt. I know this from personal experience. They do not make good welding gloves. lol. I had a little black patch of synthetic leather spot welded to my thumb. However, as long as the metals not actually red hot you should be fine. And your gun should NOT be getting that hot. They are made to withstand some pretty high heat working with exhaust parts and such, and I have used them for that many times.

[Rhythm of Life]

I'm having a hard time not saying somthing about mall ninjas in this thread....

I will say that Mechanix gloves have almost zero tolerance for heat and will readily melt to your hand so be careful handling anything hot (like a barrel) with them.

You are quite wrong.

If they can handle the friction of Aussie rappels then they will work fine for handling a firearm.

[Ubermcoupe]

The only gloves I use (with a worn out finger hole):

Manzella USMC TS-40 "gripper gloves"

[starsnuffer]

I have some black underarmor baseball batting gloves. They're exactly the same thing that underarmor sells as their "tacticool shooting gloves", but for half the cost, and even less getting them on closeout at Big 5.

They probably wouldn't survive being shoved fist first up a bears backside, but they work good for shooting and doing mild stuff like carbine courses. Let me know how your $80 gloves work out in the bear test.

-W

[wash]

Some times I wear a silicone padded bicycle glove when I'm shooting my .475 Linebaugh.

I don't really need it but I feel the gun moves less in my hand and I don't want to drop it.

They don't have fingertips so I don't think it interferes with trigger pull but they won't help so much if you grab something hot.

I think I paid about $15 at Performance Bicycle and it's their house brand glove.

[tacticalcity]

I have a few sets of Nomex Flight Gloves. I wear them whenever I need gloves, not just shooting. A hold over from my military days. Few people got issued them, so if you could snag a pair somehow they were like finding gold. Same with flight jackets and aviator gloves. Authorized uniform items even if not directly issued to you that were so "cool" guys wore them off duty as well.

However, there are more modern second skin type gloves (have no idea what they are called) that I've seen guys use in courses that looked much more effective and looked like they slipped less. I would buy that they were bike gloves or maybe even body builder gloves. They looked to be ideal for the task since there was zero chance they would move or slip and looked to offer more tactile feeling.

I am not a fan of wearing Gloves when I shoot but there are times when they are a requirement and cannot be avoided.

Main reasons for wearing them aside from being fancy are...

1) Adverse weather (as in frost bite if you do not).
2) Working with hazardous chemicals (flash bangs and chemical grenades used by SWAT are bad for your health).
3) You're training really hard and get slide bite when working at those speeds so a barrier between you and the slide is needed to protect your skin (in real life you go with the grip you get even if it is too high so you should train that way too).
4) Your enviorment offers lots of things that could puncture or harm your skin (thorn bushes, diving onto gravel, maybe broken glass or the possibily of having to frisk somebody with sharps so you need stab proof gloves).
5) Rate of fire and weapon design is such that burning your skin is likely if you don't wear them.

Can't think of more but I am sure they exist.

[himurax13]

If I use gloves, I just use a disposable pair of nitrile surgical gloves. They are usually textured and are far more tear and chemical resistant that latex gloves.

[racerguy180]

I use a pair of vodoo tactical gloves & they work fine, as for dexterity i put them on and am typing this with them, not that bad actually.

They do make a world of difference out in the desert.

[ZombieTactics]

It depends upon what kind of shooter you are and what kind of shooter you are training to be.

It makes sense if you are someone who wears glove a lot anyway, especially if you are in the military or an LEO.

Not so much if you are a citizen training for self defense, and you don't normally wear gloves.

[Lugiahua]

I tend to wear only left hand glove while operating firearms, but sometimes both hands
I use both Blackhawk and 5.11 gloves.

[sniper5]

Used to wear bicycle gloves for the padded palms when I used to shoot the big stuff (think Contenders and XP100's in full-on rifle calibers). It wouldn't be a bad option on the right hand to solve the "bite" problem from a standard tang.

[awall919]

I use a pair of "Mechanic" gloves which i cut the index finger on my trigger hand off to the knuckle. I like them because they are light and fairly inexpensive. Also come in woodland camo.

[Briancnelson]

I wear a pair of thin Camelback gloves that I bought for general hiking to keep my hands from getting sliced up on rocks. They do a nice job of keeping my hands from melting when I fire my SU-16. The foregrip really gets hot after a few hundred rounds at the range.

I sometimes wear a glove when pistol shooting on some of my smaller guns that are hard on the hands, so that I can get in enough practice rounds without blisters in odd places. Same glove.

I forget what they are called, but its the thinnest one they sell, I got them on sale for like $20.

[Zartan]

[BayAreaShooter]

Honestly golf gloves work very well. They are thin and leave you with GREAT dexterity compared to other gloves.