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Post by contender on Oct 31, 2019 21:55:56 GMT -5
I'm heading to Colorado in a week for my elk hunt. I'm shooting my El Dorado & Fa daily,, and this post made me realize I need to dig out my elk skin gloves & see what happens,, BEFORE I leave! Thanks Dick!
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Post by bradshaw on Nov 1, 2019 3:11:31 GMT -5
There may be bare hand heroes crawling the mountain.... I’m not one of them, certainly not when the mercury falls out of sight. Gloves come in all shapes & sizes. It’s a two or three foot arc sweeping leather-to-sights. If the glove is leather and sheep-lined, the offhand may snatch it off as your gunhand dips for leather. Be the hide slim supple deerskin or its like, the revolver draws to a leathered hand. Point is, every little detail of readiness sets the sixgun hunter apart. The carbine-armed deer stalker may consider the handgunner’s exactness a vanity. Whitetails exemplify species which don’t cut slack. Hours and days cone down to seconds. Those rocket legs didn’t evolve for nothing. In a world of compromise, focus delivers the handgun shot. Practice before the hunt aligns to the hunt. A glove which doesn’t work doesn’t go hunting.
Across the mountain, whether aboard skis, a mountain bike, or intent on making a sixgun perform, my hands prefer leather. David Bradshaw
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Post by sixshot on Nov 1, 2019 11:48:13 GMT -5
I might have to back track a bit here because I think I may have used gloves in Africa. I'm going to go back & look at the photo's but I know that I took them, along with knee pads & elbow pads & I also remember both of the PH's (professional hunters) kind of gave me the once over look the first morning when I showed up wearing my "extra" gear.
I also remember at the end of our safari both of them waned my elbow pads & knee pads! I left them in Africa. Everything over there has a thorn on it except for the toilet paper & without my extra gear I would have been bleeding constantly. I have tender knees, so the knees pads were especially helpful. I don't belly crawl as well as a 160 lb, 27 year old ex soldier, when I'm belly crawling my head is still 10" off the ground (280 lbs) Anyway, I will have to eat my words I think because I'm pretty sure I wore my shooting gloves everyday.
Dick
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Post by sixshot on Nov 1, 2019 12:01:23 GMT -5
Found some of them, I did use my old shooting gloves! Impala Ram, Blue Wildebeest Record book Warthog Dick
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Post by jfs on Nov 1, 2019 12:13:41 GMT -5
Your warthog is a winner.......
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Snyd
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Post by Snyd on Nov 1, 2019 12:36:05 GMT -5
Great shooting as usual! I always wear gloves for shooting my hunting revolvers... my hunting gloves. My most recent pair are Outdoor Research (OR) Paradigm gloves. They are part of their Tactical Line. www.outdoorresearch.com/us/activity-tactical Think Special Forces tactical quality, not Walmart Tacticool. Not bulky, windproof, goat skin palms and fingers. Very tactile. I can manipulate and load/unload the gun wearing them. Not really an insulated glove for cold weather/winter hunting though. I own several pieces of OR gear. Fantastic stuff.
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Post by Odin on Nov 1, 2019 17:54:23 GMT -5
Dick, thank you for sharing your thoughts on the ivories from MR. I've got a 475 that's due to go in for some custom work, including Bisley conversion, and was tossing around the idea of getting the ivory panels. Now thinking walnut may be the best option for me.
And Perry, thanks for the link to the gloves from OR. My hardware store leather work gloves perform well at the range, but fall short in the field. And the field is where it counts. Those tactical gloves may be just the ticket. Heck, in comparison to the conditions you live and hunt in, they should be able to handle my little jaunts out on the prairie with ease...
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Post by contender on Nov 1, 2019 20:06:34 GMT -5
Well, today's practice was with my elk skin leather gloves. It made a difference for sure. In fact,, I think I was a tad better! We'll see how it goes for the next week for sure.
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Post by 45MAN on Nov 3, 2019 7:10:46 GMT -5
WITH REVOLVERS I ONLY USE SOME WOOL GLOVE INSERTS (OLD ARMY STYLE) WHEN IT IS REALLY COLD, AND ON THE RIGHT SIDE THE FINGERENDS ARE UNCOVERED. YESTERDAY I WAS SHOOTING A 7 1/2 INCH BFR 500 JRH BISLEY WITH 400gr LOADS, INCLUDING BUFFALO BORES' BAD ASS DANGEROUS GAME LOAD, AND MY HANDS ARE FINE. WITH ENCORES I AM LOOKING FOR NUCKLE PROTECTION.
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Post by craigd on Nov 4, 2019 15:37:34 GMT -5
Dick,
I still have your old 6.5x284 barrel shown in your Africa hunting photos. Still shoots!
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Post by sixshot on Nov 4, 2019 20:28:04 GMT -5
I killed a Wyoming antelope at 444 yds with that gun, John Tarbet was with me & shooting her with the range finder. The wind got me a bit but she was dead as a rock by the time we drove over there, took maybe 4-5 steps. That was a long time ago & he still brings it up when we get together. Missed a buck on December 3, 2001 in VERY deep snow that would have surely made B&C but the shot was a very steep angle down hill at about the same distance as the Wyoming antelope. I shot over & the buck started walking, I got a second shot but at that distance at a moving deer it was a prayer that wasn't answered. Got out at about 4am in a terrible snow storm because I couldn't find the snow machine in the storm. Snow up to my waist in some places.
Dick
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Post by rickiesrevenge on Dec 3, 2019 22:31:54 GMT -5
How far were the first two targets? Nice shooting by the way
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Post by sixshot on Dec 3, 2019 23:05:50 GMT -5
Do you mean the Impala & the Wildebeest or?
Dick
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Post by rickiesrevenge on Dec 4, 2019 10:59:30 GMT -5
No, I meant the paper targets where you tried the gloves.
Curious about the critters too
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Post by oddshooter on Dec 4, 2019 12:21:20 GMT -5
When we were young, we spent 10 years in the backcountry of western Montana in the sub zero zone; without electricity. We built a Geodesic Dome with hand tools in the middle of a meadow. Leather gloves didn't cut it in that kind of weather.
I got a pair of down filled mittens and they worked great even at 20 below. Of course there were no fingers so shooting wasn't possible. I discovered that if I wore the military wool gloves as well, it was the best of all worlds. I could pull out of the mittens instantly and still have protection. If under 2 minutes or so, there was no problem with the cold.
Today, I would use the Walmart weight lifter gloves inside those mittens. The gloves are fingerless and with gel padding.
If you've never had a good pair of down mittens, with leather palms, you need to ask Santa. Even for sitting around camp, they can't be beat. My lady made ours from a kit. Also a down jacket with hood and fur fringed tunnel. Mickey Mouse boots completed the ensem. I used to walk over a mile in snowshoes; to hitch-hike to grad school 35 miles away in Missoula every day. You learn quickly to adapt or you die. Not much room for error. Dick's story of 4 am walking in the dark and snow brought back some rough memories.
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