Practical shooting gloves?

[PainterlyShotgroup]

Any recommendations? Reasonable price range? Mall ninja waste of money?

 

[zip777]

I never liked shooting with gloves. I have to feel the trigger break.

 

[JaPes]

I don't like to shoot with gloves. When I do, I prefer to use commonly found Mechanix gloves.

 

[Smith357]

They passed these out at work, fantastic grip but not tacky, thin yet fairly durable, super snug fix and very dextrous, I can manipulate all but the smallest screws.
Black Polyurethane Coated Palm Gloves in Stock - ULINE

 

[oneyeopn]

I use quality Mechanic's Gloves myself! so +1 on the Mechanix Gloves

 

[JaPes]

I went to the Mechanix website. They now have a line of "tactical" gloves.

 

[MichiganScott]

Mall Ninja.

 

[Shinny]

I don't like wearing gloves but when it's really cold I would wear my Mechanix gloves with the trigger finger cut out. I too like to feel the trigger.

 

[isaidme1]

Mechanix Gloves here as well. Nothing wrong with a little extra grip and of course they keep your hands warm. They are great for working around the house too!

 

[JaPes]

I use the Mechanix gloves when reloading with my hand press.

 

[Stebo]

Sometimes, fingerless cycling gloves.

 

[StatesRightist]

I use them on my Glock 10mm, the recoil combined with the stippling = not a whole lot of fun after about 10 rounds. Other than that, I usually shoot w/o gloves.

 

[bp231986]

dont use them but i hear mechanics gloves work as well or better than Mall Ninja gloves.

 

[Foxtrot]

There is actually no such thing as a "tactical shooting glove" even though you may find them advertised as such and a lot of people think there is. Then there is the practical glove where there are cross overs. There are also variations.

The difference is; A tactical glove is working enviroment use focused, a shooting glove is weapon use focused, a practical glove is one the user simply likes and fills their needs for a general use focus.

Forget the mechanix gloves or the mall ninja stuff for the tactical glove side of things. Tactical gloves come in two class types - either general tactical or specific tactical, and are not really that expensive if you get them from the right places. The glove in use for general tactical by 90% of U.S. law enforcement agencies both civil and goverment, and in military use, is the G.I. issue Nomex Pilot Flight Crew Gloves supplied by Rothco or Condor (who are the government contractors for the gloves for the military). You can find them from a military surplus site like this > http://store.glennsarmysurplus.com/gi-issue-nomex-pilot-flight-crew-gloves-p306.aspx for $27.95, or from the goverment supplier Rothco but sells for more than military surplus prices from Rothco directly > http://shop.rothco.com/products/productdetail/part_number=ROT3457/573.0 at $40.00. Better than the 'mechanics gloves' and offer a better and greater tactile feel. They come in light weight and winter weight but what you find normally is the light weight.

The newer generation of nomex flight gloves are made to mil-spec 81188C and the older generation were made to mil-spec 81188B, the ones found in military surplus sale places mostly are the ones made under mil-spec 81188B although they are still issued in the military from existing stocks. Both generations are essentially the same and have the same general attributes which are chrome tanned (which provides a certain enhanced tactile feel capabilitity for the sheepskin) sheepskin leather palms, fire and heat resistant, made from Nomex (280 grams per square meter), sewn with Nomex thread instead of conventional thread like other gloves. Can find them in the three issue colors, black, desert tan, and olive drab (the desert is only suppled to the military by Rothco so they don't sell them on their web site).

Specific tactical gloves that are not general use have reenforced and padded areas and are "beefier" such as these > http://shop.rothco.com/products/productdetail/part_number=ROT3461/573.0 ... and ... these > http://www.rothco.com/general/index...etail/item/3855/subcat/86/prodid/99/from/left

Stay away from the commercial imitations, they may look like these but don't have the same specs, are less durable, and the materials are inferior.

Shooting gloves are not tactical gloves, for shooting gloves you go to something else thats designed for a weapon focused use. Mechanix gloves are not tactical or shooting gloves, although they may be used by some shooters.

Then we get into the practical side of things, like the mechanix gloves or the nomex flight gloves I mentioned above which many people use for shooting.

 

[The Tourist]

Any item, from a fully automatic AK-47 to a birch milking stool, loses my interest immediately when some magazine writer defines the item as "tactical." For one, it makes the writer look like he's writing from his mom's basement, and two, good products don't need to be hyped.

I have a P.A.S.T. shooting glove I've owned for +20 years. I was doing a lot of metallic silhouette shooting, and the constant recoil was troubling.

I have five pairs of gloves for riding motorcycles. Some of them are light in weight, some designed for cold. However, even when wrenching I do not have mechanics' gloves, and I probably should.

BTW, does anyone know what kind of dental floss the guys in Soldier of Fiction use? In for a penny, in for a pound. I'd hate to be sitting around with a bunch of stone-cold, wet-work mercs and use peppermint floss when all of the real killers use sandalwood.

 

[PainterlyShotgroup]

Any item, from a fully automatic AK-47 to a birch milking stool, loses my interest immediately when some magazine writer defines the item as "tactical." For one, it makes the writer look like he's writing from his mom's basement, and two, good products don't need to be hyped.

I have a P.A.S.T. shooting glove I've owned for +20 years. I was doing a lot of metallic silhouette shooting, and the constant recoil was troubling.

I have five pairs of gloves for riding motorcycles. Some of them are light in weight, some designed for cold. However, even when wrenching I do not have mechanics' gloves, and I probably should.

BTW, does anyone know what kind of dental floss the guys in Soldier of Fiction use? In for a penny, in for a pound. I'd hate to be sitting around with a bunch of stone-cold, wet-work mercs and use peppermint floss when all of the real killers use sandalwood.

I hear ya. The term "tactical" is definitely thrown around too loosely and has become more a buzz word for selling than anything else.

I honestly think I won't like wearing gloves, but I wanted some opinions and experiences. What I'll probably end up doing is just getting some cold gear compression gloves for running (because I run) and see how they feel when shooting.

And I think the real killers just use wood. Period.

 

[The Tourist]

I hear ya. The term "tactical" is definitely thrown around too loosely and has become more a buzz word for selling than anything else.

PSG, you are correct, the word now has no meaning.

If anything, I try to buy/sell items that enhance a user's life. If anything, a good product is "practical." The item I use for an example is the knife most used by Vietnam soldiers by actual sales figures. It wasn't the Kabar, it was the Swiss Army Knife.

Like many of you, I get cracked skin near my fingernails if I go out without winter gloves. The dry air is just a disaster. I put gloves on before I open my front door, so technically I'm a potential buyer for the gloves mentioned here.

But if I saw a tag on some new gloves stating, "Official gloves of the 101st Airborne," I would leave them in the bargain bin and have my wife knit me some mittens.

It will soon get to the point where potential buyers will see the word 'tactical' and associate it with kids, posers, and guys who still live with their mothers.

BTW, has anyone here recently bought anything that was hawked as 'tactical' and wound up being a superior product?

 

[VaRecon]

I only shoot with gloves when the cold outside is effecting my grip.
Lightweight bmx gloves work very well in providing a grip and not being cumbersome.
Fuse Prince Gloves at Danscomp
I use those.

 

[Foxtrot]

PSG, you are correct, the word now has no meaning.

If anything, I try to buy/sell items that enhance a user's life. If anything, a good product is "practical." The item I use for an example is the knife most used by Vietnam soldiers by actual sales figures. It wasn't the Kabar, it was the Swiss Army Knife.

Like many of you, I get cracked skin near my fingernails if I go out without winter gloves. The dry air is just a disaster. I put gloves on before I open my front door, so technically I'm a potential buyer for the gloves mentioned here.

But if I saw a tag on some new gloves stating, "Official gloves of the 101st Airborne," I would leave them in the bargain bin and have my wife knit me some mittens.

It will soon get to the point where potential buyers will see the word 'tactical' and associate it with kids, posers, and guys who still live with their mothers.

BTW, has anyone here recently bought anything that was hawked as 'tactical' and wound up being a superior product?

Yes, tactical is an overused buzzword, but its still used properly in relation to some things.

BTW, has anyone here recently bought anything that was hawked as 'tactical' and wound up being a superior product?

Yes, we buy EOTech and Aimpoint sights, and the gloves I mentioned in the other post above, which are superior for their application.

 

[The Tourist]

Yes, we buy EOTech and Aimpoint sights, and the gloves I mentioned in the other post above, which are superior for their application.

I'm glad something is. BTW, I have never purchased those items, so I did not know of their quality.

But here's another example. Robert Terzuola and Ernest Emerson are usually mentioned as the inventors of "tactical knives." Those products are superior. In the the case of Emerson, real-deal Navy SEALs paid 450 dollars of their own pocket money to obtain his early CQC6 folders.

On the Emerson box, Ernie prints "hard use."

Even the guy who invented the tactical craze doesn't use the word. In that case, why should we?