Okay...weird situation here but I'll explain. I had my "ah ha" moment a little over a year ago and decided I had to lose weight and become more healthy. Well I ended up losing 100lbs and all is great, right? Well yes...but now I'm always freakin cold!!! I've been out bird hunting a lot...like usual...and I've never worn gloves. My hands were just never that cold and I hate handling a gun with gloves...it just feels clumsy and like I can't feel the safety or something. Today it was upper teens to 20deg and windy. I started the morning with a pair of Footjoy Winter Soft golf gloves. These are the heaviest I've ever worn in the past and only when it's been super cold. They provide the tacky grip and are very fitted so handling a gun is decent. Well my fingers felt like they were gonna break off!! I was better off without the gloves because I could make a fist to keep my finger tips warm and/or put them inside my vest one at a time to warm them up. But seriously, I have no tolerance for cold now and my hands are really bad. Has anybody experienced this? Shoot my some ideas on gloves I should check out because I have to do something. I need to feel the gun, but the way my fingers were today I couldn't tell if I was pushing the safety or not!!
Get your self a thin pair of gloves that give you the feel that you want. Then go out and get some of those little crush- style hot packs and put the on TOP of your hand under the gloves. The heat will warm up the blood flowing into your fingers and it should be all good. Same thing works if you put them on the tops of your feet in boots. Do it all the time ice fishing and its amazing how warm you stay. Reason your appendages are cold is because your body is using all the heat energy to keep your core warm.
Do they have you on a Beta blocker for anything? (They are used for cardiac problems and high blood pressure.) If so cold hands and feet are a known side effect. I was always too hot but after some heart trouble five years ago they put me on metoprolol and I've been freezing ever since.
Nothing. I was actually able to go off of my blood pressure meds in the spring. I tried some handwarmer packets in the golf gloves I have and they fit just fine. I'll take the dogs out for some conditioning this afternoon and see how that works.
Tough situation while bird hunting, you've got to always be ready to shoot. It's easier to deal with when sitting on stand or such. I've got med issues giving me cold hands and feet now so I know how you feel. Being right handed, I use a good, big, Thinsulate glove with a "grippy" fingers/palm design on my left hand. For the right trigger hand, I do a couple things. On deer stand, or in a frigid duck blind with slow action, I use a Down or Thinsulate mitten with the finger opening design. You can put a handwarmer in there too for a real toasty treat. For faster shooting action, I have several different thinner types of gloves for the right hand............find the best you can that you can still use the trigger with. Also good to keep a handwarmer in that right pocket to warm those fingers every chance you get! I would think that the "golf" gloves would be bad because they fit too tight restricting blood flow, at least the ones I'm familiar with. Blood flow is the key to heat .......... you don't want to wear anything that will restrict it. One of my favorites for a thin noninsulated right hand glove is Harbor Freight's (Western Safety brand) Goatskin Driving Gloves. Kind of an upgrade over your golf glove, a little roomier, and they're cheap ....... bloody them up and you can just put them into the "work glove" pile or pitch them. They are also my favorite summer light duty work glove.
The tight gloves make sense. I always felt I didn't lose as much dexterity with them. I have to start experimenting.
Congrats on your weight loss and ya I have always been thin and most always cold so welcome to my world....Just gear up more....Best I can tell ya...
I don't bird hunt, and usually try to keep at least my right hand ungloved because I don't like to loose any grip or feeling on the gun. But, when it is too cold for that I have some gloves that I cut two knuckles worth off the right index finger and one knuckle off the right thumb. Makes the trigger feel, safety, and reloading a lot easier. Check out the neoprene gloves...that's what I like the best because they aren't bulky, are fairly warm, and have good grip. They do make your hands sweat, and some people hate them for that, but its never really been a problem for me. Good on you for loosing the weight.
