Black Ovis Palisades Down Glassing Mittens

[Nicaburns]

Anyone know the weight? Manufacturer doesn’t list, not that I can find.

4.5oz if I remember correctly though I don’t have my packing list handy

 

[intunegp]

These are on Camofire today for $29.99, both colors both sizes available as of the time of this post. I ordered mine and am excited to try them out this fall!

 

[IronM]

These mittens are the real deal. I had an injured thumb and wanted to whitetail hunt this fall so needed a mitten type where I could keep all my fingers/thumb together. These proved to be invaluable as they kept my hands very warm and with the slit at the base of the palm, provided an opening for your trigger finger without having to take the mitten off. Awesome piece for the price especially if they are on camofire.

 

[Speaks]

Might have to check some out. Had half my left thumb bitten off a few years ago. The stub gets cold as shit super easy, but aside from that started getting Renaulds right at the same time, not sure how it might be related but had lots of random nerve stuff.....

Anyway I am super cold tolerant other than my hands and always looking for the best solution.

 

[bowkill]

Might have to check some out. Had half my left thumb bitten off a few years ago. The stub gets cold as shit super easy, but aside from that started getting Renaulds right at the same time, not sure how it might be related but had lots of random nerve stuff.....

Anyway I am super cold tolerant other than my hands and always looking for the best solution.

Sounds like there might be a good story there...

 

[Speaks]

Sounds like there might be a good story there...

I suppose there is a bit of one.

This was a Saturday morning late March 2020 right as MN was starting lockdowns (first day I think) and I had just recently gotten back from a work trip to India, interesting timing all around.

Two of my dogs got in a little scrap and I went to break it up and somehow my thumb just ended up in the wrong spot. Didnt really feel it happen, pulled them apart and was trying to tell which one of them was bleeding before I noticed that my left thumb tip was missing right at the base of the thumb nail so about 3/4 of an inch of it missing.

So I put them in their crates and wrap it in a paper towel and drive to the local ER. They have the doors closed off and people up front at a folding table with full PPE. I tell them I got my thumb bitten off and they proceed to run through about a two page sheet of questions about covid symptoms, cough, fever etc. After saying no to all of them the response was "well if you dont have any covid symptoms why are you here" I remind them of my hand which had thoroughly bled through the paper towel during their 20 min of questions.

They bring me inside to the normal check in counter where they proceed to run me through the full list of questions again. But with one more at the end "have you been out of the country in the last 18 days? I counted back and realized it was 17 days since I had been home and though I considered just omitting that told them. They shuffled off and a minute later I hear over the speaker "There is a man here from asia, put all covid protocols in place."

I expected things to get real annoying real fast though the rest of my visit was pretty much normal. They gave me a nerve block, cauterized the bleeders, trimmed some jagged bone edges with what looked like a pair of dykes, took some x-rays and wrapped it up. Not much they were prepared to do there but set an appointment with a hand guy for Tuesday morning. No masks or anything weird just what you would expect.

Until right at the end (3ish hours after I got there) when I was waiting to be discharged a lady (maybe a nurse?) fully decked out in every conceivable piece of PPE comes into my room and has an absolute meltdown that I am not being quarantined, wearing a mask etc. She is busy screaming at me while I try and explain I have just been doing as instructed when the doc shows back up and tells her to get out of there.

Interestingly it never did particularly hurt until post surgery, something got messed up with nerves as they tried to create a bit of a thumb tip over what was left of the bone. That hurt like you would not believe for months. Doc told me the best thing I could do was rub chunks of rough gravel on it to desensitize it, seems weird but did seem to help.

Its generally fine now other than getting cold easy and the fact that its a total bitch to button the shirt sleeve on the opposite arm when I have to put on a suit for work.