Cold Weather Gloves - Tree Stand

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New to Northern Wisconsin whitetail after moving from PNW. I'm curious if anyone has a good, inexpensive glove option for long, cold sits?
It's hard for me to justify $100+ name brand gloves, but my fingers are really the only thing that gets cold enough to regret many life decisions!
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I’ve got some insulated carhart mitts that are super warm, but I’d instead get the Incinerator hand muff and a couple rechargeable hand warmers and go that route. Pnuma has a heated muff as well now but I’ve never used it.
 

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when I lived in Wisconsin I would wear rag wool or fleece glomitts. They worked well and I could put a hand warmer in the mitten portion.you can get the rag wool mitten for 15 bucks at fleet farm.
 
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Best thing I did was just wear merino gloves and a hand muff. I think they are the KUIU 220 gloves and I picked up the below hand muff from cabelas. 40 bucks and keeps my hands ridiculously warm with just a think pair of gloves. Has a pocket in the front for hot hands that can turn it into an oven. Also keeps the cell phone warm otherwise my battery dies very quickly in the cold.



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New to Northern Wisconsin whitetail after moving from PNW. I'm curious if anyone has a good, inexpensive glove option for long, cold sits?
It's hard for me to justify $100+ name brand gloves, but my fingers are really the only thing that gets cold enough to regret many life decisions!
Thanks
You want a liner glove plus a mitten to go over it, some call it a chopper I think. It’ll keep your fingers warmer. Enlightened Equipment makes a down mitten that is warm, called the stronghold, they are pretty much made for sitting still and not doing a lot of movement, they aren’t very tough you aren’t going to be busting through the bushes with them or anything.
A good hand muff is another option. Cabelas has one and so does Sitka.
I have pretty shitty circulation in my hands so they stay cold. I have tried a lot of ways to keep them warm. I usually also buy the hand warmers in bulk and shove them in all my gloves.
 

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Ive been using manzella grizzly with a thin liner. Its a 150 gram thinsulate. keeps me good. Little on the larger side with the cuff. But thats nice to cinch down when there's snow.
 

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when I lived in Wisconsin I would wear rag wool or fleece glomitts. They worked well and I could put a hand warmer in the mitten portion.you can get the rag wool mitten for 15 bucks at fleet farm.
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I use military surplus mittens with wool liners, they work well and were 25ish dollars.
 

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I use military surplus mittens with wool liners, they work well and were 25ish dollars.
That was the answer for me as well. Get them a little big so you can keep a thin glove on underneath them. I have a pair of Serius gloves that are great, warm and you can still shoot with them on. They work down to about 40 degrees, and I put my "choppers" on over them when it's colder. Can get both gloves for about $65 total.
 
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I'm not sure what sort of temps you are talking about, but I use a set of Raber hy arctic mitts in late season.

The are available in most sizes surplus for a song, and are very warm. Get big enough that you can wear contact gloves under them.

I can operate rifle and bow with them.
 

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You didn't say if this is for Bow or gun hunting, but i use a muff and thin gloves for both. If you go the muff route try to find a waterproof one ( its hard to do) not just windproof. The brand i have is GameHide.
 

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I use a grid fleece lined side shell glove, and army surplus fingerless wool gloves. That combo can pretty well get me thru most every thing. If im still cold I’ll run a hot hand on the top part of my hand. But I rarely need too


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Hand muffs. Best thing since sliced bread. I wear a thin glove in the tree because I am usually bowhunting. Hand muff around my waist and my hands are toasty, regardless of the temps. And they can be quite inexpensive.
 

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I like to wear a thin glove then use a muff and warmers if I need anything extra to keep my hands warm
 

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Same here - Muff with hand warmers and light merino gloves. One of the big reasons I love my Sitka Fanatic for the tree stand.
 

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Light gloves and a muff for me. I use the Hunter Safety Systems muff and it's extremely comfortable and warm. Probably similar to Cabelas. I've tried the mittens and glomitts and while warm I don't like shooting my bow with them.


Having a muff or kangaroo pouch built into your outer layer like Brendan's Fanatic is sure handy. I have an old Patagonia Synchilla 1/4 zip top with a kangaroo pouch that works nice under my ASAT leafy jacket.
 

jKsled

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Also in WI - as mentioned above you need an outer liner; muff or larger outer glove or mitt, with a handwarmer if it's really cold. I keep my release on a thinner glove inside
 
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+1 for light merino wool gloves and a hand muff. When I used to have a permanent ladder stand I kept an army style wool blanket bungi corded to the bottom of the seat. I could cover my feet, legs and hands with that, it was very effective
 
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Cheap over-sized shell mittens and then a second pair of wool or polar fleece mittens
with chemical hand warmer packs.

Each should be over-sized so they are very loose fitting.

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Total cost < $50
 
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