Who wears rubber gloves to clean game ?

[Bluefish]

Double glove actually, latex on the hands and then the plastic sleeves. Not afraid of anything, just keeps me a little cleaner.

 

[N2TRKYS]

S0me guys have a phobia against anything close to latex, or polyisoprene.

 

[nodakian]

Reason: simple cleanliness. I don't about getting blood on my hands, but keeping a couple pair in my pack is so much easier than cleanup I figure why not do it.

 

[SoloWilderness]

You are going to eat some rare tendies at camp anyway?

Check out MaxiFlex cut gloves. They are very thin cut gloves with thin latex dipped fingers and palms.

These are the ones I use, Milwaukee makes a similar pair, they are great, I actually wear them during the early seasons as a general glove sometimes. Stabbed myself enough times wrestling critters on muddy hillsides to not have a bit of cut protection. Keep a couple pairs of the mechanics nitriles in my kit too, good for handling meat once I'm at camp, or boning out for the packout, keeps everything cleaner, also easier to get them clean then my hands, so limited water goes farther. Also carry a tyvek sheet for laying everything on as I cut to keep meat clean. Both make life easier, and weigh next to nothing, so why not.

 

[LongWayAround]

I wear nitrile gloves everytime I clean small game, upland birds, or waterfowl. You get a better grip, they mitigate minor knicks and pokes, and you don't have foreign bio matter under your nails.

For big game, I keep a pair of cut resistant gloves in my kill kit. In cold weather they help keep your hands from freezing and the grip is much better. The hands still get bloody if not wearing a nitrile underneath. I'm not prone to cutting myself but when breaking down an elk solo with a razor sharp knife, I choose to stack the odds in my favor.

It has absolutely nothing to do with being scared of blood or cwd.

I wear gloves at work too. Nobody seems to suggest that I'm afraid of mud or snow there.

 

[Homer]

Never. If I was worried about getting my hands dirty I’d just stay inside. It’s normally not that hard to find some stream or snow to wash my hands off in. Cleaning wolves is about the only time I’d consider throwing on a pair if I’d have brought them.

 

[lonedave]

I didn't carry them (at least two pairs) for the first 25 years or so simply because nobody did. The last 25 years or so I have, along with wet wipes all for easier clean up. They go right back in the same zip lock they came in when done and get packed out afterwards.

 

[MTtrout]

I’ve been wearing them the last few years for “easier” blood clean up but always end up with blood everywhere on me from wrangling the quarters, tearing gloves, and such. I’ll still put them on going forward out of habit now but still enjoy the feeling of a heart in my bare hands

 

[WyoBowhunter21]

For me it’s just to keep my hands as clean as possible and my hand always have cuts on them so it helps keep blood from getting into my cuts. When I am alone I use Kevlar gloves and rubber gloves.

 

[oldskool67]

They give them out free with the purchase of a 6.5 CM

 

[Novahunter]

I keep veterinary gloves along with nitrile gloves, and 2 rubber bands in my pack. Work great and make cleanup very easy.

 

[svivian]

I keep telling myself to put some in my kill bag and I always forget until I’m elbow deep

 

[ZAK13]

Yes I wear the nitrile gloves when cleaning game, it's an easier clean up and I believe a more sanitary way to reduce contaminates

 

[camping1601]

Yes. Easy cleanup and I can have a clean hand with the change of a glove. Nothing to do with being afraid of blood or getting dirty.

 

[PaHunter86]

I do just so it's a simple clean up when done.

 

[CHWine]

Blood on a blued rifle is very corrosive, although up until now I go commando. When we were on Kodiak deer hunting we wore lightweight cotton gloves under what I would call household kitchen gloves. It really helped for the extreme cold.

 

[highcj5]

I have been wearing gloves the last few years. Used to laugh at my buddy using them years ago when gutting his deer. I’m not scared of blood but used to hate having to wash my hands forever after gutting a deer. Used to have stuff for days under and around my fingernails.

 

[GunsAreFun]

I wear dipped cut resistant gloves always with the surgical blades.

 

[2531usmc]

With all of the strange diseases (AIDS, Covid, Ebola, cwd, etc) that have cropped up over the past 20 or 30 years, is it not just a prudent measure to try and protect your body from disease vectors?

Basically the same reasoning that causes you to fasten your seatbelt and change the batteries in you smoke detector

 

[GSPHUNTER]

Most of the time I tell the guys I'm hunting with that my back really hurts, do me a favor and dress out my kill for me. They do wear gloves.