We use the long "veterinary gloves" with the normal medical gloves over top to keep good dexterity in our hands during the whole process. When you're done, just strip them off and you are still clean to your arm pits. Way better than our old habits of trying to wash your hands in snow and leaves.
That sounds like an excellent idea! I’ve never been concerned about picking up some kind of disease or something when gutting out a deer, but bloody hands and forearms
are uncomfortable for me, especially as the blood dries before I get the deer back to the road and truck. And I don’t like using the water in my canteen to wash up - “Water’s precious. It can be more precious than gold sometimes.” (Walter Houston in Treasure of the Sierra Madre)
Anyway, it’s kind of off topic, but my wife sure got a lot of funny looks from other deer hunters this year because she was wearing a face mask. She
always wears a face mask while out deer hunting because sagebrush pollen can, and
has caused her asthma to act up. But this year, I figure the other hunters that saw my wife wearing a face mask just assumed she was foolish enough to worry about picking up Covid in the backcountry.
It probably didn’t help that the face mask my wife was wearing this deer season just happens to be hunter orange.
BTW, my wife also carries an inhaler and an epi-stick in a pouch right up front - where she can get to them in a hurry. Asthma attacks aren’t pretty, and it pays to be prepared.
