Your. Most irritating piece of hunting gear... Mine gloves

[WestKentucky]

New Barrel?

Would cost what the gun is worth. Doesn’t make sense.

 

[HowieG]

Would cost what the gun is worth. Doesn’t make sense.

I used to think that. Now I think everything makes sense if you get satisfaction from it. Besides, the price of used guns has skyrocketed. A new barrel doesn't cost that much. I put 7 grand worth of engine in a car that was worth just under that, but I couldn't buy a new car for 7 grand, so it makes sense.

 

[illinoisburt]

Rifle. My .270 is shot out and needs replaced. Want another bolt but just never buy one.

How do you define shot out? Bench rest guys may change out after less than 1000 rounds, other people are perfectly happy with 1 to 2 MOA may get 5x more down the pipe. Usually the real tell is drop in velocity from known new barrel numbers. Often if the round count is only a couple thousand a good electronic cleaning to remove copper can breathe new life into an old friend.

 

[WestKentucky]

How do you define shot out? Bench rest guys may change out after less than 1000 rounds, other people are perfectly happy with 1 to 2 MOA may get 5x more down the pipe. Usually the real tell is drop in velocity from known new barrel numbers. Often if the round count is only a couple thousand a good electronic cleaning to remove copper can breathe new life into an old friend.

No rifling for a long way. Accuracy is totally gone. 2 ft at 100 yards.

 

[HowieG]

No rifling for a long way. Accuracy is totally gone. 2 ft at 100 yards.

What kind of rifle?

 

[CoalTrain49]

I worked outside as a surveyor for 40 years in just about every weather condition imaginable. Freezing rain is the worst. That's when it should be snowing but it isn't.

Hint. There are no gloves that can keep your hands warm if you need to use your fingers. This is what I found to mitigate heat lose in my hands when I wasn't using my fingers. When you use your fingers in freezing temps they're going to cease to function after a brief period. That means you lose feeling in your fingers. Frostbite is the next condition so pay attention.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&url=https://www.amazon.com/Winter-Knitted-Fingerless-Convertible-Mittens/dp/B07VR97QK9&psig=AOvVaw021mKZub-uUaUN7rS0CHL7&ust=1643423781803000&source=images&cd=vfe&ved=0CAsQjRxqFwoTCNiyvue00_UCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAD

 

[WestKentucky]

What kind of rifle?

Rem 700

 

[HowieG]

Rem 700

Remington 700 actions are selling in the 500 to 600 dollar range. It certainly looks worth a new barrel to me.

 

[CoalCrackerAl]

My Rocky 1200 mg thinsulate boots. They make my hips hurt. I got some Hermin survivors 800 mg light weight boots. No pain. And with wool socks there just as warm as the Rocky's.

 

[HowieG]

My Rocky 1200 mg thinsulate boots. They make my hips hurt. I got some Hermin survivors 800 mg light weight boots. No pain. And with wool socks there just as warm as the Rocky's.

The boot dejour here in winter is the desert boot. No insulation. I do have a pair of pac boots if I suddenly decided to go north.

As far as Rocky boots go, I also had a pair once and didn't like them.

 

[daniel craig]

You need a warmer hat and jacket.

A little biology lesson. Your body will naturally try to keep you core warm in cold weather. That is your internal organs and brain. If your core temperature starts to drop the body naturally restricts blood flow to the hands and feet in order to keep the core warmer. Once that starts happening it doesn't matter how much insulation you have on your hands and feet. If blood flow is restricted the hands and feet get cold

If your body's core temperature starts to rise it will increase blood flow to the hands and feet to help cool the core. If your hands and feet are cold you need to do a better job of warming the core. The head and neck are the most vulnerable and often overlooked. You lose a lot of heat there. Your head may not feel cold because your body is sacrificing blood flow from your hands and feet to keep your head warm.

I realize that hunting in GA I'm not exposed to low temps as often as folks in other places, but it does get into the teens and single digits here too and I've hunted in other states. A common mistake is to wear "too much" insulation on the hands and feet. This often is restrictive and further reduces blood flow.

I usually wear a pretty lightweight glove, similar to the mechanics gloves listed above. It is mostly to get a better grip on the rifle or shotgun, protect my hands from brush and prevent heat transfer from the cold steel of the gun to my hands. I don't have any trouble keeping hands warm when moving. When sitting the gloves come off and my hands go into a pocket with a handwarmer.

You didn't ask about boots but I do the same. I've hunted lots in temps in the teens and haven't owned insulated boots in 20 years. A good pair of wool socks seems to do just fine as long as I keep my core warm. If I hunted in deep snow I would probably go with insulated boots. Standing in the snow will transfer heat from your feet into the snow. The only time I've gotten cold feet was when standing in knee deep icy water while duck hunting with insulated waders.

It's true but after a certain point no matter how warm your core is you're extremities are going to get cold because your blood vessels are just near to the surface in those areas.

 

[jmorris]

I couldn’t think of any one thing, that really irritated me hunting.

I suppose, living most of my life with 20/15 vision but living long enough to loose it, makes glasses the most irritating. That’s not just hunting but every other day too.

 

[tbaum]

For gloves I like Artic Shield. They also offer a set of booties to wear over your boots. Both work really well and keep me warm For a hat I have a wool Filson that does a great job and it comes in blaze orange. It also has a short bill to not interfere with your sights.

 

[HowieG]

For gloves I like Artic Shield. They also offer a set of booties to wear over your boots. Both work really well and keep me warm For a hat I have a wool Filson that does a great job and it comes in blaze orange. It also has a short bill to not interfere with your sights.

Never liked the color. Don't have to wear it here.

 

[shafter]

Everyone I know has got at least one piece of gear they are looking to replace every year,worn out, fed up, doesn't fit whatever the reason seems like nearly every year something has got to go.

For me, its gloves.. I have yet to find a set of gloves that I've been even remotely satisfied in during the January permit season in jersey. Granted January in jersey is no picnic, the last few years it's been single digits or teens and fighting a breeze. The running joke in the family is what's the coldest week of the year, my hunting week if course, but true it is .... Year after year.

Perhaps I have unrealistic expectations that jamming one or two hot hands inside each glove, and protecting them from the wind will keep my fingers from a total loss of function in two hours but that's what I'm after.

I've probably got 4 sets of varying brands of "heavyweight gloves" that disappoint every january. I'm not afraid to spend money on them, I've learned long ago, in a general sense if you spend good money on sporting goods you will have then for years. But the gloves are an epic fail every year.

Granted I have trouble with gloves in a general sense being that I am apparent part Neanderthal, with my wide thick palms and stumpy fingers. But I have accepted long ago that practically every glove that fits my palm, will be long over the finger and can work around it.

Glove recommendations that I wont have to take a mortgage out on please.

Putting hand warmers on your wrists instead of your actual hands helps alot.

 

[HowieG]

Putting hand warmers on your wrists instead of your actual hands helps alot.

Drop one in your shorts. That will keep you toasty.