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    Quote Originally Posted by prepare View Post
    Is anyone aware of a truly waterproof light weight glove?
    Sitka duck Gloves, not great for very cold weather

    https://www.sitkagear.com/products/g...E&gclsrc=aw.ds

    for Cold weather hunting in 5-20 degrees, these Mechanix work well, not great at everything but just good enough to appreciate them
    https://www.cabelas.com/shop/en/mech...E&gclsrc=aw.ds

    to the original poster OR are great, but if you are doing a lot outdoor work or labor then I would look else where
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    Quote Originally Posted by prepare View Post
    Is anyone aware of a truly waterproof light weight glove?
    That's always seemed to be a 2 edged sword to me due to the big hole in every glove that points up.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hank6046 View Post
    Sitka duck Gloves, not great for very cold weather

    https://www.sitkagear.com/products/g...E&gclsrc=aw.ds

    for Cold weather hunting in 5-20 degrees, these Mechanix work well, not great at everything but just good enough to appreciate them
    https://www.cabelas.com/shop/en/mech...E&gclsrc=aw.ds

    to the original poster OR are great, but if you are doing a lot outdoor work or labor then I would look else where
    There are a few insulated Mechanix that work well, but I would avoid the "insulated original" model. I don't think they are as warm as the non-insulated original, but they are stiff which screws up dexterity.

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    I really like the Black Diamond Ice Climbing gloves for active stuff in the cold. Fairly good dexterity and built to take a beating.

    https://www.blackdiamondequipment.co.../?colorid=5952
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    Ski bum favorite now is a pair of kinko work gloves slathered in sno seal. I've been using a pair of cloth backed carhartt as they breathe a bit better and the hardware store had them.

    Outdoor research has both technical gloves and some nice work gloves in the winter collection still up on the site.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hank6046 View Post
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    for Cold weather hunting in 5-20 degrees, these Mechanix work well, not great at everything but just good enough to appreciate them
    https://www.cabelas.com/shop/en/mech...E&gclsrc=aw.ds
    I was going to post exactly this, but was embarrassed to...
    Don't buy from Cabelas though - sign up for emails direct from Mechanix, then when they have sales that are going on all the time, buy direct from Mechanix website. Should commonly run around $25/pr with the discount.
    Not the most toasty warm gloves overall, but unbeatable for that price.
    HOWEVER.... having T&Ed them a little this winter, they have 2 drawbacks
    1) They are not TRUE waterproof rated. The outer camo shell WILL soak up water just like anything else. Repels light rain/falling snow just fine, but if you fell in a creek or were digging around in the snow/mud/etc a long time, then they will soak it up. The inner liner seems to be 99% waterproof though.
    What this means is that, if you soak the outer camo shell layer, your hand will stay dry, BUT with the water right up against the inner sleeve, even though your hand will stay dry, you will lose a lot of the warming ability of the glove, so your hands will quickly start to get cold, even if you wring the water out.
    That being said, for the price, it's not hard to get a second set, and carry them with you to swap to if you expect this to happen.

    2) The inner waterproof fleecy liner isn't quite fixed in place, so it does the usual thing where if you just yank the glove off, it turns inside out... I grab each finger at the tip and pull one by one till it's loose enough to get my hand out without this happening.
    For this reason, I recommend NOT bothering with the Sub20(?) version w/ the full gauntlets - while I'd have preferred that style of glove, the fingers on them are a bit stiffer, and with the non-fixed liner, your fingers just slosh around in the glove, so, for example if you are trying to bend your fingers to pick up a small part, your fingers will "slip" inside the shell, while the outer shell remains straight yet floppy now that there's not finger in the tip. Infuriating...
    This is NOT a problem with the SUB35 gloves, as the whole shell is more flexible and a bit thinner and more form-fitting to the hand, so at worst it's like wearing a padded regular mechanix shooting glove.

    As JSHBike mentioned, the "insulated original" glove is (mostly) not worth bothering with - not because they are too stiff (I have a pair, they stretch/break in quickly and are then just fine), but because they simply suck. They are not waterproof (in fact, due to the trademark mechanix material, they are like wearing sponges on your hands, if you, say, put a hand down while going prone during rain/mud/snow), and the "insulation", in order to keep them pretty thin, is essentially nonexistent, so they are good for maybe fall weather at best.
    They are still thin enough to shoot reasonably well in, so if that's a #1 need, I guess a little insulation is better than none. Just expect to soak them if you look at water funny, at which point, they'll be useless. If your hands run warm, you are just as well off with several pairs of regular Mechanix gloves to swap between, or whatever other shooting gloves you already like. My hands do NOT run warm, and I still haven't bothered to get another pair of the insulated originals....
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