Somebody recommend a tougher glove?
01-10-2007, 08:44 AM
#12
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Carlisle Pa.
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RE: Somebody recommend a tougher glove?
For me it is important to be able to feel the string. The cordovan tipped gloves would not do it. I have settled on a Grizzly deer skin glove. It hasreinforced fingers but it is not so thickas to take the feeling of the string away. Grizzly makes a cowhide on thathas thin fingers that hurt. The Damascas glovehas no protection at all in my opinion.
I usually buy a new glove every year at Denton for $16.00 or so and keep last years model as a spare. I have spareseverywhere. haha. But I like the feel and the protection. My bow is 59lbs and has a 6 strand string of 450+ so it is a thin string.
I usually buy a new glove every year at Denton for $16.00 or so and keep last years model as a spare. I have spareseverywhere. haha. But I like the feel and the protection. My bow is 59lbs and has a 6 strand string of 450+ so it is a thin string.
01-10-2007, 09:48 AM
#13
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Mississippi USA
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RE: Somebody recommend a tougher glove?
Missedagain, that same thought kept me away from cordovan tipped gloves for years, even when I shot tournaments with 82#. I tried a few, but only for a little while, and gave up on them. Finally a friend talked me into trying the ABS Super Glove. Again, I was dissapointed, but he told me it took a while to break in so I stuck with it, and now I love it. I don't get as much of a feel for the string, but I get enough and my shooting (especially my release) improved. I'm shooting a [email protected] longbow now.
I also use an ABS Skookum glove, but only with my selfbow. Not sure what the difference is, but I get a better release with it on that bow--go figure.
Chad
I also use an ABS Skookum glove, but only with my selfbow. Not sure what the difference is, but I get a better release with it on that bow--go figure.
Chad
01-10-2007, 03:05 PM
#14
Nontypical Buck
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RE: Somebody recommend a tougher glove?
I just got the Big Shot this year and I've been pleased with it. My Neet glove left my fingers hurting after even a short session. No problems now. Hope you like the new glove.
01-11-2007, 10:45 AM
#16
Nontypical Buck
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RE: Somebody recommend a tougher glove?
ORIGINAL: BobCo19-65
If you get one, make sure if fits real tight at first, make sure you soak it in water and use it while wet for a few days. Follow up with sno-seal. Some people like montana pitch, but I find it sticky.
If you get one, make sure if fits real tight at first, make sure you soak it in water and use it while wet for a few days. Follow up with sno-seal. Some people like montana pitch, but I find it sticky.
01-11-2007, 10:56 AM
#17
Giant Nontypical
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RE: Somebody recommend a tougher glove?
do you do those things to speed up break in process??
Besides the Bateman and Howard Hill mentioned, I also did this with a superglove and it worked well (it also has cordovan leather). Cordovan leather is about all I'll use with gloves. It really does not get any groves in it, or maybe I should say it is hard to get groves in it.Groves will aid in plucking the string. The inserts also prevents that (groves).
01-11-2007, 11:53 AM
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RE: Somebody recommend a tougher glove?
ORIGINAL: BobCo19-65
Sure do. I keep soaking the glovein water and try to shootit every two hours or so (maybe a dozen times a session). Then put it back into the water. Do that all weekend and the glove will pretty much be shaped to your hand and string correctly. Then I use sno-seal after every session for a while . I also use a hair dryer to keep the leather warm, and melt the snow seal. It'll help open up the leather to let the sno-seal in.
Besides the Bateman and Howard Hill mentioned, I also did this with a superglove and it worked well (it also has cordovan leather). Cordovan leather is about all I'll use with gloves. It really does not get any groves in it, or maybe I should say it is hard to get groves in it.Groves will aid in plucking the string. The inserts also prevents that (groves).
do you do those things to speed up break in process??
Besides the Bateman and Howard Hill mentioned, I also did this with a superglove and it worked well (it also has cordovan leather). Cordovan leather is about all I'll use with gloves. It really does not get any groves in it, or maybe I should say it is hard to get groves in it.Groves will aid in plucking the string. The inserts also prevents that (groves).
i'll just use mine
...when i get new ones i just wear it around the house every chance i get.
01-11-2007, 09:14 PM
#19
Giant Nontypical
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RE: Somebody recommend a tougher glove?
Got the glove today....nicely made and whoooooooooeeeee is she a stiffy.
Definitely much nicer on the fingers but can't feel a thing that's going on with the string yet. LOL (And the large seems like a perfect fit as I have to push my fingers to the tips)
I will probably mess around on Sunday breaking it in.
Also picked up a patch of seal skin and changed out the suede rest and strike plate on my longbow........nice stuff too. very slick.
(Oh and picked up a DVD about shooting and a new tube of barge cement.......I'm half scared to death to open up the 3 Rivers Print catalog they sent with the order. Damn them.)
I'm am soooooooooo trying to fight the wooden arrow urge. [:-]
Definitely much nicer on the fingers but can't feel a thing that's going on with the string yet. LOL (And the large seems like a perfect fit as I have to push my fingers to the tips)
I will probably mess around on Sunday breaking it in.
Also picked up a patch of seal skin and changed out the suede rest and strike plate on my longbow........nice stuff too. very slick.
(Oh and picked up a DVD about shooting and a new tube of barge cement.......I'm half scared to death to open up the 3 Rivers Print catalog they sent with the order. Damn them.
)I'm am soooooooooo trying to fight the wooden arrow urge. [:-]
