I never have in the past but will be this year. Tore a tendon in a finger two weeks ago and am in a splint until 10/17. Sent from my soup can and string
Treestand=$200 bow setup=$700 arrow released=$20 weekend gas=$90 License=$40 Outergarmant/underwear=$300 20 cent pair of gut gloves? Priceless!
I'm 50/50 on my use. If there is some quality research I must wear them I'll get better about it, but for now either way works for me.
Even at $5 for 3 it isn't that expensive. Maybe if you shoot 100 deer a year it could add up but then you also have to purchase tags for 100 deer. I live the gloves and hate when I open my bag and realize I forgot them. Lol. I really hate having cold hands after gutting one. Sent from my SCH-R970 using Tapatalk 4 Beta
So, you and Tony enjoy getting blood all over your hunting clothes and vehicles and smeared up your arms to your elbows? Please count me as one of the sissies. A clean sissy.
If I get blood on my clothes, it's from dragging/moving the deer, not field dressing it. I get blood on my hands and forearms but they make these handy things called towels and there is this awesome chemical called water that make clean up a snap. You can wash and reuse the towel and water is pretty much free. And you don't leave trashy bloody gloves laying around in the woods. :D
I have worn them before, but I prefer to not use them. I have more feeling that way, so can tell exactly what I'm cutting. Plus, I field dress at my butcher shed, so there's always running water right there.
I used to use the shoulder length stuff, but it's too much of a hassle. Now I always blue nitrile gloves with me. I usually have four or five pair in my pack along with a few zip-lock bags. I have no problem sticking my bare hands into the "mix" if the need arises, but I'll avoid it if I can. Not because I'm squeamish, but because it makes clean-up a lot easier. I just throw a pair of gloves on, get the job done, peel the gloves off into a zip-lock bag, put my bloody knife in there too along with anything else I used and carry it all out. Also, I always carry a hydration bladder. I just unscrew the nozzle and use a little "running water" to rinse any blood off my fore-arms. It's all about easy clean-up out in the woods as far as I'm concerned. If I were gutting the deer near running water I sure wouldn't bother with gloves.
We NEVER leave gloves in the woods. Turn them inside out as you peel them off and stick them in a pocket to throw away later. That way I don't have to drag along a towel and any chemicals (water). The gloves take up about as much room as a book of matches and weigh nothing. AND, my hands and steering wheel don't stink like deer guts or tarsal glands for a day or two and I don't have to spend 15 minutes using a brush and soap to get blood out from under my fingernails. Proud member of the glove wearing sissy club.
If a little deer blood or dirt under your fingernails bugs you that much... you'd really hate bowfishing. LOL Or trapping. Or farming. ....and the inside of my prius has already hauled several deer, but still doesn't have any deer blood smeared on it. It did stink of buck tarsals for awhile tho' and it's a dirt ball... but that prius has already seen more trails than most city-boy pickups will drive in years. bwahahahaaha
I don't understand why people associate wearing gloves with being a sissy. I know I brought it up earlier and I really don't care what people think of me. But you don't hear people calling other people sissies for wearing gloves in the winter time, but wear them to make a process more efficient and you are a sissy LOL. As an engineer I always promote working smarter and not harder. That is not an insult on anybody's intelligence. But wearing gloves means I can just stuff them in a baggy rather than waste time washing in the woods or having to wash my clothes and vehicle later to get blood out (or when I was a motorcycle mechanic I got out of the shop sooner at quitting time which was always good).
