Using Shooting Gloves

By Kyle Lamb

The question often arises: Should I wear shooting gloves? The argument seems to be that if you are a civilian or law enforcement officer who does not usually wear gloves during your daily escapades, why would you wear them to train?

The fact of the matter is this: If you never shoot with gloves, and one day you pull your firearm to eliminate a threat when you just happen to have gloves on, you will be behind in the quest to reach the end of your OODA loop before your enemy does. If you have never trained with gloved mitts, you will most likely feel uncomfortable handling your firearm and lose some manual dexterity when trying to manipulate it while wearing them.

First of all, you must train with shooting gloves. If you shoot every day with gloves and at the last minute of the last day I ask you to perform barehanded, you will be fine. You will shoot a little better without gloves even though you haven’t been training this way. However, if you always train barehanded and now are evaluated after adding a pair of gloves, you will be a little slower.

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Source:: Guns and Ammo