This is definitely a warm weather climate or indoor range conditions shooting glove. It's for those who do a lot of shooting with handguns producing enough recoil so that the friction on your bare skin would otherwise cause blisters or just plain irritation from the forces involved.
I use them when firing 9mm, .357 mags, .40 cal, .44 mags, etc. - not when shooting .22 LR. I will shoot 300 - 400 rounds of the larger rounds mentioned at a time, at least once a week. As any of you know, it's not just the shooting, it's also about loading the ammo in the clips that keep your hands busy. These are the only gloves I've used that are light and functional enough to permit me to do both without having to take them off to load the magazines, and can stand up to the wear and tear (shooting AND loading with them on) I subject them to.
It's not that they don't wear out or rip...it's just that they last a reasonably good amount of time - around 2000 rounds worth or so - before it's time to replace them with a new set. They are not a heavy duty glove! They have a very flexible soft leather for the palms and the inner fingers and finger tips, and a nylon mesh fabric for the backs of the hands with a strong velcro strap fastener to secure them well at the top back of the wrist.
Since they do wear out with that kind of punishment, I'll usually buy two pair at a time and reorder when I start on the second set.
If you do a lot of shooting like this and don't mind spending...
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