Gloves and Henrys

[Dusty Morningwood]

I would like to shoot my Henry more in competition, but besides the heat from BP, it just feels like I do not have as solid a hold as with my 66.  Do any of you folks wear gloves on your forward hand and does it help or just get in the way?  Thanks.

[Will Ketchum]

I use a fingerless glove on my left (forward) hand.  It works fine.  The barrel doesn't get too hot to hold until you are on your way to the unloading table . The only problem is that if I loose count of how many rounds I have fired I don't always feel the follower hit my hand so I work the lever and have no round in the chamber .

Will Ketchum

[Cannon Fodder]

Ditto on the fingerless glove for the forward hand. I use this for reenacting  with my 45 lc iron frame. Works nice!

[Silver Creek Slim]

I have long monkey arms and can reach in front of the follower with 10 rounds in the mag tube. Therefore, I can get a good hold of the mag tube/barrel. I only use a glove when the temp soars into 90+ and the sun is beating down. The barrel doesn't want to cool very much between stages.

Slim

[Sod Buster]

I also have used a glove on my forward hand when using the Henry during the hot summer months.  It helps with the SxS shotgun too...especially on those stages that have 10+ shotgun targets.

[Arcey]

...especially on those stages that have 10+ shotgun targets.

Hopin' we've seen the last of those...............

[Driftwood Johnson]

especially on those stages that have 10+ shotgun targets.

Well I love them. I always wore a glove on my left hand for those stages. I've been accused of imitating Michael Jackson lots of times. Now that I've started shooting the Henry, I wear the glove all the time. I hold the rifle with my off hand just in front of the receiver. With my my spacer stick in the magazine, my hand doesn't get in the way of the follower tab. But I find now that with a hot Henry and a hot shotgun, I need the glove on one hand, and a bandanna in the other to bring both hot long guns back to the unloading table.

[Henry4440]

I wear gloves from the time i start shooting the Henry.
The Lady can become very hot. , and i need my hand.

[Tuolumne Lawman]

During warm months I wear a glove on my off hand when shooting a Henry.  There is historical precident for this.  I just finished re-reading Wiley Sword's book on the Henry and it is mentioned in primary source that gloves were used because of the barrel heat.

[litl rooster]

  off hand with trigger finger removed may cut the thumb off also... for the pistolas


I think most have all mentioned the warm months.   Shading them between stages does help some.

[Grizzly Adams]

No glove.  I don't think that get all THAT hot!

[Tuolumne Lawman]

AH,

But have you shot BP in the Henry in July! I don't wear a glove shooting smokeless, generally, but BP is hotter burning, IMHO.

[Ransom Gaer]

I've found the barrel isn't too hot after firing a string.  It's later when I'm hauling the thing to the loading table that it is hot.  I may have to see about getting a glove.

Ransom Gaer