Cold weather shooting. Hand warming?

[Conan The Librarian]

I've always avoided target shooting in cold weather because my hands cool off so much that I lose trigger control for precision shooting. Have you seen any good ideas for keeping hands working in cold temps?

[Graybeard]

I have thin leather (goat skin I believe) gloves lightly insulated with thinsulate that I use. I believe Cabela's sells them. I use them when it's cold enough that my regular uninsulated shooting gloves aren't enough. Of course temps here in Bama don't get all that bad most of the time and when it's truly ugly cold I stay home.

I do shoot skeet thru winter tho so need them some days. I hunted ONCE on a day in the low to mid teens with high winds and snow on the ground. I was in a tree stand and I think I had all the clothes I owned on that day. I had thin shooting gloves like above inside mittens and also used a hand blanket at times. With it all I was only barely able to bear the conditions.

I saw one lousy deer that turned back I think when it saw me take off the hand blanket. I got down right after that and promised myself to never again hunt in such conditions. I hunt for enjoyment not for the need of meat so iffen it ain't fun why do it?

[mcwoodduck]

i have strechy wool gloves that are very thin and I just wear them under work or shooting gloves.
Nice and warm.
Other than that you may want to bring one of the chemical hand warmers, the ones you shake.  Stick it in an old terry cloth towl you have folded on the bench and stick your hands in them for bench shooting.
For skeet, trap, sporting clays.- Wear two pair of gloves- thin shooting gloves under heavier hunting style and simply remove heavy glove when it is your turn to shoot in sporting clays and for trap and skeet, put it on when the round is done.

[corbanzo]

Use your barrel.  Pretty simple really....

[longwinters]

For hunting I use a pair of glomitts with a pair of body armor light gloves inside.  I also put a chemical hand warmer in the mitten part of the gromits.  Fingers stay nice and warm and if a shot opportunity  occurs I just flip back the mitten part of the glomitts and take the shot.

Long

[IOWA DON]

It's not good at minus 20 deg F but I use deerskin gloves, like the ones available at Cabelas and cut of the trigger finger and thumb for the rght hand. With the rest of the hand warm the thumb and trigger finger stay much warmer than with no glove at all.

[GRIMJIM]

I know you said target shooting but for hunting I wear a muff strapped around my chest with a couple of hand warmers in it and thin gloves.

I have found for me the chemical warmers work better when placed on the back of my hand. The veins are close to the surface and warming them up seems to help keep the fingers warm.
You may want to give that a try. You can stuff them inside your regular gloves on the back of your hand and it won't interfere with your grip or finger movement.