Originally Posted by
SLG
I find that from a tac rig (ALS, in this case, but SLS before that) I can shoot pretty much exactly the same with or without gloves. I used mil flight gloves for years, and never found them wanting, but as soon as i switched to PIG gloves, everything improved. I find the mechanix to not work as well as the flight gloves for me, but nothing comes close to the pig. I think the different finger length and thickness really changes things between people, way more than the glove size would indicate.
I haven't tried the OR hot weather gloves. Have you tried the PIG?
From concealment, I definitely lost something with gloves on compared to bare hand. The problem is, I don't really know how much was the glove,how much the extra layers added, and how much was the cold:-) Probably doesn't matter though...
The other thing though, is that I used to wear out a set of flight gloves every month. My PIG gloves last way longer, but are still definitely highly disposable when training/deploying at a high tempo.