Never, I need to feel that cold hard steel in my hands..... but the wipe clothe is near-by.......

 

No. I don't have any worthy of the white glove treatment. I do wipe em down before puting away though.

 

Same story with me. However there are some people that seem to rust a gun just by looking at it.

 

No, never have worn Gloves...but sometimes I have worn a Hat when handling them.

 

I don't wear anything. I turn the lights down low and listen to Barry White when I stretch out on the shag carpet fondling..I mean handling them.

 

Thanks Wyatt....Pepsi is hard to clean off a keyboard !

 

I never understood the white glove thing anyway, it actually makes me laugh when I see it. I could see it maybe on Lincoln's 22 Henry (the one) or something like that. A person should always wipe down the firearm after handling, which is what I do and am very thorough doing it especially with older NIB guns.

 

If it is cold outside when I'm shooting it, yes. Leather gloves when I can find a air that will fit, otherwise a cloth glove on the trigger hand.
rayb

 

I wear gloves. The less I have to polish the guns, the less they run the risk of picking up light scratches.

 

........... and that my friends is why Hoppy's guns are so very beautiful in his photographs. Don't you guys just drool a little bit extra when Hopalong's guns are on that window sill? Come on, I know I do.

If my wife comes by at any time I'm looking at Hopalong's guns, she always reaches over and lifts my tongue back into my mouth. She always asks me if I'm catchin' any. Flies, she means. I think that woman hates me!

Bud

 

I think part of it depends on how often you handle them. If you aren't likely to do any fondling for awhile, gloves would be smart. I think having a clean but oiled rag handy gets the job done pretty well. Just handle it by the grips as you set it down. Also, some folks just have more corrosive skin oils than others. Certainly the museum curators don't take chances and use cotton gloves, but that firearm may not get handled again for a long time.

 

Oyeboten said ...... but sometimes I have worn a Hat when handling them. Now that was funny.

 

Never have, and I probably never will. Unless I purchase a museum quality piece as an investment.

 

All my guns get the white glove treatment. Being a 'bling' shooter (gold, silver, nickle) it's much easier on the finish. Added plus, if I get the seam just right it gives my trigger finger the feel of pulling back on an extra wide trigger shoe.

 

I have been known to take white cotton gloves to the Colt Collectors Association show for use when handling someone else's expensive hardware.

Rio

 

I only wear gloves for cold, hot, dirty, etc., never when handling my guns.

 

Have a microfiber cloth on hand but no, no gloves. However, if I'm strapped, outside and walking the fenceline...then it's workin gloves and a walkin stick for prodding around the tall stuff as a rattler may have decided to visit.

However if one needs inspection/handling gloves, here's a link for ya

http://www.saraglove.com/Mens-100-Cotton-Lisle-White-Inspection-Gloves-p/80-1315-p.htm

 

As a general rule, no, I do not. But I always wipe the gun down before returning it to the safe. When readying a gun for a photo though, I may wear white cotton gloves to position it without revealing fingerprints in the magnified shot.

There are times when showing others a gun that I've wished I made them wear gloves but I'm sure to wipe them clean when they are done. As a practice I see no harm in it.

 

No gloves...wipe them down before putting them back in the safe.

Thanks Wyatt...It will take a long time for that image to go away...LOL!!!!

 

I normally use white cotton gloves when I clean guns. It makes the entire process easier, as I do not have to worry about getting my fingerprints and hands' oils on the gun that I am trying to clean. Instead of touching the gun with my bare hands and putting harmful oils on the gun, when I touch the gun with cotton gloves, the act of touching serves to help clean the gun.

I will use one set of gloves while Eezoxing the gun, and a different set of cotton gloves while Renaissance Waxing the gun. The gloves get multiple uses before I toss them out, but I do not bother laundering the cheap gloves.

High quality white cotton gloves are available inexpensively online for around a buck a glove, when purchasing by the dozen.

 

Some images you just don't want to have in your mind.

That was WRONG! I WOULD wear gloves if I had to handle any of his guns, for my own protection!

I like how the dude made sure he got all of his Winchester white box and 22 ammo in the picture, really added something....

 

No. Gimmie a break, they're guns not the Holy Grail. I wipe them with a silicone cloth before I put them away. They seem to look fine.

 

No gloves, no hand high acidity. I know this for sure handling guns for about 40 years.

Johngross, you just had to post that disgusting picture. I've only seen it on 3-4 websites in the past few years
I thought I was getting better from the stomach virus I got Monday, but now I'm not so sure.

 

I mostly handle my guns at the range of dryfiring in practice, my old Lugers and the Korth have to live up to their intended purpose as shooters.

 

The only time I wear gloves handling firearms is at the Julia auction house

 

ALWAYS!

 

Hey Cam, nice little Colt. The previous owner of those white gloves.................... he wouldn't be a fairly big fella would he? Checkered shirt, bluejeans, carries an axe?

Just wonderin'

Bud

 

No I don't wear gloves. But I am always careful to wipe down any areas of the bluing that I touched before putting a gun away. "Collects" idea of using gloves for oiling and a pair for waxing, makes sense though,that way when you close the cylinder,you don't have to wipe the area down again,that you had your hands on.