When it’s below freezing I hate having to take off my mitts/gloves to reload my gun or to complete other hand’s on tasks at the deer stand. I know I should ’suck-it-up’ but this is why I buy those fleece type gloves that can fold over to free your fingers quietly when needed. You take a hit on warmth, but they are practical. I was mailed a pair of my favorite glove types to evaluate with the added bonus of some air activated heat packs. It was comfort and long endurance heat in 2 orange fleece packages.

Although far form scientific, I put a pair of these HotHands® Heated Mittens from Heatmax® in my freezer and recorded the internal temperature over ten hours. This was because it was hard to ‘field test’ them comfortably in the summer. My freezer was colder than -10 degrees C (my thermometer stopped its scale a this temp) when I put the gloves in and activated the heat packs. The gloves have these great pockets for heat packs. It was an activate and forget experience.

Over time the heat packs heated up the inside of the gloves. At hour five the internal glove temperature was around 30 degrees C. At this point, I became tired of my lab rat antics and went fishing. Five hours later (after I returned) the internal glove temperature was 11 degrees C. The freezer temperature remained colder than -10 degrees C.

They work as promised.

Not only that, but they were comfortable and light. The magnets that held the finger flaps in place, when you needed your fingers, were strong and quiet. Watch your compass bearings though.

If you see some on the rack consider buying a pair. I know I will be grabbing a pair when I go toe to hoof with the Ghost Buck this year.

*Note - by clicking on the link to the HotHands® Heated Mittens information I do not get any financial ‘incentives’. Howard Commnications was kind enough to mail me a pair of gloves to evaluate with no promise of a good review. I mean what I write.