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How hot do sxs barrels get when shooting a round of trap doubles (50 targets)?

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jlb

Interesting question, and I may invest in an ebay infrared thermometer for this summer. When shooting skeet at Ben Avery in the summer the barrels are too hot to touch by Station 4.
The ASTM standard for Thermal Pain Threshold (and when tissue damage starts) is 111 F or 44 C.

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Woolfolk Henderson and many others always wore a glove on the forward hand. Courtesy of Chris Lien

There is too hot to hold and then there is enough to cause 1, 2, and 3 degree burns. I have shot a 30 inch twist barrel in a singles trap on a hot summer day and it has been far too hot to touch but I don't think enough to give me a first degree burn. That was using 3 drams BP and 1 1/8 oz

I can't begin to guess actual temperatures, but I have run shells through a 687 SPII at the rate of one shell every 6.7 seconds for three hours straight. The barrels get very hot, and you're better off using a glove on the forward hand, but no barrel problems.

This rate of shooting is not a place for a splinter f/end. It is imperative that you keep your bare fingers off the barrels themselves.

SRH

I'm using my second pair of Gripswell SxS shooting gloves with the SxS specific heat guard on the left glove and love them. Too bad they went out of business.
Karl

I have the same gloves- did not know they had gone under. Mike

I found out when I tried to get another pair from Fieldsport, checked their website, sure enough....gone.
Karl

I was just on the site, it seems they are still in business.


https://www.gripswell.com


pete

I just got two pair of the side by side gloves from them six months ago.

I shoot with gloves on both hands when shooting. I use leather batting gloves and cut off the trigger finger at the end. They are cheap and durable and provide a good grip. Since I grip the barrels, not the forend, they protect me from barrel heat and help control the gun in recoil.

For cold weather bird hunting I have a pair of thnsulate lined deerskin gloves.

I tried the slip on leather hand protector but didn't like it at all.