Shooting Glove

Abstract

The shooting gloves of this invention improves the shooter's ability to maintain the proper grip and hand orientation on a handgun. The shooting gloves have select areas on the outside of the glove covered by a viscid coating or sections of material that provide a tacky surface texture to the gloves. The viscid areas are strategically located on the gloves so that the viscid areas of the opposite glove contact each other when the shooter takes a conventional two handed grip of a handgun. The contacting viscid areas provide enhanced tactile feel and increased mechanical friction between the gloves that helps the shooter maintain the proper grip and hand position as the handgun is discharged. It should be noted that the viscid areas are located on the gloves not so as to directly contact the handgun, but are located on the gloves to directly contact corresponding or mating viscid areas of the other glove. The viscid areas of both right and left handed gloves are symmetrical, which allows the pair to be used by either right or left handed shooters.

I claim: 
     
         1 : Shooting gloves worn for shooting handguns, the gloves comprising:
 a right handed glove adapted to be worn on a shooter's right hand; and   a left handed glove adapted to be worn on a shooter's left hand;   each of the right handed glove and the left handed glove includes a palm part, an opisthenar part, a wrist part, a thumb part; a first finger part, and a second finger part,   each of the right handed glove and the left handed glove also includes select areas on the outside thereof having a viscid surface selectively located so that the viscid areas of the other of the right handed glove and the left handed glove contact and generally overlie each other when donned by the shooter and the shooter takes a two-handed grip of a handgun, the selected areas include a posterior thumb area, an anterior thumb area, an anterior finger area, and a posterior finger area.   
     
     
         2 : The glove of  claim 1  wherein the posterior thumb area covers the medial portions of the opisthenar part, the wrist part  130  and the posterior surface of the thumb part. 
     
     
         3 : The glove of  claim 2  wherein the posterior thumb area extends from the wrist part and terminates adjacent the distal end of the thumb part. 
     
     
         4 : The glove of  claim 1  wherein the anterior thumb area covers the anterior surface of the thumb part. 
     
     
         5 : The glove of  claim 1  wherein the anterior finger area covers the anterior surface of the first finger part. 
     
     
         6 : The glove of  claim 1  wherein the posterior finger area cover the posterior surface of the second finger part.