Go to message boards, click tips and read "keeping your hands clean". How do you keep yours clean in the field?
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Go to message boards, click tips and read "keeping your hands clean". How do you keep yours clean in the field?
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Never heard of wiping with socks thats a good one. My point is Nitrile gloves take up tiny space in your pocket and you don't have to scrub your hands to get the stink off later. It takes a lot of scrubbing to get the dried blood and gore from around my nails.
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I like the sportmans wipes they sell at Sportsmans and other sporting good stores. They are wet washcloths, usually four in a pack. They are great when hunting in dry country they stay wet for a long time and are small enough to throw in your bag. After you've used them you can save them and us them as rags. They are relatively cheep and last forever, and you don't have to waste drinking water or cover you cloths with blood.
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For washing my hands, I usually rely on a bar of Lava or a bottle of camper's soap, which I purchased at a nearby REI, and I keep extra water in my truck bed. I recently reached for that water to wash my hands after putting snowchains on my tires, and it was a block of ice! I should have foreseen that.
Keeping a pack of premoistened wipes in the truck makes perfect sense to me, but I don't replace those packs as regularly as I should when I've expended them.
I still keep a supply of toilet paper packs in the glove box or console, left over from MREs, and I carry a small container with Immodium AD in my kit if things loosen up.
I also rely on surgical gloves to avoid blood under my nails because I'm well aware blood is an excellent culture medium; I could say the same for mayonnaise.
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