Customer Reviews Outdoor Research Backstop Sensor Gloves

Great pair of gloves that allow you to maintain dexterity and manipulation of a rifle during field ops but still keep your hands warm. My only gripe is the lack of loops on the wrist cuff to allow you to secure these gloves via carabiner or grimloc to your vest or equipment. If they added some wrist cuff loops this would be a 5 star review.

These gloves do a good job of bridging the gap between maintaining some dexterity for tasks, and keeping your hands warm, especially in the wind. They would be a solid 5 stars, for their intended purpose, except for the little clip to keep them together. It is fairly worthless in my experience due to it's lack of durability. Check out my video review of these here: https://kitbadger.com/or-backstop-gloves/

I got these for road cycling in cooler temps and the claimed gore stopper across the back of the hand is unnoticeable. These gloves feel like mesh and my fingers freeze. I'm not sure why anyone would want wind protection on just the back of the hand anyway. These would be decent liners for big shell gloves or fine for tailgating, walks, etc. The sensors work great on the smartphone.

Ok glove. Not sure why they can't figure out hand sizes. The XL is to small.

XL gloves always fit me, but these XLs were far to tight...wife now has them.

When I first bought these one of the gloves was a perfect fit but I couldn't get my thumb in the other one. I flipped the thumb inside out and there was a manufacturing defect where the thumb had been sewn at the wrong spot. The place I bought them from swapped them out and the new pair fit. In winds gusting to 60 mph I can feel the wind blowing through. I think the wind is creeping in through at the seams. Simply put, they're not windproof as advertised, they're wind resistant.

I've purchased two pairs of these gloves and a year later I'm sadly disappointed in not only their durability (from moderate use), but also their wind and cold protection. I mainly use these gloves when walking the dog in the cold mornings or evenings, but I've also used them when biking around town and on a few day-hikes in the Alps. I'll admit that my hands run cold in general and so when I need warmth I go for mitts (almost all of them are from OR). However, when it's windy or when riding my bike, I've found that these gloves don't do a good job protecting my hands from the wind. I also don't find them that warm. Most importantly, the synthetic suede has peeled off sometimes the sensor part of the glove doesn't work so well with my phone - on one pair I just cut off the tip of the thumb and index finger so I can still use them. Take the "lightweight" windstopper, "high-energy," and "liners" parts of the description to heart. The few times I've used them for running, they kept my hands warm, but they aren't very durable and I wouldn't count on them (even as liners under a shell) to keep my hands warm.