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Split fingertips??
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01/29/18 02:54 PM
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Does anybody have a problem with the tips of their fingers splitting (skin). My dam thumb and 2 other fingers on my right hand and 2 on my left split on the corners. The cold and wet water contributes as I go thru this every duck season now. I'm sure I'm not hydrating enough but this is bad. Tender as all get out. This has to be duck weather related as I do not get this any other time of year and I spent 10 years up on roofs in the winter and never had this problem.
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Re: Split fingertips??
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#7056876
01/29/18 02:56 PM
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Yes. Wearing gloves helps prevent.
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Re: Split fingertips??
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01/29/18 02:56 PM
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Yup just got back from a cold Pheasant hunt in KS and have two fingers split. Use super glue, works great.
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Re: Split fingertips??
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#7056900
01/29/18 03:06 PM
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mdryg1970
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I use liquid bandaid, helps but still hurts.
"Hell with them fellas. Buzzards gotta eat, same as worms."
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Re: Split fingertips??
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#7056905
01/29/18 03:12 PM
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CCBIRDDOGMAN
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Haven't had it in years but never spit any out. I am a sucker for happy endings and strapped cowboys.
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Re: Split fingertips??
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#7056915
01/29/18 03:18 PM
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wacoducks
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Every duck season. Between the cold, dry air, and the mud, its bound to happen. Battle scars of chasing these bids people call us crazy doing.
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Re: Split fingertips??
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#7056981
01/29/18 04:03 PM
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Cast
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Wrap it in band aid with neosporin on it and give it a day or two.
Cast I have a short attention spa
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Re: Split fingertips??
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01/29/18 05:01 PM
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EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR. I just started super gluing them and it helps a ton. doesn't wash off and stays on for over a week.
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Re: Split fingertips??
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01/29/18 05:50 PM
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Wrap it in band aid with neosporin on it and give it a day or two. That’s what I do. Also use that cling surgical wrap. It will come off, I will squirt more neosporin in it and put it back on.
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Re: Split fingertips??
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01/29/18 06:18 PM
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Never. I use decoy gloves when in the water. In the blind, I either keep hands in my pockets, wear gloves, have hand warmers or all three if it’s stupid cold and I’m standing in water or something.
I just turned it on . I was looking bird dogs in the butt this morning.
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Re: Split fingertips??
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01/30/18 04:31 AM
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Guitars&Guns
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Never. I use decoy gloves when in the water. In the blind, I either keep hands in my pockets, wear gloves, have hand warmers or all three if it’s stupid cold and I’m standing in water or something. ^^^This. Get a good pair of decoy gloves. Every time I forget mine I have the same issue you are discussing. Gloves are a must.
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Re: Split fingertips??
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01/30/18 01:29 PM
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I also file off dead skin, helps prevent cracking, and also helps heal.
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Re: Split fingertips??
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01/30/18 02:27 PM
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I also file off dead skin, helps prevent cracking, and also helps heal. You going to the spa for that Guy lol! I wear hunting gloves while out but remove them to pick up birds/shells etc. It does not take much to get mine cracking. I took my wife to Mortan's steak house Sunday eve to celebrate the end of season and her getting her man back....could not button up my fly in the bathroom they were so tinder. I can use the lotions and wrap fingers in bandaids and such but all it takes is one day out and they crack up. Going to look for a special pair of gloves to use for next year.
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Re: Split fingertips??
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01/30/18 02:49 PM
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I also file off dead skin, helps prevent cracking, and also helps heal. You going to the spa for that Guy lol! No, I don't have time for that lol. But I'm telling ya it helps alot. I wear gloves just about all the time, launching boat, setting out deeks, pretty much the whole hunt. I will even take a piss with my gloves on, of course you got to have a big one tho to do this.
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Re: Split fingertips??
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01/30/18 07:58 PM
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I also file off dead skin, helps prevent cracking, and also helps heal. You going to the spa for that Guy lol! No, I don't have time for that lol. But I'm telling ya it helps alot. I wear gloves just about all the time, launching boat, setting out deeks, pretty much the whole hunt. I will even take a piss with my gloves on, of course you got to have a big one tho to do this. Dam, what size glove you ware?
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Re: Split fingertips??
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#7059552
01/31/18 03:59 AM
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It happens to me every winter hunting or not. I’m going to try the super glue idea. This crap hurts when it happens.
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Re: Split fingertips??
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#7059713
01/31/18 12:19 PM
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SnakeWrangler
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Coconut oil found in the grocery section works wonders for me....
I believe in science and I’m an insufferable [censored] Actually, BBC is pretty damn good "You Cannot Simultaneously Be Politically Correct And Intellectually Honest!"
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Re: Split fingertips??
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01/31/18 01:14 PM
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wal1809
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I use super glue. Its an instant fix.
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Re: Split fingertips??
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#7059875
01/31/18 02:40 PM
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wal1809
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We use quarts of super glue a year in the laboratory. We heat it up to a vapor in a chamber for developing fingerprints. So it is so easy for me to fill the tray and then fix a split finger while waiting for the process to finish.
For the safety issue, we are talking about split finger skin, not bullet holes in Viet Nam.
Last edited by wal1809; 01/31/18 02:41 PM.
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