Hunting gloves

Over on the Antique Pattern Library is a scan of a book called "Knitting and Sewing, How to Make Seventy Useful Articles for Men in the Army and Navy" from 1918. It has many interesting glove patterns for the different tasks military men found themselves doing (including "Rifle Mittens" and "Mine Sweeper's Gloves").

It's the third item from the bottom on this page:

's quite a large download (11.5MB and it's served rather slowly) buta fascinating document. It doesn't have exactly what you want but youmay find it interesting. Of course you could knit a regular glove pattern but treat the trigger finger as you would on a fingerless glove pattern (just a few rows of ribbing instead of a full finger). You could easily adapt the "Cigar" pattern from Knitty too I think:

Donna,

My brothers hunt and I seem to remember that their hunting gloves had a trigger finger with a slot at the base that they could slip their finger out of in order to squeeze the trigger. Then they could put their finger back in the glove when they weren't shooting so that finger could be warm. Maybe you could just make a regular pair of gloves and treat that area like a button hole.

Hesira

D> A long time ago I knit my husband a pair of gloves that the trigger finger

Bare trigger finger? I have never seen any like that. But I have patterns for mittens with a trigger finger.

Higs, Katherine

You might try Googling for finger mittens: I saw some that looked like short-fingered gloves with a mitten flap that you could pull over the fingers, at REI.

luck. Carey in MA

Is this similar to what you are looking for?