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Hestra built the Army Leather Patrol around your fingers and your jacket cuff, and to get both it gives up a gauntlet and a membrane. Hestra rates it 6/8 "Agile" for mobility and 5/8 "Toasty" for warmth — dexterity leads, warmth follows. $175.
Impregnated Army goat leather on palm and fingers, with outseams so no seam ridge sits under your pole grip. The backhand is Hestra's dobby polyester melange, a three-layer, wind-resistant softshell.
Behind none of it is a membrane — no CZone, no GORE-TEX. Hestra: "The glove does not include a waterproof membrane. It may offer water resistance from its outer material but is not designed to keep hands dry in sustained wet conditions." Impregnated leather is a treatment, not a barrier, and it wants periodic conditioner to keep shedding water. Water-resistant, not waterproof; the two words are not interchangeable.
Warmth is 5/8, "Toasty", on Hestra's eight-point scale — mid-pack, on purpose. The G-Loft insulation sits in the removable liner (art 34420) rather than bonded into the shell: the liner comes out to dry overnight, and Hestra lists a thinner Merino liner (art 34450) as fitting this glove, so you can dial the warmth down for skinning.
Hestra sizes numerically by hand circumference, not S/M/L, so measure before you order. Check the size before you fall for a colour: PTO stocks Beige in 6, 7, 8 and 9, and Olive, Charcoal and Navy in 7, 8, 9 and 10. The cuff is a neoprene collar with a Velcro strap, worn inside the jacket sleeve — no gauntlet, no snow lock.
Buy it for finger feel out of a leather glove, and for long cold days where drying the liner overnight decides how day two goes; Hestra rates it 6/8 "Rugged" for durability. Do not buy it for sustained wet — rain, spring slush, a day of wet snow. For those days the Army Leather GORE-TEX ($230) is the same leather with a membrane behind it. Do not buy it if you want a gauntlet over the sleeve: that is the Army Leather Heli Ski ($185), which seals snow out with a snow lock but is no more waterproof than this one. And if you simply run cold, the Patrol Mitt is the same money and warmer, rated 7/8 "Extreme".
