It always amuses me when people talk about the weather they hunt in. My conditions are different than most on this forum. For example, I just got back from sitting in the snow at -25C (-13F) for two hours on a beatiful, clear, and calm central Alberta morning. I was pretty comfortable for the first hour. The last 30 minutes took some effort to keep from fidgeting. Should have worn that extra layer. And I'm not bragging or anything, these are just the local conditions that I hunt in.
This morning, I was just tagging along with my father (who uses a modern rifle) and sat down in the grass (and snow) near the top of a very high hill to spectate. My dad sat down on the edge of a small poplar grove that sits between two much larger groves. I was able to watch a guy take a couple of shots at a deer from his truck, on the road, about 150 yards from a neighbour's house (all of which are quite illegal). Other than that, nothing moved until the sun was well into the sky and we figured we were done for the morning.
Everything else must have decided to get up at that moment too. A really big mule buck tromped by at about 100 yards, but my father only had white-tail tags. Then at least one buck and about 15 white-tail does were frightened by something in the distance and ran to within about 400 yards of us but kept going until they were long out of site. We walked around a bit to see what we could learn from the tracks in the day-old snow. It looked like there was a lot of activity on the opposite side of the grove that my father was on.
I have to admit that I could spend many a morning sitting up on that hill. Wouldn't matter what time of year or if I had a rifle (muzzleloader of course) in my hands.
o this morning but too tired to drag myself out in the cold...will go sit that same area this afernoon just in case he wanders through again
