My arthritis in my hands has a lot to do with whether I'll go shooting on the cooler days. Below 60 probably not. Especially it it is windy. I hate to be a wimp but sometimes it just isn't worth the aggravation.
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I hunted once when the temps were about zero all day. Had to stop and build a fire about mid morning.
The shortest day of the year and least solar illumination occurs on December 21. Can somebody please explain why the coldest days of the year happen after that when the days are getting longer again? I'm looking at low teens for the next week.
The shortest day of the year and least solar illumination occurs on December 21. Can somebody please explain why the coldest days of the year happen after that when the days are getting longer again? I'm looking at low teens for the next week.
Cruzatte
50 Cal.
Too cold to go to the range....certainly -3° F., like today
Too cold to shoot at the range, about 40° F.
Banjoman
Hillbilly
Coldest I ever hunted was -129°F in Vostok, Antarctica.
Bagged the world record leopard seal with my northwest trade gun from 300 yards.
Bagged the world record leopard seal with my northwest trade gun from 300 yards.
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I’m with you there comes a time when you don’t have to prove how tuff you are to anyone .-30 hear not including the wind chill .
I'm currently in the Antarctic. I can walk up to a leopard seal and touch them, but we keep a six foot minimum distance ... 300 yards with a black powder gun is an amazing distance especially at that temperature .Coldest I ever hunted was -129°F in Vostok, Antarctica.
Bagged the world record leopard seal with my northwest trade gun from 300 yards.
Has less to do with temperature, than with my wife's mood.
And used the proceeds on that ocean front property in AZ...Coldest I ever hunted was -129°F in Vostok, Antarctica.
Bagged the world record leopard seal with my northwest trade gun from 300 yards.
longcruise
70 Cal.
My coldest hunt was -38f. A deer bowhunt. It was so cold that a group of mallards sitting on a tiny pond at a warm water spring let me walk up to the edge to 10 or 12 feet from them. They refused to flush.
I knew the temperature because I hat a thermo strip stuck to one limb of the bow. I got out of the car and set my bow on the roof while I put my boots on. Got the rest of my cold weather gear on and when I picked the bow up to start off it had already dropped to -38.
I knew the temperature because I hat a thermo strip stuck to one limb of the bow. I got out of the car and set my bow on the roof while I put my boots on. Got the rest of my cold weather gear on and when I picked the bow up to start off it had already dropped to -38.
Coldest I ever hunted was -129°F in Vostok, Antarctica.
Bagged the world record leopard seal with my northwest trade gun from 300 yards.
sadly, i am now one of the biggest cold wieners in my county. Used to be an adventure. Now only if needed to feed the wife.
Oh My, I would think at that temperature the density of the air molecules would create quite the drag. How far over did you hold on said seal?Coldest I ever hunted was -129°F in Vostok, Antarctica.
Bagged the world record leopard seal with my northwest trade gun from 300 yards.
When my fingers don't work, or I can't feel them, it's too cold to be at the range.
When I was younger, and routinely deer hunting the Adirondacks, we left camp one morning and the thermometer read -17°.
Usually, everyone wants to sit on watch and we don't get enough volunteers as pushers. That morning, nobody wanted to watch and everybody wanted to be a pusher.
Since I was one of the younger members in the camp, I was directed to watch. Never so happy to have a hunt end in my life.
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Have a 17 yr. old Navajo/ Irish girl next door. She is as kind , tough , and pretty as any. She shovels snow in her bare feet. Asked her why she doesn't wear shoes when she shovels , says it makes her tough. I guess , Gooda reason as any.
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Bet there was several lifetime supplies of potential patch lube in that 300 lb. seal. Whole critter probably turned into a solid mass of frozen whatever.
Not only cold here, but a little too much snow now...
Hay bails are still there to give an idea of depth... temp is incorrect btw, high today of -1F
Hay bails are still there to give an idea of depth... temp is incorrect btw, high today of -1F
-40 last few days to +40 next weekend. Mountains; gotta love ‘em. 
