Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Shooting and Hunting => Topic started by: iowabow on December 26, 2012, 06:55:24 pm
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1.5 hour 9 degree wind chill hunt on south side of land just in case someone might need to know. Lol anyway here is a photo.
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why only an hour and a half ??? ;D
btw I'm in Va and cold to us is 20s so with a 9 degree wind chill I'm not sure I would have lasted that
long..
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I have real good cold weather gear. I however did not take the deep cold gear. I have these boot gloves that will keep your feet warm no matter how cold it gets in Iowa. I have a pair of coverall bibs that will go over the gear I wore today but the issue now is cold air in the lungs when when walking hard. When in real cold weather I dont get in a hurry.
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You go boy. Danny
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should warm up to 25 in the morning.
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9 degrees? sounds like a heatwave to me it's been between -20 and 0 for the last week here and the weather channel said it's not going to get any warmer than 15 in the next 2 weeks
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where are you located and do you hunt in that?
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Hey John, do you notice your shooting change when you have your cold weather gear on? I wore mine the other day down here in Texas and when a young buck came in I missed about 8" left of where I was looking. Would've neck shot the little bugger if it hadn't jumped the string. Had to shake my head as it's the first shot I've taken bundled up in 5 years at least. Good grief. I've got some of the good boots but will likely never wear them down here now.
George
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Hey John, do you notice your shooting change when you have your cold weather gear on? I wore mine the other day down here in Texas and when a young buck came in I missed about 8" left of where I was looking. Would've neck shot the little bugger if it hadn't jumped the string. Had to shake my head as it's the first shot I've taken bundled up in 5 years at least. Good grief. I've got some of the good boots but will likely never wear them down here now.
George
hard to said George...I seem to always miss lol. I have a real good coat that is thin and I wear an arm guard to hold the clothes back away from the string. I use a good hat and neck warmer, an extra set of thick layered pants to compensate for a lighter coat. I will photograph the set when I get home.
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hard to said George...I seem to always miss lol. I have a real good coat that is thin and I wear an arm guard to hold the clothes back away from the string. I use a good hat and neck warmer, an extra set of thick layered pants to compensate for a lighter coat. I will photograph the set when I get home.
There's no need for the arm guard on my heaviest gear. It's stiff enough that it acts like an arm guard, but it is very bulky in the chest. For some reason I've always shot left with that gear on. I'm going out again tomorrow but the temps will be above freezing and I won't have the heavy coat on in the pop-up blind. Hope to take my granddaughter with, but she's not real cold weather hardy, living in the Philippines most of the time. Sure hope that little buck comes in. Last time out I also broke a stone point after it deflected off a vine so I need to haft a replacement on. 2 my shot attempts this season have deflected. Interestingly, the one that sunk into a downed tree was undamaged; while the one that deflected off a vine and stuck in the dirt snapped the tip off. I chipped out a replacement the other day so it shouldn't take long.
Good luck bud,
George
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where are you located and do you hunt in that?
north-central montana about 45 miles from canada, it's been five below here all day i went bunny huntin this mornin with my new ironwood longbow that i made. i shot 2 and had a good time, as for warm gear i wear carhart coveralls, 2 heavyweight carhart hoodies, irish setter boots with 1000 grams of thinsulate, wool long underwear, heavy wool socks and a wool stocking cap, for gloves i wear marmont gloves i think they have about 600 grams of thinsulate i take the glove off my hand that pulls the string when i shoot because thier too thick to shoot with. theres also about a foot of snow oon the ground and more coming.
Duck
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You fellows have to have grit to get out and hunt in that. Last season, a guy in our club hunted all year in shorts with those rubber crocs on his feet! He is a bit odd though..... Our low last night was around 28. At least the skeeters have quit biting. :D
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3 degrees this morning so I am sitting this one out! Last night I saw seven deer. They were 40 yards away on a ridge so I am going out this afternoon and setting up on that trail. It will warm up to 8 I hope.
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Good luck and I sure admire your dedication. I worked last night and saw bucks chasing does most of the shift. The moon is pretty full and I have noticed that after a night like this that they may not move too much during the day - maybe a little around the middle of the day. The rut is just beginning here.
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Just checked the weather and it looks like a heat wave 22 wow! I will take that and a south wind to boot. It looks perfect if they just pattern like last night.
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I really don't know how cold it's been here all week. But with the snow and wind everyday. It's probely been in the single numbers ,low teens with the wind chill. I've hunted every evening since the 21. Our season ends the first. Not to soon for me. I get a little burned out late season when the wind blows.
I missed the best part of NOV. because of a fall but still hunted 32 days. Saw 26 bucks killed a 2 1/2 year old 8 point. I'd wish I'd let pass now but sometimes it's now or never. At the time I thought he was bigger and older than he was. I let 14 small bucks pass.
I know where your comeing from truthfully I was feeling perty along. No one I know of is bow hunting in WV. At least not around here.
It's amazzing the older you get the better the fire place feels when the wind blows.
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A late season firearms season started this weekend and a buddy asked me to buy a tag and hunt with him. I haven't hunted a drop since shooting that little buck a month ago, so I felt like gettin out. I strapped on my little side shooter and walked out an set down next to a corn field. Had t been sittin there but a few min when this dude stepped out across the field. It is a doe only season and he was a couple hundred yards away (pics with my binos and phone lined up... Not easy!)
(http://i1311.photobucket.com/albums/s670/cotton7611/25FC3513-3E8F-452B-8356-F9438297859C-1057-0000025DE85FEC27_zpsdc40ea9c.jpg)
(http://i1311.photobucket.com/albums/s670/cotton7611/1A2B06B5-F7BA-45DF-B165-FDEBF070100C-1057-0000025DE0B47FF1_zps63f1a31e.jpg)
Then righ at dark 3 does started walking toward me along the edge of the corn... 1 round sailed harmlessly over her back... That was a fun, cold, hunt!
Scott
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You are a tough man, John! I can't just sit there in the cold like that any more. I've got to have lots of those chemical packets that make heat. I put one in the tip of each boot and mitten. If that's not enough I smash a few more and put them around my neck under my scarf... :o
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Well scott i have a short scrub osage tree/bush behind me and this tree that will work as a blind in the late part of the day. This was the best with the wind issue.
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One more then i have to hunt
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No deer tonight proving the deer play book is written in gibberish.
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Nice buck Scott
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Be a little hard to get a arrow to far there.
Here the deer are tearing the honeysuckle patchs and the cut corn up. We've shot 11 doe's in our split doe seasons. Off this farm all most all were going across 2 different fields to the cut corn. 3others of my other lease. I have 1 more marked for death here. Todays our last day of doe' season. Last day period. I'm all doe'd out but have a friend coming out this evening.
I REALLY DON'T RIFLE HUNT BUT SHOOTING DOE'S OFF A HILL TO OUT OF THE TRUCK NOT HUNTING.
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Wow big bucks run backward patterns . Got to shoot a monster tonight but missed just not use to that 46 pound bow after hunting with 60 # bow all winter. I really wanted to take a deer with the milkweed string but its looking like a no go. Here is an arrow in the dirt and snow as a bonus.