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Re: The coldest weather you've hunted WITHOUT a heater?
[Re: JakeJJ]
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12/12/12 09:54 PM
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Not sure on the year but it was the early 90's. Hunting just east of the Brady square the high was 6 degrees with a wind-chill of -30. All the deer feeders’ spinners were frozen solid. We had to use portable heaters to throw them out so they would spin. The windows in the deer stands were also froze and needed to be thawed out with the portable heaters.
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Re: The coldest weather you've hunted WITHOUT a heater?
[Re: JakeJJ]
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12/13/12 02:04 AM
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-14 in ohio 6 inches of snow no blind sitting behind a tree 10mph winds miserable
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Re: The coldest weather you've hunted WITHOUT a heater?
[Re: JakeJJ]
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12/13/12 02:41 AM
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Killed two of my best deer in Iowa and the actual temp was -8 when I walked to the stand.....both hunts were windy as well. Wind chills were very bad!
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Re: The coldest weather you've hunted WITHOUT a heater?
[Re: tim1911]
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12/13/12 02:48 AM
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1991 was very cold on opening weekend, we had to leave the stand and go warm up in the truck. I had 3 coats on or something. Deer froze solid on the hanging post. It was really, really cold. It sure did get the bucks moving. Lows were in the low teens or single digits.
I hunted on the red river in snow a few years back. Got a nice case of the flu for that.
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Re: The coldest weather you've hunted WITHOUT a heater?
[Re: vanndchi]
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12/13/12 11:36 PM
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Several years ago up in Illinois I went bowhunting New Years weekend. There had been a snow storm, ice storm and then another snow storm. One morning, it was -8 degrees with wind chills in the -20's. That had to be the coldest elements I have hunted.
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Re: The coldest weather you've hunted WITHOUT a heater?
[Re: Texas Dan]
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12/14/12 02:56 AM
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The coldest was 7 degrees my cousin and I were on a place that has been in my family for years but the snow combined with the full moon caused us to get lost looking for the stand. We walked around the mountain we were on looking for the stand in the dark for around 45 minutes to an hour, when we got to the stand my facial hair was frozen as well as everything else, my cousin asked me if I had my lighter to light the heater but I didn't plan on smoking in the stand and thought there would be one in there so we couldn't light the heater. After our miserable walk and being frozen like that we only lasted until about 7am and we decided to bail before we froze anymore, the crazy part is we weren't on a trip we were right here in Texas, we spent the rest of the day thawing out my moms and my water wells it was the coldest I have ever been in Texas.
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Re: The coldest weather you've hunted WITHOUT a heater?
[Re: gunnut81]
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12/14/12 03:52 PM
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Chris Hall
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In Colorado elk hunting the wind chill was -40s. I was so cold it hurt.
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Re: The coldest weather you've hunted WITHOUT a heater?
[Re: JakeJJ]
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12/15/12 01:41 AM
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Low twenty's East Texas, and that's plenty cold for me. I lived in Colorado about 5 yr's 4 yr's ago and saw -17 in Denver don't know how cold it was in the mountain's.
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Re: The coldest weather you've hunted WITHOUT a heater?
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12/15/12 03:04 AM
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it was 15 tuesday in Hardeman Cnty..
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Re: The coldest weather you've hunted WITHOUT a heater?
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12/15/12 06:28 AM
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Re: The coldest weather you've hunted WITHOUT a heater?
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12/15/12 11:06 AM
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Not sure what the temps were but 3 of us were hunting Haul Rd/Dalton Hwy South of Deadhorse AK for Caribou. Never shut the truck off during the entire hunt (someone would always stay with the vehicle). So d**n cold it was actually scary and I'm from NW North Dakota when -30 during some opening day deer seasons were accepted. Better question is,would I do it again...Probably LOL
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Re: The coldest weather you've hunted WITHOUT a heater?
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01/04/13 04:34 AM
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Mid November, mid 80s- deer hunt in Central Missouri. Temp was +7 degrees at 5:30 AM. By 4:30PM temp was -4 with a steady falling snow (on top of the 5" already there from 4 days before). Luckily there was little to no wind. Best day of hunting- 9point buck and two mature does in the truck bed that evening. Lost count of total # of deer seen.
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Re: The coldest weather you've hunted WITHOUT a heater?
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01/04/13 05:09 AM
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Mid 1990s on a duck hunt at Richland Chambers. 17 degrees and the wind was blowing about 20-25. Had to break ice to get decoys to float, then had to chip ice off them when we picked them up cause they had frozen up again. Two killed ducks actually slid across the ice. Had to make the dog heal on the shore. Only thing that made that trip worth while was a banded greenhead. A little off topic, but for any of you whips that don't like cold... I coached HS Softball, and we actually played a mid February tournament game in Lufkin, TX at 8:00am and it was 18 degrees...yes, 18 degrees! One of my proudest moments as a coach when we won. 
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Re: The coldest weather you've hunted WITHOUT a heater?
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01/04/13 06:17 PM
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I have a 76 acre place in Maine that my Father owns, it was dead of winter about a foot and a half of snow, I was night time coyote hunting was about -10 that night good thing for extreme weather gear....it was so cold that are electronic caller started to malfunction and had to call it a night
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Re: The coldest weather you've hunted WITHOUT a heater?
[Re: ernamal]
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01/06/13 02:31 AM
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minus 19.Pheasant hunting Jan.2010 S.Dakota.
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Re: The coldest weather you've hunted WITHOUT a heater?
[Re: furfinrfeather]
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01/06/13 02:59 AM
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23 sitting on top of a dam with 20 mph wind... Gets a little sitting there doin nothing...
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Re: The coldest weather you've hunted WITHOUT a heater?
[Re: 007hunters son]
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01/06/13 12:31 PM
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I was hunting in the hill country,near Castell,on a 18 ft tripod. It was 17 degrees that morning. The beer was frozen inside the cooler.
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Re: The coldest weather you've hunted WITHOUT a heater?
[Re: rockinrdranch]
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01/06/13 04:00 PM
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About 20F. Dad dropped me off before daylight and came back about 11:30. Had on a pair of wool socks and a pair of rubber boots from walmart. Feet have never hurt as bad.
"Democracy is a sheep and two lions voting. Liberty is a well armed sheep contesting the vote." Ben Franklin
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Re: The coldest weather you've hunted WITHOUT a heater?
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01/06/13 04:59 PM
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About 6 years ago, Kendall Co....19 degrees....was guiding my dad on a friends place and we were set up in a makeshift ground blind (stacked cut cedar)....he arrowed a nice 8 point. We waited the standard 30 mins before we went to go look...when we found the arrow, the blood had already frozen on the shaft!
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Re: The coldest weather you've hunted WITHOUT a heater?
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01/06/13 05:00 PM
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3 degrees and was stalking. Didn't last long lol.
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Re: The coldest weather you've hunted WITHOUT a heater?
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01/06/13 05:01 PM
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Don't use heaters at all!!!
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Re: The coldest weather you've hunted WITHOUT a heater?
[Re: Bear Charge]
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01/06/13 05:06 PM
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Never hunt with a heater.
2010 saw 8 degrees and snow/sleet in NM. Chilly.
After Xmas this year was 19 degrees with a stiff 15+ NW wind. Open stand, got a little cold.
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Re: The coldest weather you've hunted WITHOUT a heater?
[Re: TxAg]
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01/06/13 05:44 PM
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It was 15 degrees on top of my tripod this morning. My camo insulation is my blind/heater. Been in Oklahoma Panhandle when below 0 and 10-15 mph wind. A yucca patch is the biggest thing to hide in.
Call'm an Kill'm
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Re: The coldest weather you've hunted WITHOUT a heater?
[Re: JakeJJ]
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01/06/13 05:52 PM
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Started hunting in 1974....... never had a heater in the stand!
I'd ask him if he's pregnant. He missed a s__tload of periods. I'll take "things that look like a uterus" for $200 Alex.
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Re: The coldest weather you've hunted WITHOUT a heater?
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01/06/13 06:26 PM
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Alaska chasing moose. Can't remember exactly what the temperature was but needless to say I didn't have the fortitude to keep going. Next time ill go with an outfitter!
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