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Re: Worst Hunting Conditions You Have Been In??
[Re: pig out]
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10/08/09 10:30 PM
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Ox190
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I have 2.
First one was in Coke County 12-13 years ago, had a cold front blow in and with snow and sleet about 10pm. When we woke up my nephews and I decided we were going hunting. The old (wise) people decided they were staying in bed, forcing me and my nephews to take our ATV's. Halfway to my blind I hit a dip in the road covered in ice but full of water, get a little damp. Get to the blind and cannot get my heater started. Stay in blind until I cannot take the shivering anymore and haul hiney back to the trailer. About 10 minutes after I get back my poor nephew gets back I step out of a hot shower and he comes in and lays on the floor of the trailer house saying his hands are frozen in this position (wrapped around the handles of the ATV). He was fine after a hot shower. I don't know what the temps were but it SUCKED.
Cape Elizabeth, Maine November or December of 2000. Go bowhunting with the guy I was working for at the time. Temp is single digits. Get to the hunting grounds about 100 yards off of the coast of the Atlantic, wind blowing off the water, guy I work for says it's probably -15 with wind chill. I had on 5 layers of clothes and could not stop shivering uncontrollably, he gave me the keys to the truck and told me to go before I froze to death.
"There has never been an occasion where a people gave up their weapons in the interest of peace that didn't end in their massacre." Louis L'Amour
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Re: Worst Hunting Conditions You Have Been In??
[Re: BenBob]
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10/09/09 02:04 AM
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PrimitiveHunter
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Around 1994, a couple of buddies and I went hunting in Kansas during the rifle season. We hunted public land and slept in a tent on a little public lake.
Almost froze to death the first night. Got up early to a ~30mph north wind. We didn't see anything worth shooting that morning and when we got back to camp, everything we had was frozen solid. The melted ice in the ice chests had frozen solid; freezing the gallon jugs of milk into white blocks of ice. We got in the truck at 11:00 that morning to go to another place and it had warmed up to -11 degrees. It had to be at least -20 that first night.
Have you ever tried to answer natures call outside when it's -20? Nothing wants to be exposed to the air!
Practice doesn’t make perfect. Practice makes permanent.
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Re: Worst Hunting Conditions You Have Been In??
[Re: pyledriver]
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10/09/09 02:52 AM
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rswarrior
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November, Adirondacks in N.Y. We were back in 5 miles when it started snowing wet snow that stuck to everything,you could'nt see 5' we got about 6" and then it stoped and warmed up to 33 degrees and started dripping handful sized snow slop out of the trees. Nothing was dry on us and still had 5 miles to walk out it sucked. (can't wait to go again)
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Re: Worst Hunting Conditions You Have Been In??
[Re: PrimitiveHunter]
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10/09/09 02:56 AM
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Longhunter
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Just like ya'll, I have hunted in brutal heat and bone chillen cold... But it was still better than a good day at work!!!
Longhunter >>>-------> Make It Count!!!<><
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Re: Worst Hunting Conditions You Have Been In??
[Re: BenBob]
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10/09/09 10:51 AM
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jrye
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Standing in the middle of a clearcut in the Coastal Range in western Oregon with fog so thick you couldn't see 5 feet in front of you and hearing a herd of elk walking by.
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Re: Worst Hunting Conditions You Have Been In??
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10/09/09 01:47 PM
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okbowhunter
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In high school Oklahoma early 80's I think it was 1983 had a trap line I ran every morning. Temp's did not get out of the single digits for nearly a week wind chill well below 0. Daytime high's were like 6 degrees.
Oh and I remember all I had were those thin $12 walmart rubber boots that I thought were so great and as many pairs of socks as i could get on.
Kansas bowhunted out of a treestand with the temp at 7 degrees stayed for exactly two hours. Saw 22 deer no bucks. Could not feel my feet up to what seemed like my ankles when I got down agony when they thawed out.
Last edited by okbowhunter; 10/09/09 01:50 PM.
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Re: Worst Hunting Conditions You Have Been In??
[Re: jrye]
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10/09/09 02:00 PM
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okbowhunter
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Standing in the middle of a clearcut in the Coastal Range in western Oregon with fog so thick you couldn't see 5 feet in front of you and hearing a herd of elk walking by.  that would be cool
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