how cold is to cold

bigtim6656 · 01-05-2008, 08:20 PM

how cold does it have to get down to before you stop hunting

davidmil · 01-05-2008, 08:25 PM

Your scale doesn't go low enough. Without looking or knowing... you must be from the mid Atlantic or lower. -10 is starting to get a chill on here.

kodiak41226 · 01-05-2008, 08:34 PM

The weather never seemed to bother me in the past, now I've got older and softer. When it gets below 20 now, I start thinking twice about going out. A few years ago I spent a week in camp and the temp top out at 12 and it didn't bother me at all (and we were sleeping in tents with a night time temp of 2), but that was then.

PA Bow/Flinter · 01-05-2008, 08:40 PM

Lowest I can remember hunting in was -6 not including the windchill, but I would definitely hunt in temps lower than that if I had the opportunity to, it just doesn't get that cold around here during hunting season. Now that I'm going to school up in NH though, I may have the opportunity to hunt in temps lower than that.

LIAF · 01-05-2008, 08:40 PM

I have hunted Alabama when the temps were in the high 20's with lots of humidity and have done saskatchewan -15f with hardly any humidity( but as we know it's fairly dry up in that part of canada). IMO I was more miserable in alabama than canada but i was prepared for canada at that temp but wasn't prepared (dressed) for the alabama temps. Air temp is just one variable, moisture and winds also play a role too. So when does it get too cold for me to hunt? If I am on a guided hunt it has not gotten too cold to go out. If its a DIY than it has has happened several times and it was a combination of wind ,temp and moisture that did it for me.

vikesfan353 · 01-05-2008, 08:45 PM

I've been in da woods well below zero!!!! -20 below atleast!! Even colder than that with a gun!

Wiaxle · 01-05-2008, 09:06 PM

I suppose for me it all depends on the wind, but I do know that yesterday when I looked at ceiling clock (with the thermometer) it said 4:45 and 7 degrees, turned off the alarm clock and went back to sleep, that was to cold. But if it was rut, well that is a different story

TeeJay · 01-05-2008, 10:02 PM

lol -10 isnt cold fella. I didnt vote.

Schultzy · 01-05-2008, 10:35 PM

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ORIGINAL: TeeJay

lol -10 isnt cold fella. I didnt vote.

I'll 10-4 ya there TeeJay! In Wisconsin one year we were bow hunting in -30 below temps! Now that did suck!

hoyt_user · 01-05-2008, 10:53 PM

Well as long as the deer are moving its not cold enough!!!