Michigan's UP 1995 Muzzle loader season is the coldest I ever hunted in with any thing. Morning at day break as I shut the cabin door the temp was a straight 28 below (didn't have a wind gauge so don't know what the wind chill was.) temp climbed to a whooping 18 below by mid day. The whole week was like that. I was taking out my 22lr from about 11:30 AM to 2:30 PM to shoot squirrels.

Ice on the bay would pressure crack sounding like a semi running down a rain soaked free way them a loud boom like a magnum rifle with a brake going off. So dang cold I could not get the gen set to roll over fast enough to start with 10 W 30 oil in it. Made up my mind would be the last year I didn't have one with electric start.

Rifle was a T/C plains rifle with a 5.00 yard sale Weaver K4, 80gr T7, 240gr Hornady XTP in a Green MMP sabot CCI #11 Mag caps.

Rifle fired off the day after the season closed just before I finished packing to go home.

Al