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Its 10 degrees this morning in north Arkansas brrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. I can only imagine how cold it is up there with cayugad and the rest of the northern folks here. Shoot you can freeze your gonads of this morning. Good thing I have to work tonight that a way I dont have to make up an excuse for not going hunting lol.

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Its -12 here in Southern Minnesota.[&:]

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Its 5 here in Northeast P.A.

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38 here in South Carolina. :)

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Its 10 degrees in this part of Arkansas too. Be chilly running the ATV out to fill the feeders this morning.
I willdoing some more huntingin town, suburban hunting after Christmas, no limit in town but its bow only. I sure hope the weather moderates a bit by then.
Merry Christmas to you all.
Lee

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-5 here in Illinois - great hunting weather:D

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Send that heat wave up here in Eau Claire WI it wa -14 with the wind chill of -26 I could get a suntan were you are.

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-14whew thats cold.. 10 dont sound so bad now.

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We got hit by a cold front too. It's a chilly 38 degrees out there right now and only expected to get up to 44.

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Just ordered a cab for my 4 wheeler the wind chill is just to much I use it to snow plow and there is no shortage of that this year more coming tonight.

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Man it is a freezing 48 degrees out there....but I live in Phoenix so 48 feels pretty darn cold to me!

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Here in the high desert of NM it was 17 this morning, 3 snow stormsin the forecastfor this week.

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I was outside this morning shovelling snow and blowing snow when the neighbor stopped over. He said he had -21º below this morning. I have not looked at mine yet. It was only -10º and no wind, so I figured it was a good time to get the yard work done. We had a snow storm the last two days and got another foot of snow.

Thank goodness I shovelled off the woodshed and the house roofs friday. Or there would have been way over two feet of snow on them. There is my shooting range. I threw on a set of snow shoes and went for a walk yesterday in the blizzard. It was pretty cool back in the woods, although cold. We even had a white out in the afternoon but it did not last very long.

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-4'F here in Petawawa this morning. Not too bad. It's those -22 to -40 snot freezer square tire days that really get your attention.:D

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cayugad what keeps you folks in the north from going stir crazy before winter is over?

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WE have lots of things to do in the North. Snowmobiles, ATV's, cross country ski, snowshoe hiking, rabbit hunting in the snow, ice fishing, target shooting, wood cutting, shovelling roofs [:@]...

In all honesty, you get used to the cold and while we know enough to dress for it, we get to where we do not feel it as bad as you might think. Acclamation I believe it is called. This morning it was -6º and we got another three inches of snow (still snowing) so while the dog had to wander around and do his business.. I shovelled the steps and walks and never even had a winter jacket on. Just my heavy flannel shirt (and pants and shoes for all you snickering devils outthere)and working was enough to make me comfortable In fact I worked up a little sweat out there...

Our joke is the people that live in the warmer climates how they can take that heat... It gets hot in the summer here and all we do is run for the house where it is cool..

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The wind chill here was -46 the other day. -24 without the wind. We are warming up to the single digits and maybe even up to +20 tomorrow. Christmas day is the warmest with it being in the 20's. definitely a hunting day. These last 2 cold spells sure ate into my woodpile. darn I wished I had finished cutting enough for the whole winter. I got to cut cook wood for the ol lady today so she can fix Christmas dinner. It doesn't pay to procrastinate.:(

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Hey that sounds like it may work as a good excuse for me. I can always say I didn't cut all the wood so that I have something to do during the winter to keep from going crazy. Hmmm.just might work. Now we'll see if the ol lady buys it:D

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Chet... when you're done cutting there, I have 12 logger cord of hard maple that you can start on. I like them 14 inches. :D Thank goodness I had almost that much cut of Oak for this year. Yes the winter is really going through the wood. I have to bring more up from the woodshed one of these days.

That was some nasty wind chill you had there.. be careful in that and stay covered. I shovelled the woodshed roof last Friday, and the house, and then the wood working shop yesterday. Even though it was cold, you get up there with a shovel in your hand and start moving snow, it seem darn right balmy...

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MAN, WE HERE IN PA HAD IT COLD, LIKE 4 DEGREES,but no where near what dave is getting in wisconsin

thats awful.

we are getting 44 degrees here in pa on wed,friday too.

but today you can walk on top of snow its so hard.

i am ready for muzzleloader season but i think bucks have lost their horns,i dont hunt doe in wmu2g anymore.

so, with cold/lack of horns i see me just enjoying the woods,couple hrs out then home type of hunting.

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Gee That's the most beautiful thing I've seen .Good thing i don't live near you. That looks awful tempting.
I would take you up on that cutting. let's see. one for you and one for me, that sounds fair. 14" for you and about 20" for me and 10" for the kitchen.

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This is all Al Gores fault. If he had not invented global warming,we would not be having these hot spells.

Charlie

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Don't worry, "The One" will solve all of these problems, bring world peace, and only impose "appropriate" gun control.

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Dave when we get those 95+ days with the 70 humidity me andmy clan jumps on the 4 wheelers and head for the river beach to cool off and play horseshoes. I have hunted up innortheastOhio with mycousin.He gets the lakeaffect snow fromErie. Boy howdy it sure can snow up there.Whew

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Well Duluth/Superior weather just said we have gotten over three feet of snow so far this year. It might set a new record. It will snow tomorrow, and then two days after Christmas we are scheduled for storms.



Maybe we can beat the Winter of 95'

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Holy Cow is that snow at your house? Let me ask a question, How do the deer survive a winter like that? Its not like they can browse for any left over acorns there. My goodness How do they survive?

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Yes that was the winter of 95' at my house. That's looking out the kitchen window towards my shop and garage.

The deer here sometimes"yard up." Some of them have already started to gather. They gather in the deep woods in places that are somewhat protected by winds with lots of vegetation and brush. Then they stomp the yard flat and hard basically. Then theyhang together and browse on anything they can find. When we get bad winters the deer in the yards get in bad shape. It makes you almost sick when you find a deer yard that's browsed out... plus they eat snow and it dehydrates them and they often times just lay down. Even when you come in the yard since there is no where to run.

Also wolves will find the yards and they go in there and kill lots of the deer that are too weak to run off or escape. They can really leave a mess in there.

In fact in hard winters I will often go back in my woods and cut down four or five white or red cedar trees. They will eat the cedar buds and in the spring there is nothing left on them but large limbs.

When the snow is as deep as that one picture there, all you can do is snowshoe to get around. Unless you want to walk paths. And if you go into the woods, you better not fall over. Its hard to get up when you have to swim in that snow.

The following spring I had friends come and visit and they wondered what had girdled the popular trees five feet up the trunks. I told them it was rabbits that did that. And they looked at me like I was nuts. Then they asked how a rabbit could get that high up. So I showed them the pictures of the snow that year.

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Dave, my step-son put in one of those outside stoves. Uses circulating water to heat the house and provides hot water. Works great so far. He only loads it twice a day in cold weather (cold HERE) and can use wood up to 36" long. Saves a lot of splitting and sawing. I figure you might need one about twice as big and would have to bury those water lines about 6' under though. :D

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Boy howdy Dave I cant imagine it like that. If we get a foot of snow thats a major snow storm for us. It always warms up in a few day and its all gone. Most of our snows are 1 to 4 inches and gone in a couple of days. We have cold enough weather for snow, but usually the front moves in at +32 degrees and the temp starts to drop after the rain has ended. The folks up north are better set up for that weather than us. I sure feel sorry for the game up there and i see where the wolves could really do some serious damage in that kind of weather. I'm sure that it has a direct effect on your buck size or does it? What i mean is that im sure they come out of the winter in poor shape and got to build there bodies up before they can grow big racks. Right or wrong?

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State Wild life biologists (at the meetings) claim wolves only kill the old and weak animals. Well that's true, but in a deer yard most all the animals by January and February are inweakened condition. So they claim the wolves help the herd. As if I believe them.

Some of the loggers I have talked to claim they see some very large deer taken by wolves in deer yards. Friends and I hiked to a yard many winters ago, and found eight deer killed and partially consumed. I am sure the wolves come back as they need the food, as do the fox, fisher, pine marten, weasels, and ravens. We walked within 50 yards of deer and they would not even stand up out of the snow to move away.

One winter we were on snowmobile and about 20 miles into the national on the groomed trails. And in the trail was a spiked bullelk. And he decided he was not leaving that trail. So he walked down the trail and we followed at a good distance until he found a place he wanted to leave the snowmobile trail. All I kept thinking is.. someone coming the other way will come flying around and smack right into that elk.

Actually we get some monster bucks in this country. They are way back in the Chequamegon Nicole National Forest and they do wander out once in a while and some lucky slob shoots one.