No Shooting Today!!! brrrrr
 

-9'F Winter is here. No shooting for this kid today.:sad0064:

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Warm coat.. ear muffs, snow boots... BOOM!!!

Of course, my range is 15 feet from my back door. If I get cold, there is hot coffee and a wood stove just inside the door. And believe me, that is a real advantage. But I love to shoot when it is cold. Ever hear a muzzleloader go off in bitter cold crisp winter air? It shakes the earth.. it's beautiful. And when no wind, that smoke will hang there in front of the bench like a big white cloud. What more could you ask for.

It is only 19 degrees here so its plenty warm to shoot.

Agree. That is darn cold!!!

Its 20 here right now and a beautiful day to shoot for sure...but I'm staying in and watching football instead :party0005:

Looks like I'm in the middle at 11*. But I'm not shooting. Was up at 7:00 cleaned the snow off the driveway and back porch/steps, went and did a bit of food shopping, took Mom's propane tank to get refilled and hooked her stove back up.
Just going to put on a pot of coffee, sit back and watch the games today.

Here is one way to be able to shoot in sub-zero weather.









Every time the night time temperature the past two winters dropped below zero, i headed out to shoot, and test reliability of breech plug design. Rifles were always left in the truck loaded. Object was to see if they went boom right now, when the trigger was pulled. Feels like i learned a lot, and i couldn't have done it without having some way to comfortably shoot in bitter cold weather.

Nice cold weather set up you have there ron, go you blast the heater while shooting?;)

-3 here last night, it's warming up a little now as the suns out. We had our first Major Snow of the season here finally in the last 2 days, I cant believe it's Jan 15th and were just having our first snow.
I brought in some good hard wood for the stove last night, some Hickory and Red Oak, we only heat with wood, our new woodstove kept it around 77degrees in here all night, not bad with it being -3 outside.
(BP)

Unfortunately what you are doing is highly illegal here in Vermont. Cannot shoot from in or on a motor vehicle here. Fine and loss of license will result if caught. Makes no difference if it is a hunting season or not.

It's the same here where I live. I used to like using the tailgate on my truck as a bench when Im on the farm shooting, but even though Im on my own property and just target shooting if they wanted to I could get a ticket for it.
Now if you have a disability and have a special license for it you can shoot from your vehicle.
(BP)

Two thumbs up! I am sorry I had to leave my land in Northern New York, I would be out there all the time like I was last winter. Around there, almost to Canada, if you don't shoot in the cold and snow, you ain't shootin for 9 months....lol:poke:

Oh don't get me wrong. I love shooting in the winter. Just not when it is bitter cold out. 10' on up I'm good to go.

So I went grocery shopping with the wife this morning. She said something along the lines of, Why don't you go shooting and leave me the heck alone?

I guess I'm a bit of a bug when I don't go shooting.:rolleye0011::biggrin:

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I resemble that too! :rock:

Well we had a cold front come through so our high was 32 yesterday and 52 today but its supposed to be nice tomarrow in the 60's.
I remember the cold before I moved 700 miles south.

Another 8 yrs and I might very well join you down there....for the winters at least.;)

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If it's below forty-five degrees I wouldn't even think of going to the range. :s2:

YOU GUYS ARE NUTTIER THAN I AM!

you mean 45 below zero... right?

Our handicap folks can hunt from a vehicle here in Virginia.

I thought you northern tier guys loved the cold? It was about 28 this morning here in Richmond, Va. I am doing grand baby duty and having a ball. Will home tomorrow and then to the range on Wed. Hope it is not too cold to shoot. I don't like it when it gets below 40F. Sorry, I am a wuss!!! :wave:

Love might be a bit heavy. Embrace yes or maybe that is endure it:confused2:. I'm like a squirrel. Most of the winter I'm out and playing but when it gets snappy, I head for the nest. We haven't had a square tire morning yet this year.:s8: Even the brave hate going out in those temps. I remember an exercise when I was in the military 82' I believe. I was in the habit of bringing a bottle of spirits along for the odd nightcap. That bottle of whiskey almost froze solid. It was slushy with a few liquid ounces at the bottom of the bottle. We were sleeping in tents.....That was cold. They had to med evac a bunch of our Southern bretheren as they froze on the way down after jumping.

28' is just fine shootin temperature.:s2:

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HuntAway,

I often wished for a little nip for a nightcap in the field. However Uncle Sam frowned on that idea. All we had was chewing tobacco. I should note however that that was not a good night cap. Rather we used it to keep us awake when on an excercise.

I went to the range with the Uncle in Wisconsin once when it was -20. The Browning 50's wouldn't shoot worth a flip; they would fire 2 to 3 rounds and stop. We would clear them and repeat the same process. I understand the Thompson machine gun was the same way in super cold weather. I suspect it had something to do with the fact that the bolt carrier was rectangular in cross section and fit snugly into the square receiver. Our M60's had no such problem on that day.

This weather is screwy, it went from -3 a day ago and a foot of snow to 40 tonight and rain.........
(BP)

Yup same here. upt to 28-30* and snowing like crazy. 8 " on the ground and it is still coming down hard. Going to be an early morning for the neighbours when I fire up the snowblower at 0500.

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