Does it ever get to cold to hunt
12-05-2010, 02:43 PM
#1
Spike
Thread Starter
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Chicopee,Mass
Posts: 96
Does it ever get to cold to hunt
i know the deer dont care about the cold i was just wondering if it ever gets to cold for you guys to go out for me im not a big fan of low temps and wind, i dont mind the cold but the cold winds makes it bad. Its gonna be 14 degrees with high winds
12-05-2010, 02:53 PM
#2
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Tug Hill NY
Posts: 420
Ive had days when I hope for 14 degrees!
High winds make for unsafe hunting in the woods that I generally hunt, and the deer also tend to hunker down until it ends. BUT...I want to be in the woods when it ends.
14 degrees with the sun out certainly makes a diff. you know the deer will be sunning themselves. I figure there are no deer indoors, so try to make do with what weather is given. It takes alot of preparation for cold like that- first rate boots, hat, gloves, lots of pocket warmers and layered clothing. When stand hunting, enclosed blinds you can move a bit in helps. avoid the caffeine, eat a very hardy breakfast and carry a thermos.
High winds make for unsafe hunting in the woods that I generally hunt, and the deer also tend to hunker down until it ends. BUT...I want to be in the woods when it ends.
14 degrees with the sun out certainly makes a diff. you know the deer will be sunning themselves. I figure there are no deer indoors, so try to make do with what weather is given. It takes alot of preparation for cold like that- first rate boots, hat, gloves, lots of pocket warmers and layered clothing. When stand hunting, enclosed blinds you can move a bit in helps. avoid the caffeine, eat a very hardy breakfast and carry a thermos.
12-05-2010, 03:03 PM
#3
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2009
Posts: 608
If I feel a cold or flu coming on, I do not go out. Take energy foods, non-alcoholic liquids and something with which to start a fire with you. Learn how to make a snow cave, if something does happen where you cannot get out that night you will have a better chance at survival.
12-05-2010, 03:18 PM
#4
Fork Horn
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: MN
Posts: 342
It was 12 degrees in NW WI where I hunt opening morning of the rifle season, deer moved great. There was no wind, and I agree that wind will make them sit tight. My best hunting has always been in snow.
+1 for after the storm passes the deer will be cold, hungry, and moving to get food.
+1 for after the storm passes the deer will be cold, hungry, and moving to get food.
12-05-2010, 03:37 PM
#6
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Jul 2003
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 5,062
Well, the windchill here today was -1, and I decided not to hunt. Some of it was the temp, but some of ot was that I decided that it would be a good day to do the Christmas Tree thing, and do some things around home that I had been neglecting. I still have one more week of muzzleloder season, and then the last couple of weeks of archery, so hopefully I will be able to get out a couple more times.
12-05-2010, 04:45 PM
#7
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2010
Posts: 386
yesterday, upstate NY. 20 degree's and windy. I froze my a$s off. The wind was a killer. after 2 hours, I walked back to the car.
went to sleep for 2 hours.
sun finally came out & I went back out.
Still no deer. got a nice wind burn.
went to sleep for 2 hours.
sun finally came out & I went back out.
Still no deer. got a nice wind burn.
12-05-2010, 05:15 PM
#9
Spike
Join Date: Jan 2010
Posts: 41
Totally agree. That's why I like my ground blind in cold or rainy weather. Last year, here on the eastern shore of MD, we had two back to back blizzards.....which is rare here. I hunted during both of them and killed two deer on each of those evening hunts with the ML. I had on so many clothes, I looked like a shivering camo pillsbury dough boy (or girl). The snow was coming down heavy and I was frozen so I dressed them and left them in the snow belly down and came back the next morning for them.
12-05-2010, 05:46 PM
#10
Fork Horn
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: San Antonio, TX
Posts: 246
Certainly it depends on where you are but then again, people living in different climates are acclimated differently. What's cold for me is mild to hunters in Minnesota, I'm sure but they think I'm insane hunting in 85 degrees here so....
Generally no, it doesn't get too cold here for me. I can layer up pretty good and I have enough natural insulation....
Generally no, it doesn't get too cold here for me. I can layer up pretty good and I have enough natural insulation....
