How cold is to cold for you to Bow hunt??
11-11-2006, 08:44 AM
#11
Spike
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: MN - hunt Wisconsin
Posts: 88
RE: How cold is to cold for you to Bow hunt??
Depends if I have a tag or not!!!
Zero degrees F is my limit with no wind, with a strong wind, probably 10 degrees will only allow me to last about 1 1/2 hours.
Zero degrees F is my limit with no wind, with a strong wind, probably 10 degrees will only allow me to last about 1 1/2 hours.
11-11-2006, 09:07 AM
#13
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: W. Wisconsin Bluff Country
Posts: 49
RE: How cold is to cold for you to Bow hunt??
ORIGINAL: mobowhuntr
But here in Missouri, it don't get quite as cold as you northerners, eh?
But here in Missouri, it don't get quite as cold as you northerners, eh?
Coldest hunt I was ever on was gun season '85 or 86'. I was two years out from carrying a gun but I was lookout for my grandpa, sitting in a box on a ridgetop in western WI with a 20mph North wind. -40 or better with the wind chill, THAT IS FREAKIN' COLD!
11-11-2006, 09:07 AM
#14
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Michigan
Posts: 5,076
RE: How cold is to cold for you to Bow hunt??
When it gets around in the 20's and below thats when it's too cold for me .
I can't standthe cold and if I'm in my strand or blind and I get to the point where I can't stop shaking or shivering , thats whe I pack it up and head for home.
I ordered a HEATER BODY SUIT and I can't wait to get it , hopefuly that will keep me warm enough to spend more time in the woods hunting.
I can't standthe cold and if I'm in my strand or blind and I get to the point where I can't stop shaking or shivering , thats whe I pack it up and head for home.
I ordered a HEATER BODY SUIT and I can't wait to get it , hopefuly that will keep me warm enough to spend more time in the woods hunting.
11-11-2006, 09:49 AM
#16
Fork Horn
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Botetourt County, VA
Posts: 203
RE: How cold is to cold for you to Bow hunt??
The coldest so far I've been out in is about 30 degrees F, but this is my first year bowhunting and it only stayed like that for a few hours. I couldn't see myself staying out for very long if it's much colder than that with no wind. If there is a lot of wind to increase the windchill to the point where my feet and hands are REALLY numb, I'm gone. There is a limit as to how big your gloves are and how thick your support arm is before there are sting interference problems.
Today, right now it's in the 70's as I type this here in VA, I didn't go out because of the heat. I'm praying for cold weather, even though I hate it when it's too cold.
Today, right now it's in the 70's as I type this here in VA, I didn't go out because of the heat. I'm praying for cold weather, even though I hate it when it's too cold.
11-11-2006, 10:08 AM
#17
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location:
Posts: 6,006
RE: How cold is to cold for you to Bow hunt??
Theres no such thing as too cold.
I hunted in -7 degree temperatures last year.
When I went to get down after hunting all morning, my glove had frozen to the grip of my bow.
I spit and it hit the platform of my stand. Before it could drip down to the ground below, it froze solid.
If I've got a tag in my pocket, I'm going to be in the woods at every opportunity.
I hunted in -7 degree temperatures last year.
When I went to get down after hunting all morning, my glove had frozen to the grip of my bow.
I spit and it hit the platform of my stand. Before it could drip down to the ground below, it froze solid.
If I've got a tag in my pocket, I'm going to be in the woods at every opportunity.
11-11-2006, 09:48 PM
#18
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: ND
Posts: 1,627
RE: How cold is to cold for you to Bow hunt??
ORIGINAL: Washington Hunter
When I went to get down after hunting all morning, my glove had frozen to the grip of my bow.
When I went to get down after hunting all morning, my glove had frozen to the grip of my bow.
Really sucks when your full face mask freezes tothe icicles in your mustache and you pull it off too fast!! [&:]Tim
but i have done it....probly 0 degree farenheit
