With the season soon coming to end here is Wisconsin and temps in the single digits or below, what the coldest you have hunted? Sent from my XT1254 using Bowhunting.com Forums mobile app
There are some hard core northerners on here that have been out when it was a LOT colder, but a few years ago I went out on a morning when the temp was 9 degrees but the 20 mph north wind drove the wind chill down to 10 below or something like that. Even the Arkansas deer were intelligent enough to not be out in that weather. I'll be facing temps like that again this weekend, but this time I'll be better prepared for it. - I have my Arctic Shield boot covers this year. I'll have wool socks with a toe warmer on inside my shoe and then I'll put a hand/body warmer inside the boot cover. - I've figured out that sticking toast-i-toes to my thighs on top of my wool layers but under the outer layer helps immensely. If it's really cold I'll put two on each thigh. (Hey, if you haven't tried it, don't knock it.) - The fleece suit I use has the kidney warmer pockets for the body warmers. I can't tell you how much that helps. I'll also have a hand/body warmer in both upper front pockets and both lower pockets. That's a total of 3 pairs of toast-i-toes and 8 hand/body warmers per sit. The toe warmers can't be re-used, but when I get down after a three or four hour sit I put the hand/body warmers in a zip-lock bag and remove all of the air. That stops the reaction and then I can take them out, use them for the afternoon sit and they will last until past dark.
It's 5F degrees here this morning and I have a heater pointed at my feet sitting at the computer desk, playing on the internet. Fair to say what the F stands for and it ain't Fahrenheit.
It was +1 when I got back to my truck last night, with about a 10 mph WNW wind. Not the coldest I've ever sat in, but it was pretty close. Saw 4 does and could have shot 3 of them. Just didn't feel like freezing to death on a recovery for a doe.
I can't make myself crawl in a tree for a late, late season archery hunt. The wind chill was -28 last night. Coldest I've sat was probably -15 to -20 wind chill during rifle season.
I've spent many days over the years hunting in single digit or -0 conditions... it sucks! but I have shot some deer on these frigid days. Had my rest freeze on me one time... that was interesting.
Never to cold....I just climb in and turn on the heat. Hunted the other day. When I got to the truck the temp was 4. To cold to ice fish so I may as well hunt.
supposed to be something like -17 tonight w/ the windchill... I'm going to go sit the last 1.5 hours of light. hope they move.
14 below, sat on stand 1 1/2 hours had a 6 point come down trail had him dead to rights at 15 yards with bow, for the life of me I could not get the bow pulled back to shoot the damn thing !! arms and back were so darn stiff I just could not do it I no longer do this
-20F in the Canadian Rockies during Thanksgiving week in 2006, waist deep snow for the week. I didn't kill anything but my brother shot a great buck on a rifle hunt.
I've hunted some single digit days. Honestly, once it get's that cold it doesn't really matter what the temp is, it's just all cold. As long as there's not a bunch of moister in the air or wind, I'm comfortable with teens and even single digits. Can't stay on stand as long though. If we had those type of temps consistently I would invest in a heater body suite or similar for sure.
-16 air temp here last night. I didn't want to get out of bed let alone go outside. With wind chill - deer 0°F, coyote -10°F, waterfowl -30°F, and ice fishing -50°F.
One year hunting in Alberta it was -25F with the wind chill. I was only able to sit out in that for an hour and a half before I HAD to get picked up. It was actually scary how cold it was. I did end up with a bit of frostbite on my fingers, just from that short sit. I had my hands in a muff with four hand warmers too! I didn't hunt the next day either.
Sub zero with -30 windchill. So nice to have snot frozen all over your beard and face. Sent from my iPhone using Bowhunting.com Forums
When I was young,would sit in bowstand for 3 hours in - 20. No more! Sat for 2 hours today at -8 and froze my ass off!!
