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Post by bradshaw on Jan 17, 2024 10:12:31 GMT -5
Gosh, I cant deal with ND weather at all!! We were down to 17 to 20 degrees at night. Spent the last 2 days chopping ice for the cattle (we dont have trough heaters down here). Thought about asking Mr. Bradshaw to come down and break all the ice in one shot. I couldn't afford that though. ***** Trey.... coldest deer hunting in Texas, the Hill Country, was 12-degrees. Hung a buck for three weeks on the back porch in Austin. Hunting, decades later, the same temperature in southern Alabama.... only to get buzzed by mosquitos days later, which does not happen in the North Country. These temps, from 20-degrees on down, the colder the stiffer, are prime time for evaluating guns, lubricants, ammo, clothing... and technique, which includes shooting with gloves, and without. I question whether those who claim to shoot bare-hand only have ever shot in, or hunted, real cold. One can grab off a glove or mitten when sweeping to draw a handgun, but a deer won’t stand to have you shed a glove or mitten while holding a handgun or rifle. David Bradshaw |
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Post by bigbrowndog on Jan 17, 2024 10:24:59 GMT -5
A muff with a Jon E Handwarmer in it helps tremendously for barehanded shooters like me. Competed in a match over new years several times in another state and temps in single digits was the norm. Long range rifle affair, shooting a stage took 3-5 minutes, bare handed for me. Luckily very light wind, but even the movement of running or walking from shooting location to shooting location the “wind” from the movement was almost unbearable. Gloves stayed on until the last second and came back on immediately after shooting the stage. If I’d used the muff idea then it would have been much nicer.
David you are correct though, it is a great gear and technique tester, as well as fortitude tester.
Trapr
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Post by squawberryman on Jan 17, 2024 10:33:05 GMT -5
Down in in La Floreeda I had to put on long pants today.
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Post by markwell on Jan 17, 2024 10:51:01 GMT -5
Here in the Alleghenies our winters are what we've always referred to as "variable". Was 10 degrees the is AM and we've had snow on the ground for over a week now. Not supposed to get out of the 20s until next week sometime. Have plenty of wood for the stove. This is reloading season for a reason.
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Post by kings6 on Jan 17, 2024 12:56:33 GMT -5
After my wife’s little Boston terrier died about a year ago, she has “adopted” my mule as her new buddy. Calls to her out having, lives to brush her out and feed her and even cleans the barn! Luckily Copper is well trained enough that all the attention doesn’t spoil her too much. ANYWAY, with the ice layer from last night I didn’t want her trying to make her way to the barn so out came the big steel scraper and a trail was cleared to the barn do she could go gave her love fest with the big girl. It is slowly thawing so hopefully the rain will melt stuff down pretty quickly.
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Post by blacktailslayer on Jan 17, 2024 15:13:53 GMT -5
I am glad that we still have power. I stayed home from work today due to the ice. I left work early yesterday afternoon and got caught in the freezing rain. It is the worst thing to drive in. I thought i was going to have to chain-up for the last 5-10 miles but lucked out. Almost overshot my driveway as i was trying to not slide down the hill right on past!
Don D.
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Post by messybear on Jan 17, 2024 15:38:49 GMT -5
I love snow! Best time to go shooting!
Lots of targets with a white background to see where bullets land. Target rich environment out there we always say. Rocks and stuff just stick out now. Need to cronograph some loads as well today. Nice out now. 20 degrees
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Post by 375supermag on Jan 17, 2024 18:59:20 GMT -5
Cold here in south central Pennsylvania
Wind chills right around10°F.
At 69 years old the cod bothers me more than it ever has before.
I take the dogs out in this weather and it takes half a hour sitting in the recliner under an electric blanket to get comfortable again.
The house temperature is set at 70°F but I still can't seem to get warm without an additional heat source or running the fireplace.
Old age sucks.
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Post by bradshaw on Jan 17, 2024 19:52:44 GMT -5
I am glad that we still have power. I stayed home from work today due to the ice. I left work early yesterday afternoon and got caught in the freezing rain. It is the worst thing to drive in. I thought i was going to have to chain-up for the last 5-10 miles but lucked out. Almost overshot my driveway as i was trying to not slide down the hill right on past! Don D. ***** Don.... “The best way to get rid of temptation to give into it.” So said the Irish playwright and humorist Oscar Wilde. However, it’s better to avoid temptation when driving ICE snowy roads. Speed should be held to where you barely feather the brakes Videos of cars and trucks sliding out of control nearly always show locked wheels... or, rotating just a click at a time (anti-lock feature). Evidence of white-knuckle driving, brake pedal mashed to the floor. The wheels must rotate to steer. Locked wheels don't steer. Traction is best when speed, acceleration & slowing are adjusted to the poorest of a variable road. Driving the past two weeks represents dry, rainy, freeze, thaw, ice, rain, fog, clear, feather snow, cement snow, good to lousy traction. Fortunately, most folk space accordingly and fewer take to the roads. Good snow tires make a huge difference. Studded snows define traction on ice. Deep freeze ice provides traction. Transitional temperatures fracture traction. Hard braking creates a thin film of heats which floats a tire on ice, killing traction. Speed and hard braking do that. One evening one month ago, I took an unfamiliar circuitous route home. Snowing and the road had not been plowed. I had yet to change from summer tires. The saving grace, and a huge one it is: all-wheel drive. for an overconfident driver, all-wheel drive would not have been enough. Taking my time I made it, including an encounter with a huge, beautiful moose in the road, whom I crept by. This past week prefers snows, preferably studded. David Bradshaw |
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Post by jeffh on Jan 17, 2024 19:57:15 GMT -5
Down in in La Floreeda I had to put on long pants today. LOL!
Here, in NW Ohio, I had to resort to that when the temps hit single-digits! I can shovel snow for a good while in shorts and knee boots usually, but that danged WIND!
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Post by sharps4590 on Jan 17, 2024 20:25:24 GMT -5
Cold and old. Yeah. Add neuropathy from chemo therapy on top of that and it's doubly uncomfortable. My entire life, from childhood to age 65, was getting ready for winter. Hunting, fishing, (trout don't care when they live in 40 - 50 degree water, it's warmer than the air temperature), cross country skiing, downhill skiing, ice skating, winter camping, trapping and in Wyoming, snowshoeing and snowmobiling...anything I could find to do. The only thing better than 6 inches of snow and 20 degrees was another 6 inches of snow and 15 degrees. I loved Wyoming with an unbridled passion, still do but, I couldn't enjoy it anymore.
The last few days have been exceedingly unpleasant. Friday and Saturday are supposed to be quite brisk then it's back in the 40's for highs and 20's for lows. That's tolerable and I can be outside with little or no discomfort. I still have all my good winter clothes.
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Post by Burnston on Jan 18, 2024 10:12:19 GMT -5
Gosh, I cant deal with ND weather at all!! We were down to 17 to 20 degrees at night. Spent the last 2 days chopping ice for the cattle (we dont have trough heaters down here). Thought about asking Mr. Bradshaw to come down and break all the ice in one shot. I couldn't afford that though.  I'm with you, pard. This is one of 68 needing cut every day; starting time is 4am, cut them again at 12pm, and once more at 9pm. Since going into business for myself we're a one man/dog/horse crew. I see it like this; I prefer the -16 to a cubicle. |
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Post by x101airborne on Jan 18, 2024 11:15:37 GMT -5
I hear that! The shortest way to my demise is put me behind a computer in a cubicle looking at numbers all day. Forget that!
One nice thing about below freezing weather is you usually get some AMAZING sunrise moments. I am a one man show also although I work for my father and he owns the land; I just take the pain and blame.
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Post by hunter01 on Jan 18, 2024 21:53:23 GMT -5
I hear that! The shortest way to my demise is put me behind a computer in a cubicle looking at numbers all day. Forget that! One nice thing about below freezing weather is you usually get some AMAZING sunrise moments. I am a one man show also although I work for my father and he owns the land; I just take the pain and blame. “I just take the pain and blame”. Instant classic! |
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Post by bula on Jan 19, 2024 8:57:26 GMT -5
Took off work too. I've a 30 mile stretch of rt90 across N.E. Ohio to drive, 2nd shift. Up on the ridge, exposed road. Right in the middle of that stretch, is what is called the Vrooman rd. Triangle. It's a thing. They started closing schools yesterday. Already hearing of accidents on rt 90 now. Wife works 3 miles away, straight flat drive. The Subaru Forester wilderness can handle the road, but visibility , and dodging others is more stress than I want to endure in addition to the 8hr shift. We just had 3 single digit nights, the Grand River in the backyard froze and now has snow on it.
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