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Unread 12-28-2017, 01:26 PM   #1
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For those of you across the country hunting this week (or hoping to), I pose the question, "How cold was your most recent hunt?" I know that with hunting members scattered throughout the States (and Canada), there should be a range of temperatures, from temperate to downright cold (as it is here in North Missouri).

***So, if you have the time, how about chime in and let us know what the temperatures and conditions were on your most recent hunt.***

We sat out yesterday when the high was 6 degrees, but are heading out in a few minutes to chase quail and pheasants with the thermometer reading 12 degrees with a stiff breeze and about 4 inches of snow on the ground. We'll use plenty of Musher's Secret today I'm sure.

I hope someone is hunting in warmer and more comfortable conditions, but as a favorite writer of mine, Percy Blogg, wrote, "There are No Dull Dark Days'.
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It was 13 this morning with a 10 to 20 mph wind. So according to the chart near zero! Got up and started to call my hunting partner to postpone, but the doves have to all feed unlike a warm day so we went for three hours. As the sun came up it got colder as it always does. Standing still so we did not get warmer.
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Nothing like doves with a good tail wind to provide good excuses for missing them, eh? And what state/area are you hunting? Just curious about the state, not prying into your secret dove spots.
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Took the boys for a run on Tuesday. It was 12 with a 20 mph wind. When we worked into the wind it froze my face. I intended to go today but it was -2 this morning but only about 10 mph wind, but still I said the heck with it and loaded shells instead. Maybe tomorrow.

Supposed to shoot clays Sunday. Forecast is for 2 overnight and a high of 10. Grandson says we are going so we will.

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Nothing like doves with a good tail wind to provide good excuses for missing them, eh? And what state/area are you hunting? Just curious about the state, not prying into your secret dove spots.
The Old Dominion.
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Spent all day yesterday on the ram end of a log splitter; high was 28 degrees. Hit it again at 7AM (12 degrees) and finished up around 10 AM when it had warmed up to a balmy 28 again. A little wind always helps!! As revenge against the drudgery of 'chores', we have a quail hunt planned for tomorrow morning "late" (10-ish) and the weather can do whatever it wants; we're going anyway.

BTW - Percy Thayer Blogg was a local boy (MD) - Check out his, "When Springtime Comes to Bodkin Creek." - it'll help take your mind off this cold!!!!!
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Got up this morning and the temperature was -35 and wind chills of -45. Not too bad, but I've tried hunting in these conditions and in hindsight while it was occasionally satisfying it was never "fun". Must be getting old.
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It's 7:30 Thursday evening and I set the broom under the thermometer and the mercury is down on the broom handle. It says its 4 degrees and heading down even more.

Not as bad as it could be but it is cold outside!
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Went out this afternoon for what I think is the last pheasant hunt of the year for me in Minnesota with 15 degrees and a 10 mph breeze. Our season ends on Jan 1 and it is supposed to be below zero from here on out in MN. The Parker Reproduction 20 scored. The rooster looks a bit rough because he decided to go for a swim in a open drainage ditch before my friends Boynkin Spainel cornered him.
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I was going to wait another day, but my new waders came in the mail so I decided to try them out. It was a balmy 14 degrees when I started walking ditches this afternoon.
Only three more days of duck season, so I had to attempt hunting. I jumped two groups of Mallards. I doubled on one group . Of course I dropped both of them in the water! Unlike my old waders, the new ones don't leak.
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