The HEAT in on!

[C grade]

Rick Hemmingway hosts a three day registered shoot every year at this time; it is appropriately called "The HEAT it on";96 degrees actual and 114 degrees heat index today. I have to tell y'all, this seperates the men from the boys. He holds it in July because it gets too hot in August!
David

[Steve Hodges]

Well, here in New Hampshire we are chilled out

[Wild Skies]

How those Southern boys tolerate the heat is beyond me. Earlier this week my wife and I drove down from our home in Northcentral Wisconsin to St. Louis, MO. When we left in the morning the temps were in the mid-fifties, it was 104 when we reached our destination exit just west of St. Louis. I don't know what the heat index was, but it was to the point of being unbearable for us Northerners.

[Ed Blake]

I shot yesterday; it was 97. My barrels got so hot I was able to fry an egg on them for lunch. Over easy.

[Kensal Rise]

I shot clays at Backwoods on Tuesday. It was indeed hot.

But I try to keep two things in mind:

1) You don't have to shovel heat
2) NOBODY goes North to retire.

[OH Osthaus]

mad dogs and Englishmen

[Daniel G Rainey]

Just back from the gun club. Was not bad today 91 and most of the time it hotter than that when dove season opens.I am not wild about hot weather, but living with that white mess covering the world ain't for me.

[Mills]

We shot today and it was in the 90s.

[Researcher]

2) NOBODY goes North to retire.

After thirty years living and working in the Washington, DC area, my Wife and I retired to Spokane County, Washington and Kodiak, Alaska. I much prefer a couple of hours in my parka blowing snow with my Troy-Bilt to another minute in DC area humidity!!

[Bill Anderson]

Originally Posted by John Campbell

I shot clays at Backwoods on Tuesday. It was indeed hot.

But I try to keep two things in mind:

1) You don't have to shovel heat
2) NOBODY goes North to retire.

Retiring to heat, sitting under an awning sipping cold drinks is one thing, and working and everyday fuctions in heat is another. When it gets over 90 here, about ten days a year, it's "stay in the house til dark" time for me. We only received 3 snows all last winter, totaling 7 inches. You may not have to shovel heat, but I feel worse than if I shoveled snow, just from from being in it. My friends in Florida, which I made while trying to hunt turkey for a few years, in March, told me of their October archery hunts where it would be a 100 degrees and had to use Raid to half way combat the bugs. I couldn't even wear a dry shirt for more than a minute when I was there. I would look like a drowned rat, with the smell to go along with it. You can have all the oven temperatures, and I only wish everyone could experience a spring or fall hunt in the lower Northeast, before calling it the "arctic".
P.S. ... I did get a couple gobblers in Folrida, but the heat drove me back North, never to return. 90 degrees by 11 am is just crazy for March, or any month, for that matter!

Bill