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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.
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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
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