Who's hunting Monday and Tuesday?
- Thread starter Bigslam51
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Have been sick the past week but finally made it out this evening.Sat in a stand and it was brisk out but not bad wearing my cabelas stand hunter bibs and parka.Took the crossbow and saw 3 small bucks and 10 does.Not a bad sit.Hopefully the rest of the season won't be too bad.
She's a big one! I gotta dress her out, story later. Won't be able TOO save the heart on her!
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oakswamper
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Congrats ! This was my 1st day off during the ML season. All I accomplished was walking down to the mailbox & back.
Help to drag? I thought you were 7'8" tall and 400lbs? You need help dragging? Lol
Congrats on a nice doe on your own land. That is great stuff!
Archertl
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Joel
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Thanks everyone! I'm working on the story now in the hunt recap thread.
I just now realized that the hunt recap thread is in the bow hunting section. Shot her with the smoke pole, oh well
I just now realized that the hunt recap thread is in the bow hunting section. Shot her with the smoke pole, oh well
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Was out tonight for 2 hours, public land, propped up against a tree. Didn't see a thing, but I did walk in 1/4 mile fully layered and was extremely comfortable during the walk. Never overheated!
I had 6 layers on the legs, 6 layers up top, and a nice pair of wool gloves which I jammed into a log-type fleece hand warmer. That warmer had to small air activated warmers I put in it but they didn't really get too warm. My hands were very warm regardless.
I had a heavy duty knit ski mask and put another over that when I stopped walking. I used a pair of snowboarding goggles on my walk in but they started to fog up a bit.
My biggest problem was water vapor from my breath freezing on my eyelashes. At times my eyes froze shut for a sec until I warmed them up.
After a while my rubber boots were getting "cool" but the air activated insoles I put in there helped. My artic shield boot blankets were frozen together in my backpack from a previous hunt.
After an hour I could feel a cool draft developing in my top layer in the arms and neck area.
All in all with pac boots, a larger overcoat, and tucking my ski masks into my existing coat better, I could have done at least a half day.
I was glad I sorta pushed my equipment and myself a bit today.
I had 6 layers on the legs, 6 layers up top, and a nice pair of wool gloves which I jammed into a log-type fleece hand warmer. That warmer had to small air activated warmers I put in it but they didn't really get too warm. My hands were very warm regardless.
I had a heavy duty knit ski mask and put another over that when I stopped walking. I used a pair of snowboarding goggles on my walk in but they started to fog up a bit.
My biggest problem was water vapor from my breath freezing on my eyelashes. At times my eyes froze shut for a sec until I warmed them up.
After a while my rubber boots were getting "cool" but the air activated insoles I put in there helped. My artic shield boot blankets were frozen together in my backpack from a previous hunt.
After an hour I could feel a cool draft developing in my top layer in the arms and neck area.
All in all with pac boots, a larger overcoat, and tucking my ski masks into my existing coat better, I could have done at least a half day.
I was glad I sorta pushed my equipment and myself a bit today.
Sounds like you have a good setup! I don't know if you have any of those adhesive toe warmers but I stuck two on each side about 6 inches below my armpit. I stuck them on my second layer and they worked real good!
Gordo
Senior Member
I was hovering over my little buddy heater last night. Ground Blind is the way to roll when its thats frigid. Still a cold ass walk to the truck
I guided 2 buck kills over the last 3 days...terrible weather, but we got 2 nice bucks down...firsts for both hunters!