Lets go hunting they say minus 31 Windchill

Kelly Timoffee

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Well , the one day I get to go , yikes.

Hopefully this gets them moving in the bush and like some calling , in the past these have been good days.

One good thing , truck won’t get muddy!
 
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When it's cold kick them out of their bedding areas which will be sheltered from any wind.Try -50 with the wind ............done that successfully.You could see the steam/body heat of the deer coming out of the diamond willows and smell them before you could see them.Mulies tend to have a strong smell.Blood didn't splash onto the snow it landed frozen in pea shaped balls and the gun barrel glazed with ice and the first shot.
 
Hunting the cold, when I was working out of Lloydminster a couple years ago, woke up and was getting ready for the daily shift, driller called at 04:30 just before my regular pick up to head to the rig, "its -54 with the windchill, rig manager is giving us the day off" instead of going back to bed like a normal rigger, I'm thinking Awesome! A day off during deer season! I'm going, So i take out my battery and put it in my '89 Toyota pickup, plug in the oil, aux coolant and block heaters, get my gear all loaded up, truck starts up thankfully and we set off for a lease I had permission for, get out there right as light comes, start glassing and all the deer stood out great, everything was covered in frost, while the deer were dark blobs of no frost, you could see a "mist" too in the thickets wear the deer were from thier breath, parked my truck on a hill to bump start it if the cold drained the battery while I was out, seen a awesome chocolate antlered mature buck, had the vx 3 cross hairs on him, but then thought, man, it's cold as %$#@, if I have to drag this buck back over the ridges, to my truck I'm going to be way to beat, so I let him live and watched the light turn to colours and the morning evolve, was a perfect day off, lol, but bitterly cold. Any chance you can get to head out hunting is great, even when you just want to relax and not shoot and its -54.
 
Sleet was going by the front window parallel to the ground two days ago and I thought while looking at the four foot swells hit the beach; what a perfect day to be out for moose. Thankfully I did not have an LEH. :)
 
I have shot quite a few game animals when it was very cold out.
They have to feed more, because they burn more calories in the
cold.
My coldest trip was a moose hunt when it was -40ºC.
Also had a cold Bison hunt at -38ºC.
Both turned out to be successful endeavors. :) Dave.
 
Well, not successful but still a good day, looks like the wolves have put the run on the deer in the area we were calling in.

Saw some on the way in and out , missed a decent doe , with my GMC by a foot or two on the highway home.

Actually wasn't too bad in the bush.
 
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