current weather and hunting

When I lived in New England I hunted in an ice storm. It was pretty cool everything was coated in ice. I was much, much younger then. It was also the last day of deer season.

Shot ducks back in the 80’s when everything froze over.

Some of my best goose hunts have involved smashing inches of ice to set decoys, north winds so hard I could hardly walk, and birds so cold they REALLY wanted to come meet 500 of their fake friends

Hiked out in a 15 degree blasting snow/ice storm thing in Colorado last year. It was brutal. 40mph gusts, all our water froze solid instantly. Food all frozen solid. Good thing we only had a few miles to go or I likely wouldn't have made it. I got wet and hypothermic the night before and was pretty sure I was gonna die. If my buddies wouldn't have talked me down the trail I almost certainly would have died out there.

This stuff is nothing to play with.

Dec 1989. Smoked them. Not sure if the fed and state statute of limitations has run yet on the migratory bird act violations that occurred over those two days.

Best duck hunt I’ve ever been on was in 6° weather with freezing rain and sleet. Everything around us was locked up. We knocked out a couple beaver dams 2 days before to keep water flowing in front of us bc we knew what was coming a couple days later. 6 man limit of mallards and gray ducks in 28min. It was nothing short of amazing. One of those once in lifetime hunts. Deer hunting is the total opposite. I don’t know where they hole up in weather like this but they flat out don’t get on their feet it doesn’t seem

West Texas deer hunting early 80's temperature was in teens while raining sleet
Gun was covered with ice and had icicles hanging off barrel
Saw no deer and feet painfully froze

In South MS as a kid I double dog dared a buddy to stick his tongue to the barrel of his shotgun. It stuck! We laughed our arse off!

I've only hunted in snow once which was 1/11/21 in Arcadia. It snowed all night and the snow started melting around 10:00 am. Didn't see 1 animal. Bird, squirrel, or deer. As ice melted it sounded like a water balloon hitting the cement. I was thinking I should've hunted the food plot as I know deer certainly couldn't like walking in the woods with big piles of snow hitting them. Sure enough, when I got my trail camera pictures, deer in the food plot eating corn from the feeder. Lesson learned.

My seasons closes today, plan was to leave after my morning meeting and get one last afternoon sit. But i called my neighbor and he said roads were bad. Not going to risk it. Had a big 8 showing back up this past week in the daylight. O well hope hes bigger next year.