This danged heat

[rickt300]

At least it won't melt the powder coating off my bullets. Need it to cool of a lot so I can enjoy a few days at the lease. Looks like it will be a 350 Legend hunt til I shoot something with it. Dove season is open but I haven't even upped my hunting/fishing license yet. Too darned hot to enjoy anything and have summertime cabin fever. Would like to start sleeping in and do some night hunting but my two Catahoula's think wake up time is the crack of dawn. Can't believe it is hot by 9am. And it's September already. I know but it is a rant about hunting and the plan is to use cast.

[steveu]

Yup, once it hits 105 I quit casting! Good news is that it's supposed to cool down next week and possibly rain!

[Winger Ed.]

I'd alloy up your boolits.
The heat now will make them test out softer than you might want.

[Gray Fox]

I got drawn for the county water authority land where the entire season is archery/crossbow with the goal of taking enough does to reduce residential foliage predations and collisions with the Beamers, Audis and Mercedes-none of which I own, BTW. The season opens this Saturday and tomorrow afternoon starting at 2:30 is the only day allowed for scouting of the parcel one draws. It's going to be 90 degrees. I'm 77 and it's going to be a very cautious process. As hot as the weekend is going to be I probably won't even hunt. What does one do with a deer down in that kind of heat? I want edible meat. GF

[Half Dog]

I’m all for the heat. It doesn’t seem to bother me like it does several others I know. Now winter will hurt me but I’m in Texas for a reason, short winters.

[rickt300]

I got drawn for the county water authority land where the entire season is archery/crossbow with the goal of taking enough does to reduce residential foliage predations and collisions with the Beamers, Audis and Mercedes-none of which I own, BTW. The season opens this Saturday and tomorrow afternoon starting at 2:30 is the only day allowed for scouting of the parcel one draws. It's going to be 90 degrees. I'm 77 and it's going to be a very cautious process. As hot as the weekend is going to be I probably won't even hunt. What does one do with a deer down in that kind of heat? I want edible meat. GF

When hunting for deer meat I usually wait towards the end of the season hoping for cool enough weather that I don't have to leave, fill the deer with ice and head back to the house. Something I have had to do many times. Bow season hardly ever offers cool enough weather to not have to break camp and head home if you get one.

[rickt300]

I’m all for the heat. It doesn’t seem to bother me like it does several others I know. Now winter will hurt me but I’m in Texas for a reason, short winters.

I don't care for 105 when hunting at all. Cold bothers me less than the heat though and cold has benefits heat doesn't.

[farmbif]

what does one do with a deer downed in this kind of heat. I guess you would have to get it to a game processor or slaughter house that has refrigeration as quickly as possible if you can keep the blowflies off while you're gutting and transporting it. unless you might have or know someone with a walk in cooler.
I cant imagine trying to take game meat this time of year. ive pretty much given up on going outside and trying to get anything done in shorts even though its been in upper 80's and high humidity because in the past couple weeks it seems every kind of biting insect known to man has accumulated on my place to tear me up, take a piece of flesh and some blood or burrow under the skin every time I even go outside. it even seems deep woods off with deet is an attractant to these microscopic chiggers or whatever they are that burrow into skin as quick as you can light a match. part of reason I'm indoors on computer on a fine sunny day. first freeze cant get here soon enough

[Winger Ed.]

The few times I've hunted when it was unusually warm, we put a couple bags of ice inside the deer.
Then get it to a storage locker, or quartered/bagged, and into ice chests within the hour.

[Cast10]

Been a hot one that’s for sure!

Hopefully it will ease up next week, so they say…….Need RAIN. Tank at ranch still holding water, but gone down 4 - 5 ft. Been putting out feed all year for deer. Afraid to go down there too much as the grass is like straw. Don’t need to start any fires. Ranchers without grass have been feeding hay for months now. It’s bad.

[Charlie Horse]

Bugs are still too active for me. I camped and did a couple hikes on Labor Day weekend. Picked up some chiggers despite spraying down.

[HWooldridge]

I’ve been outside working for the past ten days and it’s been over 100 every day. Seems like around 2:30 in the afternoon is the worst, so I usually take a break for a while and cool off.

[waksupi]

Meanwhile it was 28 degrees in Polebridge, Mt. on Wednesday night.

[MUSTANG]

Meanwhile it was 28 degrees in Polebridge, Mt. on Wednesday night.

Danged "Global Warming"; I mean "Global Cooling"; I mean "Climate Change". Ohhhh Dang - It must be Fall coming.

[versa-06]

Been so hot here in Va. I haven't even wanted to prep any traps for Yotes or check zero on any rifles prepping for any season. -06

[35 Rem]

I loathe the heat in Summer. People keep telling me that when you get old you'll like hot days better. I'm in my 60's now and I hate the heat even worse than I did as a kid. I love those days when it's mid 30's at sunrise and low 50's for the high with not even a hint of sunshine. I could go for years without seeing the sun myself and be perfectly happy. I've skipped several Opening days of deer season in recent years due to unseasonably warm temperatures. Can't even imagine hunting deer when it's this hot.

[versa-06]

35 Rem; My thoughts exactly on the temp thing. I'm 62 & hate the heat worse also.

[deces]

I bet the people in Hawaii are pretty fed up with the heat.

[Teddy (punchie)]

Warm here some say hot. Working outside last weekend, we were all fighting a cold/flu and it was rough. Had fence to fix and cows need to eat. Was in the 80-90 and very humid too warm to think about hunting. I don't like to shoot any deer above 45 degs let alone this heat.

[Texas by God]

It’s 95 at 9 pm here.
I may go after some “tree pigs”with a light and a shotgun here in a bit.
And I might not.


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[BLAHUT]

At least it won't melt the powder coating off my bullets. Need it to cool of a lot so I can enjoy a few days at the lease. Looks like it will be a 350 Legend hunt til I shoot something with it. Dove season is open but I haven't even upped my hunting/fishing license yet. Too darned hot to enjoy anything and have summertime cabin fever. Would like to start sleeping in and do some night hunting but my two Catahoula's think wake up time is the crack of dawn. Can't believe it is hot by 9am. And it's September already. I know but it is a rant about hunting and the plan is to use cast.

In the 100s a few days ago, this morning at 4:30 it was in the low 40s, 90s predicted for tomorrow ? I am beginning to think when winter comes it will be over night, 80s in the day and -20 degs by the next day ???

[Rapier]

Yep, woke up this morning to 62 in NW FL, was 96 / 96 yesterday......Sept here normally can be a pain, no idea from day to day what you will be faced with. A total crap shoot.
For hunting in warm weather we take a fish box size cooler, in the back of a PU, skin and cut up the deer then stop by the ice house, fill the cooler to the top, pull the plug, keep filling the cooler daily with ice for 4-5 days, letting the cooler drain continually. Soaks, washes and cools the meat, really works well for hot weather.

[thadfz]

I’ve started doing the cooler and ice thing as well. It works really well. The meat stays super cold and all the blood gets drained out really well. Makes for some great tasting meals.
Also, we can work on processing a little each night as time allows.
Win-win for sure.

I still don’t enjoy warm weather hunting though. My sons could care less, so that’s why we do the cooler process!!

[BLAHUT]

At least it won't melt the powder coating off my bullets. Need it to cool of a lot so I can enjoy a few days at the lease. Looks like it will be a 350 Legend hunt til I shoot something with it. Dove season is open but I haven't even upped my hunting/fishing license yet. Too darned hot to enjoy anything and have summertime cabin fever. Would like to start sleeping in and do some night hunting but my two Catahoula's think wake up time is the crack of dawn. Can't believe it is hot by 9am. And it's September already. I know but it is a rant about hunting and the plan is to use cast.

Yesterday morning 9.13.2023, 4:30 am, it was 27 F degs out; This morning 9.14.2023, frost again; Winter is coming ?

[1hole]

I loathe the heat in Summer. People keep telling me that when you get old you'll like hot days better. I'm in my 60's now and I hate the heat even worse than I did as a kid.

Ditto about age and heat tolerance.

I was born in north Florida in 1940 and grew up there. I left to live in the mountains of western N.C. in 1968; love it. Being old in high heat and humidity (i.e., anything above about 78 F/85%) today just wipes me out now. I can always put on more clothes to be warm in winter but the law limits how much I can legally remove to get cool in summer.

I believe the looney liberal alarm about, "We all gonna fry next week!". "Global warming", like the political "hole in the ozone layer", "C-19", "assault rifles", etc. scares is just another manufactored effort to keep the public's bowels in a liquid uproar to, "Do something NOW to save the world before our poor children die of the present terror!"

Fact is, the world has alway been changing in every way but it has always been slow. I note that our frantic TV climate "experts" and professional propaganda news flunkeys rarely tell us what the yearly temperature change is! I think there's a reason for that avoidance. I believe our fearful climate Chicken Littles know the world wide temperature changes are much too tiny to frighten many of even the dumbest of people if they actually knew very much so the whole truth seldom gets public mention!

[versa-06]

The left must install fear in the college age & under. Their knowledge & logic is not matured like older folks. & they have been of a rebellious nature since the 60's. -06

[atfsux]

I'm born and raised here, so the heat doesn't get to me. And in fact, because I live near Sun City and have to deal with all the bad-driving snowbirds,...the heat means most of them flee back north or stay inside and off the road, which is a blessing. The cooler temperatures means they will return, and the good shooting spots get crowded. But at least I can cast during daylight hours instead of doing the typical desert creature nocturnal-only lifestyle I adopt from June through October.

[versa-06]

Hey, it's cooling off quite a bit around here in Va. Got up this morning with two big does grazing in the middle of my shooting lane. Seems they have been moving quite a bit better in the last week or so. Just a few more weeks & --- You Know. -06

[Winger Ed.]

Yeah, it's easing off here too.
It'll only be in the high 90s this coming week.

[MUSTANG]

34 degrees this morning with a forecast high of 56 degrees. It will go the the high 60's later this week.

[technojock]

It's in the mid 60's here in NW Oregon. We were having a bit of a drought but it's been raining all week and I really miss the warm weather. I'm hoping for enough sonny days so the rest of my tomatoes will ripen...

Tony

[35 Rem]

Mid to high 80's here in North Alabama. Can't wait until it finally cools down. We had a week of low 80's which was merely a cruel tease. :(

[Bmi48219]

When I was gainfully employed the work environment was almost always over 90F.
Didn’t bother me in the least. Now at 90 degrees I’m good for about twenty minutes. It can’t be that I’m getting old, must have something to do with global warming.
As an apprentice I was on a project near Fresno. Humid and sticky, around eighty degrees. I gulped down a lukewarm cup of water from the cooler and remarked they must have forgot to add ice. The steward said I shouldn’t worry, that water will seem pretty cool around lunchtime, after the sun had heated up the job site.

[rickt300]

What sucks is it's still pretty hot and humid, bow season opened a couple days ago and I have all the usual September chores to do before I get the bowhunting done.