DanceswithSkunks

Check out Ranger.I bought a pair of calf high rubber with removable foam liners at the feed store for knocking about my parents farm for $39.99. I took my niece out hunting one morning and didn't have my Mucks with me so I wore the Rangers. It was 22 degress and about 4 inches of snowpack. Those $40 boots kept me warm and toasty all day. Much warmer than my Mucks would have because it had 7mm foam liner that was very comfortable and trapped a lot of warm air. I wouldn't recommend them for days where you plan on doing a lot of walking. https://www.rangerboots.com/Pages/Category.aspx?cat=HLS-RANGER&category=OutDoor%20Comfort%20Series%20for%20Men

I used to sit in a boat on the Delaware river during November and December for them but I'm too old to play in water when it's below 50 degrees

King Salmon come in late August through October. Brown trout follow them in and then the Steelhead. In late March early April you can get the "dropbacks" Steelhead that go back out to the lake. They inhale nightcrawlers.

Never clean with water. You don't do it with smokeless powder weapons why do it with blackpowder? You can never get all the water out of it. http://www.blackpowderrifleaccuracy.com/wcs.html

You'll never get a deer sitting on the sofa watching Jerry Springer at 8AM

I haven't slept right since I got out of the service. 27 years of that and you'll never sleep right again. I get 2-4 hours per day then like once a month I take sleeping pills and go down for 12 hours. Try Melatonin. As you get older your body stops making it. It helps me but I still only get 4 hours at best.

How durable are those over boots? I realize you're not supposed to walk in them but what about moving around in stand or your blind? Are they noisy?

Many years ago there was a group of old timers that sat all day every day during the gun season in December. They all had folding wooden stools, A GI surplus wool blanket and a heavy galvanized bucket filled with coal or charcoal. They would get to their spot setup the stool, light the bucket of coal place it between their legs and then drape the wool blanket over their legs trapping the hot air made by the coal bucket underneath them. I tried this a few times and had to open up the wool blanket every 30 minutes to cool down. Damn bucket of coal nearly cooked me alive. I was younger then and may have not needed that extreme method to keep warm. I'm much older now about the same age as those old timers were, going to give it a try one day.

The material you wear does not keep you warm. The air layers you trap do that. The material just keeps the warm air in and the cold air out. You also need to have material that permits moisture to escape or you will sweat, get wet and be very cold.. Pack a spare set of underwear base layer garments. If you ain't got it with you, you can't put it on. You get wet you're dead. A lot of good info in this thread. http://huntingny.com/forums/topic/20309-wind-survival-deer-and-humans/

Next week's weather looks nasty cold. I would hunt mid-day during the warmest period of the day. Find some pine/hemlock cover in low grounds and hunt close to it if not right inside of it. Also may consider doing some 2 man drives. One guy stands in an escape route/funnel and the other pokes around real slow and get the deer up and moving. Slow is the key word. You don't the deer attempting to establish orbital speed. Nothing hard about making deer drives. You can make a deer go any where it wants to.

Buy a cheap VOM ie Volt meter for under $10 and measure the batteries. Those 6V batteries that are stone dead, Are they NiCad ? If so you can hit them with 9 volts for about 4 hours then put them on the 6 volt charger. Depending how far gone they are NiCad will come back when hit with 150% voltage. NiMH batteries have a very low self discharge rate. They will hold 85% of their charge after one year in storage. The voltage required by the camera is one thing, but it's the current consumption that you need to be concerned with. The more current your camera draws the faster the voltage will drop. I have some $99 Bushnell cams I got at Wally World that advertise 6 month battery life using 4 alkaline AAs . I just pulled the card from one that was out since Memorial Day weekend and was still taking pics when I changed cards and batteries. Sometime during the summer it got hit with an EMP from a near by lightening strike. Only thing that happened was the date changed by 33 days. I don't run it in video mode. 3 pic burst with 10 second delay. Check out MaHa. http://www.mahaenergy.com/batteries/

What's the trigger pull weight on these new 700s? 4 or 5 pounds?

Erie Insurance Company has been stocking them. I have film.

I had one up for 3 years. Took it down and needed a bottle jack and 4x4 to get it apart. I saw at one time there was a lever device you could get to take them apart. for the life of me I can't find it anymore.

That's a perfect shot with any weapon. Top of the elbow, instant death.

I've been in and out of helicopters so much while I was in the service that I still crouch when I hear one low and close.

The difference between a fox and a dog is about 9 or 10 beers.

Lee has a Masters degree in Chemistry. I'm sure he does consulting in that field in addition to farming and deer related stuff. Tiffany was Miss Iowa {endorsements important contacts.} This years Miss Kansas is a bowhunter and was not permitted to shoot her bow during the pageant. They lease or own over 6,000 acres. That's roughly 10 square miles of which 90% is tillable ground. Just the yield from that much acreage planted in corn @ 225 bushels per acre is phenomenal. There is a lot of Iowa farm land that is for sale via Sheriff sales and foreclosures. I placed an offer on 58 acres of wooded crik bottom property in SW Iowa. Bill Jordan came along and offered 10% above the asking price and snatched it up to add to his land holding in the area. Iowa issues free tags to celebrities to hunt Iowa. They are called Governor tags. I waited 3 years to get a tag and some smuck that never set foot in Iowa get's a free $250 tag with a phone call. Deer hunting in Iowa is being pimped out big time. I have a friend there who has 1,800 acres I can hunt, assuming I get a tag.

A man is not complete until he's married. Then he's finished.

Hoffnung!

On days like this I can't help but think about Dean Martin.

Those surplus brown long johns work great. Polypropylene wicks moisture away from the skin but you need the next layer above it loose. It needs to have air space for it to work or it's no better than cotton which acts like a sponge. I can't wear polypropylene next to my skin. Stuff drives me nuts and after one day in it I get a bad rash. I use cotton and keep it dry or change it. When you start out for your spot dress very light. It's normal to be cold. Start your walk in with a brisk pace. After 100 yards you'll be warm then throttle back and cruise your way in. If you start to get heated stop slow down. A regular ball cap is good for the walk in. A wool watch cap or balcava while on stand is the way to go. I have a wool balcava that extends down under my collar and covers the top of my chest and shoulders just like the double cape on my Woolrich parka.

I kinda miss all those emails from the Russian brides.

The moon phase is perfect for hunting this weekend and beginning of next week. New moon on Monday the 2nd. 80% of my kills occur during the period 2 days prior to and 4 days after a new moon.

Local weather nonsense. 28 degrees 72% humidity. It "feels" like 38 degrees. What a bunch of morons. You can't use the heat index factor when it's below freezing. 28 degrees and that much humidity is damn damp bone chilling nose dripping miserable cold.