I've been out the last 2 mornings here in Ohio. By the time I hike a mile into the woods and put up a climber, I'm about drenched.
I've seen 2 little bucks at first light and that's it. Skeeters about eat me alive this mornin.
Is anyone else seeing any deer past 8 am???
Haven't even gone out yet Steve..it's too hot ;)
Often I don't hunt here untill the weather cools off.I hate to think if I don't recover an animal fast enough it will be spoiled by the heat.It still is nearly 90 for a large part of the day.
I went out this morning and saw a 4 point at 7am. I stayed till 9:30 didn't see any other deer. Had a bunch of turkeys around me. They were really enjoying the acorns. Hopfully it cools down next week.
Its been HOT here in NE Kansas. Been out one afternoon - not much moving except a few turkeys. Next week is starting to look better.
when you guys say hot, what temp are you refering too?
Because, I'll hunt whiteys in the heat and bugs alot more than in the cold. The only thing I like about late season deer huntin' is the rut. But so much of the your late season here in montana is shared w/gun fire I don't do it.
I've kill deer and elk in 90+ degree weather and liked it but don't get me wrong I like 60'sand70's best.
Not seeing 'em past 8:30 or so. I've been out several times, but nothing in range yet.
Jerseys hot like that! 90 DEGREES Today Come on FROST!
It's hot here in Kansas City. Irish and I a refering to 80-90 degrees. It's only getting down in the 70's at night. Just kind of kills the desire to hunt when it's this hot. We have a long season here in MO and KS and we use this time to show the wifes that we don't have to be in the woods all the time. Look out as soon as that coldsnap gets here though.
yep, we're in the 90's as well. Here there's a front moving in next week that should cool it off.
Brian you are allowed to quarter and remove skin when you shoot something. We have to drag and transport whole. Too much of a chance of losing your hard earned meat, having the hide slip and a lot of other probs in this heat.
Come on Down to Louisiana boys.... It will make you go to church on Sunday and go down to the altar.... (you will not want to go to the eternal hot place)...
In other words, it is HOT hot down here...
It's hot as well here in PA, low 80's. Too dang hot for this time of year. Went out monday night and only saw a bunch of turkeys. I'm sure it's just too hot for them to move before dark. Hopefully it cools down soon. Best of luck to everyone!!
Bill
been a scorcher here too low-mid 90's, heat index tomorrow of 101 in central IN
Well I have Monday off work for Columbus day and I think I'm just going to skip hunting that morning. It's supposed to be 90 degrees again. As Mickey said, in Ohio we have to transport the entire animal and there's just too much risk of losing the entire deer to spoilage and that would be a waste.
Come on cold front!!!!
I have not Hunted yet, just too darn hot.
Same here. It was 88 today. We put up some stands but didn't even think about hunting. Shot a few arrows, sweated a bunch and fed the skeeters. Hopefully, next weekend will be cooler.
I was mosquito bait this evening. Way too warm for the critters. I did get a shot off at a squirrel though.
I'm up at 4am. Went out back in my skivvies and went in and turned the ac up. Checked the weather and looks like tuesday it's gonna be a little cooler and windy. Might be a good day to get into some corn. Think I'll hang a stand today but not interested in killin anything with this heat.
Been great for the farmers, their knockin down the crops. Problem is I aint gonna get to hunt in the corn like I want this year.
Too hot here as well. Was getting ready to go Thursday morning, stepped outside It was 71 degrees at 5:30 A.M. decided to go back to bed. Just to hot.
Best part about all the heat. The farmers will/should be cutting the cattle corn sooner than usual.It should dry out enough for them to cut it. Then the deer will have to be in the hardwoods .
Same thing here, just can't get myself to go out when it's this hot. (94 and humid today) I'm sure all the boys from GA, AL, TX, LA...etc and the guys that go to Texas Sweat all think we're sissies, but bowhunting to me always means nice cool fall days, fall colors...etc, I was born and raised in northern Wisc. This July/August weather just doesn't get it.
Burnsie
Skeeters and heat..,.now you get a taste of Arkansas in November
My son took a deer last saturday and it was a race to get it field dressed and iced down. We too in IN are required to check in the deer whole. We did not make it to a check station Sat. night and had to ice it down and check it in sunday morning. All went well and the deer meat was fine.
Come on cooler weather!!!!!!
"It's not so much the heat as the goosh durn humidity. Ya know, when you sit there in the bed and you're all sweaty ya know and you reach for the da water on the nightstand, ya know, and you just slide right outa the bed and da wife says, stop making so much noise you're waking me up. "
This is the first weekend I haven't went. Got up at 4:30 to 68 degrees and said, "I'm going back to bed." Weather is changing though and for the better.
In almost thirty years of bowhunting in my area, I have NEVER seen a mosquito while bowhunting, until this year. It was 63 degrees at daylight this morning, two degrees warmer than our normal
daytime high. It reached a daytime high of 88.
Scary.
Getting warm during the day is normal, but by now
there should be frost almost every morning.
Supposed ta be huntin' weather starting this week fellas! I just got back from TX. Let me tell ya about hot!
heat, or no heat, i'm going. i would hate to lose a deer to spoilage but, in this part of the country, you'd miss the majority of bowseason waiting on cool weather. we've had Christmas breaks for a full week w/ weather in the mid 80's. as far as the deer movement, we've been seeing them all day here (actually 2 hours south of here). it seems to me that heat doesn't really affect the deer movement until we get a cool snap. after that... you may as well squirrel hunt on a hot day...
Yesterday morning I saw something I have never before seen while deer hunting; fireflies.
The weather station is calling for patchy frost this weekend for central indiana. Thats deer hunting weather!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They say that relief is on the way. In my neck of Ohio they are calling for Upper 50's lower 60's from wednesday on. I hope they are right. I sat the other night with my rubber boots on to help with scent control and I could smell the rubber getting hotter as the sun was hitting them.
I also need a bunch of rain my well is very slow right now.
It's been in or about the 90s here as well. Haven't seen any deer yet (some sign but you don't want to eat that) but bunches of squirrels etc. My son and I had a squirrel fall out of a tree right in front of us Saturday (I think it was sweating so hard that it just lost its grip - hehe). The boy had a shot at it and missed - I didn't even have an arrow on the string. :-p
Saw an SUV with an iced down deer on it yesterday.Bags of ice all over it and probably in it too. Low 80's.
Now that's more like it - High of about 56 the past couple days!! Low 40s high 30s at night!
Burnsie