Deer season in South Florida starts July 28th! If you're gonna be dumb- ya gotta be tough! The FWC in their infinite wisdom has decided to move archery season into the summer months due to our early rut which is usually in mid August. This is the third year. Then it closes for 30 days in mid October- mid November- at least I can travel to the Midwest and not worry about the one I'm after getting killed while I'm gone!
Most important equipment is a thermacell with backup, and a good a/c in camp!
Hard to make myself practice in this heat! I finally feel recommitted to hunting after some serious life changing circumstances- ill be in a tree on that Saturday and enjoying it!
Good luck to any other hot weather archers!

Wow, I can't even imagine hunting in that heat. Good luck Marty.
Jack

My shiny white skin would scare all the deer away, as I could not have much of any sort of clothing on in the heat you have down there!  good luck!

California opens it's world-famous A-Zone Saturday the 14th!

I figure that little buck I am going to shoot will be halfway cooked by the time I ride him out 12 miles on the mountain bike...

Good luck everyone!

The ticks up here are devastating in July. Literally covering an animal....got any down there?

Oh yeah, we have ticks down here.  And plenty of skeeters.   Also dog-peeter gnats.  This place would be uninhabitable without pesticide.  As far as I know, the July opener here is only private land.  Us poor folks get to wait until sept, which will still be plenty hot.

yeah we start here in coastal SC on 15 August....thermacell, lightweight long sleeved shirts and pants tucked into boots are the norm as everything here bites...ticks, chiggers, spiders, flies, mosquitoes, etc.

Ours runs continuous through 1 Jan....but unfortunately we dont get any real cool weather until around Halloween when rut is kicking in...but then we have another two or three  ruts usually before it is done....I had bucks scraping and rutting after first year does as late as February this year with their horns intact.

I say every year I am not going to hunt in early season...but every year I am out there. LOL

Oh yeah, we have ticks down here.  And plenty of skeeters.   Also dog-peeter gnats.  This place would be uninhabitable without pesticide.  As far as I know, the July opener here is only private land.  Us poor folks get to wait until sept, which will still be plenty hot.

I lived and hunted in Fl. for many years and I can tell you one thing. You will find out just how much you love deer hunting when you hunt down there.

During the first part of bow season I would be completely soaked from head to toe with sweat by the time I got to where I was hunting. Would take off my tee shirt and ring it out after I got settled in the tree. Not to mention the mosquitoes, yellow flies, no-see-ums and one year gnats so bad you had to wear safety goggles to keep them out of your eyes.

That was in SW Central Fl., it's twice as bad in South Fl.

Heh, my biggest obstacle in hunting is bugs. I went west to hunt bears because of the horrendous( did I spell that right?) black flys in eastern Canada and Maine. I hate bugs. Ticks are tollerable, but stuff buzzing in my ears and eyes....I'll hunt under water with a snorkel and wait for'em to come to the watering hole before I sit covered in biting insects.

Dang it, I wasn't down to take a picture of your target buck this year!        

Hopefully the trail cams have revealed a few good one's.....but then again your daughter will probably kill him for you    

 There is no way I could ever hunt in that weather!

I could be seriously mistaken but I think the bucks are chasing already across the road here Marty. I've seen 3 good bucks in the last 2 days doing some really stupid stuff in the middle of the day.
But good god its gonna be hot! Not seeing the hogs much this year either. Not sure if thats good or bad.

Good luck to you guys Marty!  We have to stick to hogs until the second week in September when our deer season opens.

I'm with Yornoc on this one, 1st week of Oct was in the 90's here a few years ago...I stayed on the couch in the A/C. Sweatin & Swattin dont well with huntin for me.

Eric

Do they makea scent free SPF 50?

It's not the heat that bothers me it's the humidity.  Good luck Marty!

Good luck Marty. Glad to see your getting out.

QuoteOriginally posted by KentuckyTJ:
Do they makea scent free SPF 50?

Yes, long sleaves.  Haha

Glad to see you getting back in the game Hog Whisperer, go get him.