Season in NY starts in mid -October but it's short. I generally don't get ou til late October and the ticks are still active even though it can be very cool and damp. My favorite time though is those first two weeks of November

Wild Bill you have just got to prepare better, get a pop up camper paint it camo or if you are alittle more traditional paint it plaid pattern. get a portable gen that will run the air, pull it up 2 weeks before season so they get used to it, shoot through the screens, I,m telling you the older you get all these bright ideas get brighter, Really its about having a good time so go when you want, as for me I still go give me something to do.

Our season starts the 3 week of September , and I can not wait

QuoteOriginally posted by Lee in S.C.:
Bill, spend more time in the heat and less in the AC and it wont bother you so much.    :D     Permanone will eliminate the chiggers, and a thermacell will take care of the skeeters. Hunt early and late cause its cooler and thats when they move. They're still in summer patterns and predictable, its a perfect time to bowhunt. Daybreak on 8-15 I'llbe in a stand between some planted pines and a beanield in Williamsburg county waiting on the 8 Ive been watching to make an appearance.

Lee,

I grew up in a home in KS that didn't have A/C.  I would go inside a gym to play basketball that had A/C and by the time practice, or a game, was over, I would be wet from head to toe.  My body is by nature a generator of heat and therefore, sweat!  

People didn't want to guard me when I played basketball because when they tried to lean on me they quickly got wet as my sweat was transferred from my uniform to theirs and through to their skin!        That was my little secret weapon!  The generator has become even more efficient as I've grown older.  If there was a category for Sweat Hogs in P&Y, I'd have to be very careful going to and from my stand during hunting seasons!      

Bill

Bill, I know what chiggers and seed ticks are!! we are blessed with them here big time! But if the season is open and I am off work, I am huntin! I have killed deer with no shirt on, because it was so wet from sweat, I had taken it off to try and dry it out! our season opend Oct 1 and the bugs are still out for several weeks, and I try and hunt out of state where the season opens earlier.. Man, I live all year for this, not gonna miss it for anything.....but I do work in a non AC warehouse with quite a bit of manual labor so maybe the heat isnt as hard as it could be...  see ya Dave

It sucks for sure, but I'll be deer hunting in Mid Sept in the south Ga heat.  Why, because it will be cooler than it is now.  I will probably go hog hunting this week end!  

I guess 4 years ago Missouri moved it's Archery season opener from October 1st back to September 15th. I had NEVER bowhunted in 95 degree heat until then.  Guys that love heat are a bit "different"..LOL

Something had to "give"!! Way to dam* hot to bowhunt. I started sneaking in way early in the cool of dark. I would wear a short sleaved T-shirt and walk slow into my stand. If I went slow enough I would not get sweaty. Three years ago I shot a doe at appx 7:30 opening morning. The hit was a bit back but in the liver I was sure. I gave her two hours to lay down and get stiff. When I found her at 10am (92 degree heat)she was covered in blow fly eggs. I had never seen that before. These eggs hosed right off but they seemed to be getting bigger as I dragged her to a place where I could get her loaded into the Gator. Crazy heat.

You all can KEEP the heat down south. Give me 30-40 degree days everday!!! I hunted southeast Kansas the week after Christmas last year-- 16 degree with 6" of snow.. The only word to describe it--Awesome!

The heat doesn't stop me from hunting, but I sure like to complain about it.  LOL

I have a good freind who takes a drink of vinegar every night to keep chiggars and such off of him. He swears it works.

He says just be a man and slug it down. Maybe 2 or 3 ounces of it.

They don't bother me that bad yet. But if and when they do, I'll go the vinegar route.

All this talk about finger nail polish for chiggers. Those bugs are very small. How the heck can you see their little finger nails to put the polish on them?

I grew up in Columbia, S.C. and couldn't wait till August 15 to come. One good thing about it no one makes you go. Mike

wow must be a rough life a season that starts that early and no bag limit on bucks and your complaining about a lil bit of heat

QuoteOriginally posted by Dutchman:
I have a good freind who takes a drink of vinegar every night to keep chiggars and such off of him. He swears it works.

He says just be a man and slug it down. Maybe 2 or 3 ounces of it.

They don't bother me that bad yet. But if and when they do, I'll go the vinegar route.

:eek:

Yuck!

If you go that route, though, I saw in one of the Foxfire books what may be an alternative that you would rather consider.

They called the stuff "switchell" and you mixed half a cup of sourwood honey with half a cup of cider vinegar.  Other honeys might work but sourwood is the best honey God ever taught the bees to make - so you may as well use that.  :-)

Anyway you add about four teaspoons of that mixture to a glass (or dipper, if you really want to stick to the Foxfire book) of water.  It's not nearly as bad as it sounds (or as a straight shot of vinegar sounds).

Yow - I'm still cringing at the notion of a 3 oz shot of straight vinegar.

I guess it just depends on how bad you want to go.  I can hunting in a pair of shorts and as long as I am in the shade it is not to bad.I hate hunting in the cold however so do my hunting early and only pick the best days later in the season.Bowhunting with a bunch of clothe  :D  s on sucks.

It's hotter than 40 hells down here when season opens, but I usually average around 50 hunts during our 4 week bowseason.  I absolutely cannot wait for Sept. 13th.  Plan on hitting the WMA for hogs starting Aug. 15th.

I regularly drink vinegar and honey mixed with hot water in the winter months.  Not bad at all.  Just get the mix right where you want it.  If it'll stop Chiggers, I'll drink it next time I'm down there fo' sho!!

Bill, I'm a sweathog too. I work in it every day and I still sweat like crazy! I'll go through 2-3 shirts a day. Some of us are just blessed I guess. If it gets below 65 my teeth chatter.

I hate the heat!

Never miss an opening day tho,unless I'm on the road working.

Plan on being sick opening day this season.......sitting in the tree sweating.

I hunted pigs on the Wateree River last weekend and boy was it hot and humid but cold when we got in the truck with the AC on in our wet sweaty clothes. Mike

Permanone = no chiggers

QuoteOriginally posted by David M. Mathis:
I grew up in Columbia, S.C. and couldn't wait till August 15 to come. One good thing about it no one makes you go. Mike

Mike,

I don't go and no one could make me go.        :D

Bill