coldest hottest you ever hunted?

Hunted pheasants and quail last year here in Nebraska it was -23F and the hottest I ever hunted was in September dove season was in the high 80'sF. I'd much rather hunt cold than hot, I don't have to worry about the game spoiling and they aren't as jumpy when it's cold. Never had a gun malfunction in the cold either. Picking up the hulls when they melt the snow is hard sometimes to find them though.
 
High Desert

I live in the high desert. This time of year our temperatures hover around 15 degrees in the mornings and top out around 40 by mid-day. If the wind isn't blowing and the sun is out, it is quite pleasant to hunt. The summers can get pretty hot. The problem is our humidity, rather the lack of it. Even in winter, though it is well below freezing, even our windshields are frostless. The air is bone dry.
 
I once was out for 2 hrs in the morning of a -20 F day. My biggest mistake was actually shooting a deer which was the one I had been hunting all season. Luckily my parents house was only a quarter mile drag away.
 
wow guys thanks for the response you guys are really true masters of the art of hunting.

when i told one of my friends that the heat didnt bother me as much as the snakes heightened activity in such heat, he gave me the following GOOD advice.

" when a man goes to the remote out doors he must always take a bottle of whiskey , as a medicinal remedy for snake bite. but just to make sure always remember to take a snake too"
 
lt - that is actually a quote from W.C. Fields, but a good one anyway.

Extreme cold for one day doesn't bother me, if I can get warm later. I bow hunted in Kentucky and after 1 hour in a tree stand was covered in a sheet of ice from the freezing rain.

Worst trip ever was the last time we decided to rifle hunt elk (we usually bow hunt elk which is much nicer weather). We were tent camping and it did not get above freezing for the 8 days we were there. Every drop of water we took was froze solid. We had to break the water jugs and break off a chunk of ice then thaw it on the stove just to make coffee.
 
Been hunting hogs in the teens and over a hundred degrees. I always make sure to dress appropriately when I go hunting and I never have any troubles.

Two years ago I took my oldest daughter hunting for her first deer and we were so excited that we didn't pay attention to the weather. We bundled up with everything we had and headed out. Well we didn't get anything that morning and while heading back to the truck she looked over and said "Look Daddy, ducks on ice!". Well the pond had froze over and the ducks were scooting around on the ice. We had a laugh and went home. Found out that it was 25 degrees that morning (probably colder where we were). The cold weather didn't stop her though she went out that evening and nailed her first deer. Pretty good for a seven year old girl.
 
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Coldest, Snowshoe rabbit hunting Ft. Richardson Alaska 1975.

By God that was cold!

Second coldest was deer hunting with the wife in Cisco texas 1992.

I had placed the wife on a big rock on the side of a ridge with instruction to sit still and watch the valley below her closely.

I walked down into the valley and climbed up a big bur oak tree and sat down on a big branch.
It was COLD.

As the sun came up I glassed for awhile and finally spotted the wife on the ridge jumping up and down, WTH?

I was too cold to sit still anymore so I came down to go and see what was up.

She said she sat still and shivered for as long as she could but once she "THREW UP" she just could not stand it any longer and got up and started doing some jumping jacks to try and stay warm.

Thats my girl!

Hottest was dove season also around Cisco.

Sweat dripping from every pore as we sat in the shade waiting for birds.

It was well over 100 degrees.

Snowing pretty good outside Right now.
 
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-62.7 in the middle of january last year with the wind chill. Went out on four wheelers lookin for yotes, got two. But the hottest could more n likely be over 100 in the summer while out shooting gophers. haha gotta love watching yer groups and shots spread out with quick consecutive shots haha.
 
I'm not sure of the exact temperature but I was 12 years old on my first deer hunt with my dad in the Sierras around the Doyle-Susanville area on the Eastern Slope. Very cold with snow on the ground. I spilled maple syrup on the tent zipper so it froze and we couldn't zip the flap shut. My dad was not happy to say the least. He also told me not to sleep with my boots on, because my feet would sweat at night, then freeze when we went out in the morning. Of course I did and sure as shootin', my feet froze. We had to sit out in the sun to warm them up... I listened to the old man after that...

The hottest was dove hunting in Blythe, California on September 1st. It was 117 degrees at 7:00PM....
 
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Wow! Some of you guys are dedicated to this game! (Or crazy, it's hard to tell sometimes)
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Well I'm pretty sure I'm not crazy. At least I don't look crazy from the inside.

To be honest I cut our trip short on the -55 caribou hunt. My wife and I had been camping in a wall tent for about a week chasing caribou around. My wife decided to quit hunting after the 6th day and stayed in camp.

On the walk back to camp that day I was thinking about a mug of hot chocolate and peppermint schnapps. After I got my chocolate made, I asked her where she had put the schnapps and she said she had put it outside the tent when she was cleaning up.

I decided it was time to go home when I retrieved the bottle and discovered the schnapps was frozen. I decided that when the booze freezes, it's probably too cold to hunt.

So you see I do have some rational limits on hunting weather.
 
I had to revisit this thread. After posting in it last December, we had what's been called the Christmas Blizzard a week later. Then we had 2 more Blizzards that were just 3 days apart from each other in early Feburary. Yes..it was the Coldest Deer Season that I ever hunted in. I wonder what this season will hold for everyone in this region?;)
 
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A buddy and I gettin' ready for an afternoon archery hunt...
Note the camo shirt my buddy is wearing... so good you can't even see it:D

Brent
 
colder than -40...

It was between -40F and-45 F (depending if you were at the top of a hill or the bottom January 1994 in Northern Maine about 3 Miles south of Loring Air Force Base. Was hunting snowshoe hair but didn't see anything but my breath. Funny thing it's hard staying cool when it's really cold. If you're dressed warmly enough to be comfortable standing still, you have to move awful slow to avoid getting too warm when moving on snowshoes. I doubt I've hunted at over 80 degrees.
 
The very first time I ever went hunting was after a lot of prodding by a friend. So on the grand day of the first venture we got all suited up and so forth and set out into the 33 degree day.

Well when we got to the area we split up by a few dozen yards along a game trail and using my long-developed camping skills I located a very nice recess between a tree and a large rock which gave me a nice view, a dry seat, sheltered me from the wind, and after the sun came out was pretty warm overall. So warm in fact that I dozed off.

Well about an hour later my buddy calls me on the radio and says he can't take the cold anymore. While I'd been asleep the clouds had rolled in, the winds had picked up, and outside my sheltered area it was probably close to 10 degrees (and windy).

So I guess "technically" I've hunted in somewhere between 0-10 degrees. :D
 
Coldest -23, Hottest about 95. Minnesota heart of the nanook people:p
winters here get to minus 30 a lot,and a 35 mile per hour wind behind it.
Now i sit in a ice house and fish..Maybe 70 degrees in there ;)
 
Never have hunted in really hot weather but cold is another story. My very first year deer hunting was in Grayling, MI, along about 1958. Our thermometer registered -35º one morning. That year it never got up to Zero. All the scopes froze up or fogged up that year.
 
It was 17Far. that mornin of last December when I took a good size Doe. That was our Christmas dinner..Tenderloin stew. It snowed on me 3 of the 5 days I was out there..made for some good huntin:)
 
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