Cold temps?

[OxShoeDrew]

Hi,
Quick question...what's too cold for you northern hunters? These days I won't go out until it's about 39.

 

[Iceman-ny]

Colder temps really don't matter to me to a point, but as I get older it seems that point is slowly creeping up, it's when the ground freezes so hard ya can't dig, 39 degs is a heat wave.

 

[Digger_O'Dell]

It really doesn't matter to me with the right gear. I've been out lake hunting in open water where I've had to climb down a 10 foot plus ice shelf to reach the water, and I've been out on days more than -10 and near gale winds with wind chills of -70 (not counting the blowing water and mist). I actually posted about the worst one a couple years back when I had the police called on me because someone called and told them some crazy person was out swimming in the lake. But of course once I was called back and met with the police and they saw I was fully geared up for arctic water conditions they just laughed it off. The only difficulty I had was keeping hold of the detector and scoop once they were coated in ice.

 

[del]

When the LCD screen on my detector get very sluggish and doesn't want to work , then its too cold .

 

[Camp Breathedsville]

below 50 is too cold and above 75 is too hot for this old man. :shocked03:

 

[OxShoeDrew]

Wow, you guys are troopers. I'm in Camp's league :lol:
What gloves do you guys use?

 

[Full Metal Digger]

Air temp doesn't matter to me much, but frozen ground pretty well stops the digging.