How’s the weather out there. It’s been a bit cold in central Minnesota to get out and shoot let alone open the door a bit and shoot.
To cold to shoot. Weather Report.
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Cold really screws up everything was shooting rats in the comfort of a heated blind, the difference in temps from inside and out I had the magnets drop out of the plastic holders on two Crickets. The magazines were acting up on the Marauder. Global Warming?
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Hey, I've been to Dent before although I don't recall it being this cold then as it is this morning.
Unfortunately I will be heading up to that general neck of the woods this morning for work....if I can work up the courage to leave my cozy warm home...lol
And yes its way too cold to be shooting outdoors however its not to bad in my basement. hehe
Unfortunately I will be heading up to that general neck of the woods this morning for work....if I can work up the courage to leave my cozy warm home...lol
And yes its way too cold to be shooting outdoors however its not to bad in my basement. hehe
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Came into the office this morning with my car's ambient temp reading having dipped to -13 F. Others in the office (a few hardy souls) report ambient temps as low as -18 F on their commute in. Not the usual balmy temps for Central Indiana. Wind chill due to the fierce, steady wind reads somewhere between -36 and -44 F. For those across the Pond, that is indeed around -40 C for reference. Even the legendary Mountain Men of American lore holed up in their snow caves and log cabins at these temps.
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Guess I should count my blessings, we were all disappointed here in N. GA. Because it was supposed to drop to 18 and get a whole inch of Snow, but got zilch with temps in the mid 20s at best. Sun came out, and so did my guns.
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Record-breaking cold. I have a chrono that a friend let me use. I attempted to use it tonight. My intentions were to put my rifle outside and measure POI and velocity differences...
I never got one shot off. I did put the chrono outside but the blowing snow at -64 seemed to effect it (gee, wonder why).
I thought it would have been interesting to see how NP rifles react to these temperatures... But I found myself saying "who in the hell would shoot outside at -64?"... Well, NOT ME!!!
I would love to add more to this thread, but if it's hard for me to open a wooden front door to my house with frozen door seals, don't expect me to be a genius operating a phone on those interwebs
I never got one shot off. I did put the chrono outside but the blowing snow at -64 seemed to effect it (gee, wonder why).
I thought it would have been interesting to see how NP rifles react to these temperatures... But I found myself saying "who in the hell would shoot outside at -64?"... Well, NOT ME!!!
I would love to add more to this thread, but if it's hard for me to open a wooden front door to my house with frozen door seals, don't expect me to be a genius operating a phone on those interwebs
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LMAO!!!!
Yah its definitely not airgun weather supposed to be -35 wind chill here in lower Michigan today!!! Stay the hell inside in Michigan today....holy crap I cant even imagine -64 that's a few minutes out there and your in trouble!!!!
James from Michigan,
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I can't even fathom what those temps are like. We had -20 with the wind chill factor a few years back and man was that cold. Here in WA for the most part haven't had much of a winter at all. Just had 25 for the low yesterday and 42 for the high. Next week a few days of normal winter for us with highs as low 30s and lows around 20. But tomorrow being February already we got about 2-3 weeks left before winter is normally gone here. Be safe all you out there!
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The good news is that Sunday forecasts 42 degrees in Grand Rapids Michigan with 10 to 15 mph winds. 357 Slayer is leaving the house.
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When I was younger I would snowmobile in -20 to -30 and think nothing of it, would stay out all day. but now that I am older......70+... the hell with this cold weather. It has to be 50 before I will shoot again.
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Yep, back in the 70’s when it was cold like this we would go snowmobiling and meet someplace we all knew and would have large camp fires sometimes bon fires, Oh to be young and now with blood thinners I complain when it gets to the mid 50’s hahaha.
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electrifying or shocking you might say 
.Those were the fun days. the wife and i had a group of people that we went with. We would spend a week in Canada, ,Maine. Wis., Min or where ever we decide to go.
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On snowmobiling, used to go in U.P. Of Mi. And ride all day/night for three days made a few trips from Kinross to Marquette back a few yrs. ago we didn’t even think or worry about Temps!Upvote 0
going to hit a balmy 35 today, tonight 5 and not passing the teens for a couple of days. Minus 35 is crazy. Maybe an early spring with this nasty cold.
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