yearly temps

[woodview]

Has anyone else felt like we've been getting almost unseasonably warm weather the last few years for opener.

I can remember being younger and watching ice form on my sorels wondering if that was standard for deer season.

Remember one particular year that was really cold (87?). Didn't get out of the tree once on Saturday, but it was the worste form of self punishment I think I've endured. Sunday morning by 8am I was in the camper, in a sleeping bag and when my dad came in to camp and asked why I wasn't in my stand I told him "the deer can keep the flippin woods"

Older, maybe tougher and certainly better prepared so I count on the cold.

If all of you are able to stay in the tree then who's going to send all those deer under my stand?

I'd say my grandpa, but he has actually crapped over a log within sight of me... laughing while he does it so the deer really, really need to be getting pushed around. By the way, that one's a sight you never wanna see - some day I'll have to tell him how he looks when "magnified".

wohhh, just kiddin there fella's, grandpa if you're reading this... I'm not --> keep it up old man

[viking_fan]

It sure has !!!!

In the past I would stalk deer on a frozen creek I could walk on it with out making a sound.

Now you can wear a Tee shirt it has been so warm.

With the warm temps I find it alot harder to stay awake out there.

[FOOT]

Yes it has been getting warmer on opening of deer and duck as well. Last year in ND we had temps of 89 on opening day. Not a fun opening duck day.

I truly believe these temp swings are cyclical. I remember as a kid having both warm and cold openings. It would be nice if they just averaged out but that ain't gonna happen.

Enjoy or hate the weather as you want it will change in a couple of years and we'll be back to cold openings.

[knoppers]

its been unreal, I normally shut the water off at my seasonal cabin the last week of october, this year I am good through the second weekend of deer hunting, last year it was good for the first weekend.

Its nice to have the water on during deer hunting, but I also am a duck hunter, and with it being so warm, the birds just don't make it down in time.

I have the week of thanksgiving off, will I be at the cabin with running water? I hope not, geez I would like to do some ice fishing.

[kc0myy]

I remember sunday of the opening weekend of duck this year. saturday night was warm like low 70's I think. The warmest night in octber ever. Also hanging deer in a tree with high temps is also not good.

[sakazulu]

It is wierd. but I remember hunting ducks during the second run of the World Series for the Twins in a tee-shirt, Then suffering some sub-zero temps not some three or four years ago on opn'r of gun deer listening to ice thicken on the ponds. I just think we're in a cycle of weather and "global warming' is a political prop for the people who drive Subarus.

[jeff127]

I sat in the Minnesota river bottoms sun. night and slapped mosquitos all evening----they were swarming me nonstop----deer opener should NOT be like this!

jeff