Cold weather camping

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Originally Posted by Irving

This was the second time that trip that wind was talking out trees around me. That's about when I decided to pack it up. If I couldn't pass the test of nature, at least I could make progress on the test of marriage and come home a few days early.

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Yikes! Blowdowns are serious business. Three years ago was my first solo camp during second rifle. I was in a 2-man tent like what you have there. 50mph winds and 5 inches of snow came down the first night. I did NOT sleep well. Luckily I didn?t have trees coming down around me.



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Originally Posted by Irving

I filled zero of my three tags on this trip. I'm pretty sure early on I spooked a single cow out of my camp after I returned from hiking all over the damn mountain. I saw a spike so small I wouldn't even feel comfortable shooting on the Friday before the season opened, otherwise saw only does the entire time. There were bear tracks in the snow 19 yards from my tent, so I ran out and bought a bear tag and then never saw him again and bailed to avoid much heavier snow. I've had eight tags this year, and only filled one. It feels pretty bad.

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Sorry to hear, I have also grown accustom to the taste of tag soup...however it still does have kind of a bitter taste :)

Yeah, I had a 15 gallon blue barrel full of water, and I would have to wait until mid day for the transfer pump to unfreeze. I'd refill water bottles and keep them in an empty cooler in the car. Then I had access to water in the morning and evening if I needed. I also completely forgot to put tape over my barrel. If I was really doing some bushwhacking, I'd take the bolt out and check when I got nervous.

I have absolutely no idea what that last sentence meant.

Nervous about & check for what?

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Originally Posted by ChickNorris

I have absolutely no idea what that last sentence meant.

Nervous about & check for what?

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Making sure ice did not form in the barrel/chamber.
It can lead to undesired results.

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Originally Posted by BPTactical

Making sure ice did not form in the barrel/chamber.
It can lead to undesired results.

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Oh right. I recently read about this.

Suppose that best illustrates the difference between knowledge and experience as I haven't been hunting since I was 10 & I was only tagging along with my father.

Learned to drive the jeep because I went though so there's that.

Yeah what Bert said, or even any debris at all from crawling around through stuff. I think the only reason my daughter ever agrees to go hunting with me is because she knows I'll let her drive. This year she drove 13 miles of dirt road pulling my little trailer.

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Originally Posted by Irving

Yeah, I had a 15 gallon blue barrel full of water, and I would have to wait until mid day for the transfer pump to unfreeze. I'd refill water bottles and keep them in an empty cooler in the car. Then I had access to water in the morning and evening if I needed. I also completely forgot to put tape over my barrel. If I was really doing some bushwhacking, I'd take the bolt out and check when I got nervous.

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That & the barrel to barrel non sequitur threw me off, briefly.

Haha, yeah reading again, that's awkward .

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Originally Posted by Irving

Yeah, I had a 15 gallon blue barrel full of water, and I would have to wait until mid day for the transfer pump to unfreeze. I'd refill water bottles and keep them in an empty cooler in the car. Then I had access to water in the morning and evening if I needed. I also completely forgot to put tape over my barrel. If I was really doing some bushwhacking, I'd take the bolt out and check when I got nervous.

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