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Southeastern Heat

Longdraw38

Longdraw38

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GOOD LAWD ITS HOT IN GEORGIA.

For those of ya'll out and about dealing with this massive heat right now. Please be careful and take plenty of water. Also, im finding does easily but the bucks not so much. About this time of year my cams would be getting a decent amount of velvets. Not sure if its because it alot hotter than last year. Any thoughts?
 
Longdraw38 said:
GOOD LAWD ITS HOT IN GEORGIA.

For those of ya'll out and about dealing with this massive heat right now. Please be careful and take plenty of water. Also, im finding does easily but the bucks not so much. About this time of year my cams would be getting a decent amount of velvets. Not sure if its because it alot hotter than last year. Any thoughts?
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just finished broadhead tuning in S La...looks like i went swimming...
 
I'm planning to go out again in the next few days and make a 3 or 4 mile loop through an area I have never set foot in before. This is just a speed scout mission to get some initial intel. I plan to carry plenty of water and Gatorade. My timing for this is the tropical system headed this way. The temps here have dropped some in the last day or two. I went out last time on June 24th and that was just a 2 mile trek back through some nasty terrain to a great spot I found a few years ago. I went in to really dial the spot in, and on the walk out I nearly got too hot. If it were not for the bottles of creek water I collected and dumped periodically over my head on the walk out, I could have been in trouble. I'm going to limit my work in the woods to rainy overcast weather from this point out this year.

Speaking of velvets, a friend of mine sent me picks of a couple of bucks he got on camera at his place today. If I put cameras out this year it will be in September and let them soak through the season in new spots.
 
Every year the summers are hotter and the winters aren’t as cold. We call this global warming, and we’d better get used to it because it’s here to stay.
 
Longdraw38 said:
GOOD LAWD ITS HOT IN GEORGIA.

For those of ya'll out and about dealing with this massive heat right now. Please be careful and take plenty of water. Also, im finding does easily but the bucks not so much. About this time of year my cams would be getting a decent amount of velvets. Not sure if its because it alot hotter than last year. Any thoughs
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check drainage ditches and small shallow creeks
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Man I feel you guys pain . . . I just came in from pushing the mower around and I am DRENCHED! :tearsofjoy: :tearsofjoy: :tearsofjoy:

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For real though, I could wring out my shirt. It's all what you're used to I guess. I do know that I am not built for warm weather, bring on the winter and them single digits!
 
I saw four nice velvety fellows tonight waiting on the does to show but no deal. They all came out of corn and into a small creek two hrs before sundown. That umbrella is a life saver in this heat.
 

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104° at all times on the factory floor from May to October. If they didn't pay me absurd amounts of money I'd leave immediately. I HATE the summer. I often look at pictures I've taken to fantasize about that crisp November morning, chilly toes, and a soft cold wind. 1000022409.jpg
 
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Growing up in the South I can definitely say I can handle the heat better than the cold. I don't like either extreme. Both extremes are uncomfortable and potentially deadly.

One thing I did notice last summer when I went out to Nevada is that it seemed to be the cliché "dry heat". It was supposed to be 107 or so at the Hoover Dam that day and I was like "yeh, it's warm". There was almost no humidity. Here when it is 100 degrees it is often 97% humidity and that makes a huge difference. You feel like you can cut the air with a knife.

The only Northern cold I have experienced was in Ohio. It was in the low 20's and although comparable, did not feel quite as humid and was not as absolutely miserable.

In the early 90's I was offered a job making $19.50 per hour with time and a half on anything over 40 hours. They were routinely working 60 hour weeks. This was really good money back then. The only catch was it was outside and the weather was in the mid 20's to low 30's. I tried it out for a few days and politely declined. I simply could not function in those temps. I could not work in gloves and the minute I took off the glove my fingers froze. Had I been offered that same job in the spring I likely would have retired from there, lol.
 
boyne bowhunter said:
Man I feel you guys pain . . . I just came in from pushing the mower around and I am DRENCHED! :tearsofjoy: :tearsofjoy: :tearsofjoy:

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For real though, I could wring out my shirt. It's all what you're used to I guess. I do know that I am not built for warm weather, bring on the winter and them single digits!
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That looks like a typical January day :tired:

In all seriousness though hope you stay safe and hydrated. Doing yard work in this is miserable
 
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Fl Canopy Stalker said:
What’s this heat wave yall mention? It was cooler for us yesterday with it only being 94 with a heat index of 106… I enjoy the cooler days. We finally got some rain last week too which was long over due
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Down here we have some hurricane rain from the coast pushing in. Starting dropping the temp thank the good Lord. Just got back from setting up a swamp camp. Humidity is up still but its not unbearable. Found some really nice rubs from last year. Had some mr no shoulders that were curious and decided to watch me set up.
 
Longdraw38 said:
Down here we have some hurricane rain from the coast pushing in. Starting dropping the temp thank the good Lord. Just got back from setting up a swamp camp. Humidity is up still but it’s not unbearable. Found some really nice rubs from last year. Had some mr no shoulders that were curious and decided to watch me set up.
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I haven’t noticed the early heat effecting them near as much as the sheer lack of rain we’ve been having. It flooded in south Florida a couple weeks ago and South Florida archery season opens in few weeks. But here in north east Florida, we have until mid September. My first quota hunt is the first of October so I haven’t even began scouting yet. I’m hoping to start sometime in the next week or two. We saw some velvet on a few young bucks in north Ga last week when we were on vacation. I told my wife I might have to rent a cabin on the edge of a WMA up there and hunt the property line because of all the deer we saw.
 
Fl Canopy Stalker said:
I haven’t noticed the early heat effecting them near as much as the sheer lack of rain we’ve been having. It flooded in south Florida a couple weeks ago and South Florida archery season opens in few weeks. But here in north east Florida, we have until mid September. My first quota hunt is the first of October so I haven’t even began scouting yet. I’m hoping to start sometime in the next week or two. We saw some velvet on a few young bucks in north Ga last week when we were on vacation. I told my wife I might have to rent a cabin on the edge of a WMA up there and hunt the property line because of all the deer we saw.
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Ive talked to guys alot here where im from that run into alot of florida boys that hunt our public and bama fellas say the same. You mentioned north ga earlier. How often do you travel up that far to hunt from florida. Every season? Every so often? Im really curious.
 
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