Raingear, What works to make those rainy days more bearable in the tree!

The morning's forecast calls for heavy winds, rain and mid 30's temperatures. Your alarm goes off and you get up and look out the window and see a steady rain and the treetops swaying with the wind and the outside thermometer reads 36 degrees.

You reminisce about the last miserable hunt in the rain when the temperature was in the 50’s, not the 30’s. Changing at your tilgate in the rain, climbing the slippery tree, sitting motionless in your stand while water dripped on you from the overhanging branches in exactly the same spot, drops after drops, and after the hunt you would have the hassle of emptying your pack to dry everything out and to wash and dry your hunting clothes.

So now your intelligent side is telling you not to go, but the “I’m a dedicated bowhunter” side temporarily overrides it, forcing you to go through the motions of pacing several minutes before crawling back into your warm bed. In reality you convinced yourself that the slight possibility of having an encounter with a mature buck wasn't great enough to suffer through the rain. Does this sound familiar?

The mere mention of foul weather causes many bowhunters that actually sit in the elements, to reconsider their hunting plans. Depending on the quality of your hunting clothing, hunting in rain, snow, wind and cold can be a miserable experience, yet in many instances, it may be one of the only periods in which a heavily pressured mature buck is vulnerable during daylight hours.

Of course, there is likely an enclosure or managed area study somewhere refuting my many years of actual kill statistics of hunting pressured matures bucks, and while studies are quaint and nice when done in Utopia type settings, I have never heard of any studies done in heavily pressured areas, so they mean absolutely nothing to me.

I have always hunted in foul weather on my off days, even back when I would get soaked to the bone or the cold winds would penetrate my clothing because there was no adequate waterproof or windproof garments. I never enjoyed being miserable or chance getting sick, my motivations were and still are very clear and quite self-centered. Mature bucks in heavy pressured areas move more during daylight during inclement weather conditions than during bluebird days! This statistical fact has been pounded home through my many years of hunting and observations.


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