Suffering for my passion, but it does have great rewards, too.
Opening day of the rifle season for deer season in Michigan, is on November 15 th. I hunt from an elevated tree stand and as it turned out, the day dawned to temperatures in the high 20’s with 40 to 50 mph winds! The wind-chill factor 25 feet off ground level must have been in artic temperature range. I lasted less than three hours before it became necessary to climb back down and walk the 300 or so yards back to the house to warm up and add more layers of clothing and woolen mitts to return to... Sign in to see full entry.