Hi Caper! Yup we open last weekend in September and never get the full 60 days as we're all froze up early November. It's just getting good this week. This weekend will be a struggle 15-18F everything in the boat freezes instantly with dogs shaking. But not too many fields around just all water (and woods). Deer are moving like crazy.
It would definitely get the deer moving.
Where’s that at Duckhunt? Haven’t seen you here in sometime...🤔
Yeah my bad for not keeping up here! Northern Minnesota. Pretty much whole state go hit sometime last week. End of 10 day forecast looks upper 30's so hopefully enough will melt to put patio furniture away!
Wow, good for hunting though? Take care and stay warm....😊
Thanks! Yeah ducks are moving through and my yard is getting invaded by deer! Our property is right next to 1000's acres of public forest, so I deer hunt out back from home. Our rifle deer season opener is first Saturday in November, and it's hit or miss if we have some snow or not. But this might hang on till then. We get snow often in October but it's usually gone in 24-48 hours.
When I was a younger guy, we always had snow at the camp in Cape Breton in the first week of November. Once and awhile now.
For reference, our previously largest fire was 138k acres, the East Troublesome fire started Tue or Wed and blew up 100k acres, OVER NIGHT. It's now #2 all time at 170k acres in 3 or 4 days and catching the Cameron Peak fire that's been burning since August 13th (207k acres). We've had 3 fires this summer eclipse the 138k fire in 2002. Five counties have closed access to their national forests threatening big fines and jail time for anyone caught.
I've seen a couple of fire videos showing the radiant heat is so intense that homes combust when the fire is still some distance away. One of our most costly property loss fires was in the foothills west of Colorado Springs 5(?) years ago - those people had strict defensible perimeter rules in place for the entire neighborhood and it was virtually useless, every home burnt to the ground (with a very few exceptions). The radiant heat is unfathomable. An underground home would have to be deep and completely subterranean, not a place I'd want to live.
