Does crappy weather get in your way or do you use it . . .

Rain range day is better than no range day.

No go if it is 20 or below and/or if the rain is falling heavily. I need to have at least as much sense as the animals I am hunting.

Hokkmike said:

No go if it is 20 or below and/or if the rain is falling heavily. I need to have at least as much sense as the animals I am hunting.

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The best hunting can be right in the thick of the worst weather.

With the carry rotation, I use it. All kinds of nasty and hairy. Good to know if your gun may cycle or stick in the very cold. Training when uncomfortable improves your all around performance.

In hunting they say to stay down wind of the area you are hunting but I'm just the opposite. I walk in up wind spraying deer scent & letting the wind carry the scent to lure in the deer. Almost every time it has worked, I don't always shoot what comes in but it gives me an idea of that is there.

After the Rut the bucks seem more like bully’s towards the does, pushing them around and knocking them off a food supply ,has anyone else noticed that ?

It's so nice to be able to go back and forth to a target on the true 'rifle ranges', whenever --- coldish weather really helps. No coordination with deaf people who can only look downrange.....

But with Warm weather, I simply go to one of our private club's Action Pistol ranges, and for simple fun with rifles you throw a plastic bottle on the berm (not actually authorized due to the perceived "lemming herd" concept) - but must pick it up .
Even with just 30 yards max for rifles in AP ranges - and no metal plates are allowed for "rifle rounds"- you have privacy and total flexibility.

If this is strictly about gun range, no
I don't go ( usually)
If we're talking hunting, I go wherever
the opportunity is presented.
You can't hunt at home in front of the
television or computer (well. . most
people can't) Can't fish either

I learned a long time ago that animals
are outside 24/7
Fish are wet 24/7

In this region anyway

There are enough nice days that I don't bother shooting in miserable weather. I'm not a hunter. Occasionally going to big matches and traveling quite a ways I have shot in bad weather, rain and wind. Once you're there and have spent the money you just deal with it.

Some folks walk in the rain. While others get wet. I like to walk in the rain. My fat want melt if I get wet. Unfortunately! Thunderstorms I stay inside. Raining out and some wind. I do whatever I need to do. One can’t pick and choose the weather they might have to fight for your life in. So practice in crappy weather and good weather. Added bonus my fat helps insulate me. So I don’t get cold easy.

With the temps in the mid to high 20's and a 30-45mph wind yeah, not shooting in that **** weather.

Having been an almost exclusively indoor shooter for 50 years I find shooting an excellent rainy/windy day activity.

I like to shoot and hunt too much for weather to be an issue. Worst weather is wind. Deer can’t hear, smell, and everything is moving…except the spooky deer. And how can you hold a sight picture when you’re moving in the wind? But what else is more enjoyable?

High wind will keep me away from the range if the plan was load testing; otherwise doesn't matter.
Likewise, it's hard to do load development when temps are mid 90s or higher; barrel takes too long to cool.
Heavy rain will keep me from hunting; a light drizzle will not.
I have the gear to hunt in the cold, but I'll pass if the high is below 20°.
Haven't done it since moving to TX but I enjoy hunting in snow ... anything less than whiteout conditions.

I've said before, If I have to do crap I don't wanna do when it's bad weather (driving to work, working, driving home) then I don't let it keep me from doing what I want to do. If it's shooting or hunting, I go.
If all I want to do is sit on my lazy backside on the couch and watch college football, I do that. Weather has little to do with it, unless it's thunderstorms, tornadoes, or level 3 snow emergencies.

I like to practice in the conditions I will be hunting in so, since we don’t know what those conditions will be I try to practice in difficult, read windy, rainy, snowy weather as well as sunny and nice. Once the scope is zeroed I get off the bench and shoot kneeling and offhand. Seems to work for me.

I voted the “Hippy” vote.
Forty years ago I never gave the weather a thought. This morning it is raining. It is deer season. I’m about to have a shot of rye and go back to bed.

Jeff62 said:

Forty years ago I never gave the weather a thought. This morning it is raining. It is deer season. I’m about to have a shot of rye and go back to bed.

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Yep, age sometimes does change how we feel about things like the weather. Up until 7 or 8 years ago when I fell and broke my right ankle in 3 places while coming down an icy, mud-covered slope, it was my “tradition” to go pheasant hunting on Thanksgiving morning while my wife was home preparing dinner for the family.
Long story short - after a couple of surgeries, I came out okay. However, the arthritis in my right ankle tells me when there’s a storm coming nowadays. Besides that, our oldest grandson laid down the law to my wife - “Don’t let grandpa go hunting by himself anymore,” he said.
Not that any of that mattered this year. From what our rancher friends told us a few weeks ago, there are “pheasants all over the place” over on their ranch, and they invited my wife and me over to shoot some of them. I had to turn the invitation down though. I’ve got heart problems now, and I’ve been wearing a monitor for the past two weeks. I’m sure if I’d have got out pheasant hunting, I would have just torn the monitor loose, and I’m not sure how it would have recorded 12-gauge recoil anyway.

I shoot indoors so no

When I was shooting IPSC, back in the Dark Ages, it mattered not; now, in my mid 70s, I tend to avoid inclement weather as much as possible. I figure I can always go tomorrow instead.

Shot my last USPSA match in the rain, there were about 50 other people who did to.
(of course it was sunny the day after.....)

For non match days if it looks like it's going to rain I just wait for better weather. (usually only a day or 2)
But come summer I can usually expect it to be hot 100+ 107-110 if it is a really hot day so I just deal with it, and any days it's over 110 I try not to leave the house!

I'll take just about any day on the range except when it's cold and windy. Even my shooting buddy has cancelled our plans for the past few weeks do to cold. And in Phoenix cold is around 50 degrees. I've been spoiled.

Now heat is another thing. If it's 115 I'm still going to the range just bringing lots of water.

Any weather will do for pistol and carbine practice, but wind puts me off my 300yd.+ work.