Is it ever too cold for you to go shooting?

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I must be getting old........

Last time I went shooting in the late 20's (degrees), my fingers were too cold to work the hardware. It's getting really tough to hunt in the cold.
 
Several years ago, a buddy & I snuck out of our respective homes, packed up our new pistols and went out to the local mtns to break them in. When he left it was cold & dry, during the drive, it started to get cloudy, then started to drizzle. By the time we got to the range, it was cold & wet but we set up anyway. Just a few rounds later, it was snowing....but the time we emptied our mags, it was time to go home.
Is it ever too cold...YES. I like having fun when I shoot & if there is a nice warm indoor range waiting for me vs. a cold & wet out door one??? I'll go warm & dry every time :D
 
If I have bought a new gun I will go out and pop a few "function test" rounds off no matter what the temperature is.

If Im going out to spend time shooting its got to be in the high 40s to low 50s.
 
crazy people... I won't go out shooting, or for any reason really, if it's below 40. except for this week when we had our rare three days of snow/sleet/freezing rain here in austin texas.
 
It doesn't really got much below 20 degrees here and I can handle that fairly well, when dressed for it. Cold doesn't really bother me much. Now in the summer when it gets in the 90s and higher I really have a problem with the heat and the mosquitos and nastiness. Of course I also like going out camping in the winter too and its the best time in my area to go telescoping with less polution in the air.
 
It's 13* outside right now, and Utah is in the grip of a record-breaking cold-snap.

I'm not the hardy Michigan boy I used to be. Several years spent in hot places (from the Middle East to Mississippi) have ruined my tolerance for the cold.

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Nope I got used to working outside in -15/-30 (rimfires fail at that temp BTW :uhoh: ) temps when I still lived up north. Back then nothing was more fun than standing on the shore and cutting a few holes in a iced over lake with all sorts of guns and loads :D . Back home here in Illinois 20 to 30 degree temps feel like spring all winter long. Plus if I need to warm up my hands I can just take off my gloves and dump a quick 30 rounds out of my AK. Those wood handguards do heat up in a hurry.
 
I've been out in about -30 F to do some plinking at an old junk car and other scrap metal trash. My buddy and I had a van with the motor running nearby for warmups in between. Yes, it was fun, but not that much fun.

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Manedwolf is right...it might be a bit 'crispy' for you, but the various Mosin-Nagant models should be right at home.

There was a thread a few days back (maybe in the rifle forum) from someone stating that he thought his M-44 shot better in the snow...:D :D :D :D
 
Ten days ago I was shooting, but it's been well below zero the last three mornings. When I was younger I'd shoot on nasty days, but as I've grown older I've changed my opinion on what's shooting weather. Recent snow has blocked the road to my bench and it doesn't get plowed in the Winter...Essex
 
It is never to cold to go to the range. I figure if I can keep all of my shots from my M38 mosin nagant on the paper at 200 yards in a sub zero snow storm, then I can feel confident taking that shot in almost any condition.
I went shooting on Monday, MLK Day, in upstate NY, weather was in the mid teens, freezing rain and snow. I had the whole place to myself:evil:

In the winter months, I just dress in layers, make sure I put my woolen watch hat over my ear protection, and then I go to "work". I shoot every saturday, have for the last 3 years, I have only missed 4 shooting days: once 3 years ago to get married and the next Saturday I was on our honeymoon, once two years ago because I got all 4 of my impacted wisdom teeth removed and I was on vicodin (pharmacutical narcotic), and once last year when my daughter was born.
 
I don't think so. This last weekend some friends and I went up to Ely, MN. for a weekend at an isolated cabin. Walk in or ATV only. Got up there Friday night and made our way to the cabin. Temp. 24 below zero. Got up the next day and put in about one hour of shooting various handguns, shotguns, hunting rifles and an AR. Temp during range time -15F. Got up Sunday and did some more shooting. Thank God it had warmed up to -8F. I was thankful the sun was shining
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You lie on the paperwork about being mental? Noone in their right mind voluntairly gets out of bed into that kind of weather. Give me my bed a few extra blankets and my girlfriend when its that cold the guns can sit where they are they don't like the cold that much either :neener:
 
Here in the AZ desert, it is currently too cold for *me* to go shooting, but only because I know it'll be warm enough sometime next week or so. If we had *constant* cold, like you fellas in the north, I'd make time no matter how cold. Our problem is July-September, when it is too durn HOT to go shooting.
 
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Here in SE MN is much warmer than, say, Ely. I live in the Mississippi River valley, but my local range is on top of the ridge and can be quite windy. I tend to go up a lot less depending on winter weather, and in the winter I shoot more long gun, less pistol. Still, I have gone on in some nasty weather. I have gear for pretty much any weather, including heavy stuff I can literally sleep in outdoors at -20.

My Dad passed away five years ago. He was a WWII veteran with the 101st, including Bastogne. One Christmas in the 90s Dad, several of my shooting buddies and I went up to the range on a very windy Christmas Day for a "Bastogne Memorial Shoot". It was in the teens below zero, blowing snow, and we ran around in the snow for quite a while. It was the first time my dad had shot my AR and he found that he liked it, despite having read negative comments and reports. I remember that he commented that he would have enjoyed Bastogne more if he had our modern cold weather gear and an AR (he carried a Thompson). ;)

We finished the day by building a nice fire at my house and watching the 1949 classic Battleground, about a squad of the 101st at Bastogne.
 
I don't shoot much in really cold weather. I live in MN and don't shoot much in the winter.
 
I switch to a different grease on my SVT-40, but I've gone shooting with it when it's thirty below. POI gets screwy unless you keep the cartridges warm before shooting, but the barrel never overheats...
 
Well, coldest I've been out in has been 10-15F. I think that might be my limit. But with a Mosin Nagant, shooting in that kind of weather is MANDATORY!

Just go out prepared and bundled up:
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I'm not a fan

I'm not a fan of single-digit weather.

We have some single-digit and low-double-digit stuff happening right now, and my joints take the fun out of it.

If I HAD to shoot in the cold as a matter of survival, maybe okay. You do what you have to do.

The whole "standing in the open under a tin roof awning in 20-degree weather while the wind in your face over the berm subtracts another 15 degrees" just doesn't have the FUN aspect.

The last time I tried that I caught a bloomin' cold.

I'll wait a few weeks.
 
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