i think it was late 80’s but we had a bunch of angora goats and cattle freeze to death. had to take chain saw’s to water troughs until they completely turned to ice all way through.

same lease as TT, although I think its colder when no moisture and just blue bird blowing wind

The coldest hunts I have been on were in the 80's and 90's for the most part. I hunted in 83 when it was below freezing in South Texas for 7 days in Live Oak and Atascosa Counties. Below freezing for 5 days in CC. It was 9 degrees and stiff wind blowing either on Dec 23 or 24 for my morning hunt. Only thing I saw that morning was female bobcat with 4 kittens in tow. Next few days it improved for hunting when the sun came out. I hunted in the Hill Country in Kendall County in Dec of 89 when it was 10 degrees the first Sat in December and then 7 days later on the next Sat it was 0 degrees. Hardest thing was cleaning deer with all the cold temps...we took a 5 gallon bucket of hot water to dip our hands in at the cleaning shed. Ranch was new and not set up till the next year with a cleaning station at the barn. Also hunted in 96 IIRC at Jayton when it was 6 degrees when we left the truck in December...hunted on foot back then and found a lot of deer. Windchill was rough but still saw 38 deer that morning and 15-17 bucks. 2 where shooters just when they left the neighbors wheat and came on us I lost them behind a ridge. Found the last group of bucks and does in a red break on some winter grass that was out of the wind. One really wide 25" + or - mainframe 8 pt what had broken all but 2 tines off. Hunted mule deer in 2014 when it was 19 when I left the truck and hunted out of my Ranger. Saw 44 deer by 11 am and killed a buck....saw 14 bucks that morning. Not sure how cold it was when the sun came up but I was happy to see sunrise. I hunted here this deer season when we were 9 degrees two mornings in a row. Most of my hunting was in South Texas up until the mid 90's when I started hunting mule deer or central Texas to Panhandle.

Late 80s!!?? Wouldnt that of been child labor for you?

We used to WT hunt on the spouse's family place over Christmas when we were down.
One year had an ice storm about like what you're getting now, must have been in the early 90's maybe.
Couldn't go out and hunt because everything was coated in ice, couldn't even walk on the grassy areas.

We've had it so cold up here on a WT hunt near Lusk we shot our deer and left them out in the field to cool after gutting and they froze solid overnight.
Stood them up on their hooves to take pics the next morning.

Stay safe you all.

This was probably the second coldest and worst hunt. Wife’s first buck. Same lease in Hardeman Co. It was sleeting/raining all hunt. Couldn’t get a truck anywhere near the deer. That red clay was slicker than cow slobber and I fell too many times to count fraying to drag that damn deer to the road.




Only other hunt I can remember being miserable weather was around 2001 when we were duck hunting Lavon. We got to the spot at 3am, decoys tossed out, closed the blind on the boat, turned the heater on and went to sleep. Aluminum boat in frozen water got real cold real quick. Water around us froze and the boat was stuck in its spot until about noon when we could finally get the ice broke and motor started. It was a great hunt though.

What caliber is they weatherby chambered in ?

The coldest I've sat in the stand in was right around 0.
It was I believe 2010 and we had a lease south of Sonora. My son and I left the hotel in Sonora 1.5 hours before daybreak and it was 9 degrees. When we pulled in the gate of the ranch an hour before daybreak it was 5. I'm pretty sure it dropped at least 5 more degrees before sunup. I can say that when we got back to camp about 9:30am we had pealed a layer or two off and it actually felt pleasant and it was still 17 degrees when I started my truck. By the way, the boy was adamant we took the old CJ5 to the stand. It had only a bikini top on it. SOB!