Coldest temps you have hunted?

[Killdeer]

That's a far cry from "sunny Italy"!
I have camped and hunted to -15F, heard the trees popping in the cold, overnight. I still hunt until I get tired, or find a windless nook in the sun. I have gotten a bit hypothermic in milder temps, in a tree during a snowstorm, and felt lucky to get down in one piece. I stay on the ground these days. My clothing is a little better now than it was, for which I am grateful.

In camp, I split firewood to keep from sitting inside and burning my finite supply of propane. Stored water had to be thawed before using it to cook or drink, and food was kept in coolers to help keep it from freezing. I would not give up that experience for the world on a platter, but I think very carefully about exposing myself to those discomforts and hardships again. There is something to be said for a "comfortable old age".

Killdeer

[centaur]

I remember (not fondly) hunting elk in late season in western Wyoming where it was probably 20 below with about a 30mph wind. It wasn't fun, and I didn't last long.
Not as cold, but I have been snowed in twice in a basin where we used to base from for elk in September. Woke one morning to three feet ( I am not exaggerating) of fresh snow that socked us in for a week, and this was the 17th of September. We couldn't move, we watched as the elk left the country, and we ran out of beer. It was brutal.

[jomama]

cold enough for my mustache to grow a 4 " icicle on it.

[Steve H.]

Muskox at minus 30/35.

[Morning Star]

The last few days have probably been the coldest temps I've stand hunted.  It was -4 when I got back to the truck last night.  Not sure what the wind chill would have been.

When I took off my wool sweaters they looked like they'd been snowed on.  The sweat I worked up on the walk in froze in the wool as it evaporated.  Stayed warm though.

Military Mickey Mouse boots are priceless in this weather.

[dnovo]

About ten years ago, abuddy and me headed to north MO for a late Dec hunt. We were camping in a tent and that night and the nextmorning the wind chill was -50. The farmer came by and threatened to call the guys in white suits to come take us away. The next morning it was clear, no wind and 0 degrees. I sat a stand for over 4 hrs. We thought that day was a heat wave after the first morning.

[awishanew]

A few years ago we were tree stand hunting whitetails and it was -33 deg.C. It froze the diesel in my truck. We can stay out for about 3 hrs.

[LeeBishop]

It's not cold to most people, but here in Arkansas it was.

The coldest I hunted in was around 5 degrees.  I was riding across the farm on my ATV and I could feel my eyelids wanting to freeze together everytime I blinked and water from the creek froze on my pants almost instantly.  

It felt like I was walking around with cardboard thermal pants since they froze up.

[hayslope]

Originally posted by Steve H.:
Muskox at minus 30/35.

Ya HAVE to want a fine mount and some qiviut to tolerate those temps!!!!!

[rock_hunter]

I just went out coyote hunting this morning, it was -22 when I left my truck.  I've stand hunted in -16 in the past.  If you want to recreate in the winter in ND you have to deal with cold.

[joevan125]

22 below 10 hours a day and i killed out on the 6th day. This was a Canadan hunt and was my 3rd year to go.

Im going to hunt the states for the next few years because that was some tuff hunting.

[Holm-Made]

Yesterday was the coldest for me.  It was an HONEST -36 in the morning and the high for the day was -15.  That's actual temperature not wind chill.  We made pushes all day so we weren't in a tree.  The longest the posters had to stand was 30 minutes.  It was a great day to be out and we killed two deer.  Chad

Taken 15 minutes after we got out of the truck.
 

Buddies deer.

 

Mine