BBBBBBBBBBBBBBRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[KDubs]

Not to outshine anyone but. -3 this am. Now 13* with heavy snow, calling for up to a foot +
 Oh and then freezing rain later. 
Bright side.. one day closer to spring. 🫠
Kevin

[Winter Hawk]

It's been snowing all day, temperature of 29*.  I should get the snow blower out and take care of the sidewalk, but I think I'll bake banana bread instead. 

~Kees~

[BEAVERMAN]

We're past the BBBBBBRRRRRRRRRR, 40F and rain, typical winter day in the PNW.

[Hank in WV]

Got mine and my neighbors snow taken care of with a broom. Only about 2 inches here.

[LongWalker]

Put 10 rounds through a Kibler Colonial at -10F.  A little stiff loading but no other problems (patch lube was neatsfoot oil).  Not the coldest I've shot a flintlock, but close--maybe the coldest rifle-shooting I've done with a flintlock.   

[KDubs]

You are a true mountain man. -10, forget that. My balls would shrink.
 My .530s I mean.
Kevin

[LongWalker]

I was dressed for the weather, and wanted to get some chronograph numbers in the cold.  FWIW, my MV dropped from a 10-shot average of 1920 fps at 92F to a 10-shot average of 1795 fps at -10F.  Would have played with some lower charges to get comparative numbers but the chronograph battery froze up. 

Winter is part of living.  Years ago I was at a rendezvous up in SoDak that got cold enough there was slush in the rum keg someone left outside the lodge.  That was cold.  More concerning is getting caught out in the open by sudden changes in weather. 

Winter of . . . '82 I think. . .I got caught by a blizzard while running my traps.  I was down in a little valley and heard the wind, looked up in time to see a wall of snow roll over the hills, and then I couldn't see 3'.  Because I was reasonably prepared (canvas ground cloth for setting traps, tin cup, a wool blanket, plus coat etc) I just holed up in a plum thicket til the snow stopped a couple days later. 

Good times, all. 

[Hank in WV]

Would have played with some lower charges to get comparative numbers but the chronograph battery froze up. 

Good times, all.

 didn't know Tesla made chronographs.

[Ohio Joe]

Would have played with some lower charges to get comparative numbers but the chronograph battery froze up. 

Good times, all.

 didn't know Tesla made chronographs.

Don't give Tesla any idea's Hank... 

Like Long Walker mentioned, this ol' Nebraska weather can change in a heart'beat... When ML Deer hunting in December, I'm not only hunting deer, I'm keeping and eye open for decent shelter if'n a snow storm should decide to come up... It's happened a few times, but that's Nebraska...

[LongWalker]

Winter of '84 I was a freshman college student at Chadron.  I was out running the hills a mile or two south of campus right before Thanksgiving when the blizzard hit, spent a day holed up in some cedar trees in a gully.  Plains weather is like that.