Anyone else finding it just too ridiculously hot?

If the devil owned Florida, he'd rent out Hell and stay in Florida. Actually, Orlando is a lot hotter than coastal Florida. East coast gets the 84 degree sea breese after 11am and the west coast gets the 88 degree sea breese after 11am, Orlando and Gainsville swelter in the 95 degree calm all day. Coastal Florida is really cooler then most of the continental US during the dog-days of summer. Don't tell anyone or they'll all move here.

yep. be happy, I think you guys are at least getting rain, Here in Texas we havn't gotten to much and I believ we are close to setting a new drought record.

I hear you on that one. I have been able to shoot the HOLY BLACK once this summer. It is just to hot, I have been religated to shooting at an indoor range which does not allow BP so hear I am waiting for the cooler months to come.

Here in SC we are sweating bullets

Yeah, it's been unbearable this summer. It actually hit 90 three days in July here. And it was over 80 almost the whole month. Michigan sure is hot.

Hey down here in Dallas, Texas we are going on 36 days in a row at 100+.

It's been very hot here in northern NY state also. It has affected both my shooting and kayaking. I hate to see summer go but the humid, 90+ temps are not welcome here anymore.

Just as bad here in PA. Funny - I remember sitting here last winter saying, I can't wait until warmer weather, so I can go to the range again. Aw nuts!

Fewer than one third of folks living in Florida grew up here.

Not a bit hotter than it ever was. It is not TOO hot as the wife and I did some fence work in the middle of the afternoon last week and we are still married!

WHen I was a kid up in the pan handle airconditioning was somethng that the big stores had. One august when I was a pre teen the weather was getting into the 100s in the afternoon and I was working at my Grand dad's service station. On the north side of the building was a little strip of shade and sitting against the wall between the grease rack and the wash area I got a little bit of a breeze. Above me was a big co-coaler thermometer that was pushing the 100 mark. As I sat there with a cold soda water I watched for cars with liscense plates on the front. In the mid '60's that pretty much meant the car was from up north. WHen such a car would start to pull in I would while getting up to go pump gas, wash the windshield and offer to check the fluids and sweep out the front floor boards touch the cold base of my drink bottle to the bulb on the thermometer. Invariably the driver of the car would see the big thermometer while getting out to take a break and go look at it. I smilled to myself everytime I heard comments like "82 degrees? It must be the humidity."

Wasn't I a stinker?

-kBob

In NE Florida we have only three seasons.......January, February, and SUMMER!

It was 112° here yesterday and will be again today. We have 50 consecutive days over 100° and 75 days overall above 100.

I think today is supposed to be day 40 of 100+ degree weather here in Dallas. The news people say Friday will be day 42 which will tie our all time record, and then Saturday we will break it. It might be as "cool" as 100 on Monday/Tuesday though so we might not break that record by much.

Maybe there's the option to do some night shooting under some lights or using headlights?

There's a couple of clubs here that have light poles for night trap shooting. It's fun too because of how the orange clay birds reflect and glow when illuminated against the dark night background. But just having a set or two of headlights might be sufficient for revolver shooting at close range. Especially with today's headlights being so much brighter than the older vehicles had. Noise ordinances usually don't take effect until 10 p.m. anyway and extreme summer heat is not anything new.
Has anyone tried it?

NASA used to have a range in Kars park in Cocoa Fl. You got the ocean breeze in the morning and evening, a great place to shoot til they closed it because it was supposed to be leaching lead into the bay.

We have gotten our first rain in a WHILE over the last three days.

Everything has greened up already.

I lived outside Orlando for the first 32yrs of my life and don't miss it one stinkin' bit! It's not that it gets 'that' hot in Florida, it's that it is so humid and stays hot almost all year. There are no seasons. Thankfully, I had my last 80° Christmas five years ago. It's been really hot here this summer, one of the hottest I've had yet but at least we have seasons. It's generally pleasant through May, sometimes into June. We've had some 100° days but it's already started to cool a bit, down to around 90°. By October it'll be nice and I'll be ready for the woods.

Doesn't Fort Wprth Rifle and Pistol club have a lighted range? A friend from here in FLorida visited out there once as a guest speaker and she liked the facilities and I thought she said they had lights.

One summer up in Baha Georgia We got the use of a fullers earth mine and did some shooting under head lights. Also used it as an excuse to do some flashlight drills and to do some drills where one would use the flash light and another use a gun from different angles. Ended the evening shooting under a parachute flare. Lot of fun and much cooler that the day

-kBob

I about passed out in Vegas. I stumbled in front of Caesar's Palace hit the sidewalk. Headache, sweats, pure red and dry heaving. A good Samaritan stopped and said "You don't understand. There's no humidity." That was true, cause I also was also nursing a nose bleed.

It's an old joke but the 13% humidity does give me nose bleeds.

here in Sonoma, we have rain. in the winter months and even into the spring ones we have wet, soggy, powder moistening rain. then, we have spring where if you are allergic to pollen like me, you can't hold a gun straight. then in the summer we have heat. that's just fine when I'm shooting, except powder stick to you if you get any on you. not bad though, i can take tons of heat but i hate the cold. maybe talk to your range owner and see if you can come over at night to shoot, or better yet see if they will hold a night shoot! it would definitely be cooler and would attract tons of people.

for summer heat i like to use paper cartridges in my rifle. seems to help with shooting because you don't seem to fumble with stuff and get sweat all over everything. just tear off the end, remove the Minnie ball, prime the pan, pour your powder down and ram the bullet home. it's real easy.

Humidity here in Las Vegas is usually more like 4 to 5 percent ( not 13 ).


Lots of people who visit here get Nose Bleeds really fast.


Here in Town lately, been quite a few 114 + days.

Out at the Range which is well past the far West edge of Town, temps are likely in the 120s.


I was doing a Roofing 'demolition' Job last few days, removing old Hot-Mop Roll Roofing from a Commercial Building which had been damaged by Fire awhile back.

It was HOT up there on the old flat Roof!! Lol...you could feel it coming up through the thick soles of one's heavy Work Boots even, too hot to stand there long without your Feet getting really uncomfortable.

You can drink a Gallon and a Half of Liquids in a day, and, sweat out more than you took in...drink two Gallons, and come evening barely pee out a Teacup worth.

The Romance of the Mojave...is the 'Summer'...

It's been about 70 to 80 degrees for the last two months here. Sorry fellas!.

Oyeboten, I stand corrected. 4% humidity and getting a nose bleed makes me feel a little less wimpy.

The worst thing I ever saw was when they were putting a new flat tar roof on a 3 story building on campus. I (work for a Private University). It was close to a 100 degrees. You couldn't stand to be on the pavers in front of the building, let alone on the roof spreading hot tar.

Some white kid leaned over the edge and looked down. He had long stringy blonde hair tied around his head with a sweat soaked bandana. he was beat red. He looked like he was about to vaporize or at the very least, drop dead of heat stroke.

About that time, one of the very privileged students we have here yelled, "You should have gone to college!" That got a huge laugh. I couldn't help myself. I pushed the little SOB down a steep grassy hill that dropped off beyond the pavered path and walked away.

I never felt so embarrassed in my life. I've worked some wicked jobs in my life. I never went a day to high school and caused my parents no end of grief. The worst job I ever had was when I was 18 and my dad got me a job in a coal mine in a small town in Pennsylvania. I'm 6'6" and it was a 48" coal seam. I lasted long enough to get enough money to get my GED and for my first semester in college. My father was an educated man, a metallurgist that was at Oakridge during the second world war. If you know what they did there, you know what I'm talking about. He was a smart man that taught me a valuable lesson. Without being an *********.

My children have benefited by my wake up call. My oldest daughter is an MD and my youngest is a computer engineer working for the, well working for a part of the government that no one can talk about.

Ever since then, I've committed myself to getting high risk kids into some of the programs that lead to giving them different options.

Funny how just talking about the weather leads to memories.

By the way, they all think I'm nuts for shooting in general and B/P in particular. Somethings you just can't teach people.