Break up the filling routine into morning and evening, don't try to fill all 9 feeders at one time especially by yourself. Just work steady if they all get filled at a slower pace and it take you longer you'll feel better be careful in that heat
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Last June...
Several of us went to the lease to fill feeders, etc. When I got there at 2 PM on Friday, the thermometer read 113. By the end of the day it said 116. We couldn't get the camp house to cool off lower than 86, but compared to 116 it felt like it was cold. It was miserably hot. Some of the guys went and jumped in the Pecos River. I got too hot to even do that. I took a cold shower and drank another Gatorade.
I had a bad case of heat exhaustion several years ago and I just can't seem to tolerate the heat like I used to.Comment
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Right after I graduated high school, I got drawn for a TPWD hog hunt at Colorado Bend in AUGUST. Just bought a brand new Mathews bow and was dying to try it out on some game. Well I get down there, and they give us this rudimentary pencil map that shows the main road and the river. Well basically they cut us loose at 3pm on a hot August day around 100 degrees, rock and cedar trees. Guy tells me the river is 2miles that way and I start walking(with no water - just my hunting equipment) to get setup for the evening. Well I come to a ravine and it's not the river and I'm already dying from the heat, so I decide I better get back to the truck, so I turn around. I walk for about 30 min and I come to another ravine and a fence.....and I panic. I'm starting to see stars at this point and breathing heavy. So I decided to lay under a cedar tree for awhile only to realize that the rocks have heated up to no telling how hot and this aint going to work, so I just start praying to God to get me back to the main road and use my Brand new Mathews bow to push through the brush. God saved me that day as I finally popped out on that main road and found my truck. My wallet may still rest on a rock at that first ravine where I pulled out the map and tried to figure out where I went wrong. Cranked the truck turned the AC way up and signed out at the gate and drove to the first Gas station and sucked down as much Gatorade as I could handle. Drove all the way home and laid in bed for a couple of days feeling like hell. Really could have gotten myself into trouble on that one. Young and dumb. And I've hunted successfully on public land ever since. Just had to learn a lesson the hard way.Comment
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