#2 For the Year

  With our season winding down I been hunting almost everyday I don't work,so now I'm on vacation till Jan. 4th with 1 more buck tag to fill.

  I don't normally go out on windy days with a storm coming in , just don't ever see to much but we can't find them sitting on the couch.

  This 7 point came in just as I was about to get down,he would have been an 8 had he not broken an eye guard. He came into the field with the 18 mph wind at his back and my tree was a rockin'. He was pretty jittery I guess because of the wind so I didn't get to look at him for very long. I wish he had more mass but I'm still happy with him. He's 15 1/2" inside. He was Tikerized, with the 7mm-08  shooting 140 gr Sierra GK's,went about 40 yards with one through the lungs.

  Backstraps for tomarrow dinner.

Tikka;

Hoo boy!  You better not visit up here if we got a windy day goin'.  Eighteen mph is a gentle breeze. 

Casper Wyoming is the cast iron kite flyin' capitol of the world, but:  The highest speed surface winds recorded on the planet so far are at the mouth of Eldora canyon where the national weather service has a research station.  I do believe that the record, so far, is slightly over 200 mph.

900F

 Nice buck.

 The windiest spot in the U.S is Mt. Washington in New Hampshire, highest avg, and highest record speed. Having to work in this crap I have developed an interest. The averages change every year but Great Falls is generally in the top five if you're considering places with a decent population. I hate every minute of it 

 I do like hunting in high winds. It covers a lot of noise and I generally have good luck.

Way to go Tikka.

I sure wish we could hunt more than one buck.

Thats a nice one.

Randy

You guys don't know wind.  The highest wind speed ever measured on the  face of the earth was during the May 3rd 1999 tornado in Oklahoma City when the wind speed measured 318 mph before the anemometer broke.

Edited by OK hunter

OK hunter;

Alright, I'll grant you the highest speed, but it was an isolated event.  Not to say that Oklahoma doesn't have it's share of tornados, but we aren't talkin' an everyday event there.

However, the bumper stickers read:  Wyoming Wind Festival Jan 01 thru Dec 31.  And:  Casper Wyoming, cast iron kite flying capitol of the world.

I have seen, no B.S., breaking whitecap waves in my toilet bowl.

900F

Hivoltfl;

Nope, as I said, "no B.S.".  In that town, when they talk about the wind taking the roof off the house, they're not necessarily talkin' just the shingles.  It has been known for the whole roof structure, trusses & all, to depart company from the rest of the house.

There are wind socks on I-25 so's to warn the travelers when they're entering a wind zone. 

When the Wind River, and I'm not talkin' water, spills out around Riverton, it still flows to the southeast.  It then hits Casper Mtn. & boils.  The town sits at the base of the mountain.  Gusts over the sewer vent pipe caused alternate high & low pressure events in the pipe that made water level in the toilet bowl fluctuate to the point where there were breaking waves in the bowl. 

The ski lifts on Casper mountain have wind halo's on the poles so when the wind gets up, which it can do in a very big hurry, it doesn't slam a chair against the pole & spill the skiers off.  They have shut the lifts down because of the wind & the ski patrol has had to evacuate the skiers on it via emergency procedures involving what amounts to a bosun's chair & belaying lines.

It's said that it'll even blow the freckles off'n a fat girl!

 900F

I"ll pick up the BS flag, I have been to Casper one time, I do have a riding bud that lived there and up in Montana and to hear him talk about the chinook winds is pretty amazing even for a old Oklahoma boy.

My first evening in North Florida I was amazed at the lack of wind, 100 degrees, 100% humidity and not a breath of wind.

I am going back home when I can retire if they dont kick dirt in my face first.

Back to the topic, Great Deer Tikka, he is a wall hanger for sure,

Rick

Right before I left MT in spring 05, one of the MAF's out in the missile fields off the front range, had the roof taken off it by winds. The wind sensor only went to 99 mph, and it was pegged.