Lowest range temperature you have entered a match?

Ha, Ha, in the early 70's I could not get enough of my smoke pole. Still can't, but it has mellowed some when it comes to cold! (LOL) A friend in rural NE had an acreage and hosted a fun shooting match for the local boys. Temperature was minus 13 below, but we shot anyway. It wasn't a very long match and after we all piled into his 1910 farm house for hot coco, thawing out with the warm parlor stove. Funny thing, though, earlier the previous summer I was a gettin mirage over my sights. That day, there was None. I still remember how easy the frozen patches went down. Crazy stuff a guy does when he is a kid.
How about your coldest day?
Flintlocklar

12-degrees in Vermont. While serving as a safety officer for 2-hours I observed 8 broken ramrods, 1 using spit patched loads and the other 7 using Bore ‘ramrod breakin’ Butter.

I had a metal-lined ramrod with me, due to the temps, that would fit any 50-cal or above caliber, if they had 10-32 accessories. I let more than a few use it, along with Track’s mink oil and they all salvaged their scores at that station.

Me thinks we made a few converts to TOW mink oil that day!

Back when I was a young Minnesootan shooting in the minus range was no big deal. I have since come to my senses and live in a more temperate climate and try to keep my shooting above 45.

I lived and hunted and shot in matches for 31 years in cold climate and snow country. Don't know how cold the coldest match was, but it was really uncomfortable. That is why I moved to southern Arizona when I retired. I only hunt in the cold now if I get an elk tag here. No competition when it's below about 70. I've surely turned into a wuss.

37* F

Well, I'm a native child of the Deep South and 40 degrees was always bone chilling cold to me. Now I live in a very cold state and as such, I'm having to adapt. If the wind's not blowing I may get out to the range and shoot if it's around 40 degrees. I'll hunt if it's a bit cooler; won't like it but will still do it.

Never did it below 20. I'm the guy with the luck I would shatter a stock due to playing with my guns when its zero out there. Just too nervous I guess.

60 is my lower limit. I have had severe hypo-hypothermia and my hands and feet go numb very quickly.

I shot the last members postal here in 19 degree weather. That was cold for an old guy.

Back before Green Mountain Rifle barrel were even being made, we had a very active muzzleloader club. We were going to have a target shoot and also hunt jack rabbits. It was all set for the next Saturday. I went to the rendezvous spot that Saturday. It was a little over 20 degrees. Two of us showed up, me and a marine sharp shooter. I had my custom made Hawken with a Green River barrel and he had a TC Hawken with the old regular barrel. We were both using round balls with crisco patches, however we did not have any trouble loading them. I took second place on that shoot and we had a lot of members.

not a match but i muzzleloader hunted on snow shoes at minus 20 below zero, got a doe right on the canadian border. also go a raccoon that day. you waddle like a duck but on snow shoes you can go anywheres.

I shot in one last month out near Frankfurt, KS. Truck had 10 degrees and the wind was pretty stiff... at least 15mph.
We were seriously thinking of pointing the truck back home, but saw that there were gonna be several shooters. We stayed and shot, but only shot through one time (we usually shoot both flint and percussion )..... just too cold to walk the course twice! My buddy used his .58 cap lock and I used my .54 flinter .

Good times!
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I shot a biathlon match in VT when the temps were in the single digits and the wind was blowing up to 30mph. It was bone chilling. My eyes were watering and the tears were freezing in my beard. I prepared for the cold by de-greasing my lock and using powdered graphite for lubrication. Also, I only use mink oil for lube on patches. I saw lots of broken ram rods that day by folks using other lubes. I also was swabbing with alcohol. I cheated and used a derlin ram rod that day, but don't think I really needed it, but better to be safe than sorry.
By the way, I finished 30th out of 120 shooters in my age category. Not one of my best showings, but I was glad to finish and get out of the wind.

-10 when I left for the shoot, was up to 15 when I got home about 2pm. Lot of bunny hunting at 0-20.

I find anything below 72 to be too cold and anything above 76 to be too hot. I don't do much shooting.

A match around +10F or so. That wasn't too bad. General shooting at the range, about -10F. At those colder temps, spit parches have a tendency to stick to the muzzle, so you have to get them down there pretty fast unless you want the muzzle glued shut!

As an interesting side note, we also shot some semi-auto milsurps that day, and they would not function in that cold.

Compete when it's warm, hunt when it's cold.
Do both while you can, it gets harder as you get old.

Carbon 6 said:

Compete when it's warm, hunt when it's cold.
Do both while you can, it gets harder as you get old.

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The ML Club I was in 20+ years ago had an annual "Hardwater Rendezvous" the first weekend of January just west of Onawa, Iowa. The most memorable one I attended had high temp of -10* and lows in the -20* range overnight, thankfully it wasn't windy. We did do some shoots but mostly we were standing around the HUGE bonfire trying to keep from looking like Hatchet Jack.