This cold weather & Pat Traps

Clubs are not turning on traps long enough to warm up the oil, you need at least a 30 minute warm up. We also have heaters in our trap houses. If not warmed up in this ZERO weather you take the chance of Blowing Seals

GB.............................DLS

 

We put 110vac battery blankets around the oil reservoir and have them on timers to come on a few hours before we shoot during the winter and it helps when we turn them on to finish warming up.

 

Swap out oil with brake fluid

 

We use a magnetic block heater that sticks right onto the oil reservoir. We leave it on because it uses very little current.

 

We don't shoot in the winter.

 

No shooting in Wis in the winter? You got to be kidding! That's the best time to shoot lots of shooting going on!

 

Not at Muscoda and there are a lot of others that close for the winter. They do have a big Quad county shoot that is a traveling type of thing with a big ending in the spring. Me, I just to old to handle the cold anymore.

 

Ken, After 30 years in Arizona anything under 90 deg. is cold. It's called letting the wimp factor set in. Roger C.

 

Roger sounds like me.

 

All I can ad-- the new year eve chicken shoot at Argyle Rod and Gun Club in Wisconsin-- 20 below wind chill-- Sigh up early-- the early Birds sure where sitting ducks, Ron

 

Hartford New year's day shoot had 104 shooters. And it wasn't a good day! We shoot all year round!

 

I'm just a wimp, to the COLD.

 

here i jersey we shoot all year, we turn the machines on and let them warm up about a half hr or more before we start shoot, another member suggested putting a block heater on the oil tank, but on the new pat traps the tanks are plastic

 

We just turn them on about a half hour before we shoot. They are good to 10below or so.