Folks, please watch this heat!

[DeaconKC]

Went to shoot a match yesterday, was a little cooler than it had been for a few weeks, so I thought it would be okay. Got there, it was getting near 80 already but I had 2 bottles of Gatorade and another cold drink, so I figured I would be okay. Wrong! By the time we got to the last stage, it was in the mid 90s and I had finished my drinks. I'm the last shooter on the Last Stage. Got my guns to the Stage widows, we could stage our pistols on the counter if we wanted, and thankfully I did.]  put my hands on the counter per the instructions and my head started swimming! I told the TO to give me a second and it didn't ease up. He got another shooter to get me to a bench and two other guys got my guns and unloaded them for me. Got some more cold stuff down and was better after a bit.
Guys, please watch the temps and your own selves!

[Texas Maverick]

1 hour ago, DeaconKC said:

Went to shoot a match yesterday, was a little cooler than it had been for a few weeks, so I thought it would be okay. Got there, it was getting near 80 already but I had 2 bottles of Gatorade and another cold drink, so I figured I would be okay. Wrong! By the time we got to the last stage, it was in the mid 90s and I had finished my drinks. I'm the last shooter on the Last Stage. Got my guns to the Stage widows, we could stage our pistols on the counter if we wanted, and thankfully I did.]  put my hands on the counter per the instructions and my head started swimming! I told the TO to give me a second and it didn't ease up. He got another shooter to get me to a bench and two other guys got my guns and unloaded them for me. Got some more cold stuff down and was better after a bit.
Guys, please watch the temps and your own selves!

Very true, down here in Texas a lot of our shooters have made it a practice to drink a bottle of water per stage to stay hydrated. I hate water so either drink gatorade or put electrolytes in a bottle of water to give it some flavor.

 

TM

[Possum Skinner, SASS#60697]

Come on, boys! The way you're lollygaggin' around here with them picks and them shovels, you'd think it was a hundert an' twenty degree. Can't be more than a hundert an' fourteen.

[Lawdog Dago Dom]

Puts the good stuff back in your body without the metric ton of sugar in sports drinks.

[Rye Miles #13621]

4 hours ago, DeaconKC said:

Went to shoot a match yesterday, was a little cooler than it had been for a few weeks, so I thought it would be okay. Got there, it was getting near 80 already but I had 2 bottles of Gatorade and another cold drink, so I figured I would be okay. Wrong! By the time we got to the last stage, it was in the mid 90s and I had finished my drinks. I'm the last shooter on the Last Stage. Got my guns to the Stage widows, we could stage our pistols on the counter if we wanted, and thankfully I did.]  put my hands on the counter per the instructions and my head started swimming! I told the TO to give me a second and it didn't ease up. He got another shooter to get me to a bench and two other guys got my guns and unloaded them for me. Got some more cold stuff down and was better after a bit.
Guys, please watch the temps and your own selves!

Same thing happened to me a couple years ago but luckily we were done shooting and everyone was helping tear down the targets and pop up tents. I had to sit down my head was spinning and someone was asking me if I was okay and they sounded like they were in a tunnel!! I got a bottle of water and was okay in a few minutes.

[Imis Twohofon,SASS # 46646]

Wear a big hat, move slow, drink lots of water, look old. Works for me.

 

Imis

[Texas Jack Black]

16 hours ago, Texas Maverick said:

Very true, down here in Texas a lot of our shooters have made it a practice to drink a bottle of water per stage to stay hydrated. I hate water so either drink gatorade or put electrolytes in a bottle of water to give it some flavor.

 

TM

 Yes, stay hydrated BUT, water does not hydrate the human body It actually flushes out your electrolytes and minerals.

 Put a pinch of sea salt in your bottle the salt opens up your cells to allow the minerals to rehydrate them.

 

Best Wishes

PS  Non processed salt is not bad for you

[High Spade Mikey Wilson]

Glad you're okay. The last few weeks we've been in the mid '90's here with very high humidity. Most clubs are starting at 9:00 instead of 10, allowing casual cowboy dress (shorts, tee shirts, sneakers), and keeping it to 5 stages instead of 6. I was at a shoot yesterday, hot and humid, and we were done and cleaned up by noon. Stay safe pards....

[Chantry]

Something I learned in Basic training.  In the hot, humid weather we have now, if you don't have to urinate, you aren't drinking enough fluids.  If your urine is dark, you aren't drinking enough fluids. 

 

Water is good, Gatorade or it's equivalent is better.  Mix the water with the Gatorade if you don't like the taste of Gatorade

[Lawdog Dago Dom]

This is the ingredient list of the Jocko Hydrate drink I posted earlier. Very low in sugar and carbs.

[Go West]

I was a welder in Phoenix when it hit 122. That was 34 years ago, so no, I aint that guy anymore. The heat just saps whatever energy I got left.

[Texas Maverick]

21 hours ago, Lawdog Dago Dom said:

Puts the good stuff back in your body without the metric ton of sugar in sports drinks.

Just ordered some of the hydrate sticks and also the energy drink. Hope they taste good for over $60.

 

TM

[Sedalia Dave]

I used to love Gatoraid back when it wasn't chocked full of sugar.  Ever since they rebranded to G2 the amount of sugar quadrupled.

 

With all the sugar I can no longer drink it.

[MizPete]

Try Pedialyte.

[Three Foot Johnson]

Daytime highs in the upper 90's and low 100's for the past week, and the long range forecast says that's going to continue for at least another two weeks. Zero percent chance of rain and 10-12 mph winds every day for the foreseeable future.

I'm at the top end of a CRP field with prevailing winds coming right up the mountain to my house. If somebody a mile or two down below me lights off a fire, there really isn't much to do but throw whatever I can in a car/truck in five minutes, drive through the flame front, and call the insurance company with a live stream of my house going up. It will take the VFD probably, what, at least 15 minutes to respond even from just 3 1/2 miles away, and that's cutting it too close. It takes some extra time to get a 3000 gallon tender up that last mile and a half 6% grade.

It snowed here three weeks ago, and now there are 63 active wild fires across the state, the largest being over 13,000 acres now, and only 4 3/4 miles away, but it's got to cross the Missouri river to get to me, so I think I'm good... for the moment.

[Rip Snorter]

24 minutes ago, Three Foot Johnson said:

Daytime highs in the upper 90's and low 100's for the past week, and the long range forecast says that's going to continue for at least another two weeks. Zero percent chance of rain and 10-12 mph winds every day for the foreseeable future.

I'm at the top end of a CRP field with prevailing winds coming right up the mountain to my house. If somebody a mile or two down below me lights off a fire, there really isn't much to do but throw whatever I can in a car/truck in five minutes, drive through the flame front, and call the insurance company with a live stream of my house going up. It will take the VFD probably, what, at least 15 minutes to respond even from just 3 1/2 miles away, and that's cutting it too close. It takes some extra time to get a 3000 gallon tender up that last mile and a half 6% grade.

It snowed here three weeks ago, and now there are 63 active wild fires across the state, the largest being over 13,000 acres now, and only 4 3/4 miles away, but it's got to cross the Missouri river to get to me, so I think I'm good... for the moment.

Been there, done that - at one point triangulated with fires.   I mow 60 acres around the house.  Sympathy!

[Ashley D Austin]

Thank you for sharing this. I am amazed the layers of clothing some of our shooters wear when the temps are in the 90s then refuse to drink because they do not want to use a port-o-john women included!  This all leads to heat exhaustion and heat stroke which is a life threatening illness and a medical '911' emergency.  Please think safety first; wear light clothing preferably loose fitting cotton, drink plenty of water, wear a hat. If you begin to feel poorly it's ok to call it a day and to ask for assistance. For more info on heat related illnesses please read https://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/heatstress/heatrelillness.html

Don't be a fool stay cool!

 

[Texas Maverick]

12 hours ago, Three Foot Johnson said:

Daytime highs in the upper 90's and low 100's for the past week, and the long range forecast says that's going to continue for at least another two weeks. Zero percent chance of rain and 10-12 mph winds every day for the foreseeable future.

I'm at the top end of a CRP field with prevailing winds coming right up the mountain to my house. If somebody a mile or two down below me lights off a fire, there really isn't much to do but throw whatever I can in a car/truck in five minutes, drive through the flame front, and call the insurance company with a live stream of my house going up. It will take the VFD probably, what, at least 15 minutes to respond even from just 3 1/2 miles away, and that's cutting it too close. It takes some extra time to get a 3000 gallon tender up that last mile and a half 6% grade.

It snowed here three weeks ago, and now there are 63 active wild fires across the state, the largest being over 13,000 acres now, and only 4 3/4 miles away, but it's got to cross the Missouri river to get to me, so I think I'm good... for the moment.

Just stay safe. Your weather sounds more like it down here in Texas, not Montana, its just we have a LOT more humidity than you do.

 

Guess that global warming crap is real, NOT. LOL 

 

TM

[Hoss]

I drink a bottle of Gatorade before. Arch in the morning. Then a bottle of water per stage. Usually an electrolyte additive to one bottle. Also have electrolyte pills. 
 

if more than one person looks at you with concern and asks if you are ok you should probably really listen to them. Especially us “more experienced” (old!) shooters need to listen. Our judgment can be affected by the heat as well. We may not br capable of making a good decision on our own status. 
remember, it’s ok to just sit a stage out! 
 

[Ike the butcher Tuckerson]

This is a great product to add to your water for Electrolytes. Https://a.co/d/8cWbQ7H

Stay hydrated out there my friends!

[Eyesa Horg]

Ordered up a bottle to try!

[Three Foot Johnson]

3 hours ago, Texas Maverick said:

Just stay safe. Your weather sounds more like it down here in Texas, not Montana, its just we have a LOT more humidity than you do.

 

Guess that global warming crap is real, NOT. LOL 

 

TM

Folks think of Montana as being rugged snow capped mountains and endless lush green pine forests, when in fact about 3/4 of it is dry barren prairie.

The big "Horse Gulch" fire near me is holding at ~13,000 acres, 10% contained, no structures lost that I've heard, but an Air Tractor 802 "Fire Boss" was lost and its pilot killed last Wednesday on the second day of the fire when the plane crashed in the Missouri while refilling. 

The "Deadman" and "Anderson" fires in southeast Montana have merged into one large ~25,000 acre blaze as of this morning. There are four other smaller fires in the immediate vicinity (a few hundred yards to about 2 1/2 miles) totaling another ~7000 acres that could grow and merge with it in the coming hours or days.

[Texas Maverick]

30 minutes ago, Three Foot Johnson said:

Folks think of Montana as being rugged snow capped mountains and endless lush green pine forests, when in fact about 3/4 of it is dry barren prairie.

The big "Horse Gulch" fire near me is holding at ~13,000 acres, 10% contained, no structures lost that I've heard, but an Air Tractor 802 "Fire Boss" was lost and its pilot killed last Wednesday on the second day of the fire when the plane crashed in the Missouri while refilling. 

The "Deadman" and "Anderson" fires in southeast Montana have merged into one large ~25,000 acre blaze as of this morning. There are four other smaller fires in the immediate vicinity (a few hundred yards to about 2 1/2 miles) totaling another ~7000 acres that could grow and merge with it in the coming hours or days.

Prayers for all. Reminds me of when I lived in CO and all the fires that would burn for days and weeks. 

 

TM

[Chantry]

23 hours ago, Sedalia Dave said:

I used to love Gatoraid back when it wasn't chocked full of sugar.  Ever since they rebranded to G2 the amount of sugar quadrupled.

 

With all the sugar I can no longer drink it.

 

There is a Zero Suger version as well

[Mister Badly]

I drink zero sugar Gatorade and bring a fan.