By Mark Schram of Myfishingpartner.com
This past weekend, while hunting in subzero temperatures, I was fully prepared to battle the cold with disposable hand warmers. Like many hunters this past weekend, there was a mandatory stop at the local sports or department store stocking up on hand warmers before heading into the backwoods.
As the bitter morning carried on, my hands become disappointed with hand warmers which were producing almost no heat leaving my hands nearly numb by the time I stumbled through the woods. The rest of the hunting group had the same experience.
Most hand warmers are air activated, and must be manipulated before they activate. Using this thought, I experimented with placing the hand warmers in front of the truck’s defroster on the way to the ground blind on day two. I couldn’t believe the difference this made in heat output. It was like these had become supercharged. Even 8 hours later my hand warmers were still pumping out massive amounts of warmth.
Before the dusk hunt on day two, our entire hunting party opened their hand warmers and placed them near the forced air heater in the motel room before heading into the woods. Again, there was a huge difference including several people in total amazement of the difference.
It doesn’t take much to maximize the heat output of these pouches–maybe a couple of minutes at the most of free flowing air blown directly on to the product.
Give this trick a try next time you are in the woods or on the frozen lake. It will make that .99 cent investment feel like you spent at least $10.
