RE: Ritual after you kill first deer?
Rituals are whatever you want them to be.Some place blood on the new hunter's forehead and in Europe a green piece of spruce is placed in the hat band.It's more fun in one camp I hunted back East if you missed a deer they cut the bill off your cap and ragged you the rest of the season.I lost a long time hunting buddy when I was in my early 20's so I wore a black arm band opening day.When I shot a deer that morning I dipped the arm band in the blood in rememberance of him,said a few words and tied it to a tree limb at the kill site............I still think of him every timeI hunt or wield a gun......Harold