Originally Posted by
ronlaughlin
Drinking the blood from the heart of an elk/deer fresh killed is what a hunter should do??? I have never. Some i've hunted with, do.
Mixing the blood from a just killed critter with the hunter's blood; is that the right way??? I have done this many times, but never on purpose. It seemed i did the right thing whenever my blood mixed with elk blood, but i never tried on purpose. It seems right to share blood with the critter from which you took life, and to give thanks for the meat.
Myself, i don't know the answer, but it may be that a willingness to kill, should include a willingness to die.
Yea I too know some who have drank the blood of there first deer, as tough as I am I never have, but each time a new hunter takes a deer we always tell them they have to drink it, they refuse. Like I said I must have about a 80/20 mix of my blood and deer blood in me.
What I do when I harvest a deer is to take a stick from the ground near the deer and put it in his mouth, I heard this is what the Indians used to do to Honor the Animals life.
(BP)