My cousin's "opening" day tradition is about the best I have been able to experience. He and a rather large group of family (brothers, uncles, aunts, nephews, nieces, etc.) as well as a few close family friends have hunted together about 100 years on the same 1800 +/- acres of family and friend's land. About 15 folks total. My cousin started hunting with his now deceased dad in about 1954-55. The tradition was in place then. Evening before the opening day, the ebntire group gets together thier camp and has a "squirrel supper" ... home meade cakes & pies, fried fish that were caught the previous spring/summer, fried squirrels that had been killed during the past 3-4 weeks, about any vegetable you can imagine, etc. It's a big time for sure. This past recent opener had about 30 folks at the supper.