Drinking & Hunting
09-11-2008, 07:49 AM
#21
Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location:
Posts: 371
RE: Drinking & Hunting
ORIGINAL: virginiashadow
I RARELY drink the day before I hunt....if I was successful the day before, I might drink a couple of beers while I skin and butcher a deer. But other than that, I never drink hardcore the day before I hunt.
I RARELY drink the day before I hunt....if I was successful the day before, I might drink a couple of beers while I skin and butcher a deer. But other than that, I never drink hardcore the day before I hunt.
09-11-2008, 07:58 AM
#22
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: maine
Posts: 506
RE: Drinking & Hunting
I don't drink when I go hunting. When i used to play alot of golf I would play with alot of people who drank while playing and even claimed to play better a little tipsy. I always enjoyed golf to much to drink when I played, the same for hunting, i am enjoying myself to much to ruin the hunt with booze.IF you talked to me ten years ago you might get a different answer.
09-11-2008, 08:17 AM
#23
Fork Horn
Join Date: Nov 2007
Location: Laurel Highlands, PA
Posts: 130
RE: Drinking & Hunting
Around here rifle season is a whole different animal. Usually don't drink the night before, but that evening of the first day, while skinning the days kill, ha! Makes the second morning rough. But bow season, not so much. Not as many people bow hunt, so it doesn't have that vacation atmosphere. If someone close gets one with a bow we will enjoy a case afterwords.
09-11-2008, 08:22 AM
#24
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Phoenixville, PA USA
Posts: 5,541
RE: Drinking & Hunting
We get up to our camp a few days early so we can relax and have fun. The night before the opener it's all business. Maybe a beer or 2 to calm the nerves, but no heavy imbibing. It's been like that for as long as I can remember. Friday and Saturday are party nights, Sunday is for sleep.
Nothing worse than freezing your butt of in the stand with a pounding head and the squirts.[:'(]
Nothing worse than freezing your butt of in the stand with a pounding head and the squirts.[:'(]
09-11-2008, 09:23 AM
#25
Dominant Buck
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Ramsey , Indiana
Posts: 22,545
RE: Drinking & Hunting
I don't drink while hunting, sometimes have some the night before but I take precautionsto precludehangover. I've hunted with a hangover before, didn't care for the experience. [:'(]
09-11-2008, 10:05 AM
#26
Thread Starter
Join Date: Aug 2008
Location:
Posts: 166
RE: Drinking & Hunting
ORIGINAL: Ben / PA
I don't need to read any further downthe page to find something better to say than this. I agree to the letter. It's damn scary. I look forward to meeting you (again) this year Matt.
ORIGINAL: Rick James
It depends for me. I can drink w/ the best of them if in the right environment, but I'm not obsessed with it. I've grown up a lot over the last 5 years or so when it comes to that. I usually have company with me at camp, and if they are into it we may have some drinks, but if someone is not interested, I'm fine with that too. I'm one of those guys that is fortunate enough to be able to enjoy some drinks when it's appropriate, but can go for weeks without and be fine with that too.
It depends for me. I can drink w/ the best of them if in the right environment, but I'm not obsessed with it. I've grown up a lot over the last 5 years or so when it comes to that. I usually have company with me at camp, and if they are into it we may have some drinks, but if someone is not interested, I'm fine with that too. I'm one of those guys that is fortunate enough to be able to enjoy some drinks when it's appropriate, but can go for weeks without and be fine with that too.
09-11-2008, 11:10 AM
#28
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2005
Posts: 1,933
RE: Drinking & Hunting
Hunting everyday during the season is hard enough, I don't make it harder by drinking during the season. I won't touch a drop of alcohol during the hunting season unless I kill a buck, then it's time to celebrate!
09-11-2008, 02:18 PM
#29
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Ohio
Posts: 7,876
RE: Drinking & Hunting
I'm one Irishman that if I didn't drink you guys wouldn't have a shot at one decent deer. They'd all be hanging on my wood shed so be thankfulI do now and agin.
"God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world!"
"God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world!"
09-11-2008, 04:16 PM
#30
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Central Wisconsin
Posts: 2,141
RE: Drinking & Hunting
the folks I hunt with during gun season tend to get into the drinkin a lot, but they dont ever leave the shack especially with a loaded gun. they are smart that way, but if they gotta do some hunting its sobriety at its best.