After the Hunt

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So do any of you have any traditions, or I guess habits for after the Hunt.
I know that after big game hunting, (If I got the animal) and quite often after duck hunting we have always had a few drinks over at a buddy's garage. Just sit around and rehash and rehash
from all different perspectives how the animal was seen, shot, dressed, etc etc etc:):):) It is just one story, and will be repeated a hundred times and then lead into other stories, and by about 930pm or 10pm we're all glowing pretty good, smellin like a mixture of sweat,booze,gunoil, gas, meat and guts, have told a thousand stories, about 400 lies, and at least 20 stories that have been told so many times, we may just as well put on a tape recording and sing along. After that we make our ways home,(refusing "just one more", which we didn't refuse 2 hours earlier when we tried to leave the first time) , tell the story another hundred times to anyone we meet and will listen on the way home,and then again to the wives and girlfiriends.
Finally, a good hot shower and pass out.

I haven't had this since I left Alberta and Newfoundland, but next week I'm puttin in a woodstove in my double detatched, and hoping to turn my garage into the afterhunt "storytellers den".

Not sure how insurance is gonna be about it though....
Ah well, worse case, there'll be a surcharge...well worth it!
 
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I usually quit chewing everyyear around december...then around 7am on October 1 annually, I shove a fresh plug in the back of my cheek to celebrate my first duck of the season. I guess that's sort of become my cheesy habit after the hunt.
 
I guess the one tradition I can count on when deer or moose hunting is that the inside tenderloins never make it outta camp....they are in the pan still squirmin' the night of the kill,with onions and green peppers.If i'm deer hunting from home...pretty much the same deal,tenderloins never last 24 hours from the time of death.
 
Yup sit around and tell stories (lies) about dogs, deer, bears, and guns and hash over hunting stories that you have heard a hundred times as well as putting back a few.
 
sealhunter said:
So do any of you have any traditions, or I guess habits for after the Hunt.
I know that after big game hunting, (If I got the animal) and quite often after duck hunting we have always had a few drinks over at a buddy's garage. Just sit around and rehash and rehash
from all different perspectives how the animal was seen, shot, dressed, etc etc etc:):):) It is just one story, and will be repeated a hundred times and then lead into other stories, and by about 930pm or 10pm we're all glowing pretty good, smellin like a mixture of sweat,booze,gunoil, gas, meat and guts, have told a thousand stories, about 400 lies, and at least 20 stories that have been told so many times, we may just as well put on a tape recording and sing along. After that we make our ways home,(refusing "just one more", which we didn't refuse 2 hours earlier when we tried to leave the first time) , tell the story another hundred times to anyone we meet and will listen on the way home,and then again to the wives and girlfiriends.
Finally, a good hot shower and pass out.

I haven't had this since I left Alberta and Newfoundland, but next week I'm puttin in a woodstove in my double detatched, and hoping to turn my garage into the afterhunt "storytellers den".

Not sure how insurance is gonna be about it though....
Ah well, worse case, there'll be a surcharge...well worth it!
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that's exactly what we do and always have and always will. it's now march and we're still talking about it there isn't a day goes by when i don't think back to last sept.1 to dec.31 duck,goose, deer , moose. oh well turkey opens april 25, but bring on sept. have a good one.
 
Usually all I ever seem to do. Is check Dumbdawg and Fogducker into a "DRUNKS" clinic! Nothing special. Just routine stuff.

Dave.
 
if its early and they havent closed for the winter my dad and i get a roast chicken sanwich, a empire cookie and a tea from the Chicken coop in greenbank. And we always used to play these two best of honky tonk CD s when i was a kid that still remind me of a saturday in october out with dad
 
For the short hunts (turkey, geese, etc...) that may only take a few hours we always have a couple pints on ice in somebody's truck and stand around cleaning game or telling stories when were done.

Big game hunts that last all day or all week we pretty much always have a few after we're done. If it was a good morning on an all day hunt, we sometimes might even call "done" at noon :D and sit around and chat.

On nights that all the guys are staying at the camp you can guarantee it will be a very late night with drinks and stories.

Ahhh... good times with good friends
 
Sealhunter, regarding the wood stove in the garage.
BC fire rules states it has to be elevated to 4 feet above the floor. That is because fumes from gasoline are heavy, and sink to floor level.
I put a modern wood burner in my well detached garage a few years ago. Insurance company had to have a picture of my steel platform four feet above the floor that held the stove. Of course, it required the proper chimney. Plus, there was a surcharge. Better make your stories good!
 
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