Traditions

Cass · Mar 5, 2004

Ok MM members it's time to let out some secrets.
I know some out there have traditions that they hold yearly. Whether it be after you have shot a buck, broke camp, got to camp, a special tree. Somthin
Mine are every time I kill a buck or my dad does we take a 1 dollar bill and hang it on a tree, a buck for a buck. Or when we break camp we take change outa our trucks / pockets and toss it on the ground around camp. Maybe some kid down the road will find them. Who knows.
Lets hear em guys.

-Cass

NvrEnuf · Mar 5, 2004

Those are some pretty neat traditions! I pretty much learned to hunt on my own so I didn't have anything like that passed along to me. I'll have to try to remember those for when my boy's are old enough to come along.

NvrEnuf

chinochief · Mar 5, 2004

LAST EDITED ON Mar-05-04 AT 01:27PM (MST)[p]COORS LIGHT!!!!(after the kill of course)

kingfish · Mar 5, 2004

I always say a prayer for the animal God has provided for me and also for thanks....

browtine · Mar 5, 2004

smoke a cigar...sit and relive the hunt until the real work begins

SoTX · Mar 5, 2004

On opening weekend of deer season I smoke three briskets and all the fixins. I feed everyone in camp. That evening we sit around the fire and pull a little on a bottle of Crown or Bookers.

After the kill a little prayer.

Every Thanksgiving weekend is spent with my oldest daughter deer hunting and living off left overs. When my youngest is old enough she will join us.

Cigars and whiskey that evening after a kill.

After a childs first kill, blood on their cheeks.

littlefoot · Mar 5, 2004

cass, where do you camp?

huntsonora · Mar 5, 2004

Cass,

Great post! As for me I just take a few minutes by myself to give thanks to the animal and enjoy the moment alone.

Drum

polarbear · Mar 5, 2004

I know that this is weird but I carry one of those tiny bottles of peppermint schnapps or permafrost in my pack. After a kill, I
open the critters mouth and pour in a little bit to give him a taste and then I down the rest. After I get it all packed out then it is 1 beer and 1 cigar before the trip home or back to camp. We also pack out the balls and riggin' to hang off of our hitch. They usually wind up in one of my buddies mail box.
Oh, and it is bad luck to get drunk the night before a hunt.
Eric

deerhuntr4885 · Mar 5, 2004

We cut the head off, strap it to the hood and drive all over town honking our horns with beer cans tied to the bumper....JUST KIDDING!!!

A beer or two after the kill and the tenderloins on the barbeque, shared with everyone there.

Mike Henne

Cass · Mar 7, 2004

It all depends on where i'm hunting. In utah We set up a base camp, Drive our quads to where we want to hunt and set up our garmins so everyone knows where everyone is. Once that is set up I will pack my day pack with an emergency night pack (Bivy pacK) Ive used it many times when Im too far back in to make it back before dark so I just sleep in a meadow or on some rocks. Doesn't bother me much.
In nevada, I pack a 6 day pack with propane, 1 fire camp stove, chilli, 1 metal fork, pocket knife, and some other essentials and I backpack in with my bow and a side arm. I stay for 5 days at a time with 1 day of emergency gear. I return on the 5th day and restock then heard back out. In nevada I normally take my 1 man tent and a blanket, It really doesn't get too cold here durin the summer.
I love sleepin outside, I live in vegas where I hardly get to see the stars, so when I hunt I enjoy everything god made for us.

-Cass

B_F_E · Mar 7, 2004

Yup, Cass I love enjoying all Gods creations as well, namely you at the moment. On your Utah hunts I know you can't be talking about that beloved Monroe Mountain of yours, since a location more than 2 miles away from a road doesn't exist there, are you sure you were not sleeping out in that grassy pasture as a punishment from your Dad ?.... just seems curious that no one looks for you when you unexpectedly don't show up at night..... hum... maybe you we're just on one of those vision quests ? do you carry peyote in that bivy pack of yours ? Is that a tradition as well, just wondering ?

WAmuleyHunter · Mar 7, 2004

Everytime i go hunting in the ride up i listen to Ted Nugents Spirit of the Wild and Bad Company 10 from 6. then after the kill lets say on a deer. Shake hands, hug. then say kind of a little prayer for the deer and kind of talk to my grandpa. And since i turned 21 have a couple on the way down the mountain.

Morty_Pass · Mar 7, 2004

Two days before turkey season opens me and a few buddies pass a 1/5th of wild turkey rare breed 108.4 proof around a small campfire until its going, going, gone! Now this tradition would be the night before turkey season if we could only wake up the next day. This tradition seems to bring lots of luck. Every year I have taken a gobbler opening morning. Turkey season is only about a week away.

MP

Buckrub · Mar 7, 2004

I have a couple of rituals that I routinely perform. I always give my arrow or cartidge a little kiss before I load it. I always say a small prayer of thanks to the "Great Spirit" after I make a kill and last but not least, when I gut a buck, I always tie his "package" high on a limb as a salute to the animal. I have seen the "dry-sack" hang for months!!! A couple "cold ones" to toast the success and it's time to repeat the process again !!!!!

TheKnack · Mar 9, 2004

When I down a deer I say a prayer thanking God for the animal.
After I gut out the deer I bury it's heart or whats left of it where the deer fell.
I have a Indian friend who once told me that it means a fawn will be born there next spring.
Who knows if it works or not but the thought was a good one to me so I have been doing it for years.
Best,
Jerry

Cass · Mar 9, 2004

There actually are a couple places I camp that are easily 2 miles from any road.
My father knows in the general direction I am in, and I know it's illegal to carry a firearm in Utah on a hunt but I carry one in my pack with no clip in it, and a half a box of bullets in my pack just for emergencies. I have been hunting on my own since I was about 17, I go on my own quite a bit. Sometimes I show up with a buck, sometimes I dont. Just the thrill of the hunt that keeps me going.

-Cass