Fishermen or hunters: do you drink a few beers?

[babylonsister]

I remember a few when hanging out on a boat 'fishing', but this girl don't hunt!
Apparently, many hunters drink, per Franken and Scarborough. Just askin'...

[TomInTib]

1. Hell, yeah. And don't you just love watching Joe when you know..

about his little "situation"?

[babylonsister]

7. Can you enlighten me about his situation?

I've read about a girl who died while employed by him, but that's all I know.

[TomInTib]

19. Oh, sister....

There was so much about this back then.

He had this assistant (Lori somone?) who was found dead in his office of a head wound.

All kinds of shaky stuff.

You could probably do some kind of advanced search on DU.

A bizzare story.

Oh yeah, Joe resigned right after it happened.

[tnlefty]

20. Is it Klaustis?

I'll see if I can find it.

[tnlefty]

21. My bad, it's Klausutis and I found a link to old american centry that I

haven't read before and I think I'll go and do that. www.oldamericancentury.org/lori_klausutis.htm

[TomInTib]

22. Klausitis, I think.

[newscott]

2. One of my favorite common hunting injuries

is when the hunter falls asleep in his tree blind, drops his gun and gets shot when it hits the ground. I've heard it's quite common.

[Uben]

3. Hey

I'm takin the fifth on this one!

[tularetom]

4. Never - not a saint but

I'm usually in the field at sunup and done by noon. Beer can wait until the afternoon. I don't get out as much as I used to because (1) I'm gettin old and (2) property owners are posting more and more ranches in this area and there aren't as many places to hunt.

[Uben]

13. I haven't hunted in years

Growing up, my grandfather had a 500 acre ranch that had deer, quail, dove, turkey, and about every other animal indigenous to north Texas. I was hunting by age 10. He sold the land before he died in 1992, and I haven't done much hunting since. I never had to lease because everything you could want was there. But, I know what you mean about places being posted now. Fences used to be but a small obstacle. I knew all the landowners, and had permission to hunt anytime I wanted. Mostly all I did was walk the creeks. We robbed a few bee trees, and hunted rattlesnakes for a few years, and even trapped for a couple of years. Quite an experience for a young Texas boy. I am 50 now. Broke a leg this year in a freak accident, and don't know if I will ever be able to do that again. I still know the land owner who bought the property and have permission to walk it anytime I want, but it doesn't have quite the appeal it used to.

[babylonsister]

23. Thanks for your recounting of your memories!

Very cool, and to me it sounds as if your memories are fond, which is all any of us can hope for!

[Klukie]

5. From my experience the two go hand in hand.

I dated a guy in high school who belonged to a hunting camp and let me tell you they drank until they were shit faced. I don't think that they took alcohol with them when they went out at 4 or 5 a.m. to hunt deer but what difference does that make when they drank until 3 a.m. the night before.

[babylonsister]

9. Klukie, your backhanded argument makes perfect sense!

After a great day of hunting, which might end at 2-3pm, they start partying and usually don't know when to stop.
Hmmm, sounds like a fisherman (recreational only!). :hi:
And welcome to DU!

[EstimatedProphet]

6. I don't drink while hunting, no. That's idiotic.

[uppityperson]

8. Only after we were done, hunted with vietnam vets/alcholics.

Only after we were done. Never during. And these Nam vets were hard core drinkers.

[Ksec]

10. No, I dont. Never have.

I was always a responsible hunter and took gun safety seriously. Now dont get me wrong, Im not pretending to be MrPerfect, I was always a crazy fucker growing up but when it came to shit that could get people killed I didnt play. Same way with riding motorcycles. Never drank when I rode.

[mandyky]

11. Never been bird hunting

I would not drink and then handle a weapon, but some deer hunters do. Fishing from the bank we always drank a 6 pack or so. Fishing from a boat would depend for me, whether I felt confident about the boat and other people with me. Fishing from a canoe, no because balance can be tricky.

[mtnsnake]

12. Some of the guys that I know who go to "hunting camp" on the weekends

go to get away from home, get loaded to the gills, play cards, and rarely step into the woods!

I've also got some buddies who take it very seriously and might or might not have the occasional beer, but they don't get plastered if they plan on actually doing some serious hunting.

[dogman]

14. Fishing yes, hunting no.

But then I've never shot anyone while hunting game or been shot either.

[karlrschneider]

15. We would never go fishing without a cooler of beer. Hunting is a bit dif-

ferent because it depends on what we're hunting. Deer hunting involves getting up before dawn so no drinking at that hour...but most bird hunters
(except waterfowl) do it later in the day and a nip or seven is common.

[Maddy McCall]

Fishing, yes. Hunting, no.

I've hunted rabbits many times with my dad and his friends. Ten or 12 men, and I as a young teen, hitting the fields. Never saw anyone drink before hunting. (I'm a native Texan, living in Mississippi now, so all of these claims that it's a Texas thang just don't hold water.)

My dad doesn't drink, but most of the guys who hunted with him do. They NEVER drank while hunting, but at the end of the season, when they got together to cook the rabbits (with biscuits and gravy), they often drank quite a bit.

I've got many hunting friends today. They would be appalled if anyone showed up for a hunt while drinking. Yeah, they drink at night AFTER the hunt, but never before.

Fishing--yeah, I love to have a few beers while fishing. It's damned near impossible to kill another fisher, so I don't see the risk in that situation (unless you're fishing from a boat, and the boat operator is drinking).

[Uben]

18. You're right!

It's damn near impossible to kill a fellow fisherman, but I have had three hooks surgically removed from my scalp! Fortunately, there aren't many nerves in the scalp!

[tsuki]

16. No, not. Husband's hunting group has one rule, drink, no hunt.

And they have a former 6'3" Marine to enforce the rules.

[Wilber_Stool]

17. Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day

Teach a man to fish and he'll spend the rest of his life in a boat drinking beer.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

24. Fishing yes. I don't hunt, but I do shoot. No shooting & drinks.

I don't see the problem with drinking while fishing, especially if I'm not the one in charge of the boat that day. I will not take a gun into my hands with any amount of alcohol in me.

Like on my Hawaii trip...

...learned how to snorkel in the ocean while drinking. It turned out okay. I was also with an extremely experienced diver. I had probably three or four beers that day, but spread out over a few hours and I'm Irish.

...my stepsister & I turned the Marlin charterboat into a booze cruise. We hadn't had a single hit the entire day. We get back to the docks and the boat next to ours got a 950lb. Marlin. Holy shit that was the biggest fish I have ever seen in my life.

...I backed out of the 38 mile bike ride down the volcano. The van picks you up at 2am. We were all drinking rather heavily until about midnight. I get up there and...I feel like crap, the bike they gave me was too big for me, the brakes were shoddy, and they start out by telling you about the people that died by falling off the 1000ft+ cliffs that would be three feet to the right of me...without a guard rail and on a really twisty road. I went to the 2 mile marker and decided that riding in the van would be nice. I still got awesome pictures and the complimentary pancake breakfast at the bottom.