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All you need is to be shot by one of the "Just a couple beers at lunch crowd" to change your opinion on this.
Out there doing it best I can.
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How does the Scotch get to the cabin? If it is one of the two Walker Bros- Blackie and Red (with dues paid to George Thoroughgood) I expect it walks in all by itselfie!!
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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I am 100% against drinking ANY form of alcohol where firearms, C-4, Det Cord or frag grenades are involved in the daily op plan. Sorry lads, I'm an old Green Irish Mick, who loves his Guinness and Bushmills like a schoolboy loves his pie (Thank Mr. W.C. Handy for that tag line) BUT- there is a time and place for everything-apres le chassuer, Oui-- a French 75 or some VSOP Cognac is great, as Herr JagerMesiter mentioned so well- but before or during Der Jagt-- Verbotten wir nicht Verscheiden!!
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"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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While the general consensus around here is no serious drinking until the guns are cased, there is an exception made for dove shoots. Drinking beer at afternoon dove shoots is pretty much accepted.
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While the general consensus around here is no serious drinking until the guns are cased, there is an exception made for dove shoots. Drinking beer at afternoon dove shoots is pretty much accepted. Not here, and by here I mean that I've shot doves over a large hunk of Ga. and S.Carolina. In the past 54 seasons of chasing doves hard, and shooting with every class of folks from po' white trash to filthy rich plantation owners, I could count the number of fields where alcohol has been consumed, while shooting, on one hand. And it's not that the shooters won't imbibe at all. I could probably count the times that it wasn't broken out immediately after the shoot one one hand, too. No one has mentioned it, but there are other reasons besides safety to not drink while shooting. One, it is illegal. And two, it affects your shooting, for the worse. Anyone who doubts this is just fooling himself. I'd love to shoot against anybody that has had two or three beers, for their money. They'll be buying it on credit. I'll just stand behind their pickup and watch from a safe place until their through trying and put their gun up. Cold beer is not the way to handle extreme heat on an early season dove field. Cold water is. Maybe it is a regional thing.  SRH
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I know some heavy drinkers who are dove hunters, but I've never seen them drink before or doing a shoot. Afterwards, it's another story. I'd steer clear of a shoot where drinking while shooting is acceptable. I've never seen one..
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All you need is to be shot by one of the "Just a couple beers at lunch crowd" to change your opinion on this.
I've come closer to being shot by guys not drinking than by anyone at a driven shoot. Pretty strict safety measures on those, considering beaters are advancing in your direction. So lots of potential for people to get shot if you're not careful. "The peasants" having higher value these days than they did when it was strictly a sport for the upper classes, I expect the custom on drinking would have changed if it contributed to accidents. Our British contingent can certainly weigh in on the custom surrounding driven shooting.
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I said SHOT Larry, not imagine what it might be like to be shot.
All the fancy flag waving and whistle blowing on a driven shoot is a ritualized effort to keep people that have limited skills or have been drinking, from shooting the ground staff.
I guess you missed that on your shoot.
Out there doing it best I can.
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ninepointer,
That's a nice set. I hope you enjoy it. It's clear that you're not suggesting that it should be used to provide alcohol while hunting, but with regards to drinking and hunting it's just not worth it. The chance that you could stumble across a warden who would check you and could smell alcohol are just too high, and the possibility of losing your hunting license and/or your have your double confiscated just doesn't make it worth it. That being said, there's nothing wrong with having a few with dinner while at bird camp after a long day's hunt, or even a short one for that matter so long as you're done hunting for the day.
Now when it comes to ice fishing....
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While the general consensus around here is no serious drinking until the guns are cased, there is an exception made for dove shoots. Drinking beer at afternoon dove shoots is pretty much accepted. Not here, and by here I mean that I've shot doves over a large hunk of Ga. and S.Carolina. In the past 54 seasons of chasing doves hard, and shooting with every class of folks from po' white trash to filthy rich plantation owners, I could count the number of fields where alcohol has been consumed, while shooting, on one hand. And it's not that the shooters won't imbibe at all. I could probably count the times that it wasn't broken out immediately after the shoot one one hand, too. No one has mentioned it, but there are other reasons besides safety to not drink while shooting. One, it is illegal. And two, it affects your shooting, for the worse. Anyone who doubts this is just fooling himself. I'd love to shoot against anybody that has had two or three beers, for their money. They'll be buying it on credit. I'll just stand behind their pickup and watch from a safe place until their through trying and put their gun up. Cold beer is not the way to handle extreme heat on an early season dove field. Cold water is. Maybe it is a regional thing. SRH I'm not endorsing the practice, just reporting what I've seen. Anyone looking for beer in my cooler on a dove field will find only water and Gatorade. It's mostly the younger crowd drinking beer at a shoot. As long as I can put some distance between us, I can tolerate it, if by myself. Would not take my grandchild there.
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