Happy place

[rodwha]

My happy place is arguing over next year's budget lines at work and wishing I could smoke there. Oh, wait, that's my unhappy place. My happy place is having a cigar in the Shenandoah mountains with a rifle at my side while I'm pretending to hunt

Do you actually smoke a cigar while hunting? I'd be concerned it would ruin my odds, though where I hunt in TX they are so thick I could easily limit out (5) in a weekend if I wanted to do that much work (and call it quits).

[Bruck]

Do you actually smoke a cigar while hunting? I'd be concerned it would ruin my odds, though where I hunt in TX they are so thick I could easily limit out (5) in a weekend if I wanted to do that much work (and call it quits).

Once I've determined that there are no deer around, then yes, I'll fire one up. We hunt on public lands mainly, where (1) there are no deer, and (2) the few that are there get spooked by the other hunters. We refer to it as "armed hiking."

[rodwha]

Once I've determined that there are no deer around, then yes, I'll fire one up. We hunt on public lands mainly, where (1) there are no deer, and (2) the few that are there get spooked by the other hunters. We refer to it as "armed hiking."

Well damn! I'll accept armed hiking with a cigar.

Do you still hunt there? That's mostly how things work here, but if I know the lease is nearly empty and people go back to camp for lunch I begin to stalk.

And at this time I was a heavy smoker. I think I somehow resisted considering I was a chain smoker.

[droy1958]

Do you actually smoke a cigar while hunting? I'd be concerned it would ruin my odds, though where I hunt in TX they are so thick I could easily limit out (5) in a weekend if I wanted to do that much work (and call it quits).

I can get away with deer hunting when there's a North wind at the farm....I don't care if it limits my odds as there's always next weekend....