Alcohol during a hunt

[huntman933]

I don't drink anymore myself. When I did drink I would take a cold one to the stand with me. If I had people coming to my land to hunt I would ask them to save the drinking for after the evening hunt. To me that is part of winding down after a good days hunting(if you drink). Nothing wrong with that at all. It's the one bad apple that spoils it for everyone. The guy that doesn't know when to stop! We had one of those on my old lease. He got mad at everyone one night and came back the following week with a chain saw!! We had around 6 stands cut down. He was kicked off the place and we rebuilt stand!
This is a hard call for a land owner once you allow people to consume alcohol on your property. I think in the long run the land owner can be the one held liable if someone is killed or injuired!
If I owned the land people would only drink at night sitting around the camp fire.

[twperdue]

I dont drink all that much but we take a toddie to the stand every now and then. Even most drunks i know dont take booz to the stand. But drinking is allowed on our ranch. SAFETY IS THE NUMBER ONE PRIORITY. Our weapons are put away when we get back and no one brings them out in the evening. When we drop people off at the stand we wait until they get all the way in and help them get out. Drinking or not.

I've seen the Tarleton shirt, so I know you've practiced gun and beer safety at the same time.

Class of 91

[keystone]

I start drinking around noon and stop sometime around bed time,we all take coolers to the stand,my brother killed a 140 class P&Y last weekend ,15 yds. away ,drinking some cold keystone lights.land owner has no problem,matter of fact he comes by and asks wheres the beer,and we all have some.to me beer and deer go together---weekends are for relaxation and drinking cold ones!!!

[RobinHood]

Beer rhymes with deer- they just sound good together.

[Dale Moser]

I love beer....

[sitn_on_20s]

I depends how I feel. I won't take more then a 6 pack to the stand depending on how long the evening hunt is gonna be...I won't worry with it if I'm only hunting for 2-2 1/2 hours. Figure I could wait that long for a adult beverage.

[tuthdoc]

I wouldn't not hunt a place that allowed alcohol. On the Junco, there's beer in the middle of the day and hard stuff at night. Not by me. I don't drink. My brothers enjoy a beer or two. On our lease, we just don't allow any. We haven't for 15 years. Most of the guys enjoy beer, but it's much easier to just head off any problems by not allowing it. If I could get by with it, I'd outlaw dipping and chewing, but I'm outnumbered. I just have to hope I don't step in all the crappin' spit that they chum all over camp.

[cantexduck]

when I bird hunt I need all the aiming fluid I can get. I have taken "naps" a few times in the stand.

[DFWarcher]

Most places I've been including TPWD hunts don't allow it or at least discourage it, I have seen it usually result in trouble. If I were a landowner leasing out land I wouldn't allow it, I've been in too many deer camps were guys use hunting as an excuse to get wasted.

[Shane]

I don't mix hunting and alcohol at all. I hunt with my kids now, most of the time, so that's a no-brainer. But even before I had kids....never. I drank my lifetime supply of beer in college, so I haven't had any since then. Even when I was stupid and young I didn't mix alcohol and hunting. I was honest enough with myself to admit how easily the line between safe and STUPID can be crossed with even a beer or two.

Being out hunting and enjoying good friends and all the other deer camp experience is fun - even if you're sober, believe it or not.

I have had firearms go off unexpectedly due to my own carelessness, and I came VERY close to getting shot myself when my brother-in-law fired a shotgun accidentally 20 yards away from me. I felt wind on the back of my neck/head, but THANK GOD no pellets. All this happened without alcohol.

I witnessed a big group on a day lease dove hunt a few years ago where there had been some beers downed before the evening hunt. A dad had 2 sons and a cousin (or friend) with him. All 3 boys were 10-12 yrs old. He set them all up with loaded guns and plenty of ammo TOGETHER, and dear old dad went a few hundred yards across the field. My bro-in-law (the guy that nearly killed me a few years earlier - I made him take hunter's safety after that!) and I finally moved about 1/2 mile away, because we got sick of being peppered by all the thoughtless half-drunk idiots. About an hour later, we hear the most horrible screams. We ran over there and got there just as the landowner (a doctor) got to the kids. One of them got shot through the back at point blank range by one of the others while they were horsing around - SEVERAL HUNDRED YARDS AWAY FROM BUZZED DAD. The doc threw the kid in the back of the pickup while someone else drove. He kept the kid alive until they met an ambulance half way and then on to the hospital in Brownwood. The shot missed his heart and major arteries somehow - exit wound came out one of his nipples. After some major surgery that night, the kid made it. Dumb*** dad reportedly came in recovery and patted the kid and said something like, "Looks like you're doing fine. I'm going out to the lodge. See you in the morning."

I get mad every time I think about that again. Of course, not everyone that has a beer while hunting is a COMPLETE MORON like that guy was, but one beer too many can turn a person into a LOT more of a moron than they normally are.

I leave if I show up on a group hunt and beer is there. I don't show up on too many group hunts though, unless I'm confident that alcohol won't be there. As for lease rules, if drinking is a must, then no booze before sundown should be the rule everywhere, IMO. And all weapons should be unloaded and put away before the first beer is cracked open.

If I were leasing land or selling hunts to other people, I wouldn't allow it at all. If it meant I had a smaller market of potential customers, then so be it. It's not worth the risk, IMO.

[Miki]

Ok just so everyone knows the deer dont care if you pee out of the stand. They still come to the feeder.

[Tmag]

Moderation is the key!

[Txag96]

I personally try not to associate myself with "that guy" that goes way overboard drinking himself stupid and doing unsafe things. That being said I have been known to tie one on, and I mean tie one on good, but not when I have a gun in my hand. I am a safety freak around guns. I will even go as far to ask someone to put their gun on safe if it isn't and then tell them if I see it again. Once that round is fired, you can't call it back!!

[Stolle]

I'm like Moser. I love Beer!!!

Seriously moderation is the key!!!

[Hafernick]

I don't know what this talk about not drinking after the evening hunt is....I like waking up the next morning with a hangover, it makes for a good nap before the feeder goes off.

Now I am with everyone about firearms and alcohol not mixing but for me not drinking when I am at the lease, well I never not drank at the lease.

Now I will say when I go on a day lease hunt that is a different story, a few a night is the limit.