Trad shooters and pipe smokers

[wollelybugger]

I like to mix Captain Black vanilla with Captain Black Cherry, makes a nice smoke. I like a pipe full but really enjoy a Rockey Patel cigar. Get a box a month in the mail.

[Gila Mike]

I have many pipes but only smoke when out in the wilds ... camping and hunting or fishing. When I was young, I smoked all the "nice smelling" tobaccos like Sail and Amphora but gradually moved to Dunhill blends and have used nothing else for the last 25 or 30 years. My favorite is Early Morning Pipe.

Mike

[Michigan Mark]

I used to mix Black Cavendish and Burley nice flavor and mellow very little tongue bite. You guys making me miss it, this November 3 years without a bowl.

[False Cast]

I love a nice english. I've never had a pipe out bowhunting but I have plenty of times in the duck blind. McClelland's 5100 straight VA with a year in the cellar is tops if you don't let it overheat!

[pintail_drake2004]

Been smoking a pipe since I was in High School (always the legal stuff). The off the shelf blends never really did it for me...although when I run out, borkum riff black cherry would have to suffice. There is a place back home that will ship tobacco anywhere and they have a nice variety of blends. PM me for their info (dont want to get yelled at for posting it here) I'll even give ya a list of the tobacco I've used of theirs.

[Cyclic-Rivers]

I don't know about flavor, I just smoke to look cool.   :confused:    

[bruinman]

Interesting observation. Most of the trad shooters I knew as a kid also smoked a pipe. I did myself for a long time.

[Jerry Bellmyer]

yeah in the Bowhunters Den book there are some cool old pictures of trad bowhunters smoking a pipe.... the best one was Grover Gouthier

[wooddamon1]

Puff 'em if ya got 'em!    

[Ron LaClair]

In our Shrew Haven deer camp the pipes and a couple cigars come out after supper to be enjoyed along with a glass of scotch or bourbon. A couple of the guys leave their pipes right in camp because that's the only time that they smoke.

I started smoking corn cob pipes loaded with corn silk when I was a young lad. Next came Yellow Bowl pipes loaded with Prince Albert. Then later when I became a little more sophisticated I smoked KayWoodie pipes and Mixture 79 tobacco.

Now I only smoke a pipe during hunting season and especially around a campfire. I get my favorite blend from a tobacco shop that I've been buying from since the early 1960's

Here's a picture of me from those younger days with my pipe.

         

Below is a picture of Ernest Hemmingway who was an avid pipe smoker, without his pipe ....notice the resemblance?..         :rolleyes:       ...         :D          

       

[gregg dudley]

No.      

To tell the truth, I thought the first picture was Hemingway at first glance.

[adkmountainken]

[Ron LaClair]

Something  for pipe smokers to read

 http://www.pbgeorge.com/page100.html

[deaddoc4444]

ME TOO !!!    I keep my   pipes at my   hunting camp in Upper PA .  I only smoke any more when hunting or    at Denton Hill in the summer.    
    I'll try to find some old pics  
       Special Whiskey blend  that a local Tobacconist carries !     YUM

[beaver#1]

Erinmore mixture is one of my favorites. Never tried the dunhill stuff. Some of it gets pricy for an everyday pipe smoker

[Jerry Bellmyer]

from your above article Mr. LaClairPipe... smokers are generally viewed as thoughtful, reliable and relaxed

Think of all the pipe smokers who lived to be in their 90'a.... President Reagan, President Ford to name a few....stress release

[RecurveRookie]

Great pics guys.  Hey, dumb question here, but would pipe smoke spook deer or hogs?  I haven't thought of smoking while sitting in the blind, but if I could...... extra fun!!  I'm gonna be upwind anyway, right?  I do not mean to hijack, disregard if inappropriate.  Thanks

Now really, pipe smokers relaxed and reliable?  I have had one time that someone picked on me for my pipe smoking, a young punk with a paint ball gun, by a local fishing sand pit.  He first mocked me and then in jest shot at me with his paint ball gun and hit a five year old boy that was fishing with his dad. He did not see my sling shot, but his declaration of being a minor was of no use to him. I proved to him three times that I did not care how old he was.  Paint ball hits are painful,especially to a little boy, but sling shot hits puts a mouthy punk on the ground, funny thing was he had three buddies that knew better than to help him, even after I stomped his paint ball gun to pieces.  
I have a number of expensive pipes, I smoke high grade very good pipe tobacco, I do not inhale and I am thoughtful, relaxed and reliable (with a sling shot).

[GreyGoose]

Gave up the pipe when  became a dad - found I couldn't handle a daughter, a diaper, and maintain a pipe at the same time. I never tried to smoke while shooting!

Best quote I remember from a college professor "A pipe gives a wise man time to think, and a fool something to do with his hands."

[Richard in OK]

I agree that we should avoid the 'flavored' blends (like Cherry Blend) because they burn hot. But if your pipe burns your mouth it probably needs to be cleaned -- good pipe cleaners and either something you get at a pipe shop (an alcohol mixture) or you can make your own with whiskey, Irish whiskey, Scotch, etc. But get the gunk out of the stem and the shank. It will taste better for that. A clean pipe is a happy smoker. (Except for a 13 year hiatus, I've been doing this since 1962). I'm no longer allowed to smoke in the house.

Richard