Bringing the beard back???
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From: Grubby
13-Jul-16
We are counting down to hunting seAson. I am in the midst of fine tuning my gear and I think it may be time to chuck the razor and bring out the most manly accessory you can have....the beard! Have you started on your beard?
From: Rock
13-Jul-16
Rarely ever cut it off and it has been years now since I have been without it.
From: bdfrd24v
13-Jul-16
My wife won't let me shave my beard... Ever.
Pretty sure she doesn't like my face.
So yep, I've started it!
From: Destroyer350
13-Jul-16
I started mine 2 years ago before elk season and haven't shaved since. I trim it to keep it under control but my wife wont let me shave it.
From: APauls
13-Jul-16
Is this your way of backdooring into a manscaping thread?
From: Grubby
13-Jul-16
i better get going I guess! Backdooring into a manscaping thread??? Good god man!
From: Elkaddict
13-Jul-16
Yep APauls, I believe it is. I like these guys saying there wife won't "let" them, ha ha.
From: Grubby
13-Jul-16
My girlfriend has been pushing for the beard, let's see how she likes a patchy gray mess!
From: JW
13-Jul-16
The beard never goes away!
From: EmbryOklahoma
13-Jul-16
Ready for the mountains! :)
From: Bear Track
13-Jul-16
He's right, it is that time of year again for the manscaping thread. But I'm not going there.
From: Jaquomo
13-Jul-16
Bushes above, mowed down below....
From: GhostBird
13-Jul-16
Please God, let the hunting seasons open.
From: SDHNTR(home)
13-Jul-16
the hipster beard is way overplayed!
From: coelker
13-Jul-16
Do not chuck the razor! How can you man scale with out it?
From: Grubby
13-Jul-16
I'm not saying that I'm going to man scape....but if I were to it would not be with a razor!
Does one go with the well kept beard or wild and scruffy?
From: aboks
13-Jul-16
Just started last week
From: Jaquomo
13-Jul-16
I've been working on mine for awhile to get REALLY ready for hunting season.
From: aboks
13-Jul-16
Look at that Jaq--we've met and I didn't even know it was you!
From: APauls
13-Jul-16
That's a pretty sweet call holder Jaq
From: Well-Strung
13-Jul-16
Yep i've started mine. You know what they say a good beard attracts...
From: MTNRCHR
13-Jul-16
Crabs?!?
From: Stick1
13-Jul-16
Mine stays year round. It does get to looking pretty rough during the fall and winter when more time is spent in the bushes than in the office.
From: Inshart
13-Jul-16
Ha, that guy with the curly cue beard looks like he would fit right in with Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.
From: icemann
13-Jul-16
2 thoughts! Jaq that would be awesome camo with tree branches. #2 thought! Well strung has something humping his neck :| Jamboree bound :}
From: drycreek
13-Jul-16
I'm afraid that my beard is about the only hair I own nowadays , so yeah. I started it about 45 years ago.
From: TD
13-Jul-16
Have found several better ways to pack out dead cats that, you know... I found...
I'm thinkin more along the lines of trimming the beard in to a Fu'ed Man Chu....
From: IdyllwildArcher
13-Jul-16
The last time I shaved was right before leaving for my 2011 elk hunt. The beard and the elk hunting lifestyle are 2 parts of the same thing.
I do shave my neck though to look professional at work.
From: MichaelArnette
14-Jul-16
I don't shave while I'm in the mountains but it comes off pretty quick when I get back, can't stand facial hair.
From: BULELK1
14-Jul-16
I start grow something different every mid-July for my hunting fall.
This year I think I will go back to the Foo-man-Choo mustache, been like 3-4 years since I had that 'hunting season look'.....
Off the day after my last hunt in December.
Good luck, Robb
From: scndwfstlhntng
14-Jul-16
Where did it go? Mine started in 1977 and was only shaved off once... on the day before I left for Idaho to hunt some elks.
My two little boys freaked out when they came around the corner and saw an unrecognizable face in the bathroom. Since then it has been a permanent fixture albeit of different lengths, and gradually changing color.
From: bird dog
14-Jul-16
I had to shave mine last Friday due to being gone for annual training but I got all of my guys in the EMT section to grow out their field mustache with me just to keep our faces from completely being shaven. After next week no shaving until after elk season.
From: Bowfreak
14-Jul-16
From: Mule Power
14-Jul-16
Bowfreak... lmfao!
I got mine started. In 1985.
From: cnelk
14-Jul-16
Define beard
I can grow one but Id rather keep it manageable :)
From: Grubby
14-Jul-16
Grubby's Link
It was hard not to shave this morning but I'm off and running!
From: Z Barebow
14-Jul-16
It is a seasonal thing for me. I start growing it about mid August. I keep it until spring. I don't like one in the summer. Sweaty workouts in the summer and hot weather are not a good combination for me.
From: carcus
15-Jul-16
I will start mine in august, I cut mine down when allergy season starts, seems to make the hay fever worse
From: Rut Nut
15-Jul-16
I'm with cnelk on this one. Depends what you call "beard". My year round look is similar to his first pic. 'cept more of a "goatie" than full beard. Was just a mustache man in my youth. But got sick of the hassle of shaving around the chin, so just let it grow out and kept it trimmed. Tried to really let it grow into a mountain man type beard once, but to tell you the truth once it got longer I hated the feeling when the whiskers started to curl(and was too hot in summer), so went back to a shorter trim. For me it's more of a comfort/low maintenance type of thing instead of a "looks" thing. ;-)
From: rick allison
15-Jul-16
My kids had never seen my without a beard, albeit trimmed short. When my daughter was in college I cut it down to a "goat" one brutally hot summer...I'm a welder 'n enough was enough...lol.
I met my wife and daughter at the local ball park for am American Legion baseball game. My wife never even noticed until my daughter said something!
That was about 15 years ago, and I grew it out last year. Hmmm...my previous brown beard had mysteriously morphed into snow camo....
Today I keep the goat and grow the stubble out for hunting season.
From: Jaquomo
15-Jul-16
I just saw cnelk's right side photo at the post office. ..
From: BOWUNTR
15-Jul-16
Ahhhh... the beard. Ed F
From: doug
15-Jul-16
natures camo.
From: TD
15-Jul-16
When I even hear the word "beard" Embry just pops up in my mind....
Pretty much anything is better than Pat's 70s porn star mustache.... hehehehe...
From: LBshooter
16-Jul-16
Not until mid September .
From: Grubby
17-Jul-16
With the proper trimming cnelk would look like wolverines homlier much older brother.
From: Grubby
25-Aug-16
5 days left until we are off elk hunting! The beard is coming in nicely but it is a much different color than I remembered!
From: LINK
25-Aug-16
I think some brown and green dye are in order Grubby.
From: Z Barebow
25-Aug-16
Grubby- I can relate.
Getting my game face on also. A equitable mix of salt and pepper.
From: Grubby
25-Aug-16
What? Too early for snow camo?
From: elkmtngear
25-Aug-16
I'm a purist...the "snow camo" on my face matches my bow limbs!
From: JordanMOFLCO
25-Aug-16
I am thinking future gigs as Santa are possible..........just need to keep it growing and let nature keep bleaching out all the color. Cripes...when did this happen? LOL
From: Paul@thefort
25-Aug-16
Yep.
From: PECO
26-Aug-16
I am clean shaved ans buzz the hair for bow hunting season. I stop at the neck, no manscaping. I then let hair anx beard grow for the winter. Beards are nice for ice fishing.
From: LINK
26-Aug-16
You guys have salt and pepper but I have cinnamon and sugar. The older my three daughters get, the more sugar there is.
From: Ironbow
26-Aug-16
Tried growing one once, it was really shabby. Just can't grow decent facial hair.
But I have a full head of hair!
From: LINK
26-Aug-16
Iron bow I've found the more falls off my head the more I have on my face. Be glad your facial hair is shabby.
From: TC
26-Aug-16
Ironbow, I have the same problem and my wife hates it when I grow it. We were on a trip with our best friends a couple weeks ago and my buddy made a comment about him needing to shave every day (cut at me), where I reminded him I have to blow dry my hair every day (he doesn't). What he called me can't be recorded here but was hilarious. If I have to choose I will take a full head of hair.
From: Grubby
26-Aug-16
I would hate to have to blow dry my hair!!
From: IdyllwildArcher
28-Aug-16
Jeff and Jordan have very respectable and professional beards.
I wear mine just like P@tF. Enough to keep the sun off, but not enough to be really hot.
Ed's is just plain out of control. Retirement seems to be doing you well.
Ed, if you're ever going through airport security and they pass you through the metal detector a half-dozen times and you're down to your knickers trying to figure it out and the damn thing is still beeping, pat that thing down. There'll probably be a hatchet or a multi-tool lost in that jungle somewhere. Maybe a silver dollar.
From: deerslayer
29-Aug-16
^^ LOL!!!
From: Predeter
30-Aug-16
I had the full beard going this year but in honor of my mule deer hunt for this year (leaving tonight!) I shaved it into a "Stalker 'Stashe" tonight!
From: JLS
30-Aug-16
Love to, but can't have one per work policy. Jealous.
From: LUNG$HOT
30-Aug-16
I try but mine always grows in like Joe Dirt!
From: IdyllwildArcher
30-Aug-16
Lung$hot, take a #3 clippers and trim your stash, chin, and the angles on your jaw. Don't trim your cheeks. After a couple months, you'll have a nice short, even beard.
From: Grubby
05-Dec-16
I may have screwed up.... I have suggested that I wouldn't shave until I shot a deer. I could go out and shoot a deer but there are none around I'd be willing to put my tag on! I will be pretty rough looking by September!!
From: easeup
05-Dec-16
no joke guys......this is the truth..... Nearly all hunting here in TX is by lease of private land of which everyone calls the deer lease down here. Years ago we had about 10 guys partnered up to lease a larger piece for hunting. Now we had leased the same property the year prior from the same landowner with no issues. on our second year lease there everything was going good until the landowner showed up at the hunt camp one morning to find all the lease hunters with beards. We got our immediate eviction notice to get off his property and take all our stuff. When asked what the problems was, the reply..." there will be no bearded hunters on this place"
From: GF
06-Dec-16
Equinox to equinox for 25 yrs. Wife likes clean-shaven; #1 son likes beard; #2 son prefers clean-shaven so he can read my lips.
Thank God for his bionic ear, or I would be stuck going clean-shaven for another seven years until he heads off to college…
From: Fuzzy
06-Dec-16
a clean, trimmed beard is the best "face camo" you can have.
From: Bigdan
07-Dec-16
Started mine 1st of sept still got it
From: lewis
07-Dec-16
Oh about 1976 was the last time I didn't have one hell Dan you are looking good Lewis
From: Grubby
07-Dec-16
I thought that was tink!
From: Grubby
07-Dec-16
I thought that was tink!
From: The last savage
08-Dec-16
Damn I envy y'alls thick beards...my pathetically,poor excuse for a beard is 50 days in and just a patchy mess..looks like weeds growing in a junkyard !!! Hail to the thickness!!!!!!
