I'm curious about the effect of wearing a beard on hunting success. I'm talking about the big, scraggly beards I see around here. First off, they attract debris that could give a hunter away. Second, they could interfere with the release. In warm weather, they could cause sweating. Most of all, I think they could be a sign of laziness. Now, did Howard Hill or Fred Bear wear a beard? Did Ishi? Did Sitting Bull? The list of greats goes on and on and about none of them wore a big, dirty old beard. I might be wrong, and I certainly mean no offense to beard wearers, but in my opinion, beards are for turkeys, like the one on this guy I caught on my trail cam.

Joe

I would think a Minnesotan would appreciate any extra insulation possible, especially during the winter months.

Deciding to grow a beard only takes once. You have to decide to shave every day....

But that's where laziness possibly comes into play.

Joe

so you are saying even a billy goat shouldn't have a beard?

Billy goats, being herbivores, can get by with a beard, as can vegetarians, as they don't hunt.

Joe

Natural face camo. My wife made me shave it after I killed a bird. Miss it already....I actually think its cooler with a beard, they do a terrific job of retaining water and that in turn cools the face.

Stirring the pot again ?

I came home on leave from the Navy with one and my dad looked at me kinda funny. I laughed at his look and said...."Well daddy, I guess you don't like my beard..." He said....no, it's not that. I just don't know why you would cultivate something around your mouth that you have growing wild someplace else..."

I shaved.

LOL. No lefties, and now no beards? What's next - hair color? I bet YOU could find a way to make the argument that archers shouldn't have red hair How about eye color?

I have been known to grow them for functional reasons over the years, As I've gotten older I can't say as how I like the looks of the grey/white facial hair so likely won't do it again.

my wife makes me keep mine. she doesn't like beard stubble burns on her face and the longer hair gets soft.

Many of us have the hair color thing covered... skin tone. ;~)

I know this is all in fun but if someone wants to wear a beard that's good for them. And with no disrespect to these men but who really cares what Howard Hill or Fred Bear would wear or shoot or have, WE are not these men. They were great men ! But with the options we have today who knows what they would shoot or wear! Once again I mean no Disrespect to these men or anyone else , just get tired of everyone comparing themselves and everyone else to them. Now that said y'all keep having fun!!!!!

I've never seen an Indian with a Beard can they grow one?

No . Not pure blood natives if I'm not mistaken.

No they can't , through the years of cutting hair for a living I have never seen one that could and most people that have a lot of Indian blood in them will only grow very little facial hair.

I get the feeling that Frisky can't grow a beard.

Excuse the compound.

Face Camo!!

Nice coyote ! I have only ever killed one with a bow, they are pretty slick !

I am a lazy person. I have a beard. I can't attribute one hunting success to the beard or one blown opportunity because of it. Mine is very clean but does sometimes itch but it don't bother me. It has never interfered with my release. I never work hard enough to sweat, even in summer. Remember I am lazy. Certainly the one on that good bird looks better than mine but it has no known function either. I do not care for it that much. Please give me a good reason to shave it off. I can't find one. It is a lot of work to shave it off but it can be shaved off only once till I grow another one. My wife likes it and does not want me to shave it off. My Mom hates it. My therapist likes it. My friends comment on it and my kids ignore it. I like the attention. Why would I shave?

Mine tends to look like a whitetails tail, a little dark and a lot of grayish white. The deer love it. Its an attractant :)

Don't hate on the beard. Excuse me while I tell a little American beard history. Look at any of the photo's of American men after the photograph was widely available. They all had beards, even the President. Clean shaven men in America were out of the ordinary until the first world war, the only reason they fell out of favor/fashion was that our troops had to be clean shaven for their gas mask's to get a good seal. When they came home the women loved it and that all she wrote for the beard for a while.

If you're a man and you want a beard, grow it, in an age of widespread emasculation it's one of the last and best nonverbal statements of manhood.

I usally wear the face mask spandex my beard is all white and full.LOL

Yeah I hear ya people look at like is he from duck dynasty or deliverance.

Watcha doing out of the City there purty boy.LOL

I have to go with duck dynasty and the Robinson clad they would prob. treat me like Sia then weed have to learn then young boys prob. get trown off TV to.LOL

Lol!!!

Cant say that in all these years my beard ever contributed to making or breaking a hunt. As for " Debris", those leaves, twiggs, spider webs, ETC. well shoot man, thats just added natural camo. If a beard interferes with your release, obviously your doing something way wrong. And as far as " Dirty"! Ill have you know that I wash mine at least once a week, just like my socks, and if need be in a pinch, in the same water! But it does get washed! And by the way " Chicks dig it!" ........Uh, Oh!, gotta go, the ones nested in my beard are ready for their afternoon feeding.

My kids had never seen me clean shaven till a few years ago...I kept it short and trimmed, but had it for years. As a welder I didn't realize how hot it was till I shaved.

I took it down to a "goat" AND MY WIFE NEVER EVEN NOTICED until my daughter said, "you shaved your beard!!!" Lol. She was a little red faced 'bout that.

BUT...it's Stanley Cup Time...get those play-off beards going!!!!!!!!!

I grew a beard about 20 years ago. Unfortunately, as a result, while having a beer at a local pub after a day of hunting, a local mistook me for my hunting partner's father. We're the same age. Shaved it off and haven't worn one since. Back then, my beard was salt and peppery. If I grew one now, it would be white. Puts a lot of years on a fella, and I have enough on me already.

Don't most clean shaven boys shoot sissy, oops...I mean girly, darn it....I mean lighter weight bow?

My wife prefers a man with a beard. so although i can get away with a goatee....she prefers a full beard, but does not care for clean shaven.

So i've had a beard for probably 30 yrs.

I keep threatening to grow a duck commander, zz top style beard....she not to keen on that, she likes the trimmed look.

LOL!

LOL, I have the Ron Laclair/Santa Claus syndrome. My beard is as white as snow, so unless I'm hunting in the snow it is worthless as camo.

Besides all that, Joe I agree with you. I'd rather shave. 8^)

Rick

Beards and the great outdoors go hand in hand. I work outside and have one from the first frost until respirator fit testing late winter / spring.

I stopped reading this halfway down. I hope I didn't miss anything important. :) Jawge

"Some" men can't grow a beard without looking like a bearded lady. Of coarse they could always get a job at a job at a Carnival.

A beard is a sign of masculinity

What are you talking about George, We aren't event halfway done yet.

My old pappy always said, "Son, if you've got it flaunt it"

Of coarse some men go a little overboard

Then there are those that get very creative

I agree with Ron on the beard thing.

Well, archery is a sport for sophisticated, civilized folks, not backwoodsmen. I think we need to clean up this sport. Our image is on the line.

Joe

Yeah...well....there's a reason the razor was invented.

However, I got no beef with anyone that wants to wear dinner scraps on their face. Corn is good the next day....

Have at it gents.

LOL!

Envy envy, all is envy from men who have no hair....anywhere

Just an added note, the hair on my face is just a natural migration from what once was on my head. Im not going bald, " Im just relocating" what Ive got! LOL!

Opinions are like..............I think your thoughts and comments should be left between you and the turkey.

Hey Frisky can't grow one huh :-)

Beards are like ti, (nope can't say it), just kidding, tipis. They look better some places better than they do other places.

I had a beard for 39 years. My kids had never seen me without one. Then I took a seasonal job for UPS and had to shave every day. My kids and longtime friends universally urged me to grow it back asap.

Then too,there is a fine line betwixt laziness and efficiency.

I have probably saved months worth of time over those decades by not shaving.

Jim

http://www.firstpeople.us/FP-Html- Legends/HowTheTurkeyGotHisBeard-Cherokee.html

SB is either posing with road kill or he shot that buck from 25 feet up in a tree where that old scraggly beard wouldn't be a factor. Nice buck though!

Joe

I once heard that the only way to defeat Chuck Norris was to cut off his beard............nah

Generally, I have found that males who are the most vocal against beards, are those who cannot grow one. Jealousy, sheer jealousy.

I've had a beard for the past 45 years (since age 17). I don't intend on shaving it off to appease strangers on the internet. Nor will I put on a tie and sport coat to go hunting, like Pope & Young.

Do you know what is under Chuck Norris's beard? Just another fist.

Beard envy

I like to grow a beard during hunting season. Usually start it about 1st the September. Here's what it looked like in Nov. 2013.

It's been told for generations.........

A face full of fur makes the kitty purrrrrr.

So if you're huntin' cougars.......................

Glenn St Charles and I some years ago at a P&Y Banquet sporting distinguished beards.

Bearded Glenn and I flinging arrows together

Like father like son. apologize for the grainy pic. The normal picture wouldn't load for some reason so I had to take a picture of a picture.

HAHAHA!

My beard maybe a little thin but I'm thick on my top not. Dang Shrew Samurai in the picture has an appetite for pigs.

Since many male cyclists shave their legs and wear tights, it is easy to understand why they tremble when their peach fuzz appears to be growing.

Relax Frisky.

Puberty is only a phase. You are just a late bloomer.

I wasnt gonna post on another one of Friskys troll threads,but with the 3 posts concerning Indians and facial hair,i just had to.

That is a complete modern wives tale.I have known many Full bloods,who can grow a very respectable beard.Before anyone starts the whole "Wasicu in the woodpile" thing,those families can trace their family genetics,to BW,or Before wasicus.It is more prevalent in certain nations than others though.

I also know many European and Scandinavian blooded people,who cant hardly grow any facial hair.

I cannot believe the name-dropping and insecurity present in this thread. I'm just saying this was once a gentlman's sport. It's not a sport for the uncouth.

Joe

And then the US of A won independence from GB.. :)

Does anyone have a picture of Frisky?

Again, this thread is not about me. I do not weigh into it at all. It's about cleaning up the sport and returning to our once proud traditions. Namely, right-handed shooting and no beards allowed.

Joe

Like this? The other guy's have the beards...

Cleaned up...

Do you see a beard here? I'd say the sport is cleaned up... ;)

Next thing you know, you'll be whining about the hair...

Do we have to get our ears redone all pointy-like and speak elvish as well?

Dunno - Ask Frisky... the answer man. :)

Thanks traxx I didn't know it to be fact. Just what I've always heard. I sport a beard as well by the way.

I'm not to up on Indians but have dated some pretty nice girls with beards.lol Wax on, wax off. One had a better mustache than me. Now that was weird.

Again, this is about tradition. We need to return to our roots, for better or worse.

Joe

Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and caldron bubble.

Frisky's making fun of those who's whiskers top what he can grow

This guy sported a beard and he will forever be a bow hunting legend. He is as much a part of our tradition as anyone, I don't think anyone would question that, or his beard....

That beard grew while he was out in the wilderness. There are exceptions to every rule.

Joe

I work with a young guy...big dude...great kid. Has a full beard and a shaved head...asked him 'bout that...he said his gramps told him, no need to put a roof over an empty shed...........

How about this guy Joe?

When there are MANY exceptions to the rule, it's time to revisit the rule and see if it is in fact a rule. By the way, what is the rule in the first place?

If Paul can w/o askeerin somebody.., figure I can. too!

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Every dog has his due day. Try again.

Ok. We'll consider beards to be acceptable, as long as we aren't English. I still think they are a disadvantage.

Joe

I'm the one on the left :)

Good job Jeff w/that St. Charles lookalike! Guess you may have better luck when there's snow on the ground?! Turkeys can see that chin wrap from China!! No excuses & I expect a turkey story tomorrow night! Good luck hunter!

I really don't give a crap what Frisky says and the next guy that says Frisky "is" a Minnesotan is going to be on my crap list. BigJim

The small guy on the right is my buddy "Preacher" a very successful hunter. My sweet dog in the picture will drag off and bury bodies on command. Watch out Frisky!

Hemingway? No, guess again

This is what the animals see....hmm, maybe Frisky has something there. I recon that bearded face would scare critters away.

bigjim

Hemmingnoway! All in jest Mr. Ron.

Jimmysan, dang son.., Figure good in there someplace or that dog wouldn't stand up to you like that. Chesapeake?

I just want to know,

Are some people,really that bored,to start threads like this,all the time?

LOL! I'm a Minnesotan through and through! Anyone notice how heavily bearded individuals tend to be terrorists? Black Beard the pirate is one example.

Joe

Straitera, yep, she's a Chessie and loves me enough to be an accomplice :) She does steel the covers a bunch though...small price to pay.

Frisky, the only down side to a bear that I can find is trying to get a pesky little flea out of it. See when a conniving know-it-all little flea crawls up in it just to be a nuisance cause he's got nothing better to do, it can make us bearded guys less than sociable.

I always thought little trouble makers were less than rite in the head cause they like to pick on the big guy, but I have come to realize that they are just smart enough to realize that us big guys (if you can call me that), feel sorry for low down guys like yourself and let you get away with a lot of crap.

I figure most everything that I hunt has more hair than I do so I'm just trying to blend in :) BigJIm....21 years in Georgia, but still a Viking at heart!

I think it is safe to say Frisky likes clean shaved men...

Again, I'm not picking on big guys or anyone for that matter. I'm offering advice for the betterment of the sport and larger society. The big guys just take it wrong because they're overly sensitive.

Joe

The big guys need the sensitivity training I provide. Truth is, I consider Ron and Big Jim to be "roll" models.

Joe

Glamor shot.....

Horace Ford, gentleman archer, circa 1870.

I guess Frisky doesnt like the tickling feeling from his male friends with beards...LOL

By the way turkeys don't have beards. Modified feathers.

Frisky, the voice of civilized Minnesota, writes "Anyone notice how heavily bearded individuals tend to be terrorists? Black Beard the pirate is one example."

Not true!

Many terrorists live exactly like callow young barefaced Minnesotans. The 9/11 nineteen were utterly convincing Westerners, as were the London bombers. They were beardless, dressed in suits and ties, and civilized as Frisky.

Like Frisky, they were highly sensitive and preferred cricket to rugby.

This does not mean that Frisky is a terrorist. However, it does indicate that terrorists are as civilized as Frisky.

Awesome thread and comments. I happen to have a significant other (30 yrs) who refuses to acknowledge the existence of beards.

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