If we handed you the mic for a Field Ethos story night, what’s your opener?

[Shane Limbeck]

The lights are low, the crowd’s half-lit, and someone slides the mic your way. You’ve got one shot to kick things off right.

What story are you leading with?
The time you pushed a hunt too far? The night everything went wrong and somehow turned out perfect? A bar story that’s somehow still believable… barely?

Whatever it is, make it count. The room’s quiet, the whiskey’s flowing, and we’re all listening.

 

[Joe Ferronato]

This is a shared story with Schoby and the intro must be credited to him, "So there we were, warm with a ripping wood stove in the wall tent, liquored up and mere moments away from a full-scale swinger camp. Then the tent collapsed under snow load."

 

[JRQ]

The summer after my junior year in high school, my father rented out a little refurbished apartment on the lake to an old man who called himself "Chief", and though a lifetime of smoking had led to a tracheostomy, it didn't stop Chief from ripping Salem's.

 

[Andrew Wilson]

I nearly got smoked by a deputy while hunting coyotes last Sunday.

 

[Sean Molina]

My girlfriend's husband kicked the door open...

 

[Godfather]

So I’m at the pub, and I order Monsignor O’Callaghan another whiskey, and I say “So padre, what you’re telling me is you had better penetration with the 7 PRC than you did with a 300 WinMag…..respectfully Father, if you weren’t a man of the cloth, I’d struggle to believe that”

 

[sp71967]

We were sitting on the banks of the Olifants River in South Africa, lamb chops on the grill, cold Castle lager at hand, forked sticks holding the rods that were baited with chicken livers.....the rod tip jumps, the drag starts to peel, the hippos aren't happy when I stand up suddenly and set the hook....its on! Catfishing in SA is exactly the same as in Louisiana if you trade the gators for crocs, the cows for hippos, the boudin for lamb and whatever beer that was on sell that week for the Castle. FISH ON!!

 

[steve_vens]

Just a couple Canadian gringo hosers getting "smuggled" across Tijuana for some bird hunting.

 

[drewmrigsby]

There are 148 beer buried in the middle of the woods and we still have to hike more in.

 

[joshnotlaw7]

Let me tell you about the annual offroad trip that got rescheduled into a last minute river canoe trip that was memorable enough to have a brewery named after it....

 

[Pete Correale]

"Have you ever shot a porno while in Panama?"

 

[simpsonluke10]

Definitely the night hunting in SA when we found a shot gun on a tripwire at the gate we almost tripped followed by finishing a duiker off with 20 shots from a 9mm

 

[badgererickson]

I was in the driveway loading the Jeep for this weekend's Mt Bike race up in the National Forest, the wife came out and said, " A plane just hit a sky scraper in NY City...." I threw in extra water and the Ithaca M37 DeerSlayer, we were off...