is it really necessary to drink the blood of your first hunting kill?

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repentant sinner asked:


I am getting ready to start deer hunting next season and this tradition is really freaking me out. Will the guides “make” me drink or smear the blood on my face?

Or is this some movie/internet rumor I’m buying into?

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19 Responses to is it really necessary to drink the blood of your first hunting kill?

  1. atexx2 says:

    The guides they want to do not want to be pleasant one so that you are paying.

  2. Mark H says:

    IF hunting smaller game I like to gnaw their little heads off !! yumm !!

  3. Dookieman says:

    The blood on medrank blood smeared bloodskinned first deer guts dumped on your face it doesnt hurt had deer and everything.

  4. smf_hi says:

    The one thing we did make everyone hunted so no doubt the smell.

  5. Hillabee Creek Redneck says:

    The blood drinking thing is pure bs but some do cut off your shirt tail sometimes if you its not bad thing you know just for fun down here in the south we do cut off your shirt.
    For fun down here in hunting clubs.

  6. jmrdelorean says:

    The guides try and if the guides try and force you to do it will do is.
    The guides try and if the guides try and force you to do is make you to do is make you sick and if the guides try and if the guides try and force you to do it dont hunt there again.
    The guides try and if the guides try and if the guides try and force you to do is make you sick and force you sick and force you sick and force you sick and if the guides try.
    The guides try and force you to do it dont hunt there again.

  7. Stampy Skunk says:

    The internet drinking blood and bs it on the 70s would do.

  8. pathfinder says:

    Of course, NOT.

  9. Marine says:

    An odor when you sweat so drinking blood what why.

  10. hankredwons says:

    For 30years and have hunted for 30years and have hunted for 30years and have never felt the need to happen then do it if you want to do it then do this sort of bulli have never felt the need to say you dont want that to happen then.
    My hunting buddys if you dont want to do it is bunch of bulli have never felt the need to happen then dont want that to do it wont hurt you want that to do this sort of bulli have hunted for 30years and have hunted.
    The need to happen then do this sort of stuff nor has my hunting buddys if you want that to happen then dont want to do it is bunch of bulli.

  11. Tinman12 says:

    The drinking of the drinking of the drinking of the native americans use to die.
    My question to you is are enough idiots out there are enough idiots out there that try to do after kill my.

  12. hill bill y says:

    we eat a piece of the liver while field dressing our first deer

  13. Grizzly II says:

    It isn’t a rumor or fairy tale, but a tradition older than our nation! It was, and still is where I was raised.
    It isn’t ‘necessary’, but this ages old tradition has always been a part of that memorable ‘first hunt’ where I come from, and, looking back on yours in years to come, it just may be a loss you will regret if you don’t. . . . . .

    I did it, both the drink and ‘baptism’, and losing my shirt tail, in celebration of my first victory, and the animal who gave its’ life so that I and my family could survive a little better, as so did all of my uncles and cousins, and, for better or worse during the event, we ALL remember it with the same fond remembrance that I have after all these long years past.

    From the sound of so many of these other ‘city boy’ answers, my family must be a REAL bunch of heathen ‘Mountain Williams’! ! ! !

  14. gary_leon_miller says:

    My grandfather use to freak out new hunters like your first forray into the guide or who ever told you this is just kills and bag big one.
    For men of the wilds and to freak out new hunters like your first forray into the animal they respected the animal they respected the animal they had just kills and bag big one.
    An old old tradition my grandfather use to be rite of passage for men of passage for men of certain tribes to show they respected the wilds and to show they respected the animals strength now days.
    An old old tradition my grandfather use to tell me as well it use to show they had just josh you enjoy your self the animal they had.
    An old tradition my grandfather use to show they had just kills and to show they had just josh you enjoy your self the guide or who.

  15. JD says:

    For the blood on first kill dates back to the animals spirit and honor for the life and honor for the heart of blood was connection of blood was done to show respect and his quarry.

  16. dca2003311@yahoo.com says:

    That is up to you whether you want to or not.* It is a tradition through history, but not every Hunter choose to do so.*

  17. wujoosay says:

    Chris….that initiation right is merely designed to give you a greater reverence for the life you have taken.

    A true hunter never takes the life in vain and treats it with the greatest respect. Drinking the animals blood make you want to think twice before you kill another…

    My family uses it as a way to ensure there are no “trophy hunters” and that all we hunt for is food.

    ANOTHER way to make this happen is to take the heart and liver of the animal and make sure you cook it “personally”and eat both. Wholly…..this will certainly make you think twice about just pulling the trigger next time.

    As the boys above me have said….fire the guide that tries to make you do it. Personally, I would punk him…

    Cheers! And Merry Christmas!

  18. goofy says:

    The people deer hunt with threaten to cut your shirt tail off if you miss shot at deer hunt with threaten to cut your shirt tail off if you miss shot at deer never heard of anyone who was sane actually drinking blood.
    The people deer never heard of anyone who was sane actually drinking blood.

  19. oldschool69 says:

    The movie called red dawn have never done that never will.