Grooming

[idelkoholic]

It's that time of year for I need to start thinking about grooming. Headed out for archery elk where I do a lot of hiking and usually expect the weather to be fairly warm. Will be camping for the week. Maybe a shower or two on trips into town. Rinsing in the creek, baby wipes to wipe off sweet at night back at camp. Here's my plan (and thought process). What preferences/experiences/suggestions do you guys have?

HEAD
- fresh haircut, keep it short. (I think I look better in a hat with long hair but I wear a hat all the time and hate the super itchy head that shows up after a few days).

ARMS
- Hoping to harvest. I hate dried crusted blood all up in my arm hair so I like to have the old arm hair trimmed up pretty good. Usually toss the #3 clipper blade on (if I go too short, the scratchy stubble grabs some of the lightweight sleeves).

TAINT
- PROBLEM: hair tangling/matted together from lots of walking. Makes it like trying to poo through a strainer. Hair pulling while walking. That area can get tender by the end of the hunt!!!

- SOLUTIONS:
Trimming?: - Maybe keep an old trimmer around for that one.
Waxing?: - How many towns away do you go to get that done? How much do you tip???
Products?: - Glide? Hair product? Powder? Lotions?
Wiping?: - Wet wipes? TP? Leaves?

Time to get real. Educate me ROKSLIDE!

 

[5MilesBack]

I can honestly say that outside of my usual monthly haircut and shaving every couple days, pre-hunt or during hunt grooming has NEVER crossed my mind in almost 40 years of hunting.

 

[scp]

I opened this thread then immediately had to go help one of our kids. I put the phone down on the coffee table. I returned to resume reading and found my wife holding the phone. Apparently she had just read the paragraph entitled ‘TAINT.’ She looked equal parts confused, mortified, and intrigued. She then said to tell the poster that waxing is the only way to do this right.

 

[dakotaduner]

This will be a interesting thread. Count me as. I am not shaving anything.

 

[1eyedfatman]

You have a creek available and you are going to town to take a shower? What is wrong with a bar of hunting soap and a wash cloth in the creek? just asking

 

[tt_johnsclist]

Get your hunting buddy to trim it up for you and then he can post about it in the “Things you can’t unsee in the backcountry” thread


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[deerhunt1988]

Get your hunting buddy to trim it up for you and then he can post about it in the “Things you can’t unsee in the backcountry” thread


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So that's what the Sitka knee pads are for

 

[kiddogy]

taint--- 80 grit sandpaper will git-r-dun!

 

[DamnRinella]

Wax everything

 

[come2elmo]

So that's what the Sitka knee pads are for

Flat bill hats make great scrapers too.

 

[DenverCountryBoy]

If you have been training regularly, the gluteal crease problem hairs should have already tangled and plucked themselves.

Embrace the suck.

 

[FLAK]

I generally keep everything hi and tight anyway. I don't shave anything
cept my face. Don't worry about my arms.

 

[Bear_b23]

Get your hunting buddy to trim it up for you and then he can post about it in the “Things you can’t unsee in the backcountry” thread


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Bwhahahaha

 

[flyinsquirel]

I can't believe we made it to post #13 without someone posting up a link to the original manscaping thread. We'll have to call this one version 2.0.

Taint hairs long enough to get tangled and form a strainer is something I can't un-picture in my mind. Thanks OP.

 

[ODB]

How in the living hell did our ancestors survive without this kind of advice??

 

[AKDoc]

This thread has got to be a joke...every hunter knows that monkey-butt and a dramatic drop in detailed personal grooming are an integral part of an extended back-country hunt...despite the baby-wipes.

 

[Bear_b23]

Train now with full hair and you'll be better prepared. No amount of hair will prepare you for the effects of the elevation

 

[jlh42581]

Trim it all, lowest setting on clippers, even my ass crack but thats all year not just season.

 

[jlh42581]

$10 to the first member to rock a mullet to a full pony tail the whole way down their back like a rednecky horse hockey player

 

[GregB]

I Just take a shower before I leave and the occasional baby wipe bath. There are a lot more pressing issues while hunting.