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About The Blue Mountain eagle. (John Day, Or.) 1972-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 18, 2019)
SPORTS Blue Mountain Eagle B2 Wednesday, September 18, 2019 SHOOTING THE BREEZE Campfire quarrels A h, hunting season. For those flicking sticks, it’s already upon us, and for the punkin’ chunkers, we have just a little bit lon- ger yet to wait. The smell of wood smoke and sizzling bacon is even more tantalizing in the great outdoors. Hunting season is our time to refill the freezer, but it can be great for many other reasons. For myself, it’s a great time to catch up with extended family and friends. We discuss important things around the campfire like the best way to prepare bass, how to properly fall trees and try to solve all the world’s problems just to get the ball rolling. There is plenty of that substance that Mrs. Truman tried so desperately to get Harry to call “fertilizer” being spread around both day and night. Politics and religion get more than a casual once over, but they, like Al Pacino, are only getting it warmed up. The real fist fights don’t get started until we get down to brass tacks, Ford versus Chevrolet and Winchester ver- sus Remington. Ladies it may discon- cert you to know we don’t sit around arguing over who has the prettiest wife when we are wrestling over who has the best gun. It’s sophomoric at best, but we all do it some- times. Maybe it’s the geographical concen- tration of testosterone or the five o’clock Dale Valade shadows giving our self-formed opin- ions Samson-esque confidence. But I would bet you pesos to pemmican, if you come into hunting camp and go to insulting a man’s favorite musket, there will always be hell to pay. It always starts subtly, a small, matter of fact statement, resounding much like ringing the bell at an orga- nized prize fight. It could range from “all you need is a .270” to “anything smaller than a .338 is a BB gun.” All muster together in a ring around the campfire, and the free for all begins. All prejudices are exposed, the old cursing the ignorance of the young, while the young curse the “failing” vision of the old. Numbers true and false are spewed forth like genuine vitriol. When facts fail to convert, then come the insults of intelligence. These range from educated to infan- tile and everything in between. SPORTS SCHEDULE THURSDAY, SEPT. 19 Whoever is lucky enough to bag the first or the biggest game animal is unofficially awarded bragging rights. “Yep,” they say, “if the rest of you fellas shot a .30-06 like me, this could be you taking home this huge trophy. But since you only shoot a 6.5 Creed- moor et. al., I guess it’s only tag soup for you yet again.” This of course goes on and on throughout the season and can even carry on for years for those with thick enough skin to take the chiding and yet come back for more. It’s all in good fun, you see, but if everyone shot the same gun, wore the same clothes and drove the same truck, well that would just be boring. Without a decent black-eyed berat- ing, I just couldn’t see having near as much fun in hunting camp. In hunting camp, insults are a sign of devotion, and sarcasm supplants the hug. Maybe we will see you in hunting camp. If you can hack it, maybe you can come back next year! What are your favorite hunt- ing camp rivalries? Write in at shoo- tingthebreezebme@gmail.com! Dale Valade is a local country gent with a deep love for handloading, hunting and shooting. Ukiah/Long Creek soccer @ Nyssa, 5 p.m. (MT) Grant Union volleyball @ Heppner, 6:30 p.m. FRIDAY, SEPT. 20 Prairie City volleyball @ Harper, noon (MT) Grant Union cross country @ The Footrace to Valhalla in Umatilla, 1 p.m. Dayville/Monument volleyball vs. Ukiah/Long Creek JV in Dayville, 5:30 p.m. SATURDAY, SEPT. 21 Prairie City volleyball @ Sherman/1:30 p.m., Trinity Luther- an/3 p.m. at Trinity Lutheran in Bend Grant Union football @ Lost River at Summit High School in Bend, 5 p.m. Dayville/Monument volleyball @ Central Christian, Camas Valley, 2:30 p.m., Central Christian, 4 p.m. TUESDAY, SEPT. 24 Dayville/Monument vs. Grant Union JV in Monument, 5 p.m. week 2 of 13 • IT’S EASY • IT’S FREE ® 14. Raiders vs Vikings Broasted Chicken, Pizza & Burgers • IT’S FUN! Lindsay Bullock slides into the end zone with 15 correct picks! Larry Powell was there also with 15 but Lindsay won with a perfect point spread. Be sure to put a tie breaker on game 15! Ny da m’ s CONGRATULATIONS! 652 W. 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