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Well, I'm trying it again this year, and it's all ready driving me nuts. I put the razor away last week, much to Sweetwife's chagrin, and I'm so friggin' itchy from this stuff on my face, I'm about ready to get out the brush hog and mow it all off again. Who grows a deer season beard? When do you start, and when do you shave it off? I said last fall I wasn't shaving 'till I shot a deer. Of course I had the ZZ Top look going by the end of muzzleloader season, and still was eating tag soup. The damned beard mysteriously disappeared the next day.........

Started mine in early September. Starting to like it now. I did clean it up a bit for a wedding but didn't shave it off.

I've had a deer beard year round for a couple years now. Last year I quit trimming it in the fall until about Christmas.

i've had mine for 2 weeks and can't stop scrapin' at it. fuggen thing feels like a giant scab

Because I have to shave for work, I stop shaving the day I get to camp, so I get stubble that has to come off when I head back. Just can't see taking the time to shave during the season.

started mine in september it is really growing the wife hates it. Lol

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I've got mine going and would suggest you gentlemen get some quality beard oil. Have your woman rub it in every couple of days, works like magic.

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SCBA won't seal over the top of a beard, so none for me.

Well I just started growing one for next year. Mustache and beard. The reason I did this is the folks my Daughter and I hunt with a family in Northern CA. The Father and one son all have beards and they each got a Buck. Told the Daughter I was growing it and she then reminded me that I got a Buck in the first season without one and she then reminded me of the 7 Bucks taken up north 4 were by her and the other gals and surprisingly none of them had beards. Out came the razor.

Late start here, I keep it pretty clean for a tight seal with respirator mask for priming/painting cars.

I skipped the shave this morning tho, let r go for a while.

I had a beard for 15 years than had to shave for a job for 10 years, had the beard for 2 1/2 years now been keeping it trimed down some cuz the dam thing is more white than brown anymore! but after bow season ill let it go till spring!

Shaving is for beavers...

I grew one over the last month, going to shave it off tonight though. I've been skunked deer hunting EVERY time I had a full beard. I'll be clean shaved on opening morning.

It's always deer season somewhere.

I haven't shaved mine completely off since 1980 or so. Trimmed at times, never shaved. Got tired of twice a day shaving, once for work, later the same day for dates, by the time I was 25.

Never saw a job I needed so bad I had to shave.

Geno

Grew mine in '76 for the bicentennial, only shaved if off once in all the years though I keep it shorter than when I was younger. I run the trimmer over it Sunday morning when getting ready for church and maybe once during the week. Since I've been retired I don't shave every day, maybe 3-4x a week now.

I started mine back in 1992. Have never shaved it off since. My wife has never seen me without it other than old pictures.

Just started growing mine last week. I used to have a duck dynasty type beard, but had to shave if off years ago to work in oil world.

Got a new boss and he's so laid back and allows it. Beard coming on and will not shave again unless forced.

I have a beard on and off through the year, or at least stubble or goatee . Deer beard starts Oct 1 and usually runs through Dec.

Deer beards are tradition in my family. And the secret is that if luck won't find you you must shave your deer beard into some ridiculous combination of goofy sideburns and giant mustache or foo manchu to bring luck. Generally the more silly the better with KC at bat sideburns mustache one piece unit being very high on the list insofar as luck generation goes.

The family hunting album has some killer pictures of guys with facial hair that they would likely never have worn in public, with dead deer and elk.

I keep at least a goatee all year but will let it run during hunting season as well as foregoing haircuts some years. When I get to looking like 1970's Waylon Jennings, it's killing time.

What's it do?