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Mine looks like this all year, except for the frost.

I start mine when ever I go out west to hunt, Usually October but this year November. I don't shave until after duck season in mid-January. I'm starting to get some of those pesky white hairs in mine too.

Adamantly disagree! Shaved beavers are for pedophiles! Never seen an adult beaver without fur - they'd freeze to death!!!

I am all for hunting season beards! Now that I am retired, I've decided to keep mine, at least in some variation.

Due to my job, I'm clean shaven....except for a 'stache! But, I'm able to save all my holiday/vacation time until bear and deer season here in PA, so I end up with 29 day of beard growth!

The last time I shaved was 17 years ago. My then 3 year old son took one look and said "Put it back Daddy". Now he can grow his own.

I keep my beard pretty short most of the year but I'll let it grow some now that the big deer season is only a month or so away.

Dale

This tread is useless without pics.

Don't think Hank done it this way!

I was going to be clean-shaven this year, but then I rode up to the lake place and back with my brother-in-law to take out the dock and boat lifts.

He had the mumps.

Due to a perfect storm of being too young to have had the mumps, and too old to have gotten a booster, my antibody levels are not high enough for me to go to work (in hospital, lots of contact with immune-suppressed patients) until after deer season (no presumptive immunity) so I quit shaving.

It will be great as long as I don't actually get the mumps.

Mine is almost out of control. But it bugs the heck out of the lady friend so I'm keeping it. It's an itchy SOB though.

I grew a beard the minute I left high school in 1970, mainly to piss off the old man. I haven't shaved it since. Early iterations of the "Duck Dynasty/ZZ Top" style have segued into a neatly trimmed work of art that dogs love, women adore, and make people think I'm The Most Interesting Man in the World guy.

I almost have to have one for the time being. We just had a new baby and everyone knows little ones love whiskers!

Heck if the weather holds through the weekend I may actually get to get out on the boat and go deer hunting. Wasn't expecting to go this year, but if the opportunity is there I'll take it!

I started in August this year in advance of elk season. My wife likes it for some reason I can't explain. I think it makes me look old as hell and I've had people ask me if my little boy is my grandson. Oh well. She likes it and I hate shaving so we're going to let it roll.

This thing's coming in pretty nice, but man, is it grey. It really sucks to get old! If I could just get the damned stuff on top to grow like this, I wouldn't have that skinhead look going.

i start every year in about september and let it go till spring ( unless we catch an h2s job)

Anyone use beard oil? Does it serve a real purpose?

Tinks 69 works.

Yeah, but it makes me act all stupid and follow invisible trails...

Nuttin wrong with a good lip curl early in the morning.

I used to not shave for the deer season, but my Wife said that all I did was make my face look dirty. I can't grow much of one. Chin is about all. I do have a Mustache, that I grew on a bet back in 1971, and had it ever since. My Wife has never seen me without it. miles