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Just back from hunting the Pheasant opener in Kansas with Del and his his friends Reverend Dan and Billy. Fine gentlemen all! I had a wonderful time and we killed some nice Roosters on Saturday which was a chamber of commerce day. One of Saturday's high lights was a pot luck hunters lunch held at a local country church. For a price of a VOLUNTARY donation you got all you wanted of about 20 different soups, stews, chowders and chili's all served piping hot in crock pots. There was a salad bar and then there was desert! Fresh homemade apple pie, cherry pie, brownies, sheet cakes, pumpkin pie, puddings and my favorite a Banana Creme Pie on a freah baked crust. Del's buddy Reverend Dan ate more desert than he did lunch! These type lunches, dinners and breakfasts used to be common place when I was a kid. I haven't seen one in years until this past Saturday. That small farming community still tied to mother earth welcomed us hunters with open arms, a refreshing change. For me it was a trip back in time. Any one have such a tradition in their community?

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from WA Mtnhunter wrote 16 weeks 6 days ago

No, but it makes you want to move to Kansas, well sort of...

How far from Wichita were you?

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from CPT BRAD wrote 16 weeks 6 days ago

WOW that is great. There are a few places where you can get a sunrise breakfast or a community fish fry but they are getting very rare indeed. Too little time and God forbid someone get sick! Its a shame that no one has time to even talk to people in the community, much less break bread and fellowship.

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from Beekeeper wrote 16 weeks 6 days ago

WMH,

We hunted in Ulysses the first day. Dodge City and Pratt the second. Ulysses is about 220 miles from Wichita. Not a bad drive though... pretty farm country.

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from 007 wrote 16 weeks 6 days ago

Several of the local churches in our area put on a "hunter's supper" over the weekend prior to deer season opening. Great little country tradition, wonderful fare.

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from kolbster wrote 16 weeks 6 days ago

there is alot of stuff like that around here, my church has some kind of lunch or dinner about once a month so do most the other churches in the county, we still have family get-to-gather 2 times a year and the close family eats together every sunday. so there is always a good meal to look forward to.

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from shane wrote 16 weeks 6 days ago

Oh man that sounds incredible. It's been a while, but I think it's still happening to this day. Very old church in Westminster West, Vermont. Put on by hunters and all the town's old ladies (Not many. Not a big town. Far more cows than people, still not that many cows.) Deer from the mountains, corn from the river valley, apples from the orchards made the bulk of the meal. Local, green, and organic done the old way and the right way; minus the hipsters. The apple pie they served there has ruined apple pie for me. I will never have a piece that even comes close.

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from shane wrote 16 weeks 6 days ago

Oh man that sounds incredible. It's been a while, but I think it's still happening to this day. Very old church in Westminster West, Vermont. Put on by hunters and all the town's old ladies (Not many. Not a big town. Far more cows than people, still not that many cows.) Deer from the mountains, corn from the river valley, apples from the orchards made the bulk of the meal. Local, green, and organic done the old way and the right way; minus the hipsters. The apple pie they served there has ruined apple pie for me. I will never have a piece that even comes close.

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from WA Mtnhunter wrote 16 weeks 6 days ago

No, but it makes you want to move to Kansas, well sort of...

How far from Wichita were you?

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from CPT BRAD wrote 16 weeks 6 days ago

WOW that is great. There are a few places where you can get a sunrise breakfast or a community fish fry but they are getting very rare indeed. Too little time and God forbid someone get sick! Its a shame that no one has time to even talk to people in the community, much less break bread and fellowship.

CPT B

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from Beekeeper wrote 16 weeks 6 days ago

WMH,

We hunted in Ulysses the first day. Dodge City and Pratt the second. Ulysses is about 220 miles from Wichita. Not a bad drive though... pretty farm country.

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from 007 wrote 16 weeks 6 days ago

Several of the local churches in our area put on a "hunter's supper" over the weekend prior to deer season opening. Great little country tradition, wonderful fare.

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from kolbster wrote 16 weeks 6 days ago

there is alot of stuff like that around here, my church has some kind of lunch or dinner about once a month so do most the other churches in the county, we still have family get-to-gather 2 times a year and the close family eats together every sunday. so there is always a good meal to look forward to.

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