Cigars

[Luke MacGillie]

Another interesting bit of info in the article was that there was a factory in Mexico in the 1820's producing packages of corn husk wrapped cigarettes for the commercial trade. These came in 32 smokes to the pack. That leaves me somewhat conflicted, as at least for Southwest fur trade, an unfiltered camel may just be as correct as a CVA hawken and a machine sewn tent......

 

[Brokennock]

It's been said cigars were "common" a few times here but I can't recall reading anything from the period (off the top of my head) where the writer mentions smoking a cigar, but I seem to recall pipes being mentioned.

Hate to burst a bubble but Perodis are made in PA.
by Avanti, http://avanticigar.com/our-cigars/
I smoke their Avanti anisette cigars on stand,the licorice scent reminds me of the red all season either sex deer attractant leaves put out by one of the hunting scent companies.

The store I worked for had a small stash of legal pre embargo Cuban tobbacco, the owners wife and one other person would roll it in the customer's wrapper of choice for special events. It was define. Current Cuban cigars are not what made Cuban's famous. All the talent left with their seeds when Castro took over. Give me any of the Le Fleur Dominica Double Ligero Chisel tips any day, or a classicly rolled Berger & Argenti El Tubar, oddly enough I am also enjoying the new Kentucky Fire Cured cigars, they remind me of my favorite Balkan Blend pipe tobaccos.

 

[Alden]

LOL NOW you're talkin' Sir! I'd walk a mile for a Camel too but we need to discuss your Zippo...

Yeah, I know it's "old," but, ya see Luke, that's not exactly what we mean when we talk about flint, wheel, and match lock, OK!?

:grin:

 

[Rick Boylan]

I am not a smoker by any measure, but I like an cigar once in a great while. I usually smoke one at the weekly biker night during the summer, but in winter it's too cold outside to want to sit and freeze and smoke my stogies. I favor Macanudo portifinos or Hampton court cigars. Once in a while I like the Makers Mark ones because of the whiskey taste infused into the tobacco. I hate cigs. The smell is just terrible and I don't like inhailing the smoke. I just puff.

I've been tempted to take up an occational pipe smoking habit too, just because some here make it sound more relaxing. But I wonder just how much more relaxing it is to smoke a pipe as it is to puff my cigar and watch the smoke drift off into the air.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Grow Hops not Tobacco! :grin:

 

[Alden]

The Macanudo Portifino gives me a headache -- likr them otherwise but true! Pipes are as much ritualistic as anything. You need tools. There's style. An ongoing process. The good news is there's variety, you can smoke as little or as much as you want (unlike a cigar which you must be committed to smoke from start to distant finish), and they're easier to keep safe and carry for many assorted bowl-fulls generally speaking.

In my haversack I carry pipe tobacco in a handsome reddish deerskin tobacco pouch. Hidden perfectly therein is a long, narrow, Ziplock bag made for snacks... Always something nice within that again -- maybe some Sir Walter Raleigh at the moment actually -- hey, it's period, LOL. I use a twig or an unpointed nail for a tamper.

 

[henry65]

Rifleman1776 said Don't know if I'm going off topic here but this is a true cigar story.
I have a friend, an ml'er, who is essentially a non-smoker. But when he goes deer hunting several cigars are part of his gear. He smokes them while on his stand. And, he has filled his tags every year since childhood. Not sure if the smoke smell attracts the deer or if it camoflages the human odor. :idunno: But it works for him.

I know of another man who a friend says you could smell his cigar while hunting a mile away and most of the time he was the only one out of the group to bag a deer :hatsoff:

 

[tenngun]

A pipe will give you a choice of flavors far beyond the best cigars. Real good cigars still have that flavor pecular to cigars found in the cheapest and the best. The variity avalibe to pipes is seemingly endless. And easier then cigars to cutomise that day. A little ceader, or periwinkle today, a drop or two of rum,brandy or whiskies tomorrow. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar, but a pipe is a smoke....yes I know that three different qouats :haha:

 

[Shooey]

Smoking a pipe is like shooting a flintlock. If you like fiddling with stuff to get it just right, you'll enjoy a pipe. And tengun is right, there are more flavors to explore with a pipe.

 

[coloradoclyde]

Rifleman1776 said Don't know if I'm going off topic here but this is a true cigar story.
I have a friend, an ml'er, who is essentially a non-smoker. But when he goes deer hunting several cigars are part of his gear. He smokes them while on his stand. And, he has filled his tags every year since childhood. Not sure if the smoke smell attracts the deer or if it camoflages the human odor. :idunno: But it works for him.

I know of another man who a friend says you could smell his cigar while hunting a mile away and most of the time he was the only one out of the group to bag a deer :hatsoff:

To paraphrase Bear Claw Chris Lapp !
“Deer don’t know what a cigar is”

couriosity killed the [strike]cat[/strike] DEER.

 

[cynthialee]

I don't like pipes. I only get halfway through the tobacco in the pipe and it turns nasty.
Also I feel like I look silly smoking on a pipe.

 

[Alden]

How do you look smoking on a cigar CynthiaLee? And if you want to tast tobacco does it really matter!?

 

[Wes/Tex]

I don't like pipes. I only get halfway through the tobacco in the pipe and it turns nasty.
Also I feel like I look silly smoking on a pipe.

There's a couple of secrets...well, maybe not secrets, to correctly tamping a pipe's initial filling; lighting and tamping to start and tamping the ash from time to time. The taste will vary according to whether the tobacco is Aromatic or Non-Aromatic which actually means natural or flavored. some of the British type mixes smoke smoother but Latakia tobacco isn't everyone's bag. Like Perique, it's unique taste either you like or you don't. Bought an ounce of Latakia once just to see if it was usable on it's own. It was smooth and enjoyable but I was cordially invited to "get the hell" out of the building! :haha: Those NASA guys just have no taste for the classics! :rotf:

 

[Silex]

:rotf:

I love my little bit of Latakia.
As probably everybody I started with sweet flavoured pipe tobacco which was quite accepted by almost everybody. Well after moving to the dark side of pipe smoking - I usually smoke when out hunting not to get similar effects like you :grin:

 

[cynthialee]

My daddy used to smoke a pipe on occasion. He showed me all those pipe smoking tricks and I must do it all wrong. Still tastes nasty halfway through the bowl. The first half ain't bad at all and is rather pleasant. I ended up throwing away as much tobacco as I smoked when I tried a pipe.

 

[palonghunter]

It depends on the pipe too. If you get a bad pipe, it won't give you a nice smoke no matter what you do. I've actually had pretty good luck with cheapo corncob pipes.

 

[Katahdin]

The tobacco on the bottom of the bowl is filtering the smoke from the top and that is where you get the bad taste from in the end of the smoking ,, and smoking to fast/hard will add to the problem as well ..

 

[crockett]

MacArthur had it right- longer bowl, better. Corn cob.

 

[tenngun]

If your dad showed you how to load and smoke, and he was a life long smoker, you no doubt do it right. It might be the type of tobacco you are smoking. Never buy the stuff they sell in regular stores. The canned or boxed stuff has preservatives and often sugars in it for flavor smell of the smoke and to keep 'fresh' on the shelf until sold. Try the smoke sold in a tobacco store that sells just pipes tobacco and cigars. Bulk tobacco will be free of that stuff and smoke cleaner to the end.
My wife smokes some of my pipes at times, and there is a girl at the tobacconist I deal with that smokes pretty regular. You garden, shoot front stuffers, hunt and own land in a pretty state...you sound like one of those 'perfect' women. I marriered one of those perfect women' (she was drunk when I met her) and she looks cute with a pipe. :wink:

 

[Wes/Tex]

Also remember that they'll all be a bit "rough" till they break in and build up a little cake in the bowl. All the advice here is good...one of the smoothest smoking is the good old corn cob. Smoke'm till they darken and give'm a toss! New one's a whole $5.00 or less sometimes! :wink: