Erik Nording's Hunter Blend

[Au Sable Bob]

Since McClelland's suspended operations, I am looking for a substitute for their Hunter Blend Retriever pipe tobacco. I was able to snag up about 10 tins of it before the stock was exhausted and no longer available. Has anyone found a similar mixture which might be a good substitute? Thank you.

 

[icerunoff]

Since McClelland's suspended operations, I am looking for a substitute for their Hunter Blend Retriever pipe tobacco. I was able to snag up about 10 tins of it before the stock was exhausted and no longer available. Has anyone found a similar mixture which might be a good substitute? Thank you.

Au Sable Bob, I'm afraid that I don't have a substitute that comes to mind, but I have to mention that I love your Tom Crean avatar. The most unsung hero of the Shackleton expeditions, and a great explorer. I have a framed picture of him with the puppies that Frank Hurley took during the Endurance Trans-Antarctic expedition on my wall. Great choice!

 

[Au Sable Bob]

Au Sable Bob, I'm afraid that I don't have a substitute that comes to mind, but I have to mention that I love your Tom Crean avatar. The most unsung hero of the Shackleton expeditions, and a great explorer. I have a framed picture of him with the puppies that Frank Hurley took during the Endurance Trans-Antarctic expedition on my wall. Great choice!

Thank you icerunoff. I like your avatar of Joshua Chamberlain as well. Chamberlain was a wonderful example of courage, calmness, and leadership under fire. A few years back, my wife and I vacationed in Ireland. We passed through Anascaul where Tom Crean operated The South Pole Inn. The more I learned about him, the more interested I became. If you have not already read his biography, you may find the book 'An Unsung Hero - Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor' by Michael Smith as enjoyable and informative a read as I have. A remarkable man indeed!

 

[SeanConnery]

What do you reckon the ratio of bright to black is in this blend?

 

[icerunoff]

Thank you icerunoff. I like your avatar of Joshua Chamberlain as well. Chamberlain was a wonderful example of courage, calmness, and leadership under fire. A few years back, my wife and I vacationed in Ireland. We passed through Anascaul where Tom Crean operated The South Pole Inn. The more I learned about him, the more interested I became. If you have not already read his biography, you may find the book 'An Unsung Hero - Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor' by Michael Smith as enjoyable and informative a read as I have. A remarkable man indeed!

As a matter of fact, I have that book on my bookshelf, hence my "unsung hero" quip. I also have "Tom Crean, An Illustrated Life" with most of the surviving photographs of him. I even bought a children's book, "Tom Crean's Rabbit", for my kids.

Chamberlain is a hero of mine, and I named my son after my 4x great uncle who served under Chamberlain, and died on Little Round Top. Sorry to turn your blend substitute thread into a history narrative, but both of those guys were awesome! Best luck with the blend search!

 

[StompyMcFat]

Well, sir I went over to Tobacco Reviews to confirm my memory of this blend. I remember a Carmel aromatic that was reminiscent of Molto Dolce but not as flavored and very good . I wanted to make sure my memory wasn't off before I posted this.
I found out that there were several blends in a Nording Hunter series. The names of each blend in the series is a breed of sporting dogs.
Retriever, Labrador, and Pointer are all aromatics, and I'm not now sure which one I had.
Fox Hound is fittingly an English blend
Beagle was a VA/Per.

I think I had the English and one of the aros but I didn't keep track of which ones they were.

 

[Au Sable Bob]

clean smoking, lightly sweet and mellow taste from a blend of premium Virginias and cavendish tobaccos. A classic you'll be retrieving over and over for your pipe smoking pleasure.

BrandNording
Blended ByMcClelland Tobacco Company
Blend TypeAromatic
ContentsCavendish, Virginia
FlavoringAlcohol / Liquor, Other / Misc
CutCoarse Cut
Packaging50 grams tin
CountryUS
Production

 

[Fly Angler Russell]

I was a devotee of Nording's hunter blends, and it was easily available at a local shop. When the shop owner told me the Nording's was no longer available, I tried a couple of other blends in the shop... and found zero satisfaction. So I researched Nording's blend, and read that it was composed of "wonderful bright Virginias mixed with mellow Burleys and rounded out by soft, sweet black Cavendish. Black Cavendish, Burley, Virginia." So I researched pipe tobaccos comprised of similar leaf. I tried a few then settled on 4th Generation Morning Blend Pipe Tobacco, which is available at www.tobaccopipes.com. It has a great nose, tastes good and mellow, and doesn't leave a lot of gunk in my pipe. In every aspect, it reminds me of the Nording Hunter blends... minus the cool hunting breed names.

 

[Uncle_Floyd]

Thank you icerunoff. I like your avatar of Joshua Chamberlain as well. Chamberlain was a wonderful example of courage, calmness, and leadership under fire. A few years back, my wife and I vacationed in Ireland. We passed through Anascaul where Tom Crean operated The South Pole Inn. The more I learned about him, the more interested I became. If you have not already read his biography, you may find the book 'An Unsung Hero - Tom Crean - Antarctic Survivor' by Michael Smith as enjoyable and informative a read as I have. A remarkable man indeed!

While Chamberlain, to me, was on the opposing side, I certainly admire how he treated the Confederate troops at the surrender. If people only had that same goodwill in todays world toward those men.

 

[Pipey McGee]

I actually think the Country Squire’s Choctaw might be in the same ballpark:

Choctaw (Virginias and Cavendish) - The Country Squire Tobacconist

A unique blend of various Virginias and delicious black Cavendish. A real crowd-pleaser. Choctaw was originally Cherokee #1. In the mid-1990s, Cherokee #2 was rebranded "Cherokee" and Cherokee #1 was renamed "Choctaw". There was a Cherokee #3, but a key blending ingredient for that tobacco...

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