Like a snipe hunt. That’s how we got the soon to be initiated out into the brush. The old snipe hunt ruse.
i had forgotten about the snipe hunts, and how many whacks my legs got that night.. Boyscouts built character, nobody got too upset about the abuse we used to heap on each other. I knew guys that were mamas boys. Everybody knew who they were and only pushed them till they almost broke. Nd each time it took more and more until they were less mamas boys and more someone you could depend on in the field. No safe spaces allowed . everyone got hazed.
How about your left handed smoke shifter? I did the snipe hunt on my first summer camp in the late 60s.