The exploding Gurkha Trick

[karmaz00]

sorry for your luck

[tx_tuff]

I can't remember the last time I smoked a Gurkha! Guess you will not be buying any more of them the way it sounds.

Ok I'm not dogging Gurkha, to be honest I can't even remember the last one I smoked or what it tasted like, just a little something I notice about them. It seems a lot of new people to cigars get Gurkha crazy at first and love to buy them up and smoke them, then after time, it may take a few years, these same people don't smoke them at all! I think you can get better cigars at a cheaper price and that is prob the main reason. I think they get the new people because of their marketing including the Boxes, cool names, bands, tubes, etc.... Who knows, could be I'm just a dumba$$ and don't know what I'm talking about LOL

[Super64]

Hmmm.

Not very nice.

Although I can say, I smoke Gurkha's regularly lately and haven't had that happen........yet.......

[Dangle]

That's awesome

[fiddlegrin]

Typically I have only experienced this if it has been a rather cold air temperature/ smoking outside in winter...

Bummer!!!

I think Issacs comment about getting the band off sooner sounds logical and will try to remember that this January :brrrrrrr:



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[smokinggun]

Had a batch of Gurkha Regents that did something similiar but that was my only negative experience wuth Gurkha.

[Nurse_Maduro]

Originally Posted by tx_tuff

I can't remember the last time I smoked a Gurkha! Guess you will not be buying any more of them the way it sounds.

Ok I'm not dogging Gurkha, to be honest I can't even remember the last one I smoked or what it tasted like, just a little something I notice about them. It seems a lot of new people to cigars get Gurkha crazy at first and love to buy them up and smoke them, then after time, it may take a few years, these same people don't smoke them at all! I think you can get better cigars at a cheaper price and that is prob the main reason. I think they get the new people because of their marketing including the Boxes, cool names, bands, tubes, etc.... Who knows, could be I'm just a dumba$$ and don't know what I'm talking about LOL

I can't speak for anyone else, but they got me with a $200 box of sticks for $80 at an online store...and they tasted so good I had to find more. Actually, I think the bands are a pain in the butt. On a robusto, they take up half the cigar, ffs!

Anywhoo, I can't say I've ever had the exploding happen...Gurkha or not.

[Flux]

Originally Posted by Cypress

Now this is funny!!

Now that was funny.

Last cigar I had the wrapper split on was a Camacho 10th Anni which was a pisser as I had just lit it. All $12.95 of it. I managed to slide the band up a little and get the draw fixed but it still made it awkward to smoke.

[ericb13]

I had that happen on several cigars a few weeks ago when we were having mega amounts of rain and the humidity was close to 100%. I really believe the out air humidity to be the cause, since I haven't had the problem since the weather got back to normal.