Originally Posted by ruffcutt
...that flopping around like a fish, we've coined that "flipperin'". One day out shooting 'dogs with a friend there was a marginally hit one doing it's best to flop it's way back to it's hole. My buddy couldn't quite spit out the correct word for it and it came out "git that flipperin' one". It was so funny at the time I couldn't shoot for laughin'.
The term stuck and is still good for a laugh.
We call it "Trouting" like when you pull a trout out of the water and onto the bank. eg.- "Hey, he's troutin'" or "He's doin the trout!"

Last edited by Bodei; 04/19/12.