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We have all heard comments while hunting that stay with us. I'll start with a few.
From a sheep guide in the Northwest Territories "I can tell how much a man has hunted by the size of the knife on his belt, the bigger the knife the less he has hunted."
From a camp cook in British Columbia "If dinner doesn't taste good you need another drink."
From a guide in Nevada "I'm a little concerned when a hunter shows up with. 243 or a 300 magnum."

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From an old-timer in deer camp when an ass-hole was giving one of the guys a load of crap for missing a deer:

"If you ain't missed, you haven't hunted much or ain't trying hard enough."

From the same old-timer, who got his buck every year, usually the biggest taken in camp. This was the story of how he took that year's buck:

"So I whipped out mah pecker, took a piss in the scrape, and this buck started gruntin' and came right in."




But my all-time favorite is this, said after any unsuccessful hunt: "That's why they call it huntin' and not killin."



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"You can't hit anything if you don't shoot at it."


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From my brother to my son, "You miss 100% of the shots you don't take."

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Buddy: Come check out my elk.

Me: Nice! Where’d you get him?

Buddy: Right in the shoulder.


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"Where is the best place to shoot an elk?"

"Right next to the road."



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"Not THAT one!!"

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Never found the elk, probably bullet failure or.I dug this bullet out of a dead elk I shot. Look at how this bullet failed.

Elk are tough and hard to kill.


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I hunted many years with the most successful whitetail hunter I've ever heard about. His advice to those who asked was, "You have to be ready to kill a deer." Which dove-tails with what a famous, now deceased, New Mexico outfitter whom I was lucky to hunt with several times told me: "Most hunters are too slow at the controls."

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Originally Posted by smokepole
"Where is the best place to shoot an elk?"

"Right next to the road."



Laughin' my @$$ off at that one!


"Never force anything, just get a bigger hammer".
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While goat hunting "the top is just over the next rise" right..........


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My 14 year old daughter before her first mule deer hunt told me she wanted a nice buck. One evening we were looking at a probably 140-150" 4x4 buck. She asked if she should shoot him. I told her 90% of people who had never shot a mule deer before would shoot him. She thought for a second then said, "I'm the other 10%."

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“He ain't killed enough little deer to be ready for a big one.”

Said by a grizzled hunter friend regarding a yuppie acquaintance who had just missed an easy shot at a big mule deer. The new hunter never hunted till he was 40, bought expensive gear and decided not to shoot anything but a “trophy”.

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Originally Posted by Ralphie
My 14 year old daughter before her first mule deer hunt told me she wanted a nice buck. One evening we were looking at a probably 140-150" 4x4 buck. She asked if she should shoot him. I told her 90% of people who had never shot a mule deer before would shoot him. She thought for a second then said, "I'm the other 10%."




Now that is priceless.



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Originally Posted by smokepole
Originally Posted by Ralphie
My 14 year old daughter before her first mule deer hunt told me she wanted a nice buck. One evening we were looking at a probably 140-150" 4x4 buck. She asked if she should shoot him. I told her 90% of people who had never shot a mule deer before would shoot him. She thought for a second then said, "I'm the other 10%."




Now that is priceless.


Yes! She's a winner for sure!

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The meat dont fry if the arrows dont fly.


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A Nation which leaves God behind is soon left behind.

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On why a hunter missed, "He was shakin like a dog chittin peach seeds".


Ecc 10:2
The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but that of a fool to the left.

A Nation which leaves God behind is soon left behind.

"The Lord never asked anyone to be a tax collector, lowyer, or Redskins fan".

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Not a hunting thing, but a successful charter boat captain in Kodiak once told me, when I showed an interest in his chart plotter;
" there's a lot of things out here to hit" referring to various rocks, reefs, and shoals in Chiniak Bay.

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My Dad a family friend and I used to all hunt together. There was only two bads in the camper so dad and i shared one and George got the other one to himself.

I was bitching to George about my dads knee in my back the night before, my dad says "Thats funny, you thought that was my knee aye"


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How is it luck? That's what I was aiming at. Luck would be not hitting it.


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