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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."
A wise man is frequently humbled.
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"You can't hit anything if you don't shoot at it."
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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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.
~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~
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"Where is the best place to shoot an elk?"
"Right next to the road."
A wise man is frequently humbled.
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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.
If God wanted you to walk and carry things on your back, He would not have invented stirrups and pack saddles
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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."
RS
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"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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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.
A wise man is frequently humbled.
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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%."
Now that is priceless. Yes! She's a winner for sure!
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The meat dont fry if the arrows dont fly.
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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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"
Paul
"I'd rather see a sermon than hear a sermon".... D.A.D.
Trump Won!, Sandmann Won!, Rittenhouse Won!, Suck it Liberal Fuuktards.
molɔ̀ːn labé skýla
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How is it luck? That's what I was aiming at. Luck would be not hitting it.
_______________________________________________________ An 8 dollar driveway boy living in a T-111 shack
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