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After an unsuccessful hunt for mule deer in the mountains where I saw many deer signs, while relating to my friend whose only comment was:
"I don't have any recipes for tracks"
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When my son was young, we were hunting mule deer. Peeked into a little valley, and there were three does, close to us, and one pretty good buck that was trying to sneak away... My son fixated on the three does. I told him several times "shoot the buck, shoot it now." He apparently couldn't see it, plain as day, 125 yards away...
Finally, just before it got away, I shot the danged thing. John said "Oh, that buck!"
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About 20 years ago, the State of Maryland raised our bag limits for deer to 6 bucks and 30 does. So me and a guy that works for me had a contest to see who could kill the most deer.
Our favorite saying was, "If it's brown, it's down." I ran into a couple of terrific guys - hispanics - hunting deer last year and when we were joking around about shooting the first legal buck we'd find on public land, I made the mistake of using that phrase... Sigh...
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Went hunting with a good ol boy who borrowed a rifle from Sam, his brother-in-law, for the day hunt. He missed a fork horn mule deer standing still 40 yards away. Then he turned to me and said, “Sam told me that the rifle shoots to the right... or to the left, but I can't remember which.”
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Another one from the wife. Prior to our meeting, and after her divorce, she continued to take her sons hunting. She killed an antelope, and was going to teach them how to “field dress”. Apparently pre-rehearsed, they said...”You shot it, you clean it”! Several years later, her son killed his first moose....I guess you know how this went. Pay-back is hell! memtb
You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong." -Bob Hagel
“I’d like to be a good rifleman…..but, I prefer to be a good hunter”! memtb 2024
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"Pop, an old 30-30 won't even reach that far, let alone kill an elk."
Grandpa replied, "This one will- it's been trained."
Then he proved it.
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Got checked by a warden in the parking area of a state park while pheasant hunting. As he was looking at our licenses the dog takes a dump in the middle of the parking lot.
Warden: “Are you gonna pick that up?”
Dog’s owner: “No, you can have it”
That one is great! 
Now with even more aplomb
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A 7-8 year old kid we knew, speaking to his father when we were loading up to hunt:
"Dad, didn't you say that animals see black and white?
"Yeah, son, they do."
"Well we better take somebody else's truck, because yours is black."
The guy then said to us, "I'm beginning to wonder about that boy....."
Now with even more aplomb
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You hit the stone not the sheep. After a guy missed.
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