Don't saddle a dead horse.

My daughter 10 called me one day around noon I was in the tree I answered whispering. She wanted to know where something was. She said why are you whispering and I said because I'm hunting. She said Well KILL SOMETHING!
So now the new saying is KILL SOMETHING!

This season was the first time I've heard toilet paper referred to as "$hit Tickets." That one gave me a chuckle.

When asked what type of deer my Uncle was looking for, he always responded, "Buck, Doe, Methodist or Morphrodite"....

It wasn't until I was much older when this finally "clicked"....

Touche'.

Used to go with Mr. McKoy, an old Ag teacher, headed out to use nature's facilities - "I've got a long distance phone call from Mrs. Murphy". (before cell phones).

From a little 9 yo kid who was dove hunting with us on his dad's place when his mom and dad were not home.
"That's mine gd it. I shot the chit out of that em ef er". Should have seen the action that ensued when his mom drove up to the house and could hear him hollering that all the way across the field. It was pretty special.
My brothers and I naturally picked that up and when there wasn't any wives or kids around it got repeated a few times dove hunting. LOL

More an occasion than a saying but after my high school bud that had never hunted shot his smallish deer one foggy morning on our lease in South Texas. My Dad is instructing and helping him with the cleaning job.They start on the rear area and Dad says, "Curtis, is this your first?". Curtis says, "yes first deer, doe". My Dad says, "no, first buck, that deer has huevos son". From that point on, "that deer has huevos" was a saying for us.

One other good South Texas one after my younger brother John laid siege to 3-4 Javelina. We asked him in camp what he shot and he said "I shot a Javelina" with much pride. From that point on John got badgerd by us with "I shot a Javelina, Javelina". Pretty certain he shot not many more afterwards. Lol

An early one from Dad, "better to be pissed off than pissed on".

I hunted with my dad and several of his "oldtimer" buddies most of my life. One in particular, when dropping someone off at a stand would always say, "shoot a moose" (meaning shoot a big one). I took a fairly green hunter out one time to our family place and when I dropped him off, I told him to shoot a moose. He looked at me for a second and in all seriousness, asked me if we had moose out here??

Whenever my dad would get relaxed after a long day or hunting, working or whatever, usually at the end of a hot day and after a shower, he would walk into a room and say, "I feel more like I do now than when I got here". I miss him!

My favorite is, "You can't kill what isn't there". Another, when the hunting is slow, "We don't quit and we don't whine".
Adios,
Gary

my dad used to have a few sayings:

about really big deer ... old Toab (not toad), moss horns or a 17-1/2 point.

Also referred to killing very young deer asking "did you knock the spots off when the bullet hit?" or "did you wipe the milk off it's lips before gutting?"

also referred to making deer camp coffee as being so strong you could stand a spoon up in it

yep, miss him a lot!

"Anybody can shoot a great big old boar, but it takes a lot more skill to shoot the little piglets."

When someone had to shoot a deer quite a few times to kill him we would say "He died of lead poisoning"

Years ago, my brother and I both in a brush duck blind, cold and drizzling rain, I said " I wouldn't work in this $hitty weather for anybody ". That was repeated several times through the years ......

My personal favorite is

“It’s Always something”

If fits and can be used for any bad situation.

When the hunting is slow, usually while Dove hunting and not seeing many birds, can always count on my dad shouting across the field/tank "Where are all the White Women at?!"

As I've grown older and have no desire to sit in extreme wet and/or cold...

"I don't hate them anymore."

And from my days when I ran coonhounds...

"When the tailgate drops, the bull...stops."

For bow hunters who talk about their slow season so far....I haven’t pulled back once

My brother and I spent some year growing up in South FL. The black folks there had a funny way of talking. We text back and forth South FL black talk... here’s an example

You seed any of dem boobalicious swamp donkeys?

Nah just dem pointy nosed white boys (young white tail bucks)

Eeewwww boyyy hera come a big ole stanky beeeotch...
I’m finna slang one at her...

I know we are crazy but always laughing about it