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Time for a few more old hunting quotes
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11/22/20 12:32 AM
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Texas Dan
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"The truth is, most guides are not smart enough to hold down a steady job at the local sawmill, and are obliged to choose between guiding and burglary." - Ed Zern, To Hell with Hunting (1946)
"Man is a fugitive from nature." - Jose Ortega Y Gasset, Meditations on Hunting (1942)
"There are few things most outdoor-minded men pride themselves on more than the ability to build a good fire." - Gene Hill, Log Fires (1967)
"I know of no more common fault among parents. No matter how zealously guarded a boy's life may be, the time will almost certainly come when he will either handle firearms, or find himself in the company of other boys who are doing so, and in either case his chance of emerging from the affair in a watertight condition is in direct proportion to the familiarity the participants have with the weapon." - Burton Spiller, More Grouse Feathers (1938)
"It is regrettable that of the hundreds of thousands of deer hunters spread throughout our whitetail deer country only a few spend sufficient time in the woods for absorbing some knowledge of deer habits." - Lawrence R. Koller, Shots at Whitetails (1948)
Last edited by Texas Dan; 11/22/20 12:38 AM.
"When the debate is lost, insults become the tool of the loser."
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
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11/22/20 12:42 AM
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Dave Davidson
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Watertight condition. I like that.
Without a sense of urgency, nothing ever happens.
Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley, Rancher Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
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11/22/20 02:43 PM
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batman
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"I thought he was bigger" - Every deer hunter.
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
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11/22/20 03:00 PM
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Biscuit
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Fires have become easier for sure
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
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11/22/20 04:09 PM
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SnakeWrangler
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Stay the hell out of my stand....me to whoever keeps using it!
I believe in science and I’m an insufferable [censored] Actually, BBC is pretty damn good "You Cannot Simultaneously Be Politically Correct And Intellectually Honest!"
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
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11/22/20 04:11 PM
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Stay the hell out of my stand....me to whoever keeps using it! I couldn’t even imagine it
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
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11/22/20 04:44 PM
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603Country
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My Dad, talking about my oldest daughter’s first husband: “son, that boy sure dresses in fancy hunting clothes, but he can’t hunt for s___”. And true dat wuz.
Not my monkeys, not my circus...
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
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11/22/20 05:36 PM
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rmp
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"He grouped his last five shots right in the center of the bull's-eye. Then I showed him my technique of scattering shots randomly around the target because, as I explained, you never know which way the deer might jump just as you pull the trigger." —The Hunting Lesson, February 1983, Patrick F McManus
Jameson Peak Ranch Trophy Whitetails "Lets go hunt a BIG one."
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
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11/23/20 12:59 AM
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"A man and a gun and a star and a beast are still ponderables in a world full of imponderables"
Robert Chester Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953
"I always take care to fire into the nearest hillside and, lacking that, into darkness". - the late Dr. Hunter S. Thompson
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
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11/23/20 05:38 PM
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Erny
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"He grouped his last five shots right in the center of the bull's-eye. Then I showed him my technique of scattering shots randomly around the target because, as I explained, you never know which way the deer might jump just as you pull the trigger." —The Hunting Lesson, February 1983, Patrick F McManus One of the most humorous authors ever.
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
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11/23/20 05:54 PM
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jeffbird
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Lots of good ones from W.A. Bill Maltsberger from whom I relearned deer management, deer hunting, and a lot of wisdom for life.
On whether to shoot a deer or let it go, "Err in favor of the animal and the ranch."
On the same question of whether to shoot a particular deer: "It should either clearly be a trophy or a cull."
"It is not going to grow any bigger or older once it is on the ground."
On fancy rifles: "Any horse too fancy to ride is too fancy to own."
Whenever he saw someone with weak shooting skills: "let's put the dogs on standby."
From my dad: "The odds of seeing a good one are better out hunting than sitting at home."
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
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#8061546
11/23/20 06:55 PM
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Alloutdoors
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"Shooting afield without the aid of a trained dog is very poor sport indeed, but nevertheless much better than to be vexed with an uncultivated, obstinate dog who is the source of constant annoyance and anger." Ed. F. Haberlein, The Amateur Trainer, 1908
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
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11/23/20 07:03 PM
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wsjaxIV
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"Don't pass on one the first day that you wouldn't pass on the last day." This one hosed me earlier this year. I took a nice but not outstanding buck on the first day of a four day hunt and then saw at least six bucks that were better than the one I shot. I am also aware that the hunting gods would have had their way with me if I had passed on the first one. That seems to be the way it works.
"The world is littered with the bodies of people that tried to stick it to ole J.R."
J.R. Ewing, 1981
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
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11/23/20 07:47 PM
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Stratgolfer
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My target buck last year came out from behind some trees to see the buck I had just dropped in the feeder pen.......
"I was called by the Yorkers a outlaw, and later by the english a rebel" Ethan Allen
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
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#8061981
11/24/20 12:29 AM
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tlk
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my Dad always told me - forget what you are seeing or not seeing when hunting a trophy - you are only hunting for ONE DEER -
You can't fix stupid
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
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11/24/20 01:44 PM
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hook_n_line
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Aim small miss small keep it in the fur.
Sometimes it's hard being me! But somebody has to do it.
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
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11/24/20 08:45 PM
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LeonCarr
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If you want to eat it, don't shoot the eatin' parts!
Just my .02, LeonCarr
"Whitetail Deer are extinct because of rifles with telescopes mounted on them." - My 11th Grade English Teacher
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
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11/25/20 09:02 PM
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Smokey Bear
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Big bodied but not much horns.
Smokey Bear---Lone Star State.
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
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11/25/20 09:08 PM
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Smokey Bear
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“You two look like you’ve been washing cats.” - my wife after the first time I took my dog woodcock hunting.
Smokey Bear---Lone Star State.
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11/25/20 09:56 PM
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rmp
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He suffered from ground shrinkage.
Jameson Peak Ranch Trophy Whitetails "Lets go hunt a BIG one."
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
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#8064592
11/25/20 10:37 PM
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My uncle when hunting rabbits with his pack of beagles: "Make sure everyone uses .22 shorts, it'll be easier to patch up the dogs and the kids."
God is so good to me.
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
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#8064608
11/25/20 10:49 PM
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Dave Davidson
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That deer seems to have a hitch in his gitalong.
Without a sense of urgency, nothing ever happens.
Boy, if I say "sic em", you'd better look for something to bite. Sam Shelley, Rancher Muleshoe Texas 1892-1985 RIP
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
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11/26/20 12:04 AM
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
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11/26/20 12:16 AM
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my favorite rebuttal to that was always "yeah, and a ham steak looks bad up on the wall"
For it is not the quarry that we truly seek, but the adventure.
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
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#8064771
11/26/20 12:25 AM
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stxranchman
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Are idiots multiplying faster than normal people?
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