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 Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
[Re: BigRon]
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11/26/20 03:45 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." My uncle grew up on a farm outside Stockdale with his grandparents, who were sharecroppers. I think they had like 9 or 10 kids in the house. Anyway, there was one of my great Uncles, Sonny Boy, who according to everyone around him, could be kind of a turd. He died when i was around 5 or 6 years old and i don't remember him. Anyway, food was hard to come by apparently and they shot squirrels everyday for lunch with an old single shot .22 loaded with shorts. The gun was propped up against the door and everyone was at the table eating breakfast, my uncle ( 7 or 8 at the time i think ) turned around to look at something and Sonny Boy grabbed his biscuit and took off out the open door. My uncle spun around, grabbed the .22 and shot him square in the arse with a short. I asked him what happened after that, apparently he got a whooping for shooting his Uncle and Sonny got a whooping for being a thief.
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
[Re: Smokey Bear]
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11/26/20 04:02 PM
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[i][/i] “You two look like you’ve been washing cats.” - my wife after the first time I took my dog woodcock hunting. That’s awesome
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
[Re: Texas Dan]
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11/27/20 03:17 AM
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"Look at the cross hairs not the deer".
" I don't know what it is but we got us one".
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
[Re: Texas Dan]
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11/27/20 11:54 AM
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Shoot low Sherriff he's riding a Shetland.
Shoot him in the pants the coat's mine.
"You may all go to hell and I will go to Texas".
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
[Re: txtrophy85]
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11/27/20 06:44 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." My uncle grew up on a farm outside Stockdale with his grandparents, who were sharecroppers. I think they had like 9 or 10 kids in the house. Anyway, there was one of my great Uncles, Sonny Boy, who according to everyone around him, could be kind of a turd. He died when i was around 5 or 6 years old and i don't remember him. Anyway, food was hard to come by apparently and they shot squirrels everyday for lunch with an old single shot .22 loaded with shorts. The gun was propped up against the door and everyone was at the table eating breakfast, my uncle ( 7 or 8 at the time i think ) turned around to look at something and Sonny Boy grabbed his biscuit and took off out the open door. My uncle spun around, grabbed the .22 and shot him square in the arse with a short. I asked him what happened after that, apparently he got a whooping for shooting his Uncle and Sonny got a whooping for being a thief. 
God is so good to me.
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
[Re: Texas Dan]
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11/28/20 05:08 PM
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My father used to say "You kill game with your feet and your eyes, the rifle is simply the tool used to complete the job."
I have found that to be sound wisdom.
Retired Navy Chief
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
[Re: BigRon]
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11/28/20 06:34 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." Good one
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
[Re: Texas Dan]
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11/28/20 08:04 PM
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pertnear
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After someone shot & missed, my uncle would say:
"At least you gave 'em the thrill of the hunt!"
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” - George Orwell
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
[Re: Texas Dan]
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11/29/20 05:10 AM
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Odds are that anyone who has ever been on a lease with several members has heard a member say "No, I didn't shoot" (and you know from where the sound came that it had to be him and that he missed big time!)
No prayer in school....What's next, no thinking in church?
It's not just about pie in the sky when you die. It's also about steak on your plate while you wait!
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
[Re: Texas Dan]
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11/29/20 01:07 PM
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"You can't get a deer sitting on the couch at home"
my FIL would say when he heard some shots:
1. hear only one shot - got him
2. hear 2 shots - needed two to finish him off
3. hear 3 or more shots- he definitely missed him
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
[Re: Texas Dan]
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12/01/20 08:55 PM
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"Wack em and stack em, shoot em in the head so you aint gotta track em"
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
[Re: Texas Dan]
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12/02/20 11:14 AM
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If you ain’t gonna eat it don’t shoot it. My Dad. He made me eat a black bird .
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
[Re: txtrophy85]
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12/02/20 07:19 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." My uncle grew up on a farm outside Stockdale with his grandparents, who were sharecroppers. I think they had like 9 or 10 kids in the house. Anyway, there was one of my great Uncles, Sonny Boy, who according to everyone around him, could be kind of a turd. He died when i was around 5 or 6 years old and i don't remember him. Anyway, food was hard to come by apparently and they shot squirrels everyday for lunch with an old single shot .22 loaded with shorts. The gun was propped up against the door and everyone was at the table eating breakfast, my uncle ( 7 or 8 at the time i think ) turned around to look at something and Sonny Boy grabbed his biscuit and took off out the open door. My uncle spun around, grabbed the .22 and shot him square in the arse with a short. I asked him what happened after that, apparently he got a whooping for shooting his Uncle and Sonny got a whooping for being a thief. That's outstanding
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
[Re: Texas Dan]
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12/03/20 03:35 PM
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Texas Dan
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"Deer stands have a magnetic attraction for any deer hunter. He learns from his pals that many deer have been killed from Patterson's Rock or the Twin-Oak Stand, or Skunk Gully; he swells mentally in anticipation as he approaches any of these hallowed spots, knowing that when the drive comes through, his chances of killing that whitetail buck are better than those of the unfortunates who may be watching less favored areas. Every deer club has these sacred spots, and scared the are, indeed. They have achieved reputations simply because deer favor these places for moving from hideout to hideout." - Lawrence R. Koller, Shots at Whitetails (1948)
If you've ever been on deer drive, you know how it feels when hunting one of these "sacred spots".
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"Some people will never like you because your spirit irritates their demons."
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
[Re: Texas Dan]
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12/03/20 06:35 PM
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"Look pardner, you don't have to get all upset and point your gun at me. I'll let you have your moose. Just let me get my saddle off of him."
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
[Re: Texas Dan]
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12/03/20 06:36 PM
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"Doctor said that you're gonna die!"
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
[Re: Palehorse]
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12/05/20 02:03 PM
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I touched her off
My old buddy from Michigan would say when he would tell me one of his hunting stories
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
[Re: Mohawk Man]
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12/05/20 10:28 PM
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If you ain’t gonna eat it don’t shoot it. My Dad. He made me eat a black bird .
LOL! Have been there. Went dove hunting with my brother, couldn't tell which ones were doves. I came back with one, my brother had 14 doves and a woodpecker. Darned if he didn't eat it, and I got glasses that year 
Jordan
"It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them." -- G. K. Chesterton
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
[Re: Tw0fish]
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12/05/20 10:36 PM
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If you ain’t gonna eat it don’t shoot it. My Dad. He made me eat a black bird .
LOL! Have been there. Went dove hunting with my brother, couldn't tell which ones were doves. I came back with one, my brother had 14 doves and a woodpecker. Darned if he didn't eat it, and I got glasses that year That happened to me a wood pecker n a rain crow was thrown in the gravy with the doves if I did eat one r the other I couldn’t tell it
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
[Re: Texas Dan]
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12/06/20 11:18 PM
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“Son, best advise I can give you is marry a girl with small hands”
Not so much a hunting quote, but we were at the deer lease when my grandfather said that to me. I was 7 or 8 at the time. It was another 7 or 8 years later when I fully understood what he was talking about
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
[Re: 270Sendero]
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12/15/20 12:34 AM
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“It’s hell eatin’em alive!” Can’t remember...
One old grizzled fishing guide once said of me:
“John’s a pretty good boy, he just s#*+s too close to the house!”
SFH
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
[Re: Texas Dan]
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12/15/20 02:12 PM
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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
[Re: Texas Dan]
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12/15/20 05:53 PM
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Joelk54
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
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12/15/20 06:53 PM
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I don't know if that is considered an "Old hunting Quote." I hear it every year from somebody.
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Re: Time for a few more old hunting quotes
[Re: Texas Dan]
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12/25/20 04:33 AM
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https://www.fieldandstream.com/articles/hunting/2016/06/fs%E2%80%99s-110-best-hunting-tips/
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