Famous Hunting Quotes....or not

One cold, miserable, New Years Eve, a friend and I had followed the hounds over too many mountains. As we sat catching our breath, he said, "Our wives think that we are really having fun."
 
Deno, to Biker noting bullet hole in coveralls, and blood.

Deno: Damn, I bet that hurts.

Biker: Shut up and drive me to the hospital, and yes we are finished with this contest.
 
From Aldo Leopold

"The recreational value of a head of game is inverse to the artificiality of its origin".
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Game Management (1933)

Very intensive game- or fish-management lowers the unit value of the trophy by artificializing it.
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Conservation Esthetic

and:

In those days we had never heard of passing up a chance to kill a wolf......We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes - something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters' paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.

I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in mortal fear of its deer
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Thinking Like a Mountain.
 
here are a few more:

1) I heard my cousin mumble this as we were snaking through a blowdown on the side of what seemed like a ski jump elk hunting. "If you shoot one in here, I'm going to shoot you!"

2) We've all heard or thought this one as the coyote is now at 500 mph and at 500 yards. "If you aren't spraying, they you aren't praying... Boom!" and "Hail Mary full of grace, drop this sucker on his face.... Boom!"

3) When a coyote that is so obvious to one but completely hidden to the calling partner. "Are you going to shoot it or "put your text here" it!"

4) After a mile long shot. "I got it?" (See #2)
 
I live for that sh*t. I just work because I have too.

That one was mine in response to the owner of a company that was interviewing me for a position during a career change.

He had remarked that he'd heard that I liked to hunt and I blurted that out without hesitation.

Yes, he hired me on the spot. Said he liked a man that was brutally honest and would be straight up with him. Great guy to work for and haven't looked back. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif

Cro-mag
 
Great thread. Thanks a lot. I got up achy and sore this morning. Read the responses and now feel terific. I don't recall what hurt or where it hurt. Maybe it's true, laughter is the best medicine. Thanks again, and best wishes for the new year.

Cal - Montreal
 
After missing for the upteenth time on my first Dove hunt, "Man, I should'a brought more shells".
Not what you want to hear your Guide say 8 miles from camp, dark approaching fast, on a cold, rainy day after a failed stalk on an Alaskan Brown Bear, "Say, either of you fellas bring a compass?" :eek: kyray
 
My buddy Joe during a very good afternoon hunt with .22lr's for white snowshoe hares and no snow."Jeezus Grinr,theys glowin' like javex jugs"
 
Javex Bleach?Never heard of it???Geesh Jack,you gotta get to town more often.Or get a t.v. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
 
My kid explaining to a coyote hunting buddy the merrits of a mini 14 after being told the bolt guns are more accurate "Yeah but I can shoot again,again,again,again,again"

An old friend who went calling with me for the first time after dropping the first coyote at the first set we made "Boy, I feel more like I do now than I did when we got here"
 
From a friend beaucoup years ago as we were walking back to the pickup chukarless after a zillion miles of crawling up and down ridges. Blasting a sagebrush, he was heard to say, "Well, at least that one had shot in it!"
 
One does not hunt in order to kill. One kills in order to have hunted. Jose Ortega Y Gasset, "Meditations on Hunting".

"Was I supposed to hit him?" Me after shooting at a coyote (most of the time!).

"Well the elk could be up high. Or, they could be down low." The local Pagosa Springs elk guru on the local radio station.
 
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