Best Hunting Quotes
General Topic
I'll start with a few.....
"It's better to arrive one hour too early to your stand than it is to arrive one minute too late"
"People think I'm rich because I have a lot of hunting stuff. Actually, I'm just irresponsible"
"My goal is to log as many sunups and sundowns in a treestand before I die"
I coined both of these (All by myself). 1-When you miss "you had the thrill without the kill". 2-"Kills will be long forgotten but memories of campfire friends will last forever".. . Think about that....
Most of my favorite quotes are inside jokes from hunting camp that mean nothing to anyone else.
“WHO ATE ALL THE POPTARTS?!” Might end up going on my tombstone.
May your bow bend quiet, and your arrow fly true!
We make the same toast before dinner every night at my camp….
“ Only in America can you do…what we do”
"A clean miss is the second best shot in hunting...think about it."
ITS NOT HOW YOU HUNT, BUT WHERE YOU HUNT
Do it now while you can still climb the mountain.
“ you hit him right where the arrow went in”.
When hunting "First thing is getting among them"-Dad
What you do for bowhunting is more important than what you do while bowhunting.
I have always tempered my killing with respect for the game pursued. I see the animal not only as a target, but as a living creature with more freedom than I will ever have. I take that life if I can, with regret as well as joy, and with the sure knowledge that nature’s way of fang and claw and starvation are far crueler fate than I bestow.” – Fred Bear
Go afield with a good attitude, with respect for the wildlife you hunt and for the forest and fields in which you walk. Immerse yourself in the outdoor experience. It will cleanse your soul and make you a better person.”– Fred Bear
They move twice a day. Right before you get there & just after you leave.
“F@(k!!! Right in front of the rear shoulder”
I used to tell my clients.
There’s elk everywhere some of the time and elk nowhere all of the time.
When I first started elk hunting, I had a buddy tell me "If you're not seeing them or hearing them, move". I still remember that quote 30 years later.
Stop, Look! Do You Hear That? Something Doesn't Smell Right!!
SNORT! SNORT! SNORT!
“When the hunt of a lifetime hinges on your broadhead, don’t use a broadhead with hinges”……or something like that.
You can't shoot anything if you don't go.
Cant Kill them on the Couch!
You have to hit them where they live. Don't blame the equipment for your bad performance.
One for the older guys... Hunt like this is your last hunt.
Persistence and patience pays.
You don’t get the big ones by shooting the little ones.
Keep the wind in your face.
Hunt hungry.
Hunting is something I do...not who I am.
He was just past my effective range…
“If you want to mess up a perfectly good hunt Kill something “ Lewis
You can't kill a pink elephant where pink elephants don't live.
"Thank you God for giving me the ability to enjoy your creation... watch over me Lord and guide me" When I settle in my stand or blind I say that little prayer.
You can't catch a possum with your dogs tied.
“Keep your hooks in the water and your powder dry”
Quote by Lester Thomas (my father-in-law).
You can’t make that shot unless you make that shot.
It’s all downhill once you get to the top of the mountain.
Like Trevor said above, most of my favorites are inside jokes.
You guys don’t know my friend Ryan obviously… but one of his guides and I were snowshoeing into a lake this week (neither of us had been there before). We were going a bit and I say “you think we are almost there?”
Guide turns around and says “Ryan said should be about 200 yards past that junction, I think we have gone about 400, so we should be about 1/2 way there now”
Funniest thing I’ve heard in a while and pretty much tells you most of what you need to know about Ryan…
—Jim
A bird in the hand, is worth two in the bush but maybe not three.
Back in 98, started hunting SD alot, favorite saying from locals. " It's just down the road"
In SD that meant at least 60 miles
"He's big enough to ride in Eddie Salter's truck."
"Gonna need to let that one lay a little."
"He had a little 'ground shrinkage'."
Can’t believe no one has mentioned this one yet.
“Hit him just a little too far back”
If you're going to kill something you have to get some arrows in the air
"I'd rather be lucky than good" That quote works for most things in life... Although for me I'd rather be good than lucky....in hunting and golf
Four of us turned in for the night with a kill from the day hanging in the woodshed outside the cabin when a pack of wolves started whooping it up close by. Four or five wolves sound like twenty when they're getting into it. My friend asked me "Charlie do you think they are trying to sneak up and get the deer?" My reply " I don't think they're being very sneaky about it"!
My favorite and it should be yours too....
Boo Yah!
Uh….that would be a Boo-NO!, Mark! ;-)
If this was an ice fishing forum I would add "you should have been here yesterday" It seldom fails. Ice fishing tends to be a social sport.
"Shoot straight!" "put a leak in em!"
Even a blind homo finds a penis once in a while
"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take" ...nevermind, that's a hockey quote.
Bowboy picked my favorite it the second part of his post!
"Persistence is the key to success." Wile E. Coyote
"It only takes 1 minute to make it the best season ever!!!" I say it all the time to myself and my wife when we are not seeing much in the woods.
"Shoot straight" That is what dad said every time we went out. It was his way of saying I love you.
Yeah, “Shoot straight” seems to be a salutation almost every time we split up on a hunt.
Another couple:
The mountains aren’t getting any lower! Do those tough ones as soon and as often as you can!
Do that hunt of a lifetime every time you get the chance!
“No mercy!”
Seems to be the mantra among our hunting buddies as we give each other a ration of sh*t about anything and everything!
Overheard...."I hit him right where I wasn't aiming!"
"I've spent half of my life savings on bows, alcohol and loose women...the other half I wasted!
Deep inside the chest of every man is the heart of a little boy, once the boy inside dies thus soon follows the man.
Great Grandfather say "You City Boys (or White man, pick the description) silly, while out hunting must look at watch to see if hungry."
"Me know how, just need'em chance."
One that infiltrated my family courtesy of another Bowsite family. The Harris family.
“Shoot her dad! She’s food!”
My kids thought Morgan was a star.
If you value your Septembers, you better wrap your packages in December!
Tryhard, I always say better to be good and lucky. But as far as the Badger - Gophers BB game tonight I hope you're neither good or lucky! ( but I think I know how it's going to go) :((
Cazador, funny you bring that up. My buddy's daughter's birthday is Sept 18th. We sing happy birthday and send her the video when he's hunting.
There are two spiritual dangers in not owning a farm. One is the danger of supposing that breakfast comes from the grocery, and the other that heat comes from the furnace.
Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.
Both Aldo Leopold
Nobody hunts Colorado OTC anymore, it's too crowded.
One of the greatest quotes from Tom Hoffman, go hunt and “give luck a chance.”
Elk are where you find them.
They bed on north facing slopes.
Two dumbest elk hunting quotes ever!
“Life’s too short to use ugly disposable knives.” Altitude Sickness
While ice fishing..." I'm surrounded by Ice Holes"
After the shot..."It was quartered to me a little bit"
"I'm gonna need a minute"
"Damn mountains are getting steeper every year. Must be seismic uplift."
Vegan Indian word for bad hunter Lewis
After I picked up a " P " whipped Friend of mine to go hunting , when we were like a half mile away from his house with a hard to keep from smiling straight face I told him . " I ' am glad you received clearance from your wife to be able to go hunting ". ! Judging by his reaction I could tell he didn't find it " humorous " ! ........ slmao to this day
"Can't understand those folks down there eating hog, when they could be up here eating elk."
For the Leatherwallers...
"It stacks badly..."
ROFL Vaquero 45. Your post triggered bunch of memories of our days in TX.
We (Lady Bowhunter and I) had several folks back out of hog hunts numerous times because they're going would cause hassles on the home front. It got so bad that Millie drew up a "kitchen pass" for the guy's wife to sign before we made final plans to include him on hunt planning.
Don’t pass a buck on the first day, that you would gladly shoot on the last. Don’t shoot a buck on the last day that you would have passed on the first
"If wishes were fishes we'd all catch limits."
I said that...:)
“The shot was deflected off an unseen branch”
Yeah, right ……….. the reason it was not seen was because it wasn’t there. You just blew the shot dude.
“ I entered him to honor the animal”
BREAKING NEWS: He would’ve felt more honored if you didn’t shoot him
Did I miss it, did anyone say "Aim small, miss small."
"He is on my hit list" is the worst. Well, maybe "dirt nap" is the worst.
“ I’m not really worried about punching my tag, hunting is all about making memories”
Really? After I spend a few thousand dollars and driving a couple thousand miles to go chase elk I prefer to go home with a dead one!
I like Charlie’s “ it’s later than you think “.
Here’s my own. “The thrill of the hunt should always exceed the thrill of the kill,”
“If you ain’t first you’re last”
Fred bear
"No shoot 'em..... no get "em !!" and for you elk hunters..... "don't hunt where they were..... hunt where they're going to be"
“It’s 90% mental!” True that!
"Good luck, Shoot em in the face"
Archery hunting will make you a better gun hunter, but gun hunting doesn't make you good at archery hunting.
Told this to a friend to get him into archery hunting. After he bought a bow and practiced for a year, we drew an elk tag together. Fast forward to low crawling up to elk grazing in an opening at 80 yds out - he whispers, "if I had my gun, I could've got one by now" and I whispered back if you had a gun, you wouldn't have even seen these elk.
Also, I like Louis Pasteur's quote "Chance favors the prepared mind". And then there's "tag soup".
“The preparation and experience is the hunt. The animal is a bonus”
“The least experienced hunter always bags the biggest trophy.”
Preparation is the mother of skill
Morale has improved since we’ve given up.
Can’t kill them if you don’t shoot! What do you know about Hunting anyway? lol Which way did they Go? How many? You got a compass?
"Stillness is the best camouflage."
Can’t kill them if you don’t shoot! What do you know about Hunting anyway? lol Which way did they Go? How many? You got a compass?
It’s not the arrow it’s the Indian Lewis
kill everything, act natural
If arrows ain't flyin, Sh$t ain't dyin!! Can't kill em from camp... Well, sometimes you can!
“Musta hit that artery that shrinks the antlers” ;>)
Perfect line just a little low....
"After I shoot one, I'm going to walk up and kick dirt in his face"
Bigswivle I thought - “If you ain’t first you’re last” was a quote by Ricky Bobby
Anything that makes hunting sound like a competition among men sounds a whole lot NOT like Fred Bear. And I’m not even a Fan.
“Bowhunting is 90 percent luck and you make 90 percent of that luck yourself”
