This should be fun....
"Loppers" = pruning shears as per Steve M.
Got any other slang phrases you've learned over the years?
Rub- marks on small trees made by buck deer.
Hooked bushes= buck rubs
Scrape-----------working hard to come up with enough money to buy another bow. :biglaugh:
"Book buck"
BOONER
Wait-a-minute bush= multi flora rose bush
"You can tell he is a GREAT BIG BUCK by the way he holds his head." Usually what the area guys say when they see a fawn across the section running away.
DINK
When a buddy gets a nice buck, us guys all say it's a dink, meaning little buck:)
Even if it's a really big buck, we call it a dink:)
Funnel = Landscape term referring to movement influence on deer, (including "dinks" :))
Binos -- Binoculars.
Glass -- to look through binoculars
Glassing -- to look through binoculars for a long time
"Corning the roads"-You boys recently back from hunting hogs and javelinas in Texas probably learned this one.
Stroker- Big Buck
Nippers- Pruner
Dink- Small Buck
Nubby- Buck Fawn
Forked horn (fully pronouncing the "ed" of forked, like fork-ed) a young buck with two tines on its antlers, making it legal to shoot in California.
"Flossey", a mature doe.
Horns vs antlers. I think we all know the difference between horns and antlers, but don't be surprised to hear hunters calling antlers "horns." (I've never heard anyone calling horns "antlers"). I think this is something hunters do on purpose, like when we were in the Marines and we called all Navy ships "boats" just to pi$$ the sailors off. Is this just something that happens in California, or do hunters all over the country call antlers "horns"?
Bird dogging.
The act of wading through unholy briar thickets for my dad and his buddies when we were kids hunting rabbits or pheasant. It was a right of passage me and all my friends went through. Those were bloody and fun days!
Getting flagged.
The view of a whitetail tail or several waving to you after you kicked them out of their beds. Getting flagged was a bummer if you were still or sneak hunting but OK if you were bird dogging for a deer drive LOL.
That sure is a big bodied buck. "MN nice" for a buck with a small rack.
Swamp Donkey- I know what they are saying, but I'd never use the term.
Not my Target Buck but he's a Shooter
Teeter totter- a buck right on the edge of what you might shoot. Could go either way.
Skipper- fawn
One I do not like is: run-n-gun. Aggressively going after elk with a bugle and bow
Back in Maine a small buck was sometimes a "little dubber" or dubber.
Dink, Button head, Nanny (mature doe), Sex swing (buddies making fun of my saddle), "The Big One" (Inside joke among-st our crew after buddy shot "the big one" which turned out to be a tiny 8 point)
whole mess, little more than a s**t load
He's a shooter, he's on my hit list, he's a shooter buck, that's a sho' 'nuf bigun, I gave um a parking ticket, gave um a ride home in the back of my truck, killed um with my ol' stick and string (holds up a $2500.00 compound with a dozen gadgets on it), killed um with my ol smoke pole ($1000.00 stainless steel in-line muzzleloader with synthetic stock and #600.00 scope), boy howdy that was a long poke, I drug um a far piece.
I've heard all of these. Never said any of them myself out of a sense of self-respect.
Mully or Slick Head,= does, can add big ole in front of either, or little to indicate size.
Jason
Saw n'utin but balled bucks.
The camp Bi**h....
First one to tag at the deer camp.
"Coal Hearth" vehicle sized flat spot found all over the mountains in central Pa. I'm sure they had something to do with logging on mining limestone but that's what I was taught to call them. They typically have scrapes on them...
Rocking chair head -a buck they had antlers akin to a rocking chair on top of his head
Chop stick head - spike
Key chains -mythical 5 year old or older buck with less than 3 inches of antlers on each side.
Patrick effin Kelly- legendary hog hunter know for the amount of hog death left in his wake
Lucky penny- penny that is found during the hunt that if blames for success of the hunt
Pawldcast- the best of the best bowhunters have a platform called pawldcast where they can create their own echo chambers for what makes a great Bowhunter (not to be confused with podcasts)
Ashby haters-typically pawldcast hosts who make up studies that are designed to create a narrative to detract from the Ashby Studies but in reality are useless random andectotal information that more than not actually validates the Ashby Study
Jansport-a hunting back pack thet does not cost $800-1000 to carry 400 feet to the deer stand.
Michigan 11 point - spike buck
Were they bald or balled? - my question whenever someone tells me they saw a deer
Way back in the Gankas and Gudus (probably spelled that wrong) - term I heard from an old timer up here at school. Means to go way back into what I would call the boondocks. Not entirely sure what those terms mean, all I know is that you go over the gankas and you go through the gudus haha
Cutlery - Knife
"Where's your Cutlery?"
Cloth Ear'd Doe - Big old long nose doe
"Only saw a couple of Cloth Ear'd does"
Cashews - Refering to an immature male deer, i.e small testicals
"He only had Cashews"
You're right Terry, good fun thread.
Best
Lex
Doinker. What a guy from our moose camp called any bull with small antlers.
He still shot them though... 😁
Dave.
Ground shrinkage.....
The longer a deer lays on the ground after you shot it, the smaller it gets before recovery.
One that get overused "scary sharp"
Whacked, stacked, laced, nailed it, dumped..... Harvest?????
Feed tree
Stud horse, Jumbo, Whopper, Donkey,=Big buck
Good wood, Heavy lumber, =Mass
Vampires=Nocturnal bucks
Flat top = doe
Basket head
Bow-N-R, at's what I hunt wif. :archer2:
That's a cute little 2 point...my daughter her first year hunting with me, referring to a 3-4" spike. :biglaugh:
Jason
sit---Period of time spent in a stand or blind. "I didn't see anything on the first sit, but the second was something special."
covered up--surrounded by game that is often not what you are after. "I couldn't get out of the dang tree because I was covered up with does."
tater diggers-drop tines-an antler point that grows down from the main beam as opposed to up. "That buck he killed had a tater digger on his right antler that was nine inches long!"
Management Buck-A buck that you wanted to kill, but were worried that your so called "buddies" would mock you about so you created a reason to do so based on dubious rationale loosely linked to genetics and herd potential. "I know it's small, but I had to kill it because there is a black mark on the left eyebrow that I don't want spreading through the herd."
For the record, I absolutely hate the term "dink". I much prefer, something less derogatory like "little 'un" "young feller" or "youngster".
Quote from: Matt Fowler on February 17, 2022, 11:54:41 AM
whole mess, little more than a s**t load
Sh1t Ton ........ more than a Whole Mess!
example: "There's a sh1t ton of track heading into the pucker brush before you get to the field edge."
Basket Rack - a younger, usually not mature buck that has a nice looking rack, but 1/3 scale......he's not ready yet, still inside the ears and thin bones. Most times he's a small 6 point it seems.
Shin Tangles, pretty much anything with thorns that wants to hook into and not let go, or will get wrapped up around your ankles and feet and try to trip you.
Jason
Bullwinkle (yeah, I know he was really a moose) - a really nice buck.
McIntosh county special= a dink.
Hoss = OMG buck!!! We had one beast in IN that me and another fellow hunted for six years until he "evaporated" nicknamed him "Bullwinkle". Good solid 8x8 or better amazingly typical and 23"+ spread. Creek bottom were he spent much of his time flooded at least once a year and we never found a shed.
:campfire: :coffee: :archer2:
DAD = dumb ass doe
Smoked him = just made a good shot
Ridge Pony - big body buck
Propeller head -Doe
"Tweener" is in between a mature shooter buck and immature passer buck...
Tweeners are usually 3 1/2 old deer...
"Let the air out of that (deer, bear, hog, etc.)" -- i.e. a double lung shot that got the job done quickly.
Quote from: smokin joe on February 19, 2022, 06:14:18 PM
"Let the air out of that (deer, bear, hog, etc.)" -- i.e. a double lung shot that got the job done quickly.
In a similar vein, we used to call it" letting the sunlight in."
If you let the sunlight in, they die, the more sunlight you let in the quicker they seem to die.
Pucker brush=brush so thick it makes you pucker up & clench tight as you duck your head close your eyes and dive in after what ever you're chasing!!!
Jason
Elmer Fuddin' around - term referring to someone not really having any idea what they're doing and messing up everyone else's hunting. Very common here on opening day of rifle season on public land.
Grey Beard, an old buck that is grey in the muzzle
Stump Sitter, someone who sits in the same spot day after day
Post, where a Stump Sitter goes to sit
Highway, a clearly defined, well used deer trail
Drive, when several hunters try to push deer towards other hunters who have posted further away.
Raisinettes or goobers, deer droppings used to trick unknowing, nubile hunters. Not nice, but very funny.
Quote from: gregg dudley on February 18, 2022, 11:10:13 AM
Management Buck-A buck that you wanted to kill, but were worried that your so called "buddies" would mock you about so you created a reason to do so based on dubious rationale loosely linked to genetics and herd potential. "I know it's small, but I had to kill it because there is a black mark on the left eyebrow that I don't want spreading through the herd."
Only funny cuz it's true. I hate this term along with cull deer. These terms should be left for game farms because one guy sitting in the woods outside of high fence will not impact the herd by culling a healthy deer. Nor are they changing the genetic pool.
Smart pills :knothead:
Killdeer
Chili Buck - trash rack for the groceries
Mose or the Hartford, mature buck.
Like Killie, smart pills, deer droppings.
"SMACK" - the sound heard right after my wife learning of a new bow. :knothead:
"Those arrows fly like darts"--darts are actually pretty slow and have a good bit of arc. :saywhat:
Bench - a flat spot or area on the side of a ridge.
Leaking oil -- Blood trail
:campfire: :coffee: :archer2:
"Damn Bastard" The Buck that shows up as you are getting ready to draw on a doe, snorts and chases her away from you
"Nosy Bastard" The Buck that circles around you and sits there watching you without you knowing it and snorts while all you can do is watch
"Surprise" The buck that was bedded down 10 yards away from me with a huge wide Oak separating us, neither of us knew we were that close until I stood up to head back to the car