"If wishes were fishes, we would all cast nets" from the classic series DUNE by Frank Herbert. circa 1972.

"Only a spiritually mature man can master the bow".

You guys have any idea how much of a perfectly good morning you can lose by reading this post?

Keep it coming. I didn't have anything I absolutely HAD to do.

While rifle hunting elk in Colorado many years ago, my Dad asks the guy he's renting a horse from; "Can I shoot from this horse?"

Guy's reply; "Yep.......once."

It's not about who's right, it's about what's right.
      Me

I had an old fellar tell me "archery is 90% mental, the rest is in your head"

One of my old pals talking to his soon to be ex wife:

"You got something on one of your chins"

QuoteOriginally posted by Red Beastmaster:
My buddy John and I were warming up in the truck after a WV late season morning hunt. We were about frozen from the howling wind and snow. The wind was rocking the truck as we clutched cups of warm coffee and shivered.

John looked at me and said, "You know, I left a perfectly good naked woman to come here with you today".

Best quote ever,, been there done that,, LOL

"This evening has been a comedy of errors...no...I haven't shot once."  Terry Green on a Solana hunt text.

"Epic hunt...6 hogs down!"  Guru text from the Bacon Strip

"Game time boys... Blood trails is the goal today."  Jan 6, 2012 7:48 AM  Don Wilson text at Solana.  "Rob has killed and Randy has killed...both bucks!"  8:49 AM

My response after my buddy asked me if I was going to shoot a doe or small buck one day we were heading out to hunt...
"I ain't gonna descriminate on the basis of age or sex."

A couple of other regular sayings from our camp.
"If it's brown, it's down!"
"I didn't realize this was a competition!"

Me:  "It's hard to soar like an eagle, when you're flockin' with a bunch of turkeys."

One of my favorites that a buddy of mine came up with a few years ago during spring turkey season after we walked over a ridge top to look for the turkey that was gobbling down in the bottom....
"You can't hunt these birds like they're deer."

We were around the campfire giving eachother a hard time.  A bit of it went like this

Sean:"When you go in your trailer tonight,Jim, and pick up your King James you better ask for some forgiveness.

Jim: I am going to do some praying. Dear Lord, please give me a better class of friends.

Funny stuff!  I've snorted up my coffee a couple times this morning reading this!!    

I can tolerate stupid people until they start to act proud of the fact..............My Dad

"They don't do much hunt'n or fish'n round there ya know, but I did meet a couple squirrels and a porcupine." , Hank Jr.

Unadulterated truth is not pablum. Self quote

"I have a friend who has killed a couple hundred deer and pigs with a 45lb recurve but he doesn't have internet so he don't know it ain't heavy enough" Robert Carter

QuoteOriginally posted by will_hunt:
It's not about who's right, it's about what's right.
      Me

ROASTED WEENIES FOR 1.........    love ya bill

"Hospital."  

The only word out of my mouth after I tromped barefooted on my Woodsman Elite 175 last year....

   

Kingsnake

I wasn't there to hear these personally, but wish I had been....

Jeremiah Johnson: Just where is it I could find bear, beaver, and other critters worth cash money when skinned?
Robidoux: Ride due west as the sun sets. Turn left at the Rocky Mountains.


Jeremiah Johnson: [Jeremiah and Caleb find Del Gue buried to his neck in sand] Are you all right?
Del Gue: Sure, sure, I got a fine horse under me!
[sneezes]
Del Gue: Got one of them feathers in my nose.
Jeremiah Johnson: You keep sneezing, it'll come out all right. Haven't seen anyone pass by recent, have you?
Del Gue: Nobody's gone in front of me. Can't say what's happened behind me, though.
Jeremiah Johnson: The Injuns put you here?
Del Gue: T'weren't Mormons. A Chief, name of Mad Wolf. Nice fella, don't talk a hell of a lot. Say, you wouldn't have an extra hat on you, would you? Shade's getting' scarce in these parts.
Jeremiah Johnson: What'd you shave your head for?
Del Gue: Mad Wolf figures like every other Injun I know. Says this scalp isn't fit for no decent man's lodgepole. Ain't the first time I've protected my head in such a way. Name's Del Gue, with an "e".


Jeremiah Johnson: Y'ever get lonesome?
Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Fer what?
Jeremiah Johnson: Woman?
Bear Claw Chris Lapp: Full time night woman? I never could find no tracks on a woman's heart. I packed me a squaw for ten year, Pilgrim. Cheyenne, she were, and the meanest bitch that ever balled for beads. I lodge-poled her at Deadwood Creek, and traded her for a Hawken gun. But don't get me wrong; I loves the womens, I surely do. But I swear, a woman's breast is the hardest rock that the Almighty ever made on this earth, and I can find no sign on it.


Jeremiah Johnson: [Jeremiah and Caleb see a bird flying across the sky] Hawk. Goin' for the Musselshell. Take me a week's ridin', and he'll be there in... hell, he's there already.


Del Gue: I ain't never seen 'em, but my common sense tells me the Andes is foothills, and the Alps is for children to climb! Keep good care of your hair! These here is God's finest scupturings! And there ain't no laws for the brave ones! And there ain't no asylums for the crazy ones! And there ain't no churches, except for this right here! And there ain't no priests excepting the birds. By God, I are a mountain man, and I'll live 'til an arrow or a bullet finds me. And then I'll leave my bones on this great map of the magnificent ...

My dad after telling me not to do something and then me doing it and getting hurt.

"Boy I guess some can hear it, but others gotta feel it."

I'd like to think he wasn't referring to me, but I never asked.