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Main Boards => PowWow => Topic started by: Terry Green on April 18, 2011, 07:11:00 PM
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There was a thread here once about quotes....and I'd like for this thread to be quotes JUST from Trad Gangers...either posted here on the forum...or from hunts. Purely from Trad Gangers...and post WHO said it. Thanks.
Which brings me to something else for you to consider when hunting with friends or on group hunts, I've done it often and I think it adds to the memories. Try and remember quotes from others on these hunts, and incorporate them into the story. They will help remind you of special moments just like the pics do.
I'll start.....
"I'm about 4 donuts out of camp" - Biggie Hoffman
"She really doesn't have to know how to cook" - Charlie Lamb
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If God brings you to it he'll get you through it
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i believe by Ron Leclair "a big knife can do small jobs but a small knife can not to big jobs"
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"he said his body core temperature was dropping"- Bill Burdette aka 'baretraks'
while three of us were bow hunting on a VERY cold day Bill called my cell to let me know that our other hunting buddy was cold, VERY, VERY cold. needless to say we hunted till dark and everyone survived but I'll never forget how Bill relayed that message. just one of those things that stick with you.
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Last Butch and I took a good friend(Kenny) out for his very 1st stump shooting experience.
We had been picking the normal stump shooting targets. (Clumps of grass, twigs, rotten stump and leaves.)
We are headed down the hill on the last leg of our shoot, the house is in sight when Kenny says "This ain't so tough,I get at least one leaf every time I shoot."...lol
God bless,Mudd
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This one won't mean too much to anyone except the guys that were there....VTer said this my son Josh at the end of a long road trip. We were headed to Missouri for a deer hunt
" bet you wish you were suave and debonair like me".
He said it with a mouth full of food and I believe a morsel or two came out. We were tired from a long drive....can't stop laughing about it as I write this. you had to be there!...Ya Greg you are smoooth...LoL :biglaugh: :biglaugh: :biglaugh:
Thanks Terry for this post... chance to remember. I got more!
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"If you aim for nothing, that is exactly what your going to hit". Self quote. This is so true about alot of things in life, not just archery.
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Mudd,
That was a goodun' from Kenny. He pops 'em up pretty often.
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Here is a few that I saved from our last Texas Trip......Most are text between Terry, Skyler, and Curt.
"just drilled a tank of a six point"
"I stopped counting at 20 cows"
"cows suck"
"ALL I ever see are button bucks. but when i come back in a few years they won't be buttons"
"i shot him on the run right thru the heart"
"i'm now officially one step closer to the solana slam"
"yup....one dead as a hammer hog"
"Just hammered one!!!!"
"I was afraid to breath"
"looked like right in the pocket"
"i really wanted to shoot that 8 point"
"red feathers"
"this waiting to go recover sky's deer is killing me!!!!"
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I remember Don Wilson saying at Solana "I am so tired I am going to wear my safety harness even if I am hunting from the ground"
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I remember that morning....My room-mate said the night before "do you snore? I won't be able to sleep if you snore" I made that statement after listening to him SNORE for 6 hours.... it was the same morning you killed that buck....Great Times wasn't it Randy?
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"It's really hard to kill deer from the couch"
My quote.
Applies most to MSU/U-M football saturday and U-M/OSU football saturday. State "holidays" for many in Michigan, including many of my hunting friends. LOL
Feel free to insert bar stool, bed, cot, sleeping bag, etc.
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"I'm not sure if all this 'camo " stuff is what its made out to be "
My hunting partner "Cheech" after not seeing any game all day ...
He was in the same set of clothes he'd been wearing all week in 100 deg temps and was smoking his 25th cigarette of the day ... lol
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For a funny line, on a float hunt, one buddy brought a left over pizza for food, still in the box. Chuck Cady said, with an incredulous tone...
"Pizza? In a boat?
We still laugh about that line.
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The big one that got away! The more the story is told the bigger he got!
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" Stop, StoP, StOP, STOP, STOP, STOP!!!" Night Terror at Ray's.
I would like to apologize again for waking everyone up. :knothead:
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Originally posted by DW:
I remember that morning....My room-mate said the night before "do you snore? I won't be able to sleep if you snore" I made that statement after listening to him SNORE for 6 hours.... it was the same morning you killed that buck....Great Times wasn't it Randy?
Truely great times my FRIEND
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Yeah Randy...and that was a really funny quote....and much funnier if you were there to see the big stamp across Don's face that morning that read....EXHAUSTED!!!
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"Holy Hogs Batman!!!!"
Guru in a PM when I told him it took me all of thirty minutes to get them on hogs last year.
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This one I have posted before and most likely will use in the future as the situation arises.
I got it from my dad. "There's no point in being ignorant or stupid if you don't show it!"
God bless,Mudd
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I once told my hunting buddy: "I hunted as hard as I could from my tree and still didn't see a deer" aka (stayed awake)
The wife asked how my hunt went? I told her really good, I almost saw a deer.
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We had been out for a week with our foster son and his wife. He did something she didn't care for, don't remember what. She lit into him something fierce for quite awhile, finishing with, "What were you thinking?!" To which he, calmly and without the slightest pause, replied, "I don't think, I'm a guy. I just do stuff." A line that will live forever with us.
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"I didn't see no horns, but he ran like a ten point.
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Cory Mattson after poking a 'dead' 12 foot alligator with a 6 foot stick.
"If that stick would have been 5 and a half feet long......ya'll would be calling me 'Lefty'...."
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"Well Danny, if you are gonna be stupid, you better be tough."
My dad, as he was carrying his 12 year old son (me) to the car after I tried to climb over a decayed picket fence, fell and poked a 4" wide hole in my left thigh that took 72 stitches to close.
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"Quit yur whining and cowboy up" I said to a fella half way up a 10,000 ft mountain.
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Online Tradgand see quote every post by Terry Green "If you stick with Steak n Potatos and ignore the smoke n mirrors.... you will never go hungry."
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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".
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Originally posted by Red Beastmaster:
"You know, I left a perfectly good naked woman to come here with you today".
:biglaugh: :biglaugh: :biglaugh: :laughing:
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"Pick a spot..., nice and smooth..., draw back and touch that tooth..., now... reach out and touch him." --My dad, as I was drawing on a moose when I was a boy.
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"GGRREEAATT...DAY..." My Bud Two-Hats on anything remarkable.... This includes and is not limited to... Awesome Bow Shots, Good Shine, Biker Babes, Deep Water, Large Deer, Beautiful bows, The Cost of Beautiful Bows.. etc...
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As we were preparing to leave VT for a CO elk hunt. Fred Allard (Speedbump) was admiring a pair of Sworavski binoculars I borrowed from a buddy for the trip. As he was looking through them he commented "kinda dark" to which our other buddy Vern Blitch responded, "Yea, it helps if you take the caps off".
What else you got Fred! :smileystooges:
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City feller I took pig hunting once . We had just stumbled up on a Big cottonmouth..."Will it Bite".
One from Brother John..."Aint nothing dying if the arrows aint flying".RC
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Here I am on a elk hunt in Idaho with a freind .We're going up a steep hill me following and I fall to my hands and knees,Chuck turns and sees me and said"I like to see them before I sneek up on them."
Harry
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"Ding, dong, ding", said my doorbell on bow delivery day.
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I'm not going to post some of the things "ksbowman" said on our hunt but I sure hope somebody in our party does!
Todd
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On that same trip to Colorado that VTer mentioned, Greg bagged a grouse one afternoon. He cooked it for an afternoon snack over an open fire. Vern likes hot food and just happened to be carrying a micro bottle of tobasco sauce. Vern sprinkled a little on his piece of grouse breast, then I did and handed it to Greg. He proceeded to douse his portion until it was pink in color. I remember thinking to myself " man he must like hot food" Vern later confirmed he was thinking the same thing...Greg took a bite of his now pink breast meat and said while trying to cool his mouth at the same time
" you ba@#$%ds didn't tell me it was hot" :smileystooges:
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im new here and have been reading lots and learning lots and i just read this and liked it
This setup gives you a 0,439 momentum With a sharp BH this setup will blow straight thru any 4 legged animal walking the earth in the Western world! Margly typed this
now i know almost nothing about all this and this just sounds good to me
great reply margly
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"I guess I have to dress like a deer to get your attention" my Wife Richelle,December 2009 hunting season
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as Mud sayes "Whates the point of being igorent if you can't show it"
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"You know, I left a perfectly good naked woman to come here with you today".
:biglaugh: :biglaugh: :biglaugh:
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"One of those stupids must have hit me in the back of the head again."
Stolen from cyred4d in todays pow-wow post.
I got knots on the back of my head, now I know where they came from. :knothead:
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A buudy that stuck his hand in the way of my gerber as I was opening a trywal container in Iraq.
Dam thats sharp!
it took alot of stitches to fix
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Hunting with Gene and Barry in Iowa years ago, and in the evening Barry said, "I didn't see you at lunch today." I told him I had stayed in my stand all day. His reply, "OH, a company man!"
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Bozara now thats funny. :biglaugh:
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After a weekend of hunting in a 100 deg temps with an elderly buddy he threw out " good thing we didn't kill nuthen, the work would of screwed up the whole weekend"
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Monty Browing spent a weekend at my house a few years back. We were talking about his stalking all those animals and he looked at me and said "It's simple. Keep the sun at your back and the wind in your face." He signed my Best of Traditional Bowhunter book with that saying. I take those words with me everytime I go out hunting. "Keep the sun at your back and the wind in your face."
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I just noticed that saying is there everytime I make a post. :goldtooth:
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"We're gonna stack these hogs up like cord wood." My friend and fellow Tradganger Paul on a recent hog hunt.
"Yep, with all this rain those hogs are gonna be worming hard in tha mornin'!" Fellow Tradganger Brock on same hunt.
"Last person that killed an elk on this ranch with one of them bows was wearing feathers and a loin cloth" An old rancher that I bumped into while elk hunting in WY. His folks had settled the place in the 1880's.
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"The more stuff you take, the more time you will spend taking care of your stuff."
--Me explaining to my wife how I could head to a five day hunt with one bag and a bow case.
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Just found this trespassing sign:
"Prayer is the best way to meet with the
Lord...trespassing is faster!"
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Originally posted by just_a_hunter:
I'm not going to post some of the things "ksbowman" said on our hunt but I sure hope somebody in our party does!
Todd
this is a family site.... :nono:
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"Don't sweat the petty stuff...and don't pet the sweaty stuff"!!! :laughing:
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nyhunter Allen "Why did you shoot my tackle box" as he returned from hunting and bowdoc was telling him how sorry he was for shooting his tackle box after shooting at a barrel and bounced off and hit the box.Bowdoc was really sorry but it was still funny although we felt sorry for Allen.This was Bear Quest III (http://i128.photobucket.com/albums/p191/Kip_album/2009bearhunt038.jpg)
Heading back to Bear Quest V soon yah hoo
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My buddy, and fellow trad-newbie near end of a Rod Jenkins clinic… “Woo-hoo!!! I’m ready for 3D competition!!!” :biglaugh:
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Years back on here someone posted a comment I never forgot: "You cant hit what you're trying hard not to miss!"
At my age, can't get memory banks to open before 9 and close at 3, but it has been something I think of often when I am headed toward psychin myself out on a tough shot!
Some light sleeper at Rays once stated, "I sleep light enough I can hear a mouse fart!"
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Another quote I heard living in MT was:
"Only way that boy could be dumber was if'n he was a bit bigger"...or, That boy's so dumb, ya can smell it on him 2 miles off!"
I tend to resemble those comments some days!
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A few of my favorites..
"Life is hard. It's harder if you're stupid"
-John Wayne
"You know, if you don't learn to work past your limitations, you will always be limited"
-Me to a young man in need of a wake up call.
After Friend 1 tripped and fell about 20 yards down a hill. Friend 2 said, "Did you hurt yourself?" Friend 1 said quiet tone, "No, I bleed like this all the time."
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If you worry too much about gear, you lose your focus in the field.
~Mark Baker
I remember looking up at my maker and saying "OK, I can take a hint". bbassi
Mickey got it right when he mentioned the smell of sage, there is nothing like a cup of fresh brewed coffee an hour before daylight with the stars so bright and clear like you could reach out and touch them, the smell of the sage on the morning air and the snorting of a distant antelope buck to stir the blood. ~Mike Yancy
Killdeer
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Don't let the buggers become a grain of sand in your shoe, it makes your arrows fly left.
~Tim Tuttle
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...nothing is new in this sport, and to forget...or not remember or know the past, is to basically disrespect our history.
~George Stout
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dARN CAP LOCKS.
~Ted Fry
:D
Killdeer :campfire:
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"You dishonor an animal's spirit if you take it's life without knowing the way it lived."
~Old Ways
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Once again I knew the joy and pain of taking the life of one of these wonderful creatures. It is a gift from God and I never take that for granted.
~Charlie Lamb
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...birds and animals are not just so many targets to shoot at. There's a time and place to hunt (and fish), and more importantly, there's reason and responsibility.
~Woody Blackwell
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Killdeer
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The following attributed to Gene or Barry Wensel...
"if super glue is so good how come you can get the cap off?"
"If 7eleven is open 24 hours a day why are there locks on the doors?"
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"Do you know your daddys out killing bambi?" Without missing a beat she replied "Uh huh, and he's giving me the tail."
~don
If I got talent it has ADD.
~rusty
Had an uncle that fed my mom some opossum telling her it was coon, boy she was p o'd
~TexMex
My gut feeling is to stop thinking about it and just shoot your dern
bow.
~Humbled
Killdeer :biglaugh:
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So, Charlie, you can't tell 'em apart either? :eek:
Killdeer :smileystooges:
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Killdeer, you sure are a killer...
God bless,
José
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Hey Todd which line of Ben's were you thinking about.....
Was it the "whoops I didn't see you standing there" after he just farted while you were following him up the mountain.
Or was it the story about his thumb "Well JC John, you just cut my fricking thumb off!
How about the one he told in the car "No really,...smell my finger"
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Killdeer, this is one of the most profound quotes I've read on here.
"You dishonor an animal's spirit if you take it's life without knowing the way it lived."
~Old Ways
Thanks
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"Stupid should hurt...." (In the course of telling a story on himself.)
~Monty Browning
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The 4 donuts frm camp quote makes me laugh every time i think about it. Love that one!
Whenever anyone asks how we did hunting my dad ALWAYS says, "Had a good time; nobody got hurt." That is a pretty good measure of success as far as I am concerned.
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ME......."BS is good for about the first ten minutes, after that it's found out what you really know".
Another one of mine......"If your gonna try to BS someone, you better make sure that your a better one than they are".
Not sure where I heard this one the first time, but it is worth repeating......"Time and memories are the one thing that can never be taken away from the people that you share them with".
My wife after I snapped a 1/4 oz. leadhead off in her face when she walked behind me......"You know, the fishing is pretty good.......lets see if that store up the road has any medicine and a bandaid".......we returned and fished till dark.
Another by my wife.......after seeing her first BIG Ohio buck during the rut. "I couldn't even stand up, my legs wouldn't work".
I have really enjoyed this thread......thanks for starting it......Terry !!!
:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:
Winterhawk1960
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Yeah Killy, it's confusing. You'd think they were twins or something. Good thing they have different names. :D
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I was skinning a deer and asked my friend who was standing there to hold the hide back. On the next stroke of the knife I hit his finger,it wasd bleeding quite alot. I asked is it deep? HE looked at me and said" It would have been alot deeper but the bone stopped it.
Harry
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I'm not a sportsman..I am a hunter... J.P. Kelley while speaking with an avid anti-fun person.
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Roger Rothhaar "I dont hunt animals to kill them I kill animals because I hunt them"
Ill never forget that.
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After telling my wife about being paired up with 3 wheelie bow shooters at a local 3-D shoot, and how they were bragging about taking elk at 80+ yds... she says (in a very sarcastic way)..." so they couldn't get any closer?
I love her!
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awesome
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Said of a coffee shop geezer here who was very generous with his unasked for advice:
"Knows all - tells more"
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After a fight with my wife and a night of sleeping on the couch, I gave in and called her from work to mend things. So any how I could tell she was still upset with me,she said I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here.
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One I read somewhere:
A man totally wrapped-up in himself, makes a very small package.
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gunsmith buddy from Central PA when discussing encounters with the tree huggers from Penn State, "Well, I tell em, look, ya gotta kill it to eat it whether it's a carrot or a cow!"
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Bowhunting is about the chase and the chance not the kill.
Happiness is a low anxiety blood trail.
BOWHUNTERS ARE PEOPLE TOO!!
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DocNock reminded me of this one.
My hunting buddy's 15 year old son talking to some vegetarians at dinner:
"If you aren't supposed to eat animals, how come they are all made out of meat?"
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"The first shot I shot over him, the second shot I shot under him and the third shot I missed him entirely".....Me...1977
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Tim said, "That was well shot." I said, "but I missed." 4/20/2011
Martin
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If I hadn't missed him I would of killed him dead. Me
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We alway tell my hunting partner Gifty..."you're so bowlegged you couldn't trap a hog in a ditch"....
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My buddy Dale said " I saved his life, that snake was going to bite him if I hadnt killed it. Said after shooting a rattle snake that I was having a little trouble killing.
Later that day Dale killed a nice buck and came to get me to help trail it at dark. We pull up in a plowed field and he shows me where the deer came out and then went back in to a thicket. I asked how far back in there have you been. His reply " I aint been in there yet"
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"By the Jesus mister, when I saw them hawns comin' across that clearcut I pawed the caw-locks right to 'em" Larry Benoit 1974
" She just inherited several million dollars. Not a real purty girl but she's a lot better looking when she's laying next to her checkbook" Frank Adcock 1994
At a country cafe in Bainbridge, GA that was having a fish special. Marty McMahon to the waitress, "How's your snapper?"
My son Jason as an eight year old while playing soccer, " I almost got a goal until that goalie kid got in the way."
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My son joel was seven at the time when he asked if he could bring his bow when he was going deer hunting with me. I asked why he needed his bow, so he answered "so i can finish him of for ya" evidently he saw me practising that day
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I used to work at a coal lab with a few other guys. It was a nasty, filthy, boring job. A popular way to pass the time was "cutting" on each other. We'd trade insults on each other until someone would eventually tire of it and bow out in defeat. We only had one rule, NO MOTHERS!
Two of the guys were going at it for quite awhile and were running out of verbal digs to throw at each other.
Rick said "Oh yeah, well, you're illiterate!".
To this, Sonny replied, "Oh no, I have a mom and a dad!"
When we finally stopped laughing we had to explain to Sonny the difference between illiterate and illegitimate. LOL
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That is good.
Thanks for the mornin smile.
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Barry Wensel and Biggie while watching a big black bear....
Barry, ....'Want me to run in and tree him while you film'?....
Biggie...'What if he don't Tree'???...
Barry....'You'll get great footage either way'.
:biglaugh: :biglaugh: :biglaugh: :biglaugh: :biglaugh:
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From my dear, late friend Jerry Pierce- builder of "the bow money can't buy," the Choctaw recurve, and one of the great men in the history of our sport...
"I feel sorry for all the poor the souls who go down the high technology path of bowhunting. And at the end, claiming success, that have not even the basic skills to sharpen a broadhead or could not identify the aroma of a cedar wood shaft."
I miss that man!
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My brother and I were talking about stuff on a ridgetop one morning and the subject of my ex-wife came up and he said "yeah she was nuttier than a squirrel turd." He was right.
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when you call your buddy about hutin saturday he says no i tell mine ill be over tonite to get your tag
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"Mind over matter", if you don't mind, then it don't matter"
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this is one from me to a hunting buddy after slipping out to go hunting when she didn't want me to go."it is easier to ask for forgiveness than is is to ask for permission"he loved it but she didn't find the humor in it,steve
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I killed about a six foot rattler down in Texas on the "Mod Melt" hunt years back. I cut off his head and slammed the stump in the tail gate of my truck so he wouldn't bleed all over.
After dark and having forgotten about the snake in back I picked up two other hunters. "Throw your gear in the back and jump in", says I.
Next thing I hear is, "YEEOOWWWWWWwwwwwww". The scream seemed to diminish after they ran the first hundred yards.
Come to think of it, that's the last thing they ever said to me.
Or..... my old huntin buddy Butch while bragging about a deer he'd shot. "Killed him with one well placed shot... not sure where the other two shots went."
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"Killed him with one well placed shot... not sure where the other two shots went."
Charlie that one is a treasure worth the remembering...lol
Thanks for sharing it...lol
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My uncle's reply to explaining how he was able to shoot his first and only deer: She got in the way of where I was shooting.
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Was sitting in elk camp one day. We have one guy there that is not a traditional hunter though he claims to be. He is an ok with a slight ego issue that makes him a little grumpy until he gets his bull.
Well him and I got out elk within a day of eachother and another buddy got an moose the same time. Whence talking about the tale he was bragging of the shot saying he shot farther than the elk ran before dying.
Our shots were 30 for my elk and 4 for the moose. It came out finnaly that he had shot nearly 100 yards. I believe the comment that was said by one lady was "he must be a good shot but you are better hunters"
ha ha
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"I almost saw a deer (or other animal) today" My classic line when returning to camp after a morning hunt...
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Originally posted by Hawkeye:
From my dear, late friend Jerry Pierce- builder of "the bow money can't buy," the Choctaw recurve, and one of the great men in the history of our sport...
"I feel sorry for all the poor the souls who go down the high technology path of bowhunting. And at the end, claiming success, that have not even the basic skills to sharpen a broadhead or could not identify the aroma of a cedar wood shaft."
I miss that man!
GREAT quote...So True
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Originally posted by Killdeer:
"Do you know your daddys out killing bambi?" Without missing a beat she replied "Uh huh, and he's giving me the tail."
~don
If I got talent it has ADD.
~rusty
Had an uncle that fed my mom some opossum telling her it was coon, boy she was p o'd
~TexMex
My gut feeling is to stop thinking about it and just shoot your dern
bow.
~Humbled
Killdeer :biglaugh:
i can't believe someone remembered i said that. thanks for making me remember the day my little girl said that. she's a mom now and still has the tail. don
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Congrats, Gramps! I bet she's a pretty good mom, too.
Killdeer :thumbsup:
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killdeer, yes she is. i already have bows for my two beautiful granddaughters. one is a little blue fiberglass number. made by bear. it was my first bow. this is my first grandchild, krysta rose with that bow. don (http://i1105.photobucket.com/albums/h356/donny-szymanski/062.jpg)
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Both quotes are from my late brother Harold Couch aka "Shaft Slinger"
(1) One thing for sure, we ain't gonna kill nothin' sittin in the truck!! (As we sit in the truck at the hunti' spot, it's 10 degrees, pouring rain and snow at the same time)!!!
(2) Can't put a tag on nothin' if we ain't in the woods!! Sittin' in his man room, looking at a 140 class Whitetail hanging on the wall, he's ready to put a second tag on the mount!!!!
One more, (I've heard more than once!!!!) Boy, if you do that one more time, I'm gonna kick your butt!
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Unadulterated truth is not pablum
(mine, in a confrontational moment)
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"More quite than a mouse wettin' on cotton"
A statement made by a hunting buddy of mine after he watched me shoot my new longbow; he hunts with a compound;
"God always provided the tree but you never read where he built the nest".........me
"God will provide the seed but he won't drive the tractor".....me again
"Son, no such thing as easy money"....dad
"The grass may be greener on the other side but that means you have to buy a bigger mower"....dad
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"If you watch your pennies, the dollars will soon follow".....dad
"If you can withstand the pull, God will pull you out".....dad
"If you believe everything, you will fall for anything".....dad
"A real man is one that listens to God"....dad
"If momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy"....any man who is or has ever been married.... :campfire:
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Last one...
"It's not as far as I think it is nor as close as I want it to be"
The statement I make at every 3-d shoot I attend..... :campfire:
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"There sure is alot of air around a squirrell"
I can't remeber who said it but I'm sure It was on a thread here. It's stuck with me forever and I have used the line myself a couple times.
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When the killing time comes boys, focus and make the shot count. Grandpa to my brother and I right after making a long killing shot on a running black bear my dad and uncle had just wounded at close range.
It can't get worse than this ( me ) standing in a deluge 3 miles from the truck with a hunting buddy right before the real deluge hit.
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After bemoaning the fact that I just blew a shot at a huge mulie and was beating myself up pretty badly my dad chimes in,,,,,,Billy, the only shot you are 100 percent guaranteed to miss is the one you don't take.
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If the grass is greener on the other side, you can bet someone is doing extra work....1SG H. King, 1972
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Me at work last week after a coworker did something really bad..." he ain`t stupid its just that a carpenter can`t build a rocket". Forgive me Lord.RC
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My dads favorite saying when he came home with out any game/fish from a trip " Well~~ at least I got the stink blowed off me"
Dennis
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Some good stuff here.
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Quote from Roger Rothhaar
"I kill because I hunt, I don't hunt to kill".
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"If wishes were fishes, we would all cast nets" from the classic series DUNE by Frank Herbert. circa 1972.
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"Only a spiritually mature man can master the bow".
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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.
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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."
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It's not about who's right, it's about what's right.
Me
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I had an old fellar tell me "archery is 90% mental, the rest is in your head"
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One of my old pals talking to his soon to be ex wife:
"You got something on one of your chins"
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Originally 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
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"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
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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."
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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.
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Funny stuff! I've snorted up my coffee a couple times this morning reading this!! :laughing:
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I can tolerate stupid people until they start to act proud of the fact..............My Dad
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"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.
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Unadulterated truth is not pablum. Self quote
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"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
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Originally 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
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"Hospital."
The only word out of my mouth after I tromped barefooted on my Woodsman Elite 175 last year....
:banghead:
Kingsnake
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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 ...
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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.
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"Measure Success in Proportion to Your Effort" - Mike Mitten
One of my favorites. Applicable in bowhunting and life in general.
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Originally posted by DarkTimber:
"Measure Success in Proportion to Your Effort" - Mike Mitten
One of my favorites. Applicable in bowhunting and life in general.
Exceptional! X2 :thumbsup:
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By Dean Torges
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I have a lifetime of Gene quotes but one of my favorite is
“Eating red meat is absolutely normal”
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“The best thing about hunting and fishing, is that you don’t have to actually do it to enjoy it. You can go to bed every night thinking about how much fun you had 20 years ago, and it all comes back clear as moonlight”
Robert Ruark
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"The mountains are calling and I must go" - John Muir
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“Happiness is victory. Think about that some day, and do something about it.” Gene Wensel
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"Quit wondering why the deer are always "over there". Just go hang your stand there"
Gene Wensel
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A couple of my favorite Gene Wenzel quotes:
" I usually try to hold out for fully mature 5.5-year-old or better bucks. But when you turn seventy years old it's okay to shoot 4.5-year-old bucks because otherwise they might outlive you." :bigsmyl:
"When I was young, I'd stand in my treestand until my feet got sore, then I'd sit down. Now that I'm old I sit in my treestand until my buttocks get sore.. then I stand up." :goldtooth:
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Unquote "John Cargo." (John, as in toilet?)
I can't take credit for that opening line of Primal Dreams. I think the late/great Dean Torges fine-tuned that one for us. He was the wordsmith.
A couple quotes from Dad: "If you can't tie good knots, tie lots of them...." "There are only three types of people in this world....those who can count and those who can't."
gw
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Chesty Puller, on being surrounded in Korea: “All right, they’re on our left, they’re on our right, they’re in front of us, they’re behind us…they can’t get away this time.”
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Partner (67) and I (69) have been deer hunting together since our youth as our dads were friends and deer hunting partners since 1952. Dads always took us out of school for a week to accompany them to deer camp. Our dads have passed in the last couple of years. Since our dads retired from hunting, due to age and physical limitations, we open archery deer camp each year with this bourbon toast, "To our dads, us, and those like us . . . damn few." After swallowing that first shot of bourbon, we cough-bark-gag-and-sputter together and then say, "Smoooooooooooth!" It's our annual tradition.
"Time for a Smooth". Said when returning after dark from an evening hunt.
"There's one thing I like about hunting in the rain . . . nope, I'm wrong."
"Shoot Straight and Point." Said before we head out to hunt because we hate long tracking jobs and long deer drags (point so the deer runs toward the road).
"Those dang deer are good at what they do." Said after yet another unsuccessful hunt.
"Daylight in the Swamp." Said in the morning as a wake-up call meaning, 'HURRY it's getting late'.
"Pee tree." Heading outside to take a leak on the designated, large oak tree. (Can't believe that tree still stands).
"Shot another liverless deer." Dad's both liked liver-&-onions ... we didn't. When cleaning our deer we would throw the liver far from the gut pill before dragging in our deer. Had to 'throw it' as the first time we said this our dad's went to the gut pile to retrieve the liver.
"Anyone can shoot a large deer. Real archers shoot these." Said when I shoot a small deer.
I got a million of 'em. I'll be here all weekend! :readit:
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"Make the most of all that comes and the least of all that goes"
Don't know where I read this but have lived it for many years.
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"Up here in the high country, you either plan ahead or wish you had."
David Peterson
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I like the John Muir quote.
"If you're not living on the edge, you're taking up too much space." - Me
:campfire: :coffee: :archer2: :campfire:
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Couple from my dad.
Better to be thought a fool then open your mouth and prove it.
Shallow water makes the most noise. Referring to people constantly talking.
Referring to wanting. And people in hell want a glass of ice water.
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My Dad always told me, If you don't have time to do it right the first time, when will you have time to do it over?
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Nothing calms a troubled mind like shooting the bow. Fred Bear
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Sorry but I can’t remember names. At Hog Heaven, guy had a big jug of whiskey slush, after explaining how “healthy” the ingredients were he said “ everyone you know that drinks a little whiskey lives to be 100 ,,, as far as I can tell that’s the only downside “