How about

"You hit him hard - He won't go far"

Said to me before we spent the entire afternoon trailing a wounded Zebra

TerryR

Here's a quote from my friend after his PH told him to shoot two Kudu on separate occasions, telling him they're large -go 55 to 58' shoot!
My friend walks up on them(after shooting them) and sees obviously the kudu is way under 50" likely 46-48'

Here is his quote --one we use in hunt camp regularly:

Damn, that is some serious horn shrinkage!

It is not a quote but I saw it on a t-shirt and thought it was funny

P.E.T.A:
People for the Eating of Tasty Animals

the "cold dead hands quote is charlton heston

He is an honorary life member of the National Rifle Association (NRA), and was its president and spokesman from 1998 until his resignation in 2003. As NRA president he is best known, while raising an antique rifle over his head at the 2000 NRA convention, for saying that Al Gore would take away his Second Amendment rights "from my cold, dead hands". (In announcing his resignation in 2003, he would again raise a rifle over his head, this time repeating only the famous five words of his 2000 speech.)

It's the dead ones that kill you.

Hunting with one of my buddies after he missed with 6 shots:
It's not the anticipation of the hunt it's as long as you get in lots of good shootin.

From Jeff at the begining of the big bore hog hunt:
If he gets past your hands your gonna bleed

Take care,
Dave

Love is sex misspelled. Harlan Ellison

After a very long,hard stalk on a monster Kudu, out of breath and tired, my PH John Sharp says Bob if you make this shot(over 300 yards) it will be the shot of your life.

Took it, one shot and it was done.

Just shoot in here amognst us one of us has got to have some relief : Jerry Clower

I got this from an AR member (sorry I forgot who):
And so if you meet a hunter who has been to Africa and he tells you what he has seen and done, watch his eyes as he talks. For they will not see you. They will see sunrises and sunsets such as you cannot imagine, and a land and a way of life that is fast vanishing. And always he will tell you how he plans to go back. Author: David Petzer

Another quote I obtained on AR:

"Africa is a demanding mistresss. Once you have drank from her cup, she is never far from your thoughts." ~ George Hoffman

I dont know where I saw this but I think it was Ted Nugent.
" A hunter kills his animals scavengers
have it done for them"

something like that.

No such place as too far, no such thing as too ready. Old Speer reloading catalog.

"Take him"

It's not the destination, it's the journey!

From my PH Danie Jensen Van Vuuren, after a couple of days of sneaking around in the brush looking for that perfect Kudu....."We have a lot of kudu, but there is not one behind every bush, we have a lot of bushes, too."
An hour and a couple thousand bushes later I had my 581/2 incher.
Four days later, Mateus our tracker leaned over and whispered in my ear as I aimed at my Mountain Zebra, "If you miss this one we will never see it again!"
Neither is found in literature, but they are engraved in my memory.

Bwana, It ia a mocula one!!!

Bullsprig

quote:

Originally posted by JD:
Robert Ruark"s, "He looked at me like I owed him money." or something like that.

"I lurched up and looked at Mbogo, and Mbogo looked at me. He was 50 to 60 yards off, his head low, his eyes staring right down my soul. He looked at me as if he hated my guts. He looked as if I had despoiled his fiancé, murdered his mother and burned down his house. He looked at me as if I owed him money. I never saw such malevolence in the eyes of any animal or human being before or since. So I shot him." - Robert Ruark

Earleir this year here on AR there was a thread about the dumbest questions asked of hunters. I can't remember which member posted it, but he said when asked, "Why would you shoot an elephant?" he would respond, "I like the sound they make when they fall."

I still laugh when I think about that.

Sorry I can't remember who posted it to give him credit.

I think it was first said by "Rusty"

Quote form an old friend

"Some days you get the bear, some days the bear gets you"

quote:

Originally posted by crazy_quik:

quote:

Originally posted by JD:
Robert Ruark"s, "He looked at me like I owed him money." or something like that.

"I lurched up and looked at Mbogo, and Mbogo looked at me. He was 50 to 60 yards off, his head low, his eyes staring right down my soul. He looked at me as if he hated my guts. He looked as if I had despoiled his fiancé, murdered his mother and burned down his house. He looked at me as if I owed him money. I never saw such malevolence in the eyes of any animal or human being before or since. So I shot him." - Robert Ruark

Ruark must have liked the comment about owing money because he used it more than once.....

"I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so. Lions and leopards and rhinos excite me but don't frighten me. But that buff is so big and mean and ugly and hard to stop, and vindictive and cruel and surly and ornery. He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money. He looks like he is hunting you." (Use Enough Gun)

from one of ruark's books(i think).."if ya don't care where you are, then ya ain't never lost!"

two from an old hunting buddy of mine

"we got real lucky and didn't get anything" (no cleaning, skinning, butchering, etc...)

"i find that the older i get, the less important it becomes that i actually kill something"

Don't know where this one came from but it sure is true:

"If there's lead in the air there's still hope"

quote:

Originally posted by quickshot:
For the veggieheads in your life that hate hunters and meat eaters::

Vegetarians hunt and kill defenseless life forms that can neither run away nor hide --How sporting is that?

Have anybody an Idea what the word VEGETERIAN actually means. From what an old bushmen told me, it means VERY BAD HUNTER

"The generation to which I belong has seen Africa yield up her secrets. I have loved the chase not only for its own sake, but even more for where it has taken me. I possess memories I would not exchange for all the wealth and distinction the world can give. I love these years in Africa as I do the shade of palms and the sound of waters after the dust and toils of a desert march. You go out to Africa to see savages, and you find them only on your return."
-Sir Alfred Pease

I once stopped to ask an old farmer if I could hunt his property he said yes and then said the quote that has stayed with me since then.

"Don't kill more than you can haul"

Well that suited me as I had a 1 ton flatbed truck! LOL

"Some days are chicken salad, some days are chicken $hit"

On firing three shots at a rapidly departing rooster, "And don't you EVER come back!"

And best of all, from my Zulu bird boy, "Good shot, sir!"

I´ll admit to this one from my second hunt after I jerked a shot on a gemsbok standning broadside fifty yards away:

"Did I miss?"

My PH:

"Hard to believe but Yes"

"You find them where you find them."

--my grandfather

"You ain't gonna believe this, but......"

““I speak Of Africa and golden Joysâ€; the joy of wandering through lonely lands; the joy of hunting the mighty and terrible lords of the wilderness, the cunning, the wary, and the grimâ€

Theodore Roosevelt


He must go -- go -- go away from here!
On the other side the world he's overdue.
'Send your road is clear before you when the old Spring-fret comes o'er you, And the Red Gods call for you

RUDYARD KIPLING

quote:

No worries about offending my sensibilities regarding the 460 Weatherby. My observation has been that shot placement counts for more than caliber, assuming one is in the right ballpark of "enough gun". My 460 is the big bore I've got the most experience shooting, and am comfortable with. And, when it comes to placement, it seems that comfort and experience usually trump statistical esoterica about caliber.

Read today, posted by stuntpilot2

Insert any caliber for 460 Weatherby and you have an answer to alot of the debates covering many game animals.
ie 270 vs 280
30-06 vs 300 WM
338-06 vs 388 WM

"When a strong man, fully armed, guards his own house, his possessions are safe." Luke 11:21 (NIV)

"Only accurate rifles are interesting." Townsend Whelen

Wink after about the 30th time the Zebra started running and taking the Red Hartebeest with them:

THOSE BLOODY ZEBRA, I MIGHT RETALIATE AND KILL ONE OF THEM

"He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money. He looks like he is hunting you."
-Ruark

I don't know who said it or how long ago I first heard it but my favorite is, "A bad day of hunting is better than a good day at work"

I quite like:

"I love the smell of cordite in the morning"

I have seen it somewhere but can't remember where!