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Let's hear your best hunting or african quotes, sayings, etc. These can include famous quotes from writers, poets, medacine men, etc. Let's hear them all from Ruark, Hemmingway... | ||
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My favorite is "Never shoot in front of the clients". I don't know who said it first. | |||
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Aim small, miss small. Mel Gibson in The Patriot. Yep, he was hunting Brits Never take chili pepper to a bear fight. ME First out of camp, last into camp. ALSO ME | |||
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First time I heard the "aim small, miss small" phrase was when I was a kid watching "Little House on the Prairie". Not sure who was the first on that one, but it weren't Mel in the Patriot.  A couple of my favorites: "Fair chase is having to shoot your way out of that which you shot your way into." -- not sure of the source...Scruffy would know. "All good things come to those who wait with determination". -- W.T. Hornaday. Cheers, Canuck | |||
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Funniest thing I heard in Africa was when my PH (Alan Shearing who was tired of the go-away bird following us while we were trying to stalk elephant) said to it, "You go away...bastard." That really summed up how all of us felt at the time. _______________________________  | |||
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"Get as close as you can then get 10 yds closer" Pondoro. | |||
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Best thing I've heard in Africa: PH: "Do you know why americans stir their tea clockwise and europeans stir their tea counter-clockwise?" Me: "No,Don, why?" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . PH: "To dissolve the sugar, of course." ______________________ RMEF Life Member SCI DRSS Chapuis 9,3/9,3 + 20/20 Simson 12/12/9,3 Zoli 7x57R/12 Kreighoff .470/.470 We band of 9,3ers! The Few. The Pissed. The Taxpayers. | |||
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"It's not the anticipation of the hunt, it's as long as you get a lot of good shooting in" After my buddies hunting partner missed a big buck for the tenth shot. | |||
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"Do you know why when ducks or geese fly south for the winter one side of the 'V' is always longer than the other?" . . . . . . . . . . . . . Answer: "One side has more ducks or geese!" Graybird "Make no mistake, it's not revenge he's after ... it's the reckoning." | |||
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It's a movie quote, but it's about a particular location in Africa:
--from the movie Zulu (1964) _________________________ Glenn | |||
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"But that is Africa, where the days are sometimes gilded with sudden and exciting incidents that come and go in kaleidoscopic fashion. And yet these incidents which may never happen to one again are compensated by experiences so exquisitely beautiful or extraordinary as to make one wish he could remain in Africa for the rest of his life." -James L. Clark | |||
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T.A.B. That's Africa Bwana! From my 'ol hunting buddy, Peter Lang.. | |||
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"He's so high he could hunt ducks with a rake." (From the moonshine days, before weed was so prevelant.) And, although I've never asked how big is he, prior to a shot, I just shoot if the PH says he's the one; my PH is known for saying, if asked this question "Big enough for you!" | |||
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Wawa! "West Africa wins again!" | |||
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I believe that this qualifies if only because it was written by Robert Ruark: "Life is horrible enough with whisky and without it is insupportable." Mike Wilderness is my cathedral, and hunting is my prayer. | |||
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From my secretary at work---- "Piss poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine". Applies to our Africa trips! Be prepared. | |||
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I always got a kick out of it when the PH would say "We need to make a plan" or "We need to make a better plan". DB Bill aka Bill George | |||
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"Chance favors the prepared mind". -- Louis Pasteur "I envy not him that eats better meat than I do; nor him that is richer, or that wears better clothes than I do; I envy him, and him only, that kills bigger deer than I do." Izaak Walton (modified) | |||
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graybird -- I think we're hunting with the same caliber of companions (pun intended). ______________________ RMEF Life Member SCI DRSS Chapuis 9,3/9,3 + 20/20 Simson 12/12/9,3 Zoli 7x57R/12 Kreighoff .470/.470 We band of 9,3ers! The Few. The Pissed. The Taxpayers. | |||
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A quote from Ruark... "Robert Ruark took a .470 double rifle on his first safari to Kenya, and while he was in the process of shooting a Cape buffalo, the two barrels fired simultaneously. Both the buff and Ruark were knocked flat. Harry Selby, Ruark's professional hunter, waited a moment and then said, "Really, one of you ought to get up." " Regards, Chuck "There's a saying in prize fighting, everyone's got a plan until they get hit" Michael Douglas "The Ghost And The Darkness" | |||
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"I speak of Africa and golden joys; 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 grim." Theodore Roosevelt, Khartoum, March 15, 1910 "I speak of Africa and golden joys; 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 grim." Theodore Roosevelt, Khartoum, March 15, 1910 | |||
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There are creatures here that cannot even be found in books. And l have killed them all. Brad Pitt - Legends of the fall | |||
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Bow hunting....All the fun of hunting and most of the time I don't have to deal with dead animals. | |||
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I don't remember where I read the story, or who told it, about two young Texas hunters who went to Zim to hunt elephant. Both were excellent shots on the plains game they had taken. They tracked and stalked an elephant and then both missed at less the twenty yards. The PH expected some expletives deleted, but one of them just laughed and said, "Isn't that what wildlife conservation's all about?" _________________________________ AR, where the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history become the nattering nabobs of negativisim. | |||
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"When a cape buffalo puts together a concentrated charge, your options have been wonderfully simplified! You kill him, or he kills you!" P.H.C .........And my own quote in my signature line below, which happens to be the last line in my journal from my first safari in Africa! ....Mac >>>===(x)===> MacD37, ...and DUGABOY1 DRSS Charter member "If I die today, I've had a life well spent, for I've been to see the Elephant, and smelled the smoke of Africa!"~ME 1982 Hands of Old Elmer Keith  | |||
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When we walked up on my Cape Buff after it was down and I put two more into it even though it seemed very dead-My PH looked at me and said-" I'm going to like you!" Bob Clark | |||
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I shot an impala, and he dropped dead. My Ph said "What happened?" I have been hunting with him for years, but it seems that feat has amazed him! | |||
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MacD37, I've admired that "life well spent.." signature line every time I've seen it here, and always intended to ask where it came from. My own first Africa trip is in the works for '09, and I can't wait to be able to use that line! John | |||
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“When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said, 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land.†- Bishop Desmond Tutu Johan | |||
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"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 will tell you how he plans to go back." (author: David Petzer) "Cleverly disguised as a responsible adult." | |||
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When I was lamenting to Neil Barnard, my PH, how I was a day late due to airline screw ups, he said "No worries. The animals don't know you were late". Trophyman Benefactor Member NRA SCI California Rifle & Pistol Assoc. Drive a 69 Chevelle SS396 | |||
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“Everything in Africa bites, but the safari bug is worst of all.†- Brian Jackman Johan | |||
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Go out as an innocent and you will come back wealthy and wise. Go out as a wise guy, and you'll hate Africa. I never knew a nice guy who had a bad time on safari. I never knew a sour apple who had a good time. Safari, like the sea, brings things out of man that he can camouflage in the city." … Ruark Johan | |||
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My favorite quote from my Namibian safari, oft repeated in several variations goes like this: Me: "How far do you think he is?" PH: "About 150 yards." The answer never changed, despite shot distances from ~80 to over 300 yards. Way to be consistent!  _____________________ A successful man is one who earns more money than his wife can spend. | |||
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"When the tailgate drops, the bullshit stops!"  Bull1 | |||
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'Umgawa Cheetah, Umgawa!......Tarzan I have no earthly clue what it means...only that it stirs the hell out of the animals. LDK Gray Ghost Hunting Safaris http://grayghostsafaris.com Phone: 615-860-4333 Email: hunts@grayghostsafaris.com NRA Benefactor DSC Professional Member SCI Member RMEF Life Member NWTF Guardian Life Sponsor NAHC Life Member Rowland Ward - SCI Scorer Took the wife the Eastern Cape for her first hunt: http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6881000262 Hunting in the Stormberg, Winterberg and Hankey Mountains of the Eastern Cape 2018 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/4801073142 Hunting the Eastern Cape, RSA May 22nd - June 15th 2007 http://forums.accuratereloadin...=810104007#810104007 16 Days in Zimbabwe: Leopard, plains game, fowl and more: http://forums.accuratereloadin...=212108409#212108409 Natal: Rhino, Croc, Nyala, Bushbuck and more http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6341092311 Recent hunt in the Eastern Cape, August 2010: Pics added http://forums.accuratereloadin...261039941#9261039941 10 days in the Stormberg Mountains http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/7781081322 Back in the Stormberg Mountains with friends: May-June 2017 http://forums.accuratereloadin...6321043/m/6001078232 "Peace is that brief glorious moment in history when everybody stands around reloading" - Thomas Jefferson Every morning the Zebra wakes up knowing it must outrun the fastest Lion if it wants to stay alive. Every morning the Lion wakes up knowing it must outrun the slowest Zebra or it will starve. It makes no difference if you are a Zebra or a Lion; when the Sun comes up in Africa, you must wake up running...... "If you're being chased by a Lion, you don't have to be faster than the Lion, you just have to be faster than the person next to you." | |||
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" You are young," Bergere observed gravely,"and everything is not used up, and you think you will go on forever with all of your passions. But it is not so. They will fall by the way, one after another. You will do them too often. You will abuse yourself. And suddenly one day you will be like us, like Mr. Wilson and me. Not old, but not young anymore. And the one passion that will remain will be the sport. For the game is always young, always on good, strong legs, always very alive until you kill it. And that will be the passion you will never lose, the fever that will never burn out. White Hunter Black Heart, Peter Viertel | |||
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I attribute these to my hunting buddy Mark... 'An "adventure" is a screw up that you survive' 'Another fine mess you've gotten us into' | |||
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"If it dies it dies" Russ Broom commenting on a woman who tried to smuggle a snake through customs in her underware! | |||
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you guys are going to have to find the guy who said it but as a kid growing up and devouring every book on Africa in mutiple public libraries I remember a famous hunter extolling the virtues on one of the over 40 caliber guns and saying that he liked it .... "because one shot would make a lion go all loose" Frank "I don't know what there is about buffalo that frightens me so.....He looks like he hates you personally. He looks like you owe him money." - Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter, 1953 NRA Life, SAF Life, CRPA Life, DRSS lite | |||
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