Your favorite Trad Bowhunting / hunting Quotes

[BowHuntingFool]

Originally posted by GMMAT:
When I was contemplating taking the leap from compound to full-time trad, over the winter, I placed a thread asking how some of you other guys went about it.

Whether he knows it or not.....Orion said something to me that hit home like a ton of bricks.

I made the decision, shortly after reading it.  HE NAILED IT.

Here's the quote....

 When how you take animals becomes more important than how big or how many, you'll make the switch. Simple as that. We'll be waiting. Good luck.
 
My "thank you" to him for those words.

Jeff, I remember when Jerry posted this, it was pretty awesome!!!!    

[rod251]

When the last deer disappears into the morning mist,
When the last elk vanishes from the hills,
When the last buffalo falls on the plains,
I will hunt mice, for I am a hunter and I must have my freedom.
Chief Joseph, Nez Perce

[goodolboy94]

from a good friend of mine and my trad mentor  " if it was just about killing i would take a gun on my trips instead of my long bow"

[dragon rider]

My father's hunnting prayer:  Lord, if I can't kill clean then please make me miss clean.

[GMMAT]

"I don't hunt animals to kill 'em. I kill animals because I hunt them." - Roger Rothhaar (from one of the MBB series)
 

[John3]

One of my favorites and still correct:

"There is no excellence in Archery without great labor".

Maurice Thompson 1879

[Weekend Warrior]

I bought a poster from Jerry Gowins several years ago that had this quote.  
It sums it up for me.

   
   "...and, in the end, when I can no longer draw the bow or watch the arrow embark its flight; When alas I possess only the spirit of the hunter, I will hunt...if only in my dreams.. because the hunt is born amidst my soul, and I... I am the hunter."

                                                                      -Peter Iacavazzi

[Steve B.]

"You're a great hunter, Steve"

[FerretWYO]

Lets see if there are anymore out there

[snakebit40]

Good stuff    

[don_h]

"I didn't hike up this mountain to drag something out by the ears".-a quick explanation to a hunting friend of mine why I did not shoot a cow elk at 15 yards while I was, and still am, hunting the same bull for the last few years. Maybe he'll be back there screaming at me this year again.

"Oh Well. Maybe Next Year."

[getstonedprimitivebowhunt]

...less is always better ! if you know what I mean !

[longbowray]

I love to wacth the arrow fly .

To see what you can't hear , and too hear what you can't see help you become a hunter ! Not just a hunter but a bowhunter .   My dad always told my this when I was little .

A woodman make a better hunter !

[Ulysseys]

"No one would rather hunt Woodcock in October than I, but since learning of the sky dance I call one or two birds enough."  Aldo Leopold.

[Smithhammer]

“It is foolish to regard proper game laws as undemocratic, unrepublican. On the contrary, they are essentially in the interests of the people as whole, because it is only through their enactment and enforcement that the people as a whole can preserve the game and can prevent its becoming purely the property of the rich, who are able to create and maintain extensive private preserves. The wealthy man can get hunting anyhow, but the man of small means is dependent solely upon wise and well-executed game laws for his enjoyment of the sturdy pleasure of the chase.”

-Theodore Roosevelt

[MCNSC]

See my signature. Although it is about trout fishing it sums
Up the way I see traditional archery.

[reddogge]

"Beware of the man who owns one bow for he probably knows how to use it." Unknown but the original said gun.

[Kituwa]

She said:"It's JUST a bow" He said: "And your JUST a girl"

[RookieBwhunter]

"Good luck happens when preparedness meets opportunity" - unknown author