Your favorite Trad Bowhunting / hunting Quotes

[bretto]

Don't remember where I saw or heard this but it was:

 " Traditional archery being not about how far away You could hit something with a bow but about how close You could get before You hit it "

bretto

[PaddyMac]

I just scrounged this Turkish proverb up and liked it well enough to plant it on my sig:

"If you leave archery one day, it will leave you 10 days."

[ALDO]

"One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted."
     Jose Ortega y Gasset

[Fallguy]

My tag line below says it for me.

[Turkhunter]

My dad said this to me when I had been hunting on my own for a couple years and had missed several deer. "Son, when you get tired of coming home or back to camp empty handed you will learn to take your time and make your shots count instead of just shooting to hear your gun roar." I realized there was a lot of wisdom in that statement and I applied it to hunting with all types of weapons with great success.

[Hit-or-Miss]

Not "Trad Archery", but a damn good one from Herb Parsons, Exibition shooter for Winchester Arms in the 1950's; "Take your boy hunting, and you won't have to hunt for your boy".

[Sixby]

This is really great stuff and I heartily agree with most of it.
As I was hunting a large hillside elderberry patch about 40 years ago a man came down the same path I was on and he had a super nice Browning bow . Explorer. As I admired his bow and talked with him he told me how to hunt the patch effectively. He told me where to take my stand and when the deer would come up the path , How the wind would be perfect for me as the breeze moved up the hill ect. When he finished I thanked him and I sad is there anything else. He gave me this quote I have never ever forgotten.

  "With patience possess ye your soul!"

I have applied this hundreds of times since that time and with fondness remember his kindness toward me.

God bless you all, Steve

[onewhohasfun]

My favorite is the reason most of us are here, "It is not how far, but how close".

[SteveMcD]

"I have regretted but a few shots. But I have never regretted not taking a shot".  
 
My closing salutation below --    

[Bowwild]

"As a hunter I'm a part of nature rather than apart from it."

I've referred to this quote many times over the years when I'm asked why hunting is important to me.

The words are originally attributed (I believe) to an early official with the Izzak Walton League.

[wildgame]

It's in my sig!

[Bowwild]

I hope you'll pardon my suggestion regarding the often quoted "aim small, miss small".  

I believe it is very important to keep one's thoughts positive when shooting. I'd say,"aim small, hit small". This keeps 'missing' out of the mind.

[Gray Buffalo]

There  are some real words of wisdom in these quotes. I especially like "go afield with good attitude,and with respect for the wildlife you hunt, and the forest and fields in which you walk" -Fred Bear and "its the process, not the kill. unknowen

[Jeff D. Holchin]

I enjoy the references to the bow and arrow in the Bible, such as my signature line.

[Squirrel Bait]

Biggie Hoffman said, Turkey hunting is a shotgun sport ! They deserve a face full of #5's !  

 If you've ever chase them with a bow then you can understand!

[lpcjon2]

Success is the one thing you risk the most to acheive, sometimes the risk is its own reward.

That works for hunting and everything else in life.Tim

[Mudd]

"If it ain't a dead deer yet it's because I haven't had enough shots at it!!!"...Me

God bless,Mudd

BTW: this is a joke... and the deer know it..lol

[Lippe]

"How could you possibly miss at 7 yards?"
I asked myself that one once. LOL
Lippe

[Kevin Dill]

Aldo Leopod -"In those days we had never heard of passing up a chance to kill a wolf. In a second we were pumping lead into the pack, but with more excitement than accuracy; how to aim a steep downhill shot is always confusing. When our rifles were empty, the old wolf was down, and a pup was dragging a leg into impassable side-rocks.

We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes—something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters' paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view."

[Geezer]

"I came, I saw, I missed"!