Your favorite Trad Bowhunting / hunting Quotes

[Thumper Dunker]

Lots of great stuff. Seen this here think it was from a kid . My arrows never miss they always hit something.

[Thumper Dunker]

Originally posted by Red Beastmaster:
This gem was quoted from my friend John H. We were sitting in my truck trying to thaw out from a blizzard during the late WV bowseason. We clutched cups of coffee with numb fingers while the cold wind rocked the truck. With icy breath he stuttered these words............

"You know, I left a perfectly good naked woman to come here with you today. There is something very wrong with that."


Priceless.

So true. The things we do to do what we do.

[Tom Leemans]

A couple heard sitting in camp at MOJam

(while talking about bow woods)
"...Pretty much yew and osage and screw the rest"
-Dean Torges
(while talking about bamboo technically being a grass and not a wood)
"Grass rules your life. If you're not smokin' it, you're mowin' it."
-Rusty Craine

[hayslope]

"On no subject are our ideas more warped and pitiable than on death...Let children walk with nature, let them see the beautiful blendings and communions of death and life, their joyous inseparable unity, as taught in woods and meadows, plains and mountains and streams of our blessed star, and they will learn that death is stingless indeed, and as beautiful as life, and that the grave has no victory, for it never fights. All is divine harmony."  John Muir

"The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom."  Teddy Roosevelt

[hayslope]

From Aldo Leopold:

“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.”

“There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.”

“Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.”

“Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important that television.”

[Cyclic-Rivers]

In the woods, when surrounded by Life and Death, when I am at peace with all that is, nothing can be more beautiful. To know where I belong as a hunter and I am not immortal, suddenly the grand scheme seems perfect.

A Humble man is a better man.  Real Archery brings me humility. It is in this imperfection where I will find pefection through life whether in the field or with loved ones. This alone will makes all that is good even better.

[Mudd]

That's beautiful Charlie!

If those are your thoughts and/or words I am even more convinced that I'd love to share a campfire with you.

The heart tells all I need to know.

God bless,Mudd

[PaddyMac]

Originally posted by Thumper Dunker:
My arrows never miss they always hit something.

I like that one!  

[Chris Donaldson]

if you want meat on the pole, you have to put wood in the air!

[doctari]

I came across this somewhere and liked it so much I put it in my journal.  So my friend, Here is to a brisk morning with a fair wind in your face, A warm sun on your back, and a inviting fire at night upon your return.  

[hayslope]

Originally posted by hayslope:
From Aldo Leopold:

“I am glad I will not be young in a future without wilderness.”

“There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.”

“Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching- even when doing the wrong thing is legal.”

“Like winds and sunsets, wild things were taken for granted until progress began to do away with them. Now we face the question whether a still higher 'standard of living' is worth its cost in things natural, wild and free. For us of the minority, the opportunity to see geese is more important than television.”

[hayslope]

Sorry 'bout that.....messed up trying to edit one!

[joe ashton]

"Dad, I like it when you hunt deer and coyotes, because they are good to eat."  Jessica Ashton age 5.

Jessicas boy freind was coming over for dinner and she told him we're having elk   He oh I don't know I don't really eat venison.  She said
"If  you're eating at my house your eating venison" age 29.

"It was a good hit,  um maybe a little far back, but..."

[Hopewell Tom]

Anything Aldo Leopold said is worth repeating. Each September I re-read A Sand County Almanac. Really gets the blood boiling for the Fall.
The Fall has always been a pretty charged time for me, the coolness, colours, the hunt, my work picks up and the days are pretty full to say the least.
I've always felt unready for the whole thing, especially in the middle of it.
Then this quote from SteveO about his philosophy.
" I spend the first 8 months of the year getting ready for the last 4."
That feels like a plan to me and I've begun to make it a reality. Really looking forward to this Fall.

[misfire]

"...den a flash of white and there he was...gone."

"Turdy Point Buck" by Da Yoopers

Pretty much sums up what happens whenever I see a big buck.

[Doc Nock]

Originally posted by Kituwa:
She said:"It's JUST a bow" He said: "And your JUST a girl"

I presume that is now engraved on said man's tombstone???

[wtpops]

"My arrows hit what they are pointed at 100% of the time, its just sometimes that's not where I'm looking"  -Me-

"The center of an aspirin is the exact same size as the center of a beach ball" -Byron Ferguson-

[L. Harris]

Traditional Bowhunting: Stealth and cunning. NOT gadgets and gizmos!

[BCWV]

A good older archer friend of mine said;

 Shootin these things (trad bows) will keep you humble.

 I agree!

[Jack Skinner]

Great quotes from the old timers. From Fred Anderson's book Intoxicated.

I have made a good many friends in my life through business associations and social contacts, but none of these have meant as much to me as the comrades whith whom I have shot the bow. Homer Taylor 1921

I am still collecting broadheads and have come to the conclusion that an archer chooses his broadhead much as he chooses his wife. They each look good to him; just why, he may not be able to explain. Roy Case 1932
*Makes you wonder why we have all the broadhead discussions on here doesnt it*

The twang of the string as the arrow left the bow, the sweetness of cast and the song of the arrow as it sped on its way, completely captivated me on the spot. W.C. Thurlow, 1927
*So true So true*

It is in the wilds of the great out-ot-doors that a man is most likely to throw aside his cloak of pretense and bare his real character for the acceptance or rejection of his associates. George Cathey, 1939
*Over the years I have had great and I am sorry to say some bad experences with this*

Two of my favorites;

He who enjoys making his own tackle, and who enjoys shooting with the product of his own hands, is an archer. Petit Jean, 1932

I firmly believe that any man who follows the bow was born two hundred years too late. A.D. Shepard, 1936

one more this one should make the techofile in all of us rethink.
"Why, of why, do they fill up so much space writing about spine of arrows and just how to bend them around the bow, instead of making a rigid arrow and learning how to shoot it? Stanley Spencer
Instead of worring about what is the best this and that learn to shoot what you have.
 These Gentilmen's words will ring true for all time.