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Offline David Mitchell

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Re: Hunting Colloquialism's
« Reply #20 on: March 01, 2012, 06:25:00 PM »
"We'll be there dreckly" (hillbilly for "directly"). Usually means after while.  If you get tarred waitin' you kin allus sit in a cheer--usually one with four laigs.

One interesting term I heard in Maine was the word "skun" for skinned as in "We skun four bears yesterday."
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Re: Hunting Colloquialism's
« Reply #21 on: March 01, 2012, 06:54:00 PM »
All of us westerners know what a 'slow elk' is, but maybe those from other regions don't. Any answers from non westerners??

Another western term: a monster mule deer that lives in the most rugged country-- a Rock Eater
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Re: Hunting Colloquialism's
« Reply #22 on: March 01, 2012, 07:04:00 PM »
'slow elk'= cow

Jeet... questioning whether you'd taken your sustenance yet.

Crik... small stream

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Re: Hunting Colloquialism's
« Reply #23 on: March 01, 2012, 07:10:00 PM »
Prairie Goat : Antelope
Red Up : Get the Cabin Cleaned
Skippers : It Belongs to Joe Skipp....
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Re: Hunting Colloquialism's
« Reply #24 on: March 01, 2012, 07:35:00 PM »
Light a Shuck - get outa here!
Gone Yonder - Passed On!
Fer Sure an' Fer Certain - Truth!
That Youngn's so Ulgy, his Mam's gotta tie a Pok Chop Bone Round His neck just ta get the Dawgs ta Play wit Him!
Straight as Daddy's Furrow! - Honest!
Woods Rat - Squriel!
Well I Swanny! - I'm just Amazed!
Takin' Shank's Mare - Walking
Jago? - Did you go?
Get on ya, like white on rice! - You're fixin' ta tote a Whooping!
Best thing since sliced Bread! - Good

Just some I thought of.  Here in the South, we got a gunny sack full of 'em!
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Re: Hunting Colloquialism's
« Reply #25 on: March 01, 2012, 07:44:00 PM »
Prize it off. Means to pry.
Retch around and wrench it off. Reach over and wash it off.

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Re: Hunting Colloquialism's
« Reply #26 on: March 01, 2012, 08:07:00 PM »
This is a hobby of mine. I had to mull it and between pesky customers I had to delete prior mentions, like slow elk.

From west central Illinois originally, where there is a difference between a crick and a creek, I've picked up these from my adopted home:

A cut is a sharp, narrow saddle. A pass is a high saddle. A coulee is bigger than a gulch but smaller than a canyon. (I miss using "holler".)

Jack strawed = downed timber laying every which way and in multiple layers, hard to get through. "Man, Buttermilk Butte has some nice bucks, but it's so jack strawed it takes all day to go 10 yards."

Native = ruffed grouse. (Native pheasant)

Be-in's as = because or "seeing as though". As in "Bein's as it's colder'n a cat's ass, I'm heading for the barn."

Offn ... as in "'Course we're lost, bein's as we got offn the trail four hours ago."

Floor = bottom. The whitetails are on the floor and the muleys are on the shoulders.

Whistle pig = rock chuck = groundhog = marmot

Rank = thick & ornery in the rut, as in "That bull was sure rank."

Corn flakes (aka Wheaties) what you walk on when it's dry.

snow cone = rotten snow the consistency of snow cone ice.

Owly = looking around suspiciously "I wasn't busted, but that buck was really owly."

Fool's Hen = Franklin's grouse, NOT a spruce grouse, NOT a blue grouse. (The distinction could be colloquial. This usually causes arguments, kinda like "raghorn" which I'm not touchin')

Hooter = a big old lone male blue grouse that tastes like Pinesol and chews like saddle leather, best used in "scrapple"... how that recipe got clear out here I don't know, but here, it's yellow corn mush cooked slow with old grouse instead of pork then sliced & fried.

Skylighted = standing stuck out on the horizon, something not to do, whether you are man or beast.

Doughball = taken from fishing but used in hunting, the opposite of "pro from Dover" to put it politely. Replaces "roadhunter."

Staub = the broken branch that you drive through your tire when you're driving on a spur which is where you're not supposed to be if you crossed the ditch called a water bar, and definitely if you're driving up on a skid, where the staubs are fierce.

Snag = an upright dead broken off tree, usually a landmark. "The top of the skid leading down to the wallow is right below that big snag."

Then there is that whole "camp robber" "whiskey jack" "Steller's jay" "Canada jay" thing which I'm still scratching my chin over...
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Re: Hunting Colloquialism's
« Reply #27 on: March 01, 2012, 08:50:00 PM »
Riz an flew= took flight as in "That turkey seen me and riz an flew outta there."

sandwich meat= deer fawn

skillet head= doe
who hit John= whiskey
mobile blind= vehicle
hoofin it= walking fast
ol blackie= bear
banch= narrow flat area that goes around a mountain
sidelin= walking sideways
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Re: Hunting Colloquialism's
« Reply #28 on: March 01, 2012, 08:58:00 PM »
Here in Michigan we birdhunt for "Pats". Better known as Ruffed Grouse or Partridge.
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Re: Hunting Colloquialism's
« Reply #29 on: March 01, 2012, 09:11:00 PM »
how about booner = big anything
dead head = stump sticking up in the river
crick = creek
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Re: Hunting Colloquialism's
« Reply #30 on: March 01, 2012, 09:21:00 PM »
bomber or b52- big and tough sage chickens
buzzworm- rattlesnake
black hole- deep, dark timber where elk like to hang out
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Re: Hunting Colloquialism's
« Reply #31 on: March 01, 2012, 09:35:00 PM »
Ditch Chicken = Pheasant
buzzworms = rattlesnake
thunder chicken= turkey
slickies = doe
fuzzbutts = rabbits
nut munchers = squirrels
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Re: Hunting Colloquialism's
« Reply #32 on: March 01, 2012, 09:36:00 PM »
I've heard of "down by the holler, up by the paw paw" I still dony know what that means...  :dunno:
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Re: Hunting Colloquialism's
« Reply #33 on: March 01, 2012, 09:52:00 PM »
Couple more from Colorado.

"Quakies" aspen trees
"Dark timber" stands of conifers in the aspens, where the bigguns hang out.
"Prairie goats" antelope
"two track" a Jeep road consisting of two ruts
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Re: Hunting Colloquialism's
« Reply #34 on: March 01, 2012, 10:00:00 PM »
Rustic, paw paw is a berry bearing bush.

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Re: Hunting Colloquialism's
« Reply #35 on: March 01, 2012, 11:17:00 PM »
Paw Paw's aren't berries,they're hillbilly bananas.LOL  :biglaugh:

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Re: Hunting Colloquialism's
« Reply #36 on: March 02, 2012, 12:20:00 AM »
Try these on for size:
  Hell hole-where you find a big mule deer buck or bull elk once the rifles start going off
  bench-sort of a flat, well, bench...running parallel along the side of a ridge.
  notch-a small, v shaped saddle that is usually used to cross over a ridge without being skylined
  "a little warm"- "If I shoot something in this heat I need to get it to a freezer in less than 12 hours...(this is usually the phrase used by optimistic elk hunters in early September)
  "chilly today"-temperature a little below freezing, usually with a light wind.
  "light wind"- 10-20 miles an hour
  "cold out"- 10 degrees or less with some wind and usually a snow squall if you have to walk anywhere
  "some wind"- 20-30 miles an hour

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Re: Hunting Colloquialism's
« Reply #37 on: March 02, 2012, 01:15:00 AM »
Fuzzies -ground squirrels ,ground rats -ground squirrels. tree rats -tree squirrels. rats with wings- barn pegions.Nice buck, Any thing above a fork on one side and a spike on the other. Dog , coyote. song dog, coyote. String tail, coyote with mange real bad.
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If it was not for rabbits I would never get a buck.
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Re: Hunting Colloquialism's
« Reply #38 on: March 02, 2012, 01:32:00 AM »
This is great! I grew up in GA and definitely have heard some of the colloquialisms mentioned here and then I moved to MT and didn't have a clue what my Uncle was saying about some stuff (still don't). Only one I can think of right now that I haven't seen so far is:
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Re: Hunting Colloquialism's
« Reply #39 on: March 02, 2012, 08:04:00 AM »
"Hightailed it": Anytime anything takes off at a high rate of speed.

"Pucker bushes": Those nasty plants with thorns on em.

"Twitch Path": From Maine...The trails through the woods caused by "skiddas" pulling the logs out to the "yaad"...I think...  :dunno:
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