Hunting Colloquialism's

[joe skipp]

Slammer : Big buck

Molly : Big Doe

Bushytail : Squirrel

Floppy Ears : Mulie Doe

Four Point : Western count for eight point

Stumpin' : Roving or Stumpshooting

Layed Him Low : Short blood trail to dead animal
Pads Up or Toe Nails in the Air: How you should find your dead bear.

Eh? : Canadian for "Do you understand?"

[Tox]

Skiff= a very small amount of snowfall.

[tuscarawasbowman]

Grinnie= Chipmunk

[Roger Norris]

Originally posted by TRAD101:
to be honest, I hit on this thread just hoping to
find out what "colloquialism" was.LOL!!

Me too!!

[Butts2]

I saw some Elk in a "park"....open meadow or field

[BOWMARKS]

Originally posted by Roger Norris:
 

Originally posted by TRAD101:
to be honest, I hit on this thread just hoping to
find out what "colloquialism" was.LOL!!

Me too!! [/b]

Me three!!  

Come on Killy      

[fnshtr]

Here in WV we hunt the "hog backs"... or finger ridges off a main ridge.

I stopped in a small store in the eastern mountains and asked for a hershey bar... the woman with a mustache (really!) asked "male or female?"... I didn't have a clue.

She wanted to know if I wanted one with or without nuts!

True story.

[Jake Diebolt]

I have several colloquialisms:

"The deer must have jumped the arrow!" ----> "I missed"
"The arrow hit a twig!"----> I missed.
"My arrow must have been bent, cuz..." ----> "I missed"

Contrary to popular belief, the Canadian "Eh" is a subtle creature. It can mean anything from "do you agree with me" to "What the heck did you just say" or even "You better have brought some beer."

[Shinken]

If'n you happen to be a Bitterrooter

You like your java "hotter than a 2-dolla pistol"

And "thick enuf to float a crow-bar"

'Cause the trail you'll be hikin" is "steeper than a cow's face"

Shoot straight, Shinken

   

[PaddyMac]

back east = anywhere but here.

switchback = the zigs and zags of a mountain road or trail.

scabrock = the basalt "eyebrows" on steep canyon slopes.

hun = hungarian partridge

doghair thicket = brush too thick to get a horse through

[Geezer]

I heard a guy from Maine use the word "Corker"...except it sounded a lot different coming from his mouth.  At the lodge the waitress lay a turkey on the table, he got excited and said, "My, sheze a cocka".

I'm still not sure what he meant.

[centaur]

"That bull is horny as a 3 peckered billy goat".

"That javelina would stink a dog off a gut wagon".

"That gut pile would gag a maggot".

[Geezer]

'Monster' = What we think -      


'Ground Shrinkage' = What our wives think -    

[Littlejake]

Indian Hen-Pileated Woodpecker
Flatheads-Doe deer

[Rustic]

Originally posted by str8jct:
Rustic, paw paw is a berry bearing bush.

Thanks Dwight, Now my life is complete.  

[Mike Most]

colloquialism, the use of informal expressions appropriate to everyday speech rather than to the formality of writing, and differing in pronunciation, vocabulary, or grammar. An example is Kipling's ballad beginning

When 'Omer smote ‘is bloomin’ lyre
He'd 'eard men sing by land and sea;
An' what he thought 'e might require,
‘E went an’took—the same as me!
 

[Adrian Farmer]

A friend who is particularly creative with cute sayings has defined several strategies for hunting:

"jump em and dump em"
"spot em and pot em"
"whack em and pack em"

Also, after hearing my elk hunting exploits for a large number of years he came up with sayings to summarize a season's effort and results:

"Many are called but few are frozen", and
"Many answered the call but few took a fall"

[misfire]

Originally posted by Geezer:
I heard a guy from Maine use the word "Corker"...except it sounded a lot different coming from his mouth.  At the lodge the waitress lay a turkey on the table, he got excited and said, "My, sheze a cocka".

I'm still not sure what he meant.

Someone or something that is extra-special, very nice, top of the line, the best...etc.

Whenever I heard my Grandfather or Uncles say this it made me smile cause I knew they were pleased.

[outbackbowhunter]

Me mate had a big night on the "turps" and is a bit "doughy" s'morning... eh.

My friend had too much to drink last night and is not well at all this morning.

eh is tacked onto the end of a sentence, and has many uses, interpretation depends on context, facial expression and temperment, and is peculiar to northern New South Wales and Queenslanders.

If you want to blend in with the locals just talk......real.........slow.........and.... say...... eh .....at the end of each sentence

Mind you, all you guys over the pond cant talk proper anyhow    

[cowpie]

Was at my buddy's deercamp in rock mi in da upper at pat's corner bar having a few coolies (beers)one night. they had a gal spinnin records and it was kinda slow no one dancing. So i had her play the chicken dance and the hokey pokey and had the crowed fired up a bit to much for one of the local's he called me a appleknocker ????