Quotes that Speak to Hunters

[93marlin]

We all should quote this:
Every time we make a decision, no matter how seemingly inconsequential, we have to live with the results for the rest of our lives

 

[Choupique]

'The best thing about hunting and fishing,' the Old Man said, 'is that you don't have to actually do it to enjoy it. You can go to bed every night thinking about how much fun you had twenty years ago, and it all comes back clear as moonlight.'

-Ruark's ol pawpaw

 

[Ontario Hunter]

"That guy couldn't hit water if he fell out of the boat!"
*** Me (watching a skybusting waterfowl hunter killing atmosphere)

 

[jimmywallstreet]

“Shield the wounded as the devil’s roar rises up before your eyes.”- anonymous

 

[baxterb]

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Just curious, on the Blixen quote - where did that show up? I am the one who published that Kindle version of African Hunter but don’t know anything about the #kindlequote thing?

 

[baxterb]

He prayeth well, who loveth well,
Both man and bird and beast.

- Coleridge

 

[Lopehunter]

The mere size of the bag indicates little as to a man's prowess as a hunter, and almost nothing as to the interest or value of his achievement.

-Theodore Roosevelt, African Game Trails, pg 534

 

[bakerb]

Just curious, on the Blixen quote - where did that show up? I am the one who published that Kindle version of African Hunter but don’t know anything about the #kindlequote thing?

It’s in the book on Kindle. I just highlight as I read the ones h like and then save them as the Kindle quotes.

 

[Atticus]

“All I wanted to do was get back to Africa. We had not left it, yet, but when I would wake in the night I would lie, listening, homesick for it already."--- Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa

 

[Milo]

“Where a man feels at home, outside of where he's born, is where he's meant to go.” Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa

 

[Newboomer]

“All I wanted to do was get back to Africa. We had not left it, yet, but when I would wake in the night I would lie, listening, homesick for it already."--- Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa

"The fun is not in the kill, the fun is in the stalk," I tell myself.

 

[Milo]

"I never knew of a Morning in Africa when I woke up and was not happy," Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa

 

[sgt_zim]

"Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime,"

 

[Altitude sickness]

Get up ! It’s daylight in the swamp

 

[TheGrayRider]

“You are what you do, not what you say you will do.” Anonymous.

 

[Scott CWO]

“He couldn’t track a dump truck in the mud!” Heard it on a hunting post on Instagram

 

[458JCE]

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Jeremiah Johnson is the greatest movie ever. I have always had a 50 cal Hawken percussion rifle in my collection. My Dad gave me one for Christmas when I was 15.

 

[458JCE]

“All I wanted to do was get back to Africa. We had not left it, yet, but when I would wake in the night I would lie, listening, homesick for it already."--- Ernest Hemingway, Green Hills of Africa

Green Hills of Africa captures the allure of Africa. I am smitten.

 

[R eight]

All the game that’s ever been got is not worth one man shot.

 

[NIGHTHAWK]

This quote, or motto, makes me think of conservation: