Quotes that Speak to Hunters

Not sure of the exact quote. John Wayne to I think his son Michael Wayne in the movie McClintock.

'....well if you can shoot that far there's a deer beyond my right shoulder....'

' ....you only kill for two reasons....to stay alive and for meat. We need fresh meat...'

Michael Wayne's response: '....I don't kill to prove a point....'
 
“I am not shitting you this time, go on one more hunt this year and I’m done!”
-my ex-wife
 
At its worst, a safari is the greatest adventure that can happen to a man in his bemused and muddled age. At its best, a safari is a venture into magic, an experience so rare and fine as to be almost too good for the people who enjoy it.

- Ruark
 
I don't really remember exactly who should be credited with the original quote, or what the original activity quoted was - but this is the version that our crew uses now ...

"Hunting (and/or fishing) should be written in three chapters - Anticipation, Realization and Gratification"
 
"Despite our ever-changing, ever-indignant world with its growing ignorance of and indifference to the ways of the wild, I remain a predator, pitying those who revel in artificiality and synthetic success while regarding me and my kind as relics of a time and place no longer valued or understood. I stalk a real world of dark wood and tall grass stirred by a restless wind blowing across sunlit water and beneath star-strewn sky. And on those occasions when I choose to kill, to claim some small part of nature's bounty for my own, I do so by choice, quickly with the learned efficiency of a skilled hunter.


Further, in my heart and mind, I know the truth and make no apologies for my actions or my place in time.


Others around me may opt to eat only plants, nuts and fruits. Still others may employ faceless strangers to procure their meats, their leather, their feathers, and all those niceties and necessities of life. Such is their right, of course, and I wish them well. All I ask in return is no one begrudge me - and all of us who may answer the primordial stirrings within our hunter's souls - my right to do some of these things myself.”
M.R. James
 
"Well, Let Me Just Quote The Late Great Colonel Sanders, Who Said... 'I'm Too Drunk To Taste This Chicken.'"
 

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