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Quotes About Hunting

Vegetables you've grown in your own garden just taste better. Meals that you've cooked yourself just taste better. And yes, animals that you've killed yourself just taste better.
~ John Durant
the food movement needs people who can do the dirty work: hunt wild boar, gut deer, eat invasive species, try insects, raise animals the right way, and pay for ethically raised meat. That role falls to us.
~ John Durant
Deer get to live in the wild, and then they die fairly quickly from a well-placed shot to the vitals. For a deer, the most likely alternatives are a slower and more painful death by a nonhuman predator (i.e., getting torn apart by a coyote), starvation, or disease. Being killed by a skilled human hunter may well be the least painful way for a deer to die.
~ John Durant
Hunting party," Horace said Both Halt and Will looked at him sarcastically. "You think?" Will said. "Maybe they found the deer and brought him back to repair him.
~ John Flanagan
It's the Kalkara. they're hunting.
~ John Flanagan
He appeared nondescript enough, that was for sure. His clothes were simple-verging on drab, in fact. His beard and hair were badly cut. They looked as if he had cut them with a hunting knife, thought Deparnieux,unaware that he was only one of many people to have had that very same thoughts about Halt.
~ John Flanagan
That'll make Edvin happy. He's always keen to replenish our stocks of fresh meat whenever he can." "It'll make Ingvar happy too," Stig put in. "He's always keen to eat it.
~ John Flanagan
Fighting the snare only deepens the wound. One must lie in wait, hoarding strength until the hunter returns.
~ Elizabeth Bear
A good hunter did not rush into a den of lions unprepared, and Dante was a very good hunter.
~ Elizabeth Elliott
All they had to do was pick off a mammoth or a giant ground sloth every so often, when the opportunity arose, and keep this up for several centuries. This would have been enough to drive the populations of slow-reproducing species first into decline and then, eventually, all the way down to zero.
~ Elizabeth Kolbert
Then, too, the Ju/wa men had an inherent, almost natural bravery that everyone took entirely for granted. They hunted the world's most dangerous game with quarter-ounce arrows, they stood off lions and dealt with strangers, all without a shred of the bravado or machismo that so characterizes the men of other societies, including ours. The Ju/wa men simply did what men do without making anything of it, and didn't even think of themselves as brave.
~ Elizabeth Marshall Thomas
I got a .30-30 for Christmas in the seventh grade. It wasn't what I asked for, by the way.
~ Matt Bomer
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Women are very attracted to a low voice because it's linked to testosterone, which for millions of years was a sign that men had very good spacial skills and would have been very good at hunting and finding their way back home.
~ Helen Fisher
The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither.
~ Kenneth Grahame
I enjoy almost all of the game we kill. I only like to eat game that I have cleaned. I guess duck and dressing are still one of my favorites. We prefer fat green-winged teal or wood ducks for our dressing.
~ Phil Robertson
Anyone who thinks hunters are just 'bloodthirsty morons' hasn't looked into hunting. If you wait through long, cold hours in the November woods with a bow in your hands hoping a buck will show, or if you spend days walking in the African bush trailing Cape buffalo while listening to lions roar, you're sure to learn hunting isn't about killing.
~ Donald Trump, Jr.
The original purpose of the beards was to help with the wind when it's blowing in your face. When you're out there in the woods hunting like we are all the time, we found that facial hair helps you to stay a lot warmer.
~ Willie Robertson
A lot of my friends growing up were hunters, but I spent all my time on the ice hurting actual humans playing hockey. I never had the chance to run through the woods and shoot at a moose or deer. I was shooting pucks at goaltender's heads.
~ Kevin Durand
The two biggest things that translate from the pitching mound to hunting and fishing are patience and perseverance. When you're on the mound, you have to take the game one pitch at a time, regardless of the score, and that approach helps when I'm in the woods or on the water as well.
~ Jon Lester
Our ancestors went to the woods to find fuel; they set snares there for birds and gathered nuts and fungi.
~ John Burnside
We have a lot of friends who are hunters. And you know what? Come hunting season, man, they head to the woods, you know. And again, this country was built on God and guns, folks. I mean, it really was.
~ Johnny Van Zant
A lot of us who grew up in the country, hunting and fishing, being very familiar with the woods and dirt roads, have the skill set you need to fight fire.
~ Matthew Desmond
I loved to go hunting out in the woods and hiking, and that's just not easy anymore. For me, to walk up and down hills in the rough terrain, it just doesn't work very well. It can, but it's three times as hard as it used to be.
~ Mike Schultz