252 Quotes About Hunting

The first turkey that ever came to me on the ground did it a long time ago. I sat there with my hands shaking and my breath short and my heart hammering so hard I could not understand why he could not hear it. The last turkey that came to me last spring had exactly the same effect, and the day that this does not happen to me is the day that I quit.

The weekend spent on the hunt for a wild animal for the potential to enjoy meals won with hard work is a crude fall pastime. In their eyes, eating processed food and watching steroided up semi-literates collide with one another is superior. “It is barbaric," they text you from their device made with materials collected by African child labor in mines while wearing shoes made in Asian sweatshops.

Like a golfer lining up his putt, he pretended to pull the trigger.

The week leading into spring marks the start of the hunt.

There's a concept in Wisconsin called deer widows, which is basically when all the menfolk leave town to go on their [hunting] trips and the women are left behind, bewildered and confused, to do whatever it is women do without men. (Celebrate.)

Hunt For Hunting *** On this earthEach humanAnd all creaturesHunt each otherFor its huntingTo breathe and surviveIn all dimensions,Knowing thatIn whatever wayNo one can escape From the taste of death,The outcome of deeds.

The least appealing part of the day, though, was definitely lunch. Our shepherd had decided that the finest specialty of the area was armadillo, and there wasn't a single Sunday that his wife failed to cook us up an armadillo—but only after clubbing the critter to death before our eyes.

Who was she? She was one who has an interest in hunting and it may be said that this heart of mine has made it its business to catch the arrows and bleed.

He who hunts a serpent, hunts a spicy soup. If he strikes the serpent dead, he prepares a spicy soup but if the serpent strikes him, a spicy anti-venom soup is prepared for him. Whether he prepares soup or soup is prepared for him, soup is soup; eat it he must.