Calvin45
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"Underkill" - when you make a good kill shot but the deer runs UNDER an old barbed wire fence before expiring. Even worse if on the other side is a field you're not supposed to be on!
Hunting Definitions You Never Knew
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Calvin45
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MOA - forget minute of angle. Moa stands for "man outta ammo!"
A dreadful predicament, usually discovered when a big buck is near. Can happen for a variety of reasons…the worst one is a detachable box magazine having "detached" at an unknown point somewhere back there….
A dreadful predicament, usually discovered when a big buck is near. Can happen for a variety of reasons…the worst one is a detachable box magazine having "detached" at an unknown point somewhere back there….
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Calvin45
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"Bullseye"
When the HUGE bull moose or elk just stands there and STARES at you, taunting, mocking, not remotely afraid…like it knows you only have whitetail tags…he's giving you the bull's eye!
there's no time your more likely to see a moose than when you're hunting something else.
When the HUGE bull moose or elk just stands there and STARES at you, taunting, mocking, not remotely afraid…like it knows you only have whitetail tags…he's giving you the bull's eye!
there's no time your more likely to see a moose than when you're hunting something else.
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Calvin45
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"Zero-stop"
When you're marching through deep snow pulling a downed buck through it together with a partner and your lungs are on fire and you just wanna take a break more than anything…but you are determined, come hell or high water, to not be the first to "tap out" even if it kills you. There will be ZERO STOP, none!!!
I've practiced the zero stop philosophy in misguided attempts to impress my father as a teenager, my father in law as a grown man, buddies who I knew full well were in better cardio shape than me, etc…ZERO STOP! I don't quit…unless YOU need a break!
Now that both my father and my father in law have suffered heart attacks I have completely abandoned the zero stop philosophy when hunting with them. I INSIST we stop frequently, probably to the point of annoying them…but when my father in law said something about not needing to be babied I preserved his pride by saying "oh that's not what this is, but a deer is bad enough…you're 6 foot 3 and over 250lb, I ain't up for dragging your carcass out of here too". We had a good chuckle and continued pulling the buck out…
because I probably won't change much deep down, I'm sure when I'm older I'll feel the need to run myself ragged when my boys are teenagers and then strapping young men….it's important that I remain the standard of grit they're trying to outgun for as long as possible
When you're marching through deep snow pulling a downed buck through it together with a partner and your lungs are on fire and you just wanna take a break more than anything…but you are determined, come hell or high water, to not be the first to "tap out" even if it kills you. There will be ZERO STOP, none!!!
I've practiced the zero stop philosophy in misguided attempts to impress my father as a teenager, my father in law as a grown man, buddies who I knew full well were in better cardio shape than me, etc…ZERO STOP! I don't quit…unless YOU need a break!
Now that both my father and my father in law have suffered heart attacks I have completely abandoned the zero stop philosophy when hunting with them. I INSIST we stop frequently, probably to the point of annoying them…but when my father in law said something about not needing to be babied I preserved his pride by saying "oh that's not what this is, but a deer is bad enough…you're 6 foot 3 and over 250lb, I ain't up for dragging your carcass out of here too". We had a good chuckle and continued pulling the buck out…
because I probably won't change much deep down, I'm sure when I'm older I'll feel the need to run myself ragged when my boys are teenagers and then strapping young men….it's important that I remain the standard of grit they're trying to outgun for as long as possible
Calvin45
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"drop point".
Not to be confused with a certain very functional and aesthetically pleasing knife blade geometry, this is what is sure to happen numerous times around the campfire at the hunting camp. No conversation ever completed before someone, or everyone, goes off on a tangential rabbit trail, or gets distracted, or changes the subject. The "point" is dropped many times
"What were we even talking about again guys?"
"Oh great, it happened again. Another drop-point!"
Not to be confused with a certain very functional and aesthetically pleasing knife blade geometry, this is what is sure to happen numerous times around the campfire at the hunting camp. No conversation ever completed before someone, or everyone, goes off on a tangential rabbit trail, or gets distracted, or changes the subject. The "point" is dropped many times
"What were we even talking about again guys?"
"Oh great, it happened again. Another drop-point!"
Calvin45
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"cow tags" - the receipts showing how much you spent on BEEF at the grocery store after striking out!
"Bull" - your hunting partner is FULL OF THIS.
"Bull" - your hunting partner is FULL OF THIS.
DRT (dead right there). The thing that never seems to happen when there is a deep ravine or very thick briar thicket near by.
Death Dash - is the how your deer makes it to the ravine or thicket before it realizes it is dead.
Death Dash - is the how your deer makes it to the ravine or thicket before it realizes it is dead.
Calvin45
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Muzzle blast - when the deer are starting to come out at dusk, and just as a BIG buck emerges from the brush line you realize you have to sneeze. You try in vain to suppress or silence it, to no avail. The deer of a lifetime is scared away because of your horrendous MUZZLE BLAST!
Muddyboots
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Bump for new definitions!
Outdrmn
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We call those whistling crotch crickets.
I prefer audible to SBD (silent but deadly). At least you have time to duck into the sleeping bag when there is an incoming warning.
Cclon5
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Love all these!
Buck Snort....what the waitress does when you leave a small tip
