100 Hunting Quotes And Sayings To Inspire All Hunters

“You must not only aim right, but draw the bow with all your might.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Lions don’t dream of hunting, they just go and hunt.”

“”We wake up while everyone is sound asleep, walk through the mud and water carrying our gear, sit in the freezing rain for hours all for just moments of madness.” We are waterfowlers.”

“I’m an outdoors girl – I like to go fishing, riding four-wheelers and hunting.” – Miranda Lambert

“The couple that hunts together stays together… or kills each other, one of the two…”

“The lazy do not roast any game, but the diligent feed on the riches of the hunt.” — Proverbs 12:27 (Bible Verse)

“A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.” – John James Audubon

“A gun is like a woman, son — it’s all how you hold her.” – Rhett Atkins

“My family tree has a deer stand in it.”

“It’s better to sit in a tree thinking about God than to sit in Church thinking about hunting.”

“I did not mind killing anything, any animal, if I killed it cleanly, they all had to die and my interference with the nightly and the seasonal killing that went on all the time was very minute and I had no guilty feeling at all. We ate the meat and kept the hides and horns.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Opening day of hunting season should be a national holiday.”

“Imagine life without hunting. Now slap yourself and never do it again.”

“A hunt based only on trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be.” – Fred Bear

“You might as well learn that a man who catches fish or shoots game has got to make it fit to eat before he sleeps. Otherwise it’s all a waste and a sin to take it if you can’t use it.” — Robert Ruark

“You know, if you need 100 rounds to kill a deer, maybe hunting isn’t your sport.” – Elayne Boosler

“I’ll never apologize for being a hunter.”

“Maybe stalking the woods is as vital to the human condition as playing music or putting words to paper. Maybe hunting has as much of a claim on our civilized selves as anything else. After all, the earliest forms of representational art reflect hunters and prey. While the arts were making us spiritually viable, ...

... hunting did the heavy lifting of not only keeping us alive, but inspiring us. To abhor hunting is to hate the place from which you came, which is akin to hating yourself in some distant, abstract way.” ― Steven Rinella

“To hunt successfully, you must know your ground, your pack and your quarry.”

“Immerse yourself in the outdoor experience. It will cleanse your soul and make you a better person.” – Fred Bear

“A duck call in the hands of the unskilled is one of the conservation’s greatest assets.” – Nash Buckingham

“There’s no season like deer season.”

“When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible.” — Dale Earnhardt

“Hunting, fishing and archery occupied my every moment. Cared I knew not and cared naught about them.”

I have always tempered my killing with respect for the game pursued. I see the animal not only as a target, but as a living creature with more freedom than I will ever have. I take that life if I can, with regret as well as joy, and with the sure knowledge that nature’s way of fang and claw and starvation are a far ...

... crueler fate than I bestow.” – Fred Bear

“A hunter should be well acquainted with his hunting backgrounds, one miss and he could suffer a fortune.”

“Hunting is not a “Blood Sport” it is a sport that is in my blood.”

“Hunting is not a hobby. It’s a post apocalyptic survival skill.”

“Respect your prey: Many native American tribes would forbid a hunter from celebrating his kill, it was thought to insult the animals spirit and would bring bad luck.”

Hunting and fishing involve killing animals with devices (such as guns) for which animals have not evolved natural defenses. No animal on Earth has adequate defense against a human armes with a gun, a bow and arrow, a trap that can maim, a snare that can strangle, or a fishing lure designed for the sole purpose of ...

... fooling fish into thinking they have found something to eat.” – Marc Bekoff

“Deep in the guts of most men is buried the involuntary response to the hunter’s horn, a prickle of the nape hairs, an acceleration of the pulse, an atavistic memory of his fathers, who killed first with stone, and then with club, and then with spear, and then with bow, and then with gun, and finally with ...

... formulae.” — Robert Ruark, Horn of the Hunter

“Fishing solves most of my problem. Hunting solves the rest.”

“In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. The excellent people who protest against all hunting, and consider sportsmen as enemies of wild life, are ignorant of the fact that in reality the genuine sportsman is by all odds the most important factor ...

... in keeping the larger and more valuable wild creatures from total extermination.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“When done under the rules of good sportsmanship duck hunting is a culmination of art, skill, and scientific endeavor. It is also an act of love, for who loves the birds more than the hunter?” – Bob Hinnan

“If there is a sacred moment in the ethical pursuit of game, it is the moment you release the arrow or touch off the fatal shot.” – Jim Posewitz

“Country girls don’t retreat, they just reload.”

“The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind.” – Fred Bear

“Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.” — Ernest Hemingway

“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“Girls who like hunting, fishing and guns aren’t weird. They’re a gift from God.”

“Go afield with a good attitude, with respect for the wildlife you hunt and for the forest and fields in which you walk. Immerse yourself in the outdoor experience. It will cleanse your soul and make you a better person.” – Fred Bear

“In hunting – as in life – sometimes the things you need most isn’t the thing you went looking for.”

“Rifles, racks and deer tracks, that’s what little boys are made of.”

“The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.” – P.G. Wodehouse

“Sometimes hunting is the only thing that makes sense.”

“Love has 4 letters. So does deer and hunt.”

“Some men are merely hunting; others are turkey hunting.”

“I vow to always love hunting season… I mean I vow to always love you. Even during hunting season.”

“I never knew a man that hunted quail that didn’t come out of it a little politer by comparison.” — Robert Ruark

“God grant me serenity. To accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know when to just go hunting.”

“Now, therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison.” — Genesis 27:3, (Bible Verse)

“A Hunter’s Prayer: We pray our sight be straight and our aim be true. We pray for no pain to the game we pursue. We thank thee Lord for this land. We thank thee for the sights in our stands. We pray for safety one and all. We pray we may return next fall.” – S. Elliot

“Every day is a good day when you hunt.”

“In race between lion and deer, many times deer wins. Because lion runs for food and deer for life. “Purpose is more important than need.”

“My biggest fear is that when I die, my wife will sell my hunting gear for what I said I paid for it.”

“Nothing clears a troubled mind like shooting a bow.” – Fred Bear

“The No. 1 rule of duck hunting is to go where the ducks are.” – Jose Robertson

“Keep calm and go hunting.”

“Everybody wants to eat but few are willing to hunt.”

“It’s about the adventure of being in the center of nature and wildlife, and being grateful to be alive and awake in God’s cathedral.” — Eva Shockey

“Sunday for me always use to be father’s day, it was the day when both of us went hunting all day.”

“The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.” — Sam Snead

“Hunting is a relic of barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals.” — Christian Nestell Bovee

“Life is short. Call in late and go hunting.”

“A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct. Whatever his acts, they are dictated by his own conscience, rather than that of onlookers. It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of this fact.” – Aldo Leopold

“But love of the wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only home we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need – if only we had eyes to see.” – Edward Abbey

“If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the gods must clearly smile on hunting.” – Aristotle

“If it flies, it dies. If it hops it drops.”

“Fishing poles and hunting gear, dreams of bass and big ole deer.”

“Death by violence, death by cold, death by starvation, – these are the normal endings of the stately and beautiful creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prattle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness;…Life is hard and cruel for all the lower creatures, and for ...

... man also in what the sentimentalists call a “state of nature.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“In this family, we aim for the game, we wear camo, we respect our rifles, we prey before meals, we lock and load and we never miss.”

“Jingle bells, shotgun shells, time to kill a buck.” – Earl Dibbles Jr.

“Don’t get much better than fall. Bring on the camo, ammo, ducks, and bucks.” – Earl Dibbles, Jr.

“The true trophy hunter is a self-disciplined perfectionist seeking a single animal, the ancient patriarch well past his prime that is often an outcast from his own kind… If successful, he will enshrine the trophy in a place of honor. This is a more noble and fitting end than dying on some lost and lonely ledge ...

... where the scavengers will pick his bones, and his magnificent horns will weather away and be lost forever.” – Elgin Gates

“Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they’re in the game.” – Paul Rodriguez

“I don’t always tell people where I hunt, but when I do, it’s a lie.” – Dos Equis

“Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians — except for the occasional mountain lion steak.” — Ted Nugent

“I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a 10-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries – the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good ...

... food and tender care.” – Herbert Hoover

“There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.” – Charles Dickens

“Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.” — Ted Nugent

“Father and daughter. Hunting partners for life.”

“Hunting teaches you, patience, discipline, ethics, sustainability, appreciation, confidence, perseverance, hard work.”

“When a hunter is in a treestand with moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that hunter is 20 feet closer to God.” – Fred Bear

“I like big bucks and I cannot lie.”

“If I feel free when I hunt, then when I write about hunting I genuinely reproduce that pleasant feeling. I am almost free.” – Miguel Delibes

“Going to war without France is like going hunting without an accordion.” – Norman Schwarzkopf

“The old man used to say that the best part of hunting and fishing was the thinking about going and the talking about it after you got back.” — Robert Ruark, The Old Man and the Boy

“You let me hunt is like saying you let me breathe.” – Jase (Duck Dynasty)

“The hunting partnership between man and dog developed thousands of years ago and from it came a deep bond of affection. I suspect it was the dog’s idea.” – Aaron Fraser

“The truth is… I’m always saddened when I kill an animal. It’s not remorse I feel, I know why I’m a hunter. It’s out of respect.” – Donnie Vincent

“Hunting is about the journey not the outcome.”

“If I’ve gone missing, I’ve gone hunting.”

“There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and like it, never care for anything else thereafter.” – Ernest Hemingway

“If you are not working to protect hunting, then you are working to destroy it.” – Fred Bear

“’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.’” — Robert Ruark

“If God wanted us to be vegetarians, he would have made broccoli more fun to shoot.” – Earl Dibbles, Jr.

“I am my father’s daughter. It was not up to me growing up. I was his hunting and fishing buddy, so I’ve been shooting my whole life.” — Amber Heard

“You can learn more about bow hunting a deer in a week than a gun hunter will learn in his entire life.”

“Wildlife and its habitat cannot speak, so we must and we will.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“You can see the true heart of a man when you’re out in the woods with a weapon.” – Jase Robertson